By KEVIN HOOVER
Oh, but to be a fly on the wall of any of the studios who’ve held the rights of the Halloween franchise over the years. The worst thing to happen to the babysitting business since John Carpenter’s original film released in ’78, the Shatner-faced Shape has been plucked from Smith’s Grove for thirteen different films (so far): a bloody baker’s dozen encompassing nearly fifty years that journalist and author Andrew Grevas has gone to painstaking lengths to detail.
Founder of pop culture outlet 25YL and genre site Horror Obsessive, Grevas’ love and knowledge of the Twin Peaksuniverse is matched in kind by his fandom for Halloween. His new book, HORROR IN HADDONFIELD (Simon & Schuster) is the culmination of the author’s work in sourcing interviews, in-the-trench stories and behind-the-scenes gems from many of the players involved in the storied history of The Night He Came Home. Subjects include cast members Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, Scout Taylor-Compton, Stacey Nelkin, Dee Wallace and Tom Atkins; writers Paul Brad Logan, Dan Farrands, Robert Zappia and Shem Bitterman; director Dwight Little; cinematographer Dean Cundey; and many more.
Does a book formulated on the premise of unearthing untold stories about the iconic franchise finally lay to rest just how Michael Myers, institutionalized from a young age, learned how to drive a car? We can all find out together when HORROR IN HADDONFIELD releases October 7th.
HORROR IN HADDONFIELD is now available for preorder.
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