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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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John Carpenter's Halloween, The Babysitter Murders, La noche de Halloween, Halloween 1 - La nuit des masques, Halloween 01 Halloween, Хеловін, Геловін, 月光光心慌慌, 抓鬼节, 할로윈, Halloween 1, halloween1978, halloween78, hulowin, masked ghost
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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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John Carpeneter’s Halloween is the gold-standard for classic horror movies. It’s the best of the slasher movies and it’s been replicated more than enough times, but no Halloween will ever come close to the original. Halloween is what Friday the 13th wishes it could be. It’s a timeless movie that seems to never lose its edge.
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i don't understand how it's possible that i gave it a 8/10 after my first watch.
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It's short and sweet. Halloween's influence can be seen throughout horror and its status as a classic and one of the quintessential slasher flicks is well earned. It's very effective at building an uneasy atmosphere and sense of dread and it is light on blood and gore, favouring suspense over shock.
Side note: Dr. Loomis saying "death has come to your little town, Sheriff" has to be one of the best lines in horror.
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