Violent but entertaining? Arn't most slasher flicks violent but entertaining? A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Friday the 13th movies, Child's Play. Well movies like Re-Animator and Braindead may have gone overboard but still entertaining. Still, Halloween kicks ass.
original: michael was a psychopath or a sociopath (can't get enuff of his profile)
remake: completely unrealistic... u can't become a psycho from bad childhood. u r born with it. if u r neglected as a child, ur targets will be not teens or just anyone in ur path. the original made more sense cus he was a psycho without any codes like dexter so he just played cunning and killed his preys.
Thats why I like Roger Ebert, he is against censorship. I think it's messed up how you can show a video with intense scenes of blood and gore here on YouTube but it will get pulled if the video shows a bit of nudity.
Halloween is a classic and I hate it when they remake them or they make a prequel.I could care less what made Michael Myers the way he is because once you show it,it makes him less scary.
I have got to be one of the few people who don't care for this film. But then again I don't care for a lot of slasher films. The only character I liked was the doctor, I found the other characters to be annoying. Plus the killer who keeps coming back isn't scary to me just repeative and annoying, I found myself screaming at the screen "Just kill him already!"
I love R. Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses & Devils Rejects but his remake of Halloween was crap. What made Michael Myers brilliant in the original was not knowing what was behind it all. And also Donald Pleasence character Dr. Loomis explanation of the embodiment of evil in Myers spoke volumes a lot more than Zombie's background story. John Carpenter is the King.
On the Horror Ban... what makes no sense is Ebert LOVES Last House on The Left a total rape creepy snuff fantasy film & Siskel LOVED Saturday Night Fever.. a film with treating women like crap, gang bangs, anti gay, black, spanish people Travolta played! Listen to Siskel bringing horror hated women and didnt want women to have opinions.. His favorite of all time Saturday Night Fever HATED women! How isnt Last House on the Left NOT a freak show?????? These 2 are morons!!!!!!!
This movie not only reinvented Horror, but it also made Halloween scary again. It puts in the spirit and it made a lot of other scary characters, Jason, Freddy, Pumpkinhead, Leatherface started as setting the bar. Michael shattered it and only involved elemantal scares w/out all the blood and guts. This is still in my book the bar setter for any horror/slasher genre movie today.
Great, Thanks for ruining the ending for half of the people who havent even viewed this tour-de force, not only will this video diminish the effect this film could possibly have but its also a spoiler
@mrmovieguide I didn't know this was the ending until you just said that. I'm planning on watching this when it arrives through the mail (I ordered it on Amazon) and now you've given away the ending for me. Thanks a bunch.
@mrmovieguide well you would have realised it anyways by the time it reached the end and in similiar fashion also realised that you knew how it would work out therefore draining it of any tension or thrill. ( I watched the film after watching this scene so I would know)
@mrmovieguide Can you please reply to my comment? I only discovered this by chance. By the time you reach this scene you've already experienced the primary shocks and scares of the film, and as you're experiencing them, even if you've seen this review, you don't know this scene will be at the end. You don't know what happens directly after it. You recognise the scene when you it's playing of course, but that doesn't diminish what's gone before. Being told this is the climax scene does.
@MrHeslopian As i've said before as the scene appears you realize the way this scene will progress, thus diminishing the impact of the most fearsome scene in the film. Yes you don't know this is the climax but you will realize it is once it reaches it's climax by which time you will also realize that you have viewed this scene before which will impact you in a negative manner.
Let's end this argument over here, You WIn, i'm sick and tired of prolonging this argument.
@mrmovieguide You know it will end up with her stabbing the Shape, but given what's gone before you won't know if he's dead or not, so the suspense is still there. I don't see how realising this is the climax after the scene has unfolded and the end credits roll will affect you negatively. You'd have exactly the same experience watching the movie fresh. But reading your comment, as soon as she goes upstairs and hugs the children you know it's the climax, and THAT has a negative effect.
