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He's Behind You!

Advantages: Nail-biting tension, excellent villain in Michael
Disadvantages: Drags in the middle, very dated

...and over again. Halloween is rated an 18 however the film doesn’t revolve around gore like the horror films of today do, instead Halloween makes it’s mark by centralising around tension and the sheer terror that Michael Myers brings to the town of Haddonfield. Michael Myers has an eerie onscreen presence, even when he’s not actually in a shot. His presence echoes throughout the film with the use of shadows and reflections that means that even when ...
...of gut wrenching gore however Halloween remains a successful horror film based on the atmosphere that it evokes, it manages to be genuinely frightening without a hint of bloodshed to be seen. This is a really jumpy film and there are many unexpected (and expected) moments throughout which leave the film understandably predictable but the journey is very unpredictable. It’s one of those films where you find yourself shouting at the scream, urging ...

Great_reviewer07 04.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Halloween (DVD)

One of the best films of the director !

Advantages: rare classic
Disadvantages: it's scary!!!

As i mentioned on the title this movie count as one of the best movies of the director like; The Thing, Halloween İf you are areal horror fan you must hve this movie for your archive. When we come to the story part of the movie it satified me cause iit has a rare story compare to the other horror movies.Jamie Lee Curtis again outstanding in this movie as she become horror QUEEN with Halloween series.When we look at the special effect s part ...

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Review of The Fog (DVD)

HALLOWEEN

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. ...

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Review of Halloween (DVD)

Creepy as Hell

Advantages: Superb musical score, hugely atmospheric, powerfully unsettling, simple but effective plot
Disadvantages: None

...of tension and suspense. In the hands of a lesser director, The Fog would have been just another generic horror film, (see the execrable 2005 remake if you don't believe me) but Carpenter instead manages to create an oppressive and unsettling film with his mix of eerily-lit shots, brooding off-screen menace and his trademark pulsing synths that ebb and flow throughout, gradually building up anxiety in the viewer on an almost subconscious level. The ...
...beacon and driving it onto the rocks, causing crew to drown before plundering the ship of gold and using it to establish the town. The local church houses a huge gold crucifix fashioned from the supposedly ill-gotten gold, and its curator, Father Malone, is a descendent to the head conspirator and town founder. On the hundredth anniversary of the shipwrecking a strange luminous fog begins to envelop the town, and strange figures with glowing eyes ...

Burning_Darkness 06.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Fog (DVD)

Trick or Treat?

Advantages: The John Carpenter original, and H20
Disadvantages: The Curse storyline

...the film takes place on Halloween 1978, 15 years after a 6 year old killed his sister. The madman has now escaped from the asylum, donned a creepy mask, and headed back to the town of the original horror. Jamie Lee Curtis is Laurie Strode, the resourceful teenager who is stalked over the course of Halloween night by the masked man. Donald Pleasance turns up as an eerie doctor who has to try and bring Myers in alive. The performances are above average ...
...a scene from the original Halloween that subtly plays on a screen in a bar. It wasn't long before Michael returned though. After spending 10 years in a coma, he is now waking up for Halloween. After all, he wont be happy til everybody in his family is dead. We still dont know why though. What we do find out here is that Laurie Strode died in a car crash, and has left a child who now lives with over protective foster parents. She knows nothing about ...

bilbob20 28.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Halloween (Box Set) (DVD)