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The Funny Thing About History
Looking back today, it's easy to assume that Halloween must have been an obvious blockbuster.
It wasn't.
It was a small independent horror film released into a marketplace filled with movies that had bigger stars, bigger budgets and much more conventional Hollywood appeal.
And yet, the little horror movie won.
Not immediately.
Not because everybody in Hollywood knew it was going to change the genre.
It won because audiences discovered it.
Then they told other people.
Then those people went.
And suddenly everyone wanted to know about the guy with the white mask.
By the time the dust settled, Michael Myers wasn't just another character in an October movie.
He was a horror icon.
