Insanely overrated
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simest — 10 years ago(March 25, 2016 04:54 PM)
I agree with Kurt.
It is a mystery to me why people find any part of HALLOWEEN boring - day sequences or night.
At 90m it is a relatively short moviethere's hardly time for it to drag.
We have barely 30m of daytime sequence in the movie. In that short time we have Laurie stalked early on at the Myers house (great scene), again while in class (great scene), again on the way home behind the bush (great scene), again when she gets home out the back yard (great scene).
We should also throw in menacing moments like Annie's "speed kills" - where Myers is again prevalent and the danger ever close and the fabulous schoolyard sequence where a bully is seized by Myers and Tommy then ominously stalked - not to mention Laurie and Annie tailed by Myers en route to the Doyle/Wallace street.
That is 30 short minutes punctuated regularly by so many great moments - each of which adds a growing sense of threat and looming danger to the last.
I mean for heavens sake.how much more does one want?
Should we just fill every second with incident to avoid a 5m stretch where essential plot/dialogue scenes play out?
We're all different of course but as I said, I'm quietly amazed and in some ways saddened that people could be bored through this when there is so much to appreciate.
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cjh8504 — 10 years ago(March 26, 2016 04:26 PM)
It's a little slow paced. Sim was saying all those daytime scenes were great, of course that's just his opinion.
The punctuation to those scenes, where you saw Myers is all top notch. But just the girls talking books and cheerleading , I could do without.
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ThiefOfStars — 10 years ago(March 26, 2016 05:36 PM)
But just the girls talking books and cheer leading , I could do without.
But what would you like teenage girls in the 1970's (or any decade) to talk about to establish themselves as relatable human beings and characters that you would care about?
Like it or not, those scenes established the girls as individuals Laurie the studious introvert, Lynda the air headed, boy crazy cheerleader and Annie the sarcastic smart-ass and if you 'could do without' those scenes how would you have established the above without the existing scenes that lasted all of what, 1>2 minutes?
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nutsberryfarm — 9 years ago(September 06, 2016 01:15 PM)
it's a good movie. think if the theme was done with a saxophone instead of a piano it would have made it a much cooler movie.
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!!!deleted!!! (63057267) — 10 years ago(March 21, 2016 01:05 PM)
HALLOWEEN wasn't made for people who WANT to see people get killed. It's designed for people who are afraid of seeing people killed. I really don't think the bloodthirsty slasher fan types even existed back then.
If you're looking for creative and plentiful "kills", I wouldn't have recommended HALLOWEEN to you. I would've suggested THE BURNING or THE PROWLER, something along those lines.
By the way, no one involved in making HALLOWEEN regarded it as a " slasher" during production. That label hadn't been invented yet. -
stepsonglass — 10 years ago(March 23, 2016 11:38 AM)
thank you for saying everything i had planned on saying when i read the original post. lol you hit the nail on the head with every single point. "slasher" wasnt even a genre when halloween came out, it CREATED the genre. and in the early years of slasher films there werent these fans who identified with the killer. that happened much later. the original point was to root for the final girl.
after time and when the genre started to become a bit ridiculous people just kind of changed the way they watched them and it became almost like a sport, rooting for the killer to get another one. but that was not the point in the beginning. like you said you were identifying with the victims hoping they got away. (personally when i watch a horror movie i still watch it with this mindset and that's why i cant stand any of the films where the characters are crap).
that is a big problem with younger people who watch older movies like this for the first time NOW with all of the information they already have about films that came after it. they cant put themselves back in time and appreciate it for what it was then. the fact the original poster is saying halloween is trying to be a slasher is frankly, absurd. that's like saying the telegraph was trying to be the internet. lol -
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Hendry_William_French — 10 years ago(March 25, 2016 11:11 PM)
HALLOWEEN wasn't made for people who WANT to see people get killed. It's designed for people who are afraid of seeing people killed.
Very well said. The majority of these types of movies are garbage exactly for this reason. The good movies concentrate on the humans, the bad ones on the gore. A lot of fans just watch these films for the killings, but the ones that grasp storytelling, atmosphere and characterization will get more out of certain films.
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