Halloween And The Strangers: Prey At Night Intertextual Essay

How has the author of The Strangers: Prey at Night adapted aspects of Halloween in order to create a new text?The 1979 Film, Halloween 1978, directed by John Carpenter follows the story of murdered; Michael Myers who escapes from a mental institution on Halloween night who returns to his quiet hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he searches for his next victims. The new text, on the other hand, The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018) directed by Johannes Roberts, expresses the true events of a family who soon find themselves in a desperate fight for survival when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park. Whilst both texts share a collection of similarities, both directors tackle the slasher genre and the plot of murder with different approaches that range from camera techniques, location, and inspiration for the films. The film, Halloween 1978 directed by John Carpenter and the 2018 film, The Strangers: Prey at Night directed by Johannes Roberts both differ in cinematic ideologies of the quintessential ‘psychopathic murders’ Michael Myers and The Strangers. In Halloween 1978, a child kept telling his mother that, “I saw the Bogeyman” when they saw Michael Myers. A