Netflix’s series “The Movies That Made Us” sheds light on some of the darkest modern horror classics: “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Halloween,” and “Friday the 13th” — three scrappy productions that went on to see massive, enduring success.The show’s creator and director, Brian Volk-Weiss, took The Post behind the scenes of those films, revealing little-known facts about what it was like making scary movies before the genre had any juice, the origins of some of the creepiest characters — and actual horrors experienced on set.In the “Halloween” screenplay, killer Michael Myers is also called The Shape.
When director John Carpenter began shooting, his buddy, Nick Castle, who had come by to watch, donned the rubber mask — a spookily altered.
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