Don't touch that dial.

You're tuned in to the Dread Podcast Network.

You are now listening to Postmortem with Mick Garris,

where the most influential voices in horror cinema

will spill their guts to the renowned horror director, writer, and producer.

Now here's your host, Mick Garris.

From Nice Guy Productions, World Headquarters, overlooking the glamorous San Fernando Valley, I'm Mick Garris and this is post-mortem.

It takes something truly special and groundbreaking to become iconic in popular culture.

To be able to touch an audience in such a way with a song, a book, a painting, or a movie

is a momentous occasion, especially when that audience is eager to keep coming back for more and more and more.

In 1978, a little movie originally working under the title of the babysitter murders went into

production to be ready for a release around Halloween. But the producer thought he had a better title,

and that producer Mustafa Akad proved to be right.

Halloween opened up an entirely new direction in cinematic horror, and its influence has never

lessened to this very day.

Neither have its sequels.

I've lost count of the various sequels to Halloween, but up until last year at this time,

they were ceaseless.

And now they have apparently come to a close, though a wise man once said,

Never Say Never, particularly for a Halloween sequel.

This is the 45th anniversary of the original Halloween, and we are here to celebrate its importance,

its delights, and its groundbreaking appearance in American and international horror culture.

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