Halloween (1978)
John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher template. Michael Myers in mask, Jamie Lee Curtis debut. The Carpenter score. Foundation of every slasher.
Jamie Lee Curtis
This page collects the films featuring Jamie Lee Curtis reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Halloween (1978)”, “The Fog (1980)”, and “Trading Places (1983)”. Each review examines the performance and the role it plays in the film’s larger design, approaching the work as storytelling first. The collection grows as further titles are added.
Trading Places (1983)
Two wealthy commodity brokers bet on whether a homeless con artist and an Ivy League executive can switch places, with the climax at the New Year’s Eve trading floor.
The Fog (1980)
John Carpenter directs the story of a California coastal town haunted by the vengeful ghosts of mariners killed a century earlier.