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Trivia John Carpenter himself dismisses the notion that Halloween is a morality play, regarding it as merely a horror movie.
According to Carpenter, critics "completely missed the point there". He explains, "The one girl who is the most sexually uptight just keeps stabbing this guy with a long knife.
She's the most sexually frustrated. She's the one that's killed him. Not because she's a virgin but because all that sexually repressed energy starts coming out.
She uses all those phallic symbols on the guy. Goofs During Laurie's final battle with Michael Myers, her blouse's buttons continue to fasten and unfasten between shots.
This has not been my night. I spilled butter all over my clothes, they're in the wash. I got stuck in the laundry room Listen, I want you to call Ben Tramer and tell him you were just fooling around.
He went drinking with Mike Godfrey and won't be home until late. You'll have to call him tomorrow. Besides, I'm on my way to pick up Paul. On September 7, , the official Halloween Movies Facebook page announced that the original Halloween would be theatrically re-released starting October 25, in celebration of the film's 35th anniversary in A new documentary was screened before the film at all locations, entitled, You Can't Kill the Boogeyman: The newly filmed scenes include Dr.
Loomis at a hospital board review of Michael Myers and Dr. Loomis talking to a thenyear-old Michael at Smith's Grove, telling him, "You've fooled them, haven't you, Michael?
Loomis at Smith's Grove examining Michael's abandoned cell after his escape and seeing the word "Sister" scratched into the door.
The new scene had Laurie's hair hidden by a towel, since Curtis was by then wearing a much shorter hairstyle than she had worn in In August , Fangoria reported that Synapse Films had discovered boxes of negatives containing footage cut from the film.
One was labeled "" suggesting that it was additional footage for the television version of the film. Synapse owner Don May, Jr.
Luckily, Billy [Kirkus] was able to find this material before it was destroyed. The story on how we got the negative is a long one, but we'll save it for when we're able to showcase the materials in some way.
Kirkus should be commended for pretty much saving the Holy Grail of horror films. There is no sound in any of the reels so far, since none of it was used in the final edit.
Upon its initial release, Halloween performed well with little advertising—relying mostly on word-of-mouth, but many critics seemed uninterested or dismissive of the film.
Pauline Kael wrote a scathing review in The New Yorker suggesting that "Carpenter doesn't seem to have had any life outside the movies: The Los Angeles Times deemed the film a "well-made but empty and morbid thriller," [90] while Bill von Maurer of The Miami Times felt it was "surprisingly good," noting: Allen pointed out the stylistic similarities to Psycho and George A.
Romero 's Night of the Living Dead The following month, Voice lead critic Andrew Sarris wrote a follow-up feature on cult films , citing Allen's appraisal of Halloween and saying in the lead sentence that the film "bids fair to become the cult discovery of Audiences have been heard screaming at its horrifying climaxes".
Maybe you don't like movies that are really scary: Then don't see this one. The site's critical consensus reads, "Scary, suspenseful, and viscerally thrilling, Halloween set the standard for modern horror films.
Many compared the film with the work of Alfred Hitchcock, although TV Guide calls comparisons made to Psycho "silly and groundless" [97] and some critics in the late s and early s blamed the film for spawning the slasher subgenre, which they felt had rapidly descended into sadism and misogyny.
Claiming it encouraged audience identification with the killer, Martin and Porter pointed to the way "the camera moves in on the screaming, pleading, victim, 'looks down' at the knife, and then plunges it into chest, ear, or eyeball.
Years after its debut, Halloween enjoys a reputation as a classic [95] and is considered by many as one of the best films of Since Halloween ' s premiere, it has been released in several home video formats.
On October 2, , the film was released for the first time on Blu-ray by Anchor Bay. The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: American Film Institute lists.
Halloween is a widely influential film within the horror genre; it was largely responsible for the popularization of slasher films in the s.
Halloween popularized many tropes that have become completely synonymous with the slasher genre. Halloween helped to popularize the final girl trope , the killing off of characters who are substance abusers or sexually promiscuous, [] and the use of a theme song for the killer.
Carpenter also shot many scenes from the perspective of the killer in order to build tension. These elements have become so established that many historians argue that Halloween is responsible for the new wave of horror that emerged during the s.
The major themes present in Halloween would also become common in the slasher films it inspired. Film scholar Pat Gill notes that in Halloween , there is a theme of absentee parents [15] but films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th feature the parents becoming directly responsible for the creation of the killer.
There are slasher films that predated Halloween , such as Silent Night, Bloody Night , The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Black Christmas which contained prominent elements of the slasher genre; both involving a group of teenagers being murdered by a stranger as well having the final girl trope.
Halloween , however, is considered by historians as being responsible for the new wave of horror films, because it not only used these tropes but also pioneered many others.
A mass market paperback novelization of the same name , written by Curtis Richards a pseudonym that was used by author Richard Curtis , was published by Bantam Books in It was reissued in The novelization adds aspects not featured in the film, such as the origins of the curse of Samhain and Michael Myers' life in Smith's Grove Sanatorium, which contradict its source material.
For example, the novel's version of Michael speaks during his time at the sanitarium; [] in the film, Dr.
Loomis states, "He hasn't spoken a word in fifteen years. In , Halloween was adapted as a video game for the Atari by Wizard Video. Players take on the role of a teenage babysitter who tries to save as many children from an unnamed, knife-wielding killer as possible.
It was simply a piece of tape with "Halloween" written in marker. When the babysitter is killed, her head disappears and is replaced by blood pulsating from the neck as she runs around exaggeratedly.
The game's primary similarity to the film is the theme music that plays when the killer appears onscreen. Halloween spawned seven sequels , a remake directed by Rob Zombie , and a sequel to the remake , which is unrelated to the sequel of the original.
It begins exactly where Halloween ends and was intended to finish the story of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. Halloween II was a box office success, becoming the second-highest grossing horror film of behind An American Werewolf in London.
Season of the Witch , the plot of which is unrelated to the other films in the series due to the absence of Michael Myers.
After the negative critical and commercial reception for Season of the Witch , the filmmakers brought back Michael Myers in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers , which was successful enough to warrant its own direct sequel with Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers , as well as Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers Even without considering the third film, the Halloween series contains continuity issues, which some sources attribute to the different writers and directors involved in each film.
An eleventh installment was released in the United States in October The film, directed by David Gordon Green , is a direct sequel to the original film while disregarding the previous sequels from canon , and retconing the ending of the first film.
A sequel is in early development. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the slasher film.
For other uses, see Halloween disambiguation. For the first Rob Zombie "Halloween" film, see Halloween film. Tommy Wallace Charles Bornstein.
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