The key to’s endurance in our collective consciousness could be traced to its formula—the masked silent killer who stalks and kills (sometimes likable) young people. It’s really so basic and user friendly that it’s been re-dressed and re-packaged as “new” a million times over. Just between theseries and the various knockoffs like, we’ve seen this exploited every which way but loose, and even then, there’s enough sex going on in these films for that term to apply as well.

So what is it about Halloween? It really is something intangible, just like the abstract of evil itself. It just plain works, striking a chord deep within us that resonates, and it keeps working no matter how many times we’ve seen this formula played out in other forms. There’s something to be said about doing something first, but even more to be said about doing something right