Biography on a mask killer
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Michael Myers (Halloween)
Fictional character in the Halloween franchise
Fictional character
Michael Myers is a character from the slasher film series Halloween. He first appears in in John Carpenter's Halloween as a young boy who murders his elder sister, Judith Myers. Fifteen years later, he returns home to Haddonfield, Illinois, to murder more teenagers. In the original Halloween, the adult Michael Myers, referred to as The Shape in the closing credits, was portrayed by Nick Castle for most of the film and substituted by Tony Moran in the final scene where Michael's face is revealed. The character was created by John Carpenter and has been featured in twelve films, as well as novels, video games, and comic books.
The character is the primary antagonist in all the franchise's films with the exception of Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which is a standalone film disconnected from the continuity of the other films. Since Castle and Moran put on the mask in the
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Ed Gein
Ed Gein Today: Killer Featured in Monster Season 3
Ed Gein’s gruesome crimes have inspired multiple fictional characters and movies, but the true story behind the “Butcher of Plainfield” will soon be in the spotlight as well. Ryan Murphy, the creator of the popular Netflix series Monster, announced September 16 that the late killer and grave robber will be the subject of the crime anthology’s third season.
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British actor Charlie Hunnam will portray Gein in Monster Season 3, which is set to begin production next month. A release date or additional casting information hasn’t been announced.
Monster previously featured Jeffrey Dahmer during its first installment, which became Netflix’s third highest-viewed English language series ever. Season 2 about convicted killers Lyle and Erik Menendez debuts September
Who Was Ed Gein?
Ed Gein was a killer and notorious grave robber who admitted to two murders but is believed to be connected to a nu
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Danny Rolling: The True Story Behind the Killer Who Inspired 'Scream'
In March , a struggling actor and screenwriter named Kevin Williamson became engrossed in a news schema about a drifter who terrorized the town of Gainesville, Florida, with the murders of five college students over three days in August
Spooked, he hammered out the screenplay for what became Scream, the successful fright flick that was celebrated for its knowing winks at horror spelfilm tropes and breathing new life into the genre.
But while Scream provides plenty of slashing scares, in the end, its story of Sydney and the masked killer bears only a passing resemblance to that of Danny Rolling, the "Gainesville Ripper," whose life of violence and despair would present a difficult task for any screenwriter to depict.
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Rolling suffered abuse at the hands of his father
As he later recalled in The Making of a Serial Killer: The Real Story of the Gaine