25/10/2010
Go behind the scenes of one of cinema's greatest horror movies.
When John Carpenter's "Halloween" was released in 1978 it changed the face of the horror genre forever. It achieved phenomenal success, capturing the imagination of a generation and became the most profitable film of its time. The movie gave the producers a guaranteed chart-topping franchise as unstoppable as its central character – the masked killer Michael Myers. But how did the film come to be one of the classic pieces of modern cinema? With only a miniscule budget, a group of unknown actors, terrible reviews and little hope of financial success, the odds were stacked against the movie becoming a boxoffice smash. Here, Biography goes behind the scenes of Halloween to interview the stars of the film and the crew who turned a lowbudget horror film into one of the most famous movies in the horror genre.