What was your first reaction upon seeing this
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stones78 — 9 years ago(September 14, 2016 07:12 AM)
I saw it at the Barclay Square Theater in Upper Darby, Pa. in 1978, as a VERY young boy, and all I remember is Bob hanging upside-down, and thinking that the Devil took Michael underground after he was shot. I also remember seeing an old deceased friend of mine watching the screen with his hands clutched together, and his eyes wide open. Only a year later, I would watch Mr. Barlow in 1979!
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tristanp25 — 9 years ago(September 15, 2016 06:24 AM)
I first watched Halloween around 2006. I always loved my horrors but I hadn't started watching the oldies until then.
I remember the misical score freaking me out while the film had me completely fascinated with the build up to the climax. I was on the edge of my seat cause I knew the big confrontation was coming. And man is the final scenes spooky. They still are. -
Tank-McQuade — 9 years ago(September 15, 2016 10:36 AM)
I saw this on a rainy October Saturday afternoon in 1990, the music, the atmosphere, and overall dark theme is what I remember but overall the ending was what shocked me. 10 years old at that time, and it kick started my horror movie addiction during my teenage years
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LadyDi4476 — 9 years ago(September 16, 2016 08:20 AM)
Scariest scenes to me as a kid were when Tommy looks out the window and sees Michael just standing there across the street staring back at him. Just the stillness is so eery!
Also when Laurie finds Annie's body laid out on the bed with the jack-o-lantern glowing next to her. It freaked me out as a kid!
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ScaryMary123 — 9 years ago(September 16, 2016 12:57 PM)
I'm old enough to have seen Halloween upon its original release, and it was April of 1979 when it hit my local theater in Maine. Not exactly a "Halloweeny" time, so I didn't quite plug into the autumn feel of the movie. For one, there was very little of fall OR Halloween in the film. All the leaves were green, the trees were full, and even the pumpkins didn't look quite right.
So, it basically all came down to a psycho killer on the loose who seems to be after baby sitters. That's essentially it. The Halloween motif is not only secondary, it's so far in the background to be practically invisible.
For another thing, when Michael's unmasked at the beginning, it's supposed to be 1963. No way would a boy in 63 have shaggy long hair like that. More than likely a buzz cut, or, as they used to call it, a "crew cut."
The only thing this movie had going for it then was the very ending with the boogie man comment from Dr. Loomis. And the fact that Michael disappeared. What a disappointment to learn, in Part II, that he merely just got up and walked away. -
sunyboy1 — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 06:58 PM)
ScaryMary123, I hope you're being sarcastic because its hard to tell.
- I don't know where the hell you were living in Maine, maybe it was in a forest? Halloween was release on October 25, 1978, not in 1979. To your second point of pumpkins ad no Halloween motif being present, you're wrong again. Pumpkins are present throughout the movie, autumn leaves are also there, kids getting ready for trick-or-treating as well as those partaking int he activity. So yeah, your whole first AND second paragraphs are basically invalid.
- Actually you're comment about the haircut seems right.
- My reaction to your last paragraph is, "What?" So I'm not even going to try.
Herbert West: Who's going to believe a talking head? Get a job in a sideshow.
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dave626 — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 04:56 AM)
It was released in Oct. of 1978, but as Jamie Lee and other creative forces have said, it took months for it to get around and get any traction. They had 400 copies printed. They hit the bigger markets first and then the smaller ones, so it is conceivable that Halloween didn't make it to Maine until 1979, which frankly is only 2 months later than the end of Oct.
So that part is accurate.
"He came home." - Dr. Sam Loomis from the original HalloweeN