Halloween became one of the highest-grossing independent films ever at that time.
The film, also made on a modest budget, made the careers of everyone involved, especially Carpenter and star Jamie Lee Curtis (whose mother appeared in Psycho, a film that inspired the Carpenter film), who was later dubbed the “scream queen” for her role in Halloween along with other horror films that she starred in that followed.
Yablans suggested that the film’s story should happen on the night of October 31st and the horror classic, Halloween, was born. Carpenter and his then-girlfriend, Debra Hill, wrote a script called “The Babysitter Murders” in two weeks. After producer Irwin Yablans and financier Moustapha Akkad saw how effective writer-director John Carpenter put together his low-budget thriller, Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), they hired him to make a film about a killer who preys upon babysitters.
0 kommentar(er)