I'm surprised that they didn't talk about the other two reasons this scene works so well, which are that it holds some shots for a very long time and that Jamie Lee Curtis is a good actress who was able to do a lot with a role that was no more than sketched in.
roger ebert is a moron. he is the most close minded critic ever. anytime he sees a woman getting brutally killed he assumed the director hates women. also he's hypocrit. he says in this vid that no subject should be off limits. yet he bashes the hell out of i spit on your grave.
man there is so much shite being written on this video . Rob Zombies remakes are total utter buckets of rancid bile. people on here discussing third reich lesbian feminist authors and other pretentious shite ( i thought i was in a scene from good will hunting ) simple fact is some movie's are good most are bad. Take it for what it is , pure entertainment. Why give a flying fuck what anyone else thinks. If you like's it you like's it if you don't you don't.
Halloween kicks the ass off of any of its imitators! These guys are right in that department. It's areal film. Its imitators are soooo poorly made in comparison.
What the hell is that suppose to mean? These guys just need to pull the stick out their asses. But their just about one foot into the grave so who cares.
@juliusyeung0330 yea but what im saying is just because u dont like it that doesnt make it shit im not a fan of transformers infact i think it was pretty awful but if i was gonna say its shit i would acknowledge the fact that its imopo i think twilight is pretty cool but it takes its heat i respect your opinions but i just dont think its fair to call it that out of an opinion.
You seem to be getting bogged down in semantics; after all, if I say Zombie's "Halloween" is shit, isn't that in essence the equivalent of saying "I don't like it?" There will always be someone, somewhere who will come along to contradict. Respect for one's opinions is not the same thing as imposing one's choice of words on another person...in fact, in a sense it actually contradicts the concept of respect.
@andell1 well i wouldn't say i was being bogged down on semantics but i was defending friday the 13th because i dont feel that the movie is shit i was just trying to say that people should show some respect for certain films lets face it the minute you see somone trashing your favorite movie song or sports team we jump to its aid and get pissed that anyone says anything bad about it so what im saying is who are we to call them shit we have are opinions and should voice them but with respect.
@Cropsy25 But if I say "that movie is crap," all it represents is a more assertive affirmation of the point "I do not like that film." Perhaps the real issue is, people shouldn't be so sensitive?
Laurie Strode, the kickass heroin! Trust me, it takes balls for her to shoot Michael in the face at the end of Halloween 2, also :) Too bad Rob Zombie really fucked that up >:l
Everything these two said is true. I'm going to use the term "sleaze-bucket movie" from now on when referring to a gratuitous, trashy horror film. Which is to say ninety percent of horror films today. Other grand horror films from those days, slasher films no less, were The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for its almost documentarian feel and lack of splatter and A Nightmare on Elm Street for its brilliant premise and unique villain.
Lol and everything YOU said was equally true. All these classic Horror/Slasher films really took off as far as creativity, suspense and true horror, eh? They were really fucked over by their remakes though, weren't they?
The original Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street movies are the best in the genre and are classics. It is too bad that the crappy remakes have only focussed on the antagonists and not enough on what made the originals so special. GOD LIVE JOHN CARPENTER, AND THE ORIGINAL HALLOWEEN!
Those types of explanations should ONLY be made when the franchise or series is dieing out. It's actually okay to have explanations as long as no further inductions to the series are made, IMO.
@juliusyeung0330 Yeah, I especially liked the way they revealed him bit by bit. And yeah, like they said in Scream "Its much scarier when theres no motive". As for wantinto feel the strength and power he had when he killed his sister, thats the explanation Loomis gives in the comic book series. In most of the movies his MOs are teens but not all the time, teens just seem to always get in his way as they wud be out on halloween
The Halloween Remake was good... Better than that Friday The 13th remake peice of crap, but not as great as the original. And the 2009 sequel was total crap!!!!!
jeez id hate to see his review of the new hatchet 2 oh and cant there be a grusome and entertaining movie, amd besides most grusome movies are entertaining to the horror fanbase arnt they atleast most of them are
People don't like freakshows because there's no substance, which I thinkg is a bullshit reason. A freakshow is the ultimate primative form of entertainment; it's almost nihilistic. Ebert was right when he said it "demeans" the human race, but are we above that? Fuck no. The only thing I don't like about the freakshow is when it's disguised as something meaningful or even tasteful like those bullshit shows on TLC about the midgets and the women with 500 kids. THAT, to me, is disgusting.
