![]() It simply perfected them and made it mainstream.Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays as students travel home to spend time with their families. Halloween didn’t piggyback off its ideas either. Though Black Christmas helped to start the slasher genre, it wasn’t the first. Black Christmas has undoubtedly inspired many films. It’s not far-fetched, either, to say that, without Black Christmas as an inspiration, Halloween would have looked and played out differently. Still, did Bob Clark’s Black Christmas sequel idea stick with him and come back to him years later when opportunity arose? It sure seems a strong possibility. He’s proven countless times, through classics such as The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China, that he’s a creative and masterful filmmaker, and a brilliant musician as well. John Carpenter didn’t need to steal from anyone. Billy speaks and is wild and chaotic, whereas Michael is quiet and calm. Black Christmas takes place almost entirely in a sorority house, while Halloween explores suburbia. John Carpenter’s film is its own original beast that invents its own distinct terrifying monster, and despite the similarities, there are many differences between the two creations as well. Where did Michael go? Will he kill again? Will he be caught? The last shots take us everywhere Myers has been on this night, with his heavy breathing playing in the background, pulsing like, say, the ringing of a telephone. ![]() Loomis ( Donald Pleasence) shoots him off a balcony, it’s revealed that Myers has disappeared. Halloween doesn’t give us an identity swerve, but after Laurie Strode ( Jamie Lee Curtis) repeatedly attacks Michael Myers and Dr. Does Billy come down from the attic and kill Jess? Does he get away? As the camera pulls away from the house, the phone keeps ringing, leaving us with an open ending. ![]() The wrong man has died and Billy is still alive. It’s then that the phone starts ringing again. As she lies in bed, suffering from shock, the police who have come to rescue her leave to help someone else, leaving Jess all alone. Black Christmas ends with a suspect being killed by our final girl, Jess ( Olivia Hussey). The shot ends when the mask is pulled away and a young boy is revealed to be the murderer.Īnother big similarity can be found in the fate of both killers. Halloween famously opens with the killer’s POV, using an early Steadicam shot that tracks the killer as he walks up to a house at night, enters the home, takes out a knife, walks upstairs, puts on a mask, and stabs a teenage girl to death, before walking back downstairs and outside. While Carpenter has never said if he was inspired by Black Christmas and Bob Clark’s sequel idea, evidence can be found of Clark’s influence when comparing the two films with each other. The similarities don’t end at this quote. RELATED: The Next Step in the ‘Halloween’ Franchise Should Be a TV Series Clark’s sequel idea and what Carpenter did are exact. Fifteen years later, again on Halloween night, he escapes from a mental institution, goes back to his abandoned childhood home, and starts to kill again. Sound familiar? John Carpenter’s Halloween starts with six-year-old Michael Myers killing his sister on Halloween night in 1963.
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