Halloween Franchise...

• Halloween also is an American horror franchise consistsing of nine slasher films, novels and comic books.
• This film is focused on the fictional character Michael Myers who kills his sister as a child. Fifteen years later, he escapes to stalk and kill the people of Haddondiels, Illinois. Michael's killings occur on the holiday of Halloween, on which all of the films primarily take place.
• The original film, Halloween, was released in 1978 and was wriiten and directed by John Carpenter.
• Yet,the sequels have had various writers and directors attached to them. Michael Myers is the antagonist in all of the films except for Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which has no direct connection to any other Halloween film in the series.
• Carpenter, who had a hand in writing the first sequel, has not had any direct involvement with the rest of the films. The film series is ranked fourth at the United States box office.
• The first Halloween film is credited with beginning a long line of slasher films inspired by Hitchcock's Psycho.
• The franchise began when the first novel appeared less than a year after the release of the film, and seven sequels have followed.
• In 2007, a remake of Halloween, written and directed by Rob Zombie, was released.