halloween one of the most influential horrors of the 20th century. A film about a serial killer who causes a blood bath in the little town of Haddensfeild on halloween night. Micheal myers a 6 year old boy murders his older sister and is sent to a mental instatution, but 15 years on micheal ... Read review
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made Halloween is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple pure horror Halloween takes us into the world of a mad killer Michael Myers who at a very young age stabbed his older sister to death. Locked away for many years in a mental hospital Michael escapes one night and returns to his home to continue his killing spree. Jamie Lee Curtis in her first role plays the resourceful babysitter who is chased by the killer on Halloween night. Produced for very little money and a tight shooting schedule Halloween was a stunning success when it was released. Written by John Carpenter and his longtime producer Debra Hill the film set both their careers on fire with both of them working together many times over the next 25 years. The film also made a star out of Jamie Lee Curtis and turned the slasher movie into a viable successful genre. Halloween has been copied parodied and even turned into a franchise of its own but the original is still considered the best of the bunch. Halloween was John Carpenter's first foray into horror and remains the standard to which all other modern horror films are measured.
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Production Year: 2000 - Horror - Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Carmen Electra, Anna Faris, Kurt Fuller, James Van Der Beek, Keenen Ivory Wayans
Advantages: gripping storyline and an all round suspence filled horror Disadvantages: may not be able to sleep with the light off ever again!!
halloween one of the most influential horrors of the 20th century. A film about a serial killer who causes a blood bath in the little town of Haddensfeild on halloween night. Micheal myers a 6 year old boy murders his older sister and is sent to a mental instatution, but 15 years on micheal escapes from the mental institution and theres only one place hes heading. Back to haddensfeild to seek more bloody revenge. If you like horror this is the one ... ...to and a film that unlike many others has stood the test of time.This film has you in suspence from start to finish with brilliant performances from a young jamie lee curtis who plays laurie stroder a student caught up in the evil that is MICHEAL MYERS. Another well thought out performance is by Donald Pleasance who plays DR loumis Micheals phycologist since he was a boy, the only man who knows what micheal myers is really capable of. ... more
halloween one of the most influential horrors of the 20th century. A film about a serial killer who causes a blood bath in the little town of Haddensfeild on halloween night. Micheal myers a 6 year old boy murders his older sister and is sent to a mental instatution, but 15 years on micheal escapes from the mental institution and theres only one place hes heading. Back to haddensfeild to seek more bloody revenge. If you like horror this is the one to see, a film that all modern horrors are compared to and a film that unlike many others has stood the test of time.This film has you in suspence from start to finish with brilliant performances from a young jamie lee curtis who plays laurie stroder a student caught up in the evil that is MICHEAL MYERS. Another well thought out performance is by Donald Pleasance who plays DR loumis Micheals phycologist since he was a boy, the only man who knows what micheal myers is really capable of.
Advantages: Good scary moments, good storyline, great cast Disadvantages: You have to wait until the sequel for more of the storyline.
On Halloween night in 1963, 6 year old Michael Myers murdered his sister Judith. After 15 years in an institution, Michael escapes and heads back to his home town of Haddonfield. He stalks Laurie Stode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and goes on a murdering rampage of her friends and neighbours. Only Dr Loomis (Donald Pleasence) knows the full extent of Michael's twisted mind, but will he convince the town's people in time.
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zippyslover 23.08.2007
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Advantages: Terrifying, intelligent, masterful. Disadvantages: None. Unless we consider the sequels. Or the remake. Which we won't.
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Certain scenes in Halloween will, I dare say, hang around in the mind for as long as I'm fit to remember anything. The ghostly face of Myers rising out the black of a darkened back-seat is one such moment. Much of this has to do with John Carpenter's oft-praised use of widescreen photography. No inch of screen-space is wasted. Myers haunts the furthest edges of the frame, appearing by this or that hedgerow or gatepost, stalking the periphery of the image. Needless to say - it's a Widescreen purchase. Avoid any panned and scanned variants like the plague.
Halloween has been issued on DVD more times than just about any other film I can think of, and the most recent 25th anniversary 2-disc set (or 3, I believe, if you pick it up from HMV), is the best one to go for, complete as it is with an array of deleted scenes ...
DavidJay 17.10.2008
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Advantages: A timeless classic of a Teen Slasher film Disadvantages: None that I can think of
With today being Halloween I thought that I'd write a nice topical review of one of my favourite horror films of all time, this of course being John Carpenter's 'Halloween', a film that I'm sure most of you have seen by now given that it tends to be shown on one channel or another pretty much every year. Tonight the film can be found on BBC1 at a quarter to midnight, so for those of you that have not yet seen the film then there is no excuse not to now. While researching on the internet to see if the version that I have of the DVD is still available, I found that it was actually deleted a couple of months back. I wasn't particularly shocked to find this seen as the version I have was an apparent 'Limited Edition', however after searching around I found that the American version can be bought online from one website for £11.95 which I ...
RazzaLazza 31.10.2006
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For information, my DVD version of this film is the directors cut edition, Halloween Uncut. Effectively the same movie, but the cover and features may differ a tad.
So Rob Zombie Directs this movie, which is a re-imagining of the original story rather than another tired sequel. I liked this idea and was curious from the start.
So the story goes that Michael Myers killed his family when he was a youngster, all but his baby sister. He then escapes from the assylum where he is kept, and tracks down his sister, who is now in high school.
I was pretty prepared for lots of blood and guts, as in the other Haloween movies, but was hoping that, under Robs Direction, the movies could become as spine tingling as they were originally, as they had become so commercialised, slasher flicks and I was becoming more and more disappointed ...
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Classic horror story about a psychotic murderer who killed his sister on Halloween. He later escapes from a mental institution to re-live his crime. What follows is a reign of terror.
Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, HALLOWEEN is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, HALLOWEEN takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his older sister to death. Locked away for many years in a mental hospital Michael escapes one night and returns to his hometown to continue his killing spree. Jamie Lee Curtis, in her first role, plays the resourceful babysitter who is chased by the killer on Halloween night. Produced for very little money and a tight shooting schedule, HALLOWEEN was a stunning success when it was released. Written by John Carpenter and his long-time producer Debra Hill, the film set their careers on fire, with both of them working together many times over the next 25 years. The film also made a star out of Jamie Lee Curtis and turned the slasher movie into a viable, successful genre. HALLOWEEN has been copied, parodied and even turned into a franchise of its own, but the original is still considered the best of the bunch. HALLOWEEN was John Carpenter's first foray into horror, and remains the standard to which all other modern horror films are measured.
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