Halloween

5 comments

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   H0rr0r_Critic on January 27, 2009 at 3:40 am

   Reading the reviews of Amazon.com, one may come to the conclusion that John Carpenter’s slasher-flick Halloween is the greatest horror movie ever created in the history of America and started the slasher genre.

   Well here’s a real review, rooted a tad more in fact.

   This movie is the worst horror film ever.

   We start off with a young boy stabbing his naked sister to death. Sounds like a keeper!

   We then go into a long, tedious plot that involves, well, nothing really. The long wait the audience experiences before viewing much slice-and-dice action is apparently an attempt to aid it in learning more about the characters and to make a connection with the story. It fails in doing so. Rather, the audience is often left wondering if the only reason certain scenes are put into the movie is to make the runtime longer.

   With the exception of the infamous “Halloween theme,” the music is terribly irritating. There’s about three songs in this movie, and usually, they are replayed several times over in long, useless scenes that you really feel the urge to fast forward to.

   Then, finally we are treated to some violence. But even the violence won’t satsify those truly looking for a gorefest. Some scenes depict no blood at all.

   And when will the lie that Halloween “created the slasher genre” die? No, you are wrong. Psycho created the slasher genre, and Halloween is simply a modern adaptation. With a lot more nudity and sex which has nothing to do with the plot.

   Finally we reach the “showdown” between Michael Myers and… well it doesn’t really matter who it is. It’s just some girl that we hardly know anything about and really don’t care for. The audience has no emotional attatchment to the main character at all.

   Jamie Lee Curtis, for reasons I cannot understand, is often described as a “strong female” character in this film. No she isn’t. Her primary action throughout the “showdown” is to scream. She isn’t even the one who ultimately defeats Michael. Dr. Loomis is.

   Then finally, we reach the terrifying ending where the somewhat-intriguing theme music plays as a soundloop of dog-like panting repeats in the background like a broken record. The horror!

   Want to see a truly disturbing slasher-flick with large quantities of gore balanced by a thought-provoking plot with important dialogue and realistic characters? Don’t see Halloween!
   Rating: 1 / 5

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   Kyle Crane on January 27, 2009 at 5:38 am

   As a rabid horror fan, I’ve never been certain why so many other horror fans go “ga-ga” over this 90 minute film of predictability. It lacks any suspense. Albeit, Zombie’s “reimagining” was MUCH worse. This film is so bland and dull. Carpenter’s orchestration is the best “thing” to come out of this film. The characters are dull and lifeless, there is obviously NO talent involved within this film.

   I must say that the story written for “Friday The 13th One” is far superior to this jive. I simply do not like this film. The character is never given any light of purpose. Horror fans are a savvy bunch, we deserve better DEBRA HILL!

   Rating: 1 / 5

3. 

   Thierry Montreuil on January 27, 2009 at 6:56 am

   this movie was maybe ok 30 years ago but for now this is a total old fashioned movie.100 percent “has been”
   it was pretty difficult not to fall asleep.
   don’t waste yr time and yr $$
   there is absolutly no point to compare it with the “scream” and the “remember what you did last summer..”the final destination”…
   `why people call it a “classic”????
   Rating: 1 / 5

4. 

   judy mcmillen on January 27, 2009 at 7:27 am

   this is not scary at all nightmare on elm street is scary then this
   Rating: 1 / 5

5. 

   J. Conder on January 27, 2009 at 8:02 am

   Hello, production values? In *several* scenes supposedly located in and around the town of “Haddonfield” Illinois, there are palm trees visible in the background. When the doctor makes a phone call supposedly from rural Illinois, there are foothills and low mountains in the background. Sorry, I’ve been to Illinois; no mountains, no palm trees. All of which indicates the setting for this “horror classic” is not Illinois but good ol’ SoCal. This might not be such a big deal except that the movie and those who tout it make so much out of the movie’s “realism”, and the “Midwest setting”.
   
   The story itself is very pedestrian. Admittedly, the acting and the direction are good. Some of the plot is downright inexplicable; for example, when Michael Myers suddenly gets a sense of humor in the middle of his killing spree, and disguises himself to the bimbo girlfriend by covering himself with a sheet and wearing the glasses of her just-murdered boyfriend. That zany Myers, what a goof! Yeah, and speaking of the just-mentioned murder, yeah that makes sense that Myers could lift up the guy by the chin with one arm, and nonchalantly swing his other arm hard enough to impale the guy against a door with a knife. It’s called physics, guys, look into it. So much for realism.
   Rating: 2 / 5

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