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Halloween (1978) In what was perhaps one of the most revolutionary acts of filmmaking in horror movie history, John Carpenter released his masterpiece Halloween  in 1978. Halloween  paved the way for the slasher genre, with beautiful and carefully arranged camera angles (that allow the film to even hold up to today's standards rather than feeling aged like so many other horror classics), an eerie soundtrack which was simple enough to become stuck in audience members heads, and a mysterious villain who can strike terror into the hearts of audience members without ever saying a word. It's, without a doubt, a landmark of cinema, and like all other classics someone set out to remake it. Rob Zombie's 2007's version of Halloween opens in a much different manner from the classic. Rather than providing the slow and eerie point of view shot of a home late one night it starts with loud rock music in the middle of the day, where we find young Michael Myers playing with a...

Hush (2016) The slasher subgenre of horror has been around for ages, popularized by the release of revolutionary films such as Halloween , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , and Friday the 13th . Since the popularization of the slasher subgenre one can sometimes feel as though the same tropes have been repeated time and time again, in which the characters who engage in acts stereotyped as "bad" (smoking, drinking, foul language, sexual promiscuity) are killed off one by one while a female survivor who is depicted as morally wholesome (at least, in comparison to her friends) lives to fulfill her destiny as "the final girl." Despite the seemingly never-ending loop of this old trope it seems as though the majority of slasher films have found a way to at least make themselves moderately interesting, by carrying the same formula with new and innovative ideas. Hush is, however, the most groundbreaking and unique slasher film to come out in a very long time. Centering ...