8 Reasons Why Halloween Just Blew Up At The Box Office

The Halloween franchise has well-and-truly been in the weeds for the past few decades now.

Ever since the financial failure of Halloween III, the franchise has been tossed from one studio to the next with a new creative team coming on for each subsequent film. This lead to the series as a whole getting grossly off-track from the original intention and led to sequels that were more of smears on the franchise than they were legitimate continuations.

But with the new film, it is the first time since the early '80s that the original team behind that first film has all assembled once more. Sure, Jamie Lee Curtis returned for H20 in 1998, and that went a long way towards cementing that film's success, but she was the only one. Despite her wishes, creators Debra Hill and John Carpenter wound up not being involved with H20 at all.

Halloween 2018 brings Jamie Lee Curtis back the right way though, with John Carpenter also on-board as a story consultant, executive producer, and the composer of the score. Bringing these two iconic names back together for the first time in decades and having them both actively participate in the marketing showed audiences that this film had the blessing of the original, unlike so many others of the installments.