It's hard to go in spoiler-free to 1978's "Halloween" in 2025. Even as someone whose horror movies tendencies only really pick up in October, I was well aware of some big beats heading in. Michael Myers (Nick Castle) is a voiceless, murderous avatar of evil. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) survives. John Carpenter's theme song absolutely, categorically bumps . And yet, I was entirely unprepared for exactly what I would find when I finally watched "Halloween" for the first time.

For context, I love Carpenter's work — "The Thing" and "Escape from New York" in particular, but also "They Live," "Big Trouble in Little China," and his criminally underrated "Lost Themes" synthwave albums of the last decade. As someone who's always preferred the sci-fi side of horror to more traditional slashe

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