Halloween
A Nightmare on Elm Street came first for me, then Friday the 13th Part IV. Halloween and my undying appreciation for it didn’t arrive until my junior year of high school.
I knew of Michael Myers and I have vivid recollections of drawing my own versions of the posters in elementary and middle school (yeah, I was a weird kid, fascinated by shit I wasn’t allowed to see). During a middle school Halloween dance, they played the Halloween theme and I fell in love.
Unfortunately, I didn’t see the marriage of said theme and John Carpenter’s film until years later. I found it quite tame in comparison to some of the stuff I had already seen, but it was masterful nonetheless. Later, for Christmas, my folks bought me the Criterion Laserdisc. Good times.