I love HD as much as anyone but there's something about old crappy footage of Halloween, Friday the 13th and all the old horror movies that makes the movies seem scarier, almost like a home video of a murder. It seems more like a nightmare when the picture is grainy and hazy as opposed to crystal clear HD.
I love how Ebert talks about how great horror movies are when they don't hate women, yet when he talks about all artists, he refers to them as "he"...
I was disappointed by Halloween. I had heard so many times that it was extremely scary but when I watched it, I didn't find it very scary and I'm usually scared very easily by horror movies.
@feelingfluffy A lot of what makes it special has been lost in time, because every single horror movie has copied nowadays and pushed itself with violence and gore.
I think this show was on late, and also you don't see the knife actually penetrate his chest. Often when it comes to what can be shown on TV, the difference between implicit and explicit is big. Here it's not explicit.
Hey, I saw this segment when it first aired! I loved "Sneak Previews" - better than their syndicated show (no commercials). And yeah "Hallowe'en" was a good'un.
Penny for penny, meaning how good it is versus how much it cost Halloween is the best movie ever made. Other movies that come close are Night of the Living Dead, The Blair Witch Project and the new Paranormal Activity. It's funny how there all horror movies. Low-budget filmmakers should take some notes on these movies.
I love Jamie Lee Curtis in this. She plays her character as a calm, cool, approachable girl. So, when I saw Zombie's remake in 2007, I was beyond pissed off at his casting choice: a whiny, bitchy little brat. The difference between the two ladies? I was rooting for Jamie Lee Curtis in the original, but in the remake I was hoping that Scout Taylor-Compton would get hacked to little bits. Anyone else agree???
@MorbidBliss22 I know that you wrote on here about 2 months ago, but I totally agree with everything that you wrote. Not only was that Scout gal horribly miscast, she is quite annoying. I felt absolutely no empathy for her as Laurie. She is just a terrible actress. I will NEVER think of her as Laurie Strode. Out of the hundreds of horror films I have seen, Jamie Lee Curtis is my favorite heroine. One just can't help but to root for her!
@MorbidBliss22 Rob Zombie claims to love horror films. If so he should not have attempted a remake of a Carpenter classic. Why try to improve what's already a classic? He obviously has no respect for the genre. He is not interested in exploring themes of subconscious horror. He goes for the gutter humor and the gore. He just doesn't seem to see that horror can be an intellectual exercise. The Shining, Exorcist and Psycho are mazes of subconscious conflicts on display. Like Carpenters Halloween.
@MorbidBliss22 Agreed, despite not seeing the remake. There was a two hour documentary on the making of the original Halloween last night. It was amazing. $325,000 was all it cost to make. Shot in 21 days. Carpenter is a genius.
You know what I hate? I showed my dad this and he thought it was too cheesy and would never give it a 5. I showed him Rob Zombie's trailer for Halloween II and he thought it was better just becuase its non cheesy.
For an example of exploitation, also look at a film at the time called "I Spit on Your Grave," which Ebert famously gave a zero-star review because it is nothing more than junk.
Halloween is a masterpiece, although one wonders: Why didn't the heroine follow the kids outside to safety? Then again, it's been a long time since I saw this movie.
@pitbull103 They were upstairs, and she knew that it was her that he was after (it was Michael--she knew that). She did it to draw Michael away from the kids.
"your basic sympathies is enlisted on the side of the woman, not on the killer...Halloween does not hate women"
I think this is a really dumb thing to say. Like what slasher film, except the extremely rare, actually "hated" women?.
I think that was a huge misconception from the get go. All these slasher flicks usually had a female herione that out survived everyone. And all the males usually were wiped out. Wouldn't that mean there's more, perhaps unconscious, hatred for men?
