DVD Review: Halloween: 25 Years of Terror

 

This is basically a documentary that discussed the first 25 years of the Halloween franchise, which at that point had gone up through Halloween Resurrection, the worst of all of the Halloween movies. It was narrated by PJ Soles, who played Linda in the original movie. She definitely had a good time looking back on the history of the franchise, and yes, threw in a couple of "totally"[ies] for old time sake. It contains a lot of archival footage as well as interviews that were new at the time. There were a couple of very glaring omissions when it came to "new" interviews. Those being Jamie Lee Curtis and John Carpenter. Both were shown in archival footage, but neither contributed anything new. It is unclear if they were approached for the project and turned it down (which would be understandable, since I think Curtis had a bad taste in her mouth over how Laurie's storyline was handled after H20, and John Carpenter really did not want anything to do with the Halloween franchise after he made Halloween II), or if they were never approached at all.

You really do have to be a fan of the franchise, and like DVD extras/bonus material to find this interesting. If you don't really like going through extras on DVDs or Blu-Rays, AND, you are not a fan of the Halloween franchise, this will have absolutely nothing that will appeal to you. For others, you do get some good information about how the various films were made, including the cluster that was Halloween 6 (The Curse of Michael Myers) and get behind-the-scenes footage from the various movies that had not been included anywhere else.