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The Night He Came Home!
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Halloween
1978 Directed by John Carpenter
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Donald Pleasence Jamie Lee Curtis P.J. Soles Nancy Kyes Nick Castle Tony Moran Will Sandin Charles Cyphers Kyle Richards Brian Andrews John Michael Graham Nancy Stephens Arthur Malet Mickey Yablans Brent Le Page Adam Hollander Robert Phalen David Kyle Peter Griffith Barry Bernardi John Carpenter George O'Hanlon Jr. Darla Rae Gwen Van Dam Sandy Johnson
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Got into an argument with a couple of 16 year old students of mine about how most of them have the attention span of fruit flies with ADHD and that most modern media seems to cater to their sugar rush needs causing them to lose appreciation for the power of simplicity.
They disagreed.
I showed them the opening scene of Halloween.
That shut them up.
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It's Halloween night, about a month before JFK went to Dallas, and a small child named Michael brutally butchers his older sister. He's sent to the asylum, and he's supposed to stay locked up forever. However, 15 years later he escapes, and guess where he goes? Yup, back to the scene of the crime. This time, Michael has his eye on a trio of teenage girls. Why is he paying such close special attention to a very young Jamie Lee Curtis? Who taught him to drive? Why does his mask look like James T Kirk met a can of spray paint? John Carpenter's Halloween is pure horror. It proves you don't need tons of blood, kills, or a big budget,…
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The holiday of Halloween is more than just a night of candy and harmless pranks. As consumerist tendencies grow and expand financially, Halloween has become not only a celebratory day of the internal desire to change and shift, but a gigantic season in and of itself. Costume stores open as early as late July and decorations are everywhere, appearing in Grocery stores and gas stations just as much as the local retail shop. As a result, the mood of autumn and the spooky turn into the Halloween season comes as early as late-August. I’m not complaining. Halloween allows for a specific and almost indescribable aura to enter the air, floating and observing as it alters neighborhoods and triggers something…
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When exposed, he only pauses.
It's nothing new to note that the horror in many slashers--especially this one--are women's horrors. Stalking, sexual violence, threats to children, threatening phone calls, these are products of patriarchy that women--whether we like it or not--are saddled with facing. In better societies, reproductive labor is shared, but here, under capitalist patriarchy, women (or even just those classified as women) are coerced into these roles. And so we are subject to men's obsessions, men's brutality, men's lust, men's need to control. Again, whether men like it or not, capitalist patriarchy coerces them into those roles. They aren't "natural." They aren't innate. They aren't unavoidable. But they are there, in our media, in our culture, in our…
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The iconic horror legend Michael Myers is born thanks to the sick and twisted mind of John Carpenter!
Pure genius taking something as simple as a mask to enhance terror by stripping away his humanity! Donald Pleasence was the sledgehammer that drove home the message that Michael Myers was evil incarnate and we swallowed it hook, line and sinker!
The soundtrack fueled our fears and cranked up the adrenalin coursing through our veins til we were frightened out of our ever lovin minds!
What made it even more horrifying was this was small town USA the last place you'd expect evil to wreak havoc! The girl next door played brilliantly by Jamie Lee Curtis allowed us to live and scream vicariously through her throughout the whole terrifying ordeal!
The landmark horror flick that launched careers and pulses into the stratosphere of legend territory!
Naughty Approved!
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jamie lee curtis: AAAAAAAAH
michael myers, walking as slow as possible after her: why ah you running?
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Dieser Film funktioniert auch heute noch erstaunlich gut. Auf technischer Ebene beweist Carpenter hier, mit welchem Können er das bestmögliche aus den geringen finanziellen Mitteln herausholt. Die Ausleuchtung der Szenen ist fantastisch und der Soundtrack untermalt neben der ikonischen Intromelodie auch zu jedem anderen Zeitpunkt das Geschehen höchst wirkungsvoll.
Besonders interessant wird der Film jedoch durch seine Kameraführung. Diese bleibt stets äußerst nah an den Teenagern, wodurch eine klaustrophobische Enge ensteht.
Gleichzeitig nehmen wir immer wieder die Perspektive des Täters ein. Dies führt zu einem äußerst spannenden Verhältnis des Zuschauers zum Film. Wir können uns nicht distanzieren. Wir sind zugleich Opfer und Täter. John Carpenter spielt mit unseren Urtrieben, und wir sind ihm wehrlos ausgeliefert. -
Halloween is a classic and one of the greatest slashers ever made what else is there to say...
Pros: The pros go on and on, the POV view to start this movie is iconic, the cinematography is what sets this apart from other slashers so unique, the famous soundtrack that goes with this movie makes it. Great acting by everyone, kickstarted Jamie Lee curtis’s career, the scariest Michael Myers to date is in this movie. Iconic scenes in the whole runtime really! I could go more in depth but you get my point on the greatness of this masterpiece.
Cons: This movie is one of the few that honestly don’t have cons if I were to say anything it’s the…
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Maybe Michael Meyers wouldn’t have gone on a Halloween killing spree if Dr. Loomis was actually concerned with Michael Meyer’s mental health and didn’t just diagnose him as “evil.” But then again psychology back then was pretty fast and loose, full of bad boys like Loomis showing off their badass psychiatry skills, fucking groupies every night, prescribing whatever pills they want to whoever they want. So in defense of Loomis, once you’ve had a taste of the hard rock psychology world, you’re always gonna be chasing that high, trying to stay on top. You gotta make a name for yourself somehow and having a big hit with a pure evil patient will probably get the job done. So really, for Loomis, it’s a good thing that Michael Meyers went on a killing spree. It’ll cement Loomis as one of the baddest motherfuckers to practice evil criminal psychology, elevating the art form to new levels. Rock on Loomis. Three stars.
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Tiene cosas que entiendo que volaran la cabeza cuando se estrenó, pero le falta el carisma que creo que tienen algunas de sus contemporáneas dentro del slasher.
Lo de la cancioncita tiene mérito, ponerla todo el santo rato y que no aburra. Menudo crack el Carpenter.
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The one movie I'll always watch on Halloween, also my 4th favourite movie ever made. Michael is genuinely terrifying, and I like how the three girls (Laurie,Annie and Linda) are all likeable, funny and interesting and not just assholes or idiots you just want to see get murdered, kudos to Nancy,P.J and Jamie Lee's performances. Plus the score is iconic for a reason, it makes your hair stick up like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo.
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The higher the res the more ridiculous Donald Pleasance becomes, the cheapness of the production comes to light, all the uneven and flat acting, but I still get a bit tense when Michael is making his way across the yard and street as Laurie pounds on that door for Tommy to open it the fuck up.
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A cult classic which is, unfortunately, rather dated. Still a pretty good horror classic with a lovely young Jamie Lee Curtis in the lead role.
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