Insanely overrated
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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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