Halloween: The Night That Never Came

         John Carpenter's Halloween is in my list of best horror movies ever made. It creeped me out at 8 years old and turned me into a horror fan. The Halloween franchise has seen quite its ups and downs. Following Carpenter's classic was seven sequels, a remake by rock musician turned horror filmmaker Rob Zombie, and then a very disappointing sequel to Zombie's 2007 re-imagining which I do admit to liking as it took a risk and did things different. But, we are still waiting to see what the future holds for the Boogeyman of Haddonfield, Michael Myers. Originally, we were supposed to get Halloween 3D which would be a continuation of Zombie's H2 that was to be written by Todd Farmer and directed by Patrick Lussier. Apparently things fell through with Dimension aka Miramax who owns the rights to the franchise. Then, there was talk about Dimension bringing Platinum Dunes on board to reboot the franchise yet again, which apparently plans also didn't pan out. Shock Till You Drop and Dread Central reported that  Federico D’Alessandro pitched his idea to Dimension, which was rejected. D’Alessandro created an animated opening scene to what his vision for a Halloween reboot would look like as well as photo paintings. I have to say that if this was an actual movie then it would be the best Halloween movie since 1981's Halloween II! I can really tell that D’Alessandro had a lot of passion and is in fact a fan of the original 1978 classic.  He has done what other directors in the sequels (with the exception of Halloween II 1981) and remakes have failed to do, make Michael scary again. He's barely in this video but you can certainly feel his presence and feel the tension and creepiness that D’Alessandro would bring to the series if it weren't for the Weinsteins shooting down an actual GREAT idea! In an era where audiences are turning to haunting and exorcism movies to give them chills, a movie about a shadowy stalker who will eventually kill those he is stalking would work wonders. People want to be scared again and The Shape would be the perfect monster to do that!