The Night He Came Home tells the full story of the making and marketing of the ten-part Halloween film franchise. Until recently, John Carpenter's low budget 1978 work Halloween was the most profitable independent movie of all time (not even 1998's The Blair Witch Project could surpass its 150:1 gross-to-cost return). But Halloween 's success inspired imitators and sequels, boardroom battles, lawsuits, and ideas that forever changed the franchise,...