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We Already Have the Perfect Template for a Halloween Reboot (And it’s a Comic)
Rebooting a franchise can be a tricky thing these days. The new approach seems to be to tell a new story that stands completely on its own but doesn’t necessarily negate what came before. The 2009 reb...
Script to Pieces: Carpenter and Etchison’s Halloween 4
Welcome to Script to Pieces, a recurring feature at Wicked Horror where we look at the best, most interesting and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened. Sometimes these will be ...
What Made Michael Myers Such a Perfectly Simple Villain in the Original Halloween
There’s no denying, especially this time of year, that Halloween is an iconic and revered classic. It’s one of the most highly regarded horror films of all time. It’s not an effortless one, though, ev...
Why Halloween 5 is a Fun Slasher Despite its Self Sabotaging Story
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers got the series back on track after the third entry, Season of the Witch, took a departure from the original storyline that fans were not prepared for. Without ...
Why the John Carpenter/Rob Zombie Drama is a Problem We All Created (And Why We Need to Stop)
So, this is kind of tough to write, not because I think it’s a tough subject, only because I want it to be over and I recognize that writing an article doesn’t contribute to stopping a mess like this ...
Here’s Everything We Know About the New Halloween Film So Far!
Many fans were ecstatic to learn that Dimension was planning a new installment of Halloween that would not continue on from Rob Zombie’s reboot and its sequel, but would instead return to the original...
Script to Pieces: Helloween – The Michael Myers vs Pinhead Movie That Never Was
Welcome to Script to Pieces! This is a new feature here at Wicked Horror where we will be looking at the best, most interesting and at times most unbelievable horror movies that never happened. Someti...
The Best and Worst Movies of the Halloween Franchise
I love the Halloween franchise. Its highs have been high and its lows have been low, but I’ve been there for all of it. I will readily admit that it’s an incredibly uneven franchise, maybe even more s...
Why the Halloween/Dimension Split is Not a Good Thing
As I think I’ve made clear in several articles, I’m an avid fan of the Halloween franchise. Whatever direction it takes, whomever takes the reigns of the series, whenever there’s a new incarnation of ...