A warning, this episode contains discussion of suicide.

The lucrative horror franchise Halloween has spanned more than four decades, that's 13

films and countless bloody deaths, at the hands of the silent seemingly unstoppable killer,

Michael Myers.

And now the series has reached its conclusion with Halloween ends.

I'm Stephen Thompson and today we are talking about Halloween ends on pop culture happy hour

from NPR.

Joining me today is writer and film critic Walter Chow Hey Walter.

Hey Stephen, so glad to be here.

It is great to have you.

So the Halloween movie franchise has been in many different hands and gone in many different

directions since the debut of John Carpenter's original Halloween back in 1978.

But the first film provides much of the key backstory.

As a child Michael Myers killed his sister before wreaking havoc on the fictional town of

Haddonfield, Illinois.

He says nothing wears a creepy expressionless mask and kills with brutal dead eye deficiency.

And in that very first film he was not able to kill babysitter Laurie Strode played by

Jamie Lee Curtis.

Cut to 2018 when a new Halloween film titled simply Halloween came along as a direct sequel

to the 1978 original.

Jamie Lee Curtis returned as Laurie Strode who had spent decades haunted by the events

of 40 years earlier.

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