Halloween - Television Version
(Limited Edition) starring Brian
Andrews, Jamie Lee Curtis, Charles
Cyphers, John Michael Graham,
Peter Griffith
Great Picture, An Exrodinary Difference From The Regular Version
Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of
Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween
night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after
the towns hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this
simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of
horrors. Its a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera
movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal).
Composed by Carpenter himself, the movies freaky music sets the tone;
and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other
horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee
Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the
obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis,
after John Gavins character in Psycho. In the end, though, Halloween
stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience--its one of those
movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting
at the screen. (No! Dont drop that knife!) Produced on a low budget, the
picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which
approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more installments:
1981s dismal Halloween II, which picked up the story the day after the
unfortunate events, and 1998s occasionally gripping Halloween H20,
which proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years. --
Robert Horton
In my opinion the two GREATEST Horror films ever made are Halloween
and Psycho. There is a part of me that wishes they had never made any
sequels to Halloween because that would have made the ending of the
movie even more CLASSIC than it already is.
To turn this movie into a long drawn out series was a shame. John
Carpenter says the same thing in the documentary that accompanies the
movie. But dont let this stop us from appreciating this CLASSIC of the
Horror genre.
The Halloween music is so eerie and GREAT its ridiculous! Donald
Pleasence is one of my favorite actors and gives his usual GREAT
performance as Dr. Loomis. Jamie Lee Curtis is GREAT as well in her first
starring role.
Of course it is IRONIC that her mother starred in Psycho and she starred
in Halloween. Mother and daughter have dualing CLASSIC films! Does
William Shatner deserve royalties on this movie since Michael Myers
wears his halloween mask?!
It was the bogeyman
As a matter of fact, it was
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