@unfortunatebeam At the time, exploitative killing of women was the normal. This was well before "Scream" or other movies, and even now, Jamie Lee Curtis is far more sympathetic than Neve Campbell was in "Scream" or Jennifer Love Hewitt was in the "Summer" movies because she acts as a likeable, strong human being throughout the movie, not just somebody running away the entire film only to get lucky at the end.
@KentuckyKid84 well I don't know how "normal" it was, but if it was being done a lot I think it was precisely because it's considered more "horrific" to see women getting killed than seeing men--which, if that's true (and I think it is), it would make society more sexist towards men for basically shrugging their shoulders and saying who cares if men die.
@unfortunatebeam Nah, horror movies are all about rape fantasies and objectification and conflating sex and violence. When men kill men it's just a fantasy of manliness. What's interesting is the difference in reaction between a woman psycho killer and male. When it's a woman the reaction is "what a bitch!"--fearful of a woman with power.
@unfortunatebeam No no, you need to read more detailed and thoughtful analyses of slasher films. The women are always sexualized right before they are killed. The one that survives is the one that doesn't give it away. There is anger toward women in these movies. It's not universal, but it's there.
@greg5566 ironic that you say I should read a more detailed analysis cause you surely aren't giving one (even considering it's only youtube) and probably aren't reading many yourself. You're giving the old, cliched feminist line about slasher movies, how is that a good analysis? I'm merely questioning what exactly is at work in the movies beyond the old cliche that all it is is hostility towards women. I mean that might be a small part of it, but there's more happening.
@unfortunatebeam I love that you accuse an interesting analysis of gender roles in society and how they are represented on film of being "cliched" while your observation is by implication interesting? Anyway, if you'd just think a little deeper about possible reasons for the "horrific" nature of seeing women killed as opposed to me, you might come up with something interesting. What you say here isn't.
@greg5566 --Greg , you are toally wrong in your puerile assessment of women's role in horror films. There is no empirical evidence to support your sexual connotations.
@Gravelandart The fact that you are looking for "empirical evidence" of a feminist critique of culture explains precisely what it is that you don't understand about literary and cultural theory. So, nevermind.
@greg5566 --Greg, in your pampered world of psuedo topics like "feminist critique of culture", as if mypopic hags like Naomi Wolf, Betty Frieden, etc. could offer learned "critique" , reality and standards play no role. Empiricist application can be applied in fictional observation. But such artistic license is lost on you. Shame--you fancy yourself such a race-mixing homo too.
@Gravelandart Two more pieces of empirical evidence that you don't understand what literary or cultural or feminist theory are. Naomi Wolf is your example? (that's one.) And two, you basically repeated yourself, but you are right, reality and standards don't necessarily play a role. It is entirely not the point. As I said, you simply don't know what you're talking about. It's not a criticism to say it's not "based in 'reality'"--that simply isn't relevant.
@greg5566 -and thus you attempt to co-opt my point, "feminist" critque is a misnomer for debased and cheap promotion of the myopic "gay" lifestyle--which has nothing to do with art. Camille Paglia has been the only feminist author of importance. Do you write these things because you are a race-mixing homo---or do you just have a misplaced antagonism against the occidental culture in general?
@Gravelandart haha, it's funny that your only examples of feminist authors are those two. You seem not to know what "misnomer" means either. I think a trip to the dictionary would do you a lot of good.
@greg5566 -- Did you know that the Third Reich had many great authors? But you don't know any of them. Do you know why you don't know any of them? Because you willingly accepted the smug and self-serving idea that there was no culture in the Third Reich.
@Gravelandart You're making a really good point, though it's not the point that you intended. I do not know that there were many good authors in the Third Reich, but not because I have any opinion about it. Rather, the reason I don't know that is that I don't know anything about it. So I have no opinion about it. There is only so much time in a day, and the Third Reich is not something I have spent time studying. So I know nothing about it. . . .
@Gravelandart You are precisely right. I don't know anything about it, so I wouldn't presume to say anything about it. Same as you (should do) with feminism. Very good. I agree, so okay, get back to that dictionary now. Have a good day.
Because The Thing was all about the excessive Rob Bottin effects. The gore came at the expense of the suspense and characterization. And if you read Ebert's review of The Thing, you can see that he was merely disappointed with Carpenter, and that he had high hopes for his next endeavor.
the music is the only good thing about halloween. THERE IS NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN HALLOWEEN. you don't know the first thing about the "woman" they're talking so much about, not a damn thing. that's why it's so fucking boring, no one cares about her.
the story is as simple as can possibly be, what is so interesting here? there are such better horror movies, these clowns dare put down an intelligent movie like hellraiser and praise this thoughtless, boring shitpile
The guy who played Michael when he was unmasked was Joanie from "Happy Days" brother, Tony Moran. And, yes, he was quite handsome, but so is Brad Loree who played Michael in Halloween Resurrection. (LOL, handsome is damning Loree with faint praise, the man is gorgeous.)
I do also like John Capenter's halloween better then Rob Zombies. I would not say that Zombies sucked. It was a original vision of carpenters classic story. But Carpeneters is still the best of the two.
I dissagree my sympathy is for the Killer not the women lol.. i allways cheer Micheal, Jason and Freddy. sure I like seeing women prance around nude showing off Tand A....but I watch the horror moives to see the killers.
It's "disagree" not "dissagree" and "always" not "allways" and "Michael" not "Micheal" and you meant to say "T and A" but you wrote "Tand A" instead. What the fuck is Tand A? Also "movies" is the correct spelling not "moives"
Learn how to spell properly you stupid fucking immature retard!!!
Friday the 13th is good but I do not think it perfected the slasher genre. The script for Friday the 13th is a rip-off from another slasher film that was in pre production at the same time. Unfortunately, that movie lost it's budget and got put on hold while Friday the 13th went on to be completed and made it to the theaters. The film Friday the 13th was partly ripped off from was for a slasher movie that later made it's way to success and it is called: The Burning.
far out, i haven't seen this original Halloween movie before, but that scene they showed was intense! much scarier than any of the new "horror" films out atm. i'm gonna go out and rent this
rob zombie is a great musician... but as a director i only enjoyed 1 film (devil´s rejects) and it wasn´t an amazing film... the most interesting thing about michael myers was that he was this mysterious guy in a mask refer as the "devil", for one of the characters, and rob zombie made a biography of him..he transformed this mysterious guy in a mask in a tipical psychopath... Rob Zombie´s Halloween is not an interesting film... is another piece of shit remake
Could you elaborate for us all how you think 'Halloween 2' was amazing?
It was one of - if not the worst - movies of this year. It was just a montage of pointless imagery dwarfed by savage and brutal killing. Okay, I get it.
But like the other people have mentioned before me: The ORIGINAL Halloween was one of the most imitated movies of all time. Even those films that mimicked it in nature were better than 'H2'.
All people in the horror film industry should watch this, except Sam Raimi
One of these day, I'm going to create a great slasher film, with plot, suspense, character, cool practical gore effects, and no pointless sex scenes or weed smoking
@orkavorn You are dead on!! Not only that he changed the entire core of the movie!
Micheal wasn't the neglected son of a stripper & abusive stepdad.
He was EVIL, born that way. Like Dr. Loomis said "His eyes were black, he was looking onto pure evil" Zombie screws it up from start. Never saw Zombie Halloween 2, never will.
@SpaceAceTX What made the original so scary was that Michael Myers was a normal kid and than out of the blue he just snapped for no reason.. But Rob Zombie had to add his white trash spin to it where the Michael was neglected and abused and that's why he snapped. Its much more scary not knowing why the kid just snapped.
@SpaceAceTX you are 100% correct! The movie was made around the time when people (social-physcologists) tried answering the reason for such violent crimes and evil's in the world, Carpenter boldly created an iconic/unique villian that is simply explained by the fact that he's outside of pyscoanalysis, Michael is pure evil, plain and simple.
@SpaceAceTX It isn't good. Laurie Strode