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Halloween Changed the Horror Business
The success of Halloween helped demonstrate that a relatively inexpensive horror movie could become a major theatrical attraction.
And Hollywood noticed.
Suddenly, the idea of a masked killer stalking teenagers in suburbia didn't seem quite so ridiculous.
It seemed profitable.
Very profitable.
The slasher boom that would follow gave audiences an entire collection of killers, final girls and unfortunate teenagers who apparently had never heard the phrase:
“Maybe we shouldn't split up.”
Friday the 13th, Prom Night, The Burning, Terror Train, The Prowler and countless others would eventually follow.
But Michael Myers was already waiting.
