Halloween: House Of The Shape

October 31th. For most of the world, it was a night of fun, with children eager to carve pumpkins, dress in costumes and hit the streets ready to dish out a trick where they didn't find a treat. In the town of Haddonfield, Illinois, however, this particular holiday brought nothing but fear and pain, the long-lasting effects of a nightmare worthy of the movies. Decades ago, a former town resident and convicted murderer escaped from the Smith's Grove Sanitarium and returned to his hometown to unleash an unspeakable wave of terror upon the unsuspecting citizens. Incarcerated from the age of six for the brutal murder of his seventeen year old sister, he spent fifteen years in confinement, barely moving and never speaking a word. But this state of near catatonia was deception; one rainy night, he escaped and began to hunt down the members of his family, killing anyone in his path. No one could stop him, not even his former psychiatrist, Dr. Samuel Loomis, the first person to realize that this patient had no soul within him to be saved. Years and many lost lives later, most people believe this monster to be dead. But the truth is he's still out there. Watching and waiting for the leaves to turn orange, an early sign of the arrival of the season of slaughter. His name is Michael Myers...

October 31, 2012

"I can't believe we're doing this!" Bryce Miller said as he walked the dark street with his two best friends, Charlie Ward and Richie Gilbert.

"Grow a pair, Bryce!" Charlie jeered.

"Yeah, what are you, scared of the boogeyman?" Richie asked.

"Forgive me for not being a sick bastard like you two!" Bryce responded.

The trio were headed to the infamous Myers' house.

Greedy old Hollywood had come along, seeking to make money off the blood and grief of the town, and hired a musician turned director to make a film based on Myers' crimes. The end result had been not one, but two movies that, in true Hollywood fashion, completely twisted the truth and much to the anger of Haddonfield residents, invented a fictional backstory, portraying Myers as a sympathetic monster akin to Frankenstein. In truth, there was nothing sympathetic about the man in the pale white mask; he was evil, pure and simple. At least that's what Bryce had heard his whole life.