I read alot and have seen plenty of TV and film so expect lots of reviews on these. I handle a fair ...
I read alot and have seen plenty of TV and film so expect lots of reviews on these. I handle a fair amount of technology too but not always brand new.
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With the first instalment of the Halloween series John Carpenter produced not only a classic horror film, but helped to spawn an entire genre of slasher films.
The year is 1979. Imagine, if you will, there is no Freddie and there is no Jason. In previous years you may have become accustomed to Carpenters name by such classics as Assault on Precinct 13. Five years ago you were deeply disturbed by the texas chainsaw massacre or the Exorcist, and of course Hitchcock has been scaring you for years. Even with these horror intrusions into your psyche you are not used to horror and graphic violence like todays standards. Your in a cinema in the dark, from silence starts the soon to be famous theme music. From someones point of view you are given a slow walk up the stairs, a flash of breast, and then in a somewhat Psycho style killing, a small child delivers a shocking violent attack the likes children should not. Could a child do such a thing ? How sick !
Before we got used to such violence always been on TV Halloween was a member of an era in which it was shocking. Watching it from todays perspective we are equally shocked, the classic horror film surviving not because of gore of violence, but because it builds up tension like the unscrewing of the cap in H.G Wells 'the war of the worlds' novel and then slaughters the onlookers in equally gripping reality. This novel and this film are two of the same, showing a generation of what is to come. Wells chose sci-fi, Carpenter chose sadistic murder.
I will include no spoilers in this, you have to watch the film. To appreciate so much modern horror is to appreciate the building blocks of classics such as this. This is the building of tension, and the startling enacting. This is a fine director starting a series as it should of gone on. This is brilliant theme music and chilling visuals. This is a must watch !
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Production Year: 1980 - Horror - Director: Paul Lynch - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, Casey Stevens, Anne-Marie Martin, Antoinette Bower
Production Year: 1981 - Horror - Director: Rick Rosenthal - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Lance Guest, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey Kramer, Dana Carvey
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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 wo...
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iGayParis 29.04.2008 (29.04.2008)
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