It’s taken me years, but I have finally watched John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), just mere weeks before actual Halloween. What’s more, we are about one week away from the release of the next entry in the franchise, which acts as a direct sequel to the original and ditches about 10 movies worth of convoluted continuity, so my timing is just about perfect. Overall impression of the original: it’s a pretty simple story, but I can see why it’s a horror classic because it is very well executed. Even though I had never seen Halloween until yesterday it is one of those movies that you pretty much know the story without actually seeing it since it has become part of pop culture. Like with It’s a Wonderful Life or A Christmas Carol in December, there are plenty of channels that are playing Halloween all day on October 31. There is also the fact there are a bunch of sequels to Carpenter’s original movie as well as a remake and a sequel to that remake. Of those I have seen Rob Zombie’s r