Halloween

…made the classic horror film Halloween (1978). Starring Jamie Lee Curtis as a terrorized babysitter, the movie relied more on creating tension and fear than on ostentatious gore. It won critical praise and immediate popularity, and it inspired numerous imitations, including sequels that Carpenter neither wrote nor directed.

…debut, starring in John Carpenter’s Halloween. She played Laurie Strode, a shy studious babysitter terrorized by the seemingly unkillable Michael Myers. According to reports, Curtis was offered the role, in part, because her mother had appeared in the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s horror classic Psycho (1960). Nevertheless, Curtis’s…

…examples of the latter were Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th (1980). Jack the Ripper was a character in Pandora’s Box (1904) and other plays by the German writer Frank Wedekind. Wedekind’s work was in turn the basis of the opera Lulu (1937), by Alban Berg.