![]() ![]() Michael gets up and walks away at the end of Halloween. One odd commonality between the three biggest slasher franchises – Halloween, Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street – is they were never intended to be franchises even though their first films all feature endings which seem designed to set up a sequel. Here are 9 things you may not know about Halloween II: The resulting sequel they produced is inferior to the original, but it’s still among the best in the franchise. Doing so, though, meant making some controversial story decisions and going over the director’s’ head. ![]() Instead, all Moustapha Akkad, Irwin Yablans, John Carpenter and Debra Hill wanted to do was to make a little more money off of the slasher gold rush they’d inadvertently started, and then bow out. I dunno, maybe try witches and melting pumpkin heads next time.īut what’s that expression about God laughing when you try to make plans? In Hollywood, it’s more like producers (and sometimes audiences) laughing in your face if you ever dare to leave money on the table. Loomis get blown up real nice, and Laurie and her love interest survive to see another day. Halloween II, i.e., the one set in the hospital, truly was supposed to be it. Few, however, have tried to ends things as quickly as Halloween. Most long-running horror franchises have that one installment which was legitimately supposed to but hilariously did not end the franchise. ![]()
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