Avery McReynolds

Early on in Disney’s live-action Pooh Bear movie, we’re introduced to a young Christopher Robin, who’ll soon be leaving to attend a posh and prestigious private school. Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga and Roo bid farewell…

Granted, it was 9:50 am on a sunny Tuesday morning, but there’s a reason I was the only person in the theater and it’s not because everyone’s already seen this movie. Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael…

Halloween 2 begins with a scene of exposition between Sheri Moon Zombie and Chase Wright Vanek (Daeg Faerch was said to be too tall and with a voice too deep to reprise his role, even for a mute killer whose adult size is 6'8”.) It is here…

Lo and behold, the official Halloween trailer is here. We are just 133 days (132 if you subtract the hours that have already passed) away from the theatrical release. That's a mere 19 weeks out from now. The fantastic thing about the…

It was first announced in June of 2006 that rocker-turned-filmmaker Rob Zombie would be at the helm of a new Halloween film. Bob Weinstein had set up a meeting, hoping Rob had some interest in penning the follow up to Resurrection. Having…

Modern horror maestro Jason Blum has just given us our first look at Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. He shared a link to a USA Today article, in which these onset photos were initially revealed. This comes just in time for the teaser…

There's a pattern in the Halloween franchise. After one successful sequel, there follows one or two that don't quite hit their mark. Halloween: Resurrection continues said pattern. This film is filled with references that would undoubtedly…

The concept for H20 is to take a look into the life of a victim twenty years after being traumatized. The movie opens with a familiar tune, The Chordettes’ version of “Mr. Sandman”, which was used in the 1981 sequel. The song is catchy, but…

Halloween is undoubtedly a staple of the horror genre – one that still manages to rake in the money, so its longevity is hardly a surprise regardless of abysmal entries and a not-so-subtle remake. How does the series's first entry of the…

Following the events of Halloween 4, Michael Myers escapes from the mineshaft he fell in after having been gunned down by state troopers. He crawls out while one of the troopers tosses a stick of dynamite down the hole after him. Then…

Released theatrically in late October of 1988, the fourth film in the Halloween franchise was initially pitched as something of a ghost story by John Carpenter and Dennis Etchison. Moustapha Akkad insisted on finding another direction in…

Without a doubt the black sheep of the Halloween franchise, Season of the Witch keeps its threat in plain sight, shying far and away from the shadows of ordinary Haddonfield homes. The intention of Halloween 3 is not to make anyone…

It might not have been as successful as the original, but was Halloween 2 just as good?

In the first in our series of love letters to the Halloween series, we take a look back at where it all began.