Synopsis
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.
1978 Directed by John Carpenter
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.
Donald Pleasence Jamie Lee Curtis Nancy Kyes P.J. Soles Charles Cyphers Kyle Richards Brian Andrews John Michael Graham Nancy Stephens Arthur Malet Mickey Yablans Brent Le Page Adam Hollander Robert Phalen Tony Moran Will Sandin Sandy Johnson David Kyle Peter Griffith Nick Castle Barry Bernardi Joseph Cornelius George O'Hanlon Jr. Darla Rae Gwen Van Dam Tommy Lee Wallace John Carpenter
John Carpenter's Halloween, The Babysitter Murders, Хеловін, Геловін, 抓鬼节, Halloween: Predvečer Sviatku Všetkých svätých, Хэллоуин, Halloween, la nuit des masques, Regresso do Mal
see this is why i simply don't "have sex." one second you're just layin down the pipe and all of a sudden the big boy come in to try and stab you 'cause he jealous of you and your rockin hog. i don't need that pressure in my life. porkin is a young man's game, i got bills to pay
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.
jamie lee curtis: AAAAAAAAH
michael myers, walking as slow as possible after her: why ah you running?
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Halloween embodies so much of what I love about John Carpenter - his expansive widescreen compositions, his minimalist musical scores, his often meticulous build-up of dread - but within all of that is a sense of 'absence'. Not seeing Michael Myers, but knowing he's there, is the film's central function.
So I made a video about this, The Fog, and how John Carpenter creates so much tension without really showing anything at all.
Hope you enjoy.
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…
Me: *judges every flaw of the scene*
*Michael pops out behind some bushes in the corner*
Me: this movie is perfect
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…
all this guy does is stand there breathing heavily like damn bitch just take a puff from your inhaler and go
“i’ll kill you if this is a joke”
so much fun and genuinely had my heart racing, i’m so glad i got to see this in a theater full of people laughing and clapping
One of the essentials for the Halloween season! The masterpiece from John Carpenter. He made it for $325,000 and looks much more expensive! I love this movie and when younger I watched it every Halloween. To be honest I would love to like it less due to John Carpenter hates horror movies. Friends of him have said it, an ex girlfriend and even himself has said it in interviews. Even though I try to find faults in this movie but I love this movie in-spite of my opinion of John Carpenter. He has made several great horror movies! If you are one of the few that haven’t seen it check it out! If you haven’t seen it yet again for…
"What makes a horror movie good?"
"There's a very specific secret: It should be scary." - John Carpenter
I can't even count how many times I've watched Halloween.
When Green's version came out back in 2018, I was super excited, and one of the staff at the cinema dressed up as Michael Myers. I was completely starstruck, like a child finally meeting his idol. I couldn't even pull myself together to take a photo with him, HAHA :'(
Halloween made such an impact on me back when I was a teenager. It is the main reason why I became this obsessed with horror movies. It happened first of all because of Michael Myers. His appearance completely terrified me, and his…
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