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Halloween 93 minutes, USA (1978), 18

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Halloween

Costing $300,000 and grossing $60 million, Carpenter hit the jackpot with this Citizen Kane of the modern slasher movie

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John Carpenter

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Halloween: Many, from the Friday The 13th series to Amityville Horror, tried and failed to better Halloween until Wes Craven breathed life back into the genre with Nightmare On Elm Street (then riffed on the themes Halloween established in Scream)...

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