10 Biggest Missed Opportunities In Horror Movie History
7. Halloween As An Anthology Franchise
Believe it or not, Halloween director John Carpenter had no plans to turn the hit slasher classic into a franchise with an ongoing narrative.
And so, after the release of Halloween II - which he wrote and produced but didn't direct - he and co-creator Debra Hill made an earnest attempt to pivot the series into anthology territory.
The pair envisioned the Halloween movies as standalone stories all taking place on All Hallows' Eve, and so Halloween III: Season of the Witch infamously didn't feature Michael Myers at all.
However, this move ultimately proved unpopular with audiences, and so the original plan to make Halloween 4 a ghost story was swiftly abandoned, with Michael Myers instead being brought back into the fold for the rest of the series to date.
It's a damn shame, because the anthology approach certainly sounds more interesting and creatively inspired than the wildly uneven, mostly not-good glut of sequels we've had since Halloween 4.
Sure, those commercially successful sequels cemented Michael Myers' status as a horror icon, but what did we lose in the process?