(Hey, so minor spoilers are in this review? but I hope they make you want to see this movie even more because this movie is awesome.)
Halloween 5 is a movie that genuinely cares about you and wants what is best for you no matter who you are even if you are a total jerk who drives like an abusive loser giallo boyfriend or a total rage-filled psycho who can't let go of the past or even (especially?) Michael Myers.…
The Haddonfield that Michael Myers comes home to in 1988 is colder, meaner, hollowed-out, paranoid and anxious but projecting bravado, occupied with personal status and material comfort in a society which has rejected any sense of collective welfare and all relationships are burdensome or transactional. The nights are warmer, longer and more brightly lit, the darkness flattened, made uniform in pushed back opacity, until the power inevitably fails and it rushes in like water filling a submerged car having gone…
You know, it would be really quite terrible if we were to find ourselves trapped in the midst of an armed White Supremacist business operation which uses entertainment as a cover for nefarious schemes which sicken and enslave the whole of the culture whilst using non-whites as scapegoats for the damage and hostility which follows, further fuelling their cause, right? right?
When I was an agoraphobic psychotic 13 year old in 1987, my most prized possession was a VHS tape I had made myself by recording David Cronenberg's The Fly and Aliens off of HBO. I watched those movies over and over. I barely went to school that fall. I had not finished the end of 7th Grade because incarcerated in a for-profit psychiatric hospital for children, let out to go to an academic summer program, which was a bad idea…
