In 1978, Jamie Lee Curtis starred in John Carpenter & Debra Hill’s opus about a deranged man murdering teenaged babysitters in Smalltown,  USA. Halloween became a record-breaking smash, cementing tropes and techniques in the horror genre that are still used today, more than forty years later. This episode chronicles the various ways “Halloween”  not only left its indelible mark on the entire process of how many approaches making film today, but how it gave creditably to a world of filmmaking that truly had more to offer audiences than their “B movie”  contemporaries. record-breaking