All the ‘Psycho’ & Hitchcock References in the Halloween Franchise

When Alfred Hitchcock directed Psycho in 1960, he was responsible, along with Michael Powell's Peeping Tom the same year, for creating the slasher film as we know it today. Though one of the most influential horror films ever made, Psycho didn't exactly create a wave of copycats right after. 18 years later, however, John Carpenter made a little slasher movie as well, called Halloween. The success of Michael Myers stalking babysitters in the shadows of a suburban night caused a craze of clones. Suddenly, slashers were everywhere. Many directors became inspired by the director and aimed to replicate him, but for John Carpenter, it was Alfred Hitchcock he admired. Halloween, and many of its sequels, are, in many ways, a love letter to Hitchcock and Psycho, from the casting of Jamie Lee Curtis to the names of its characters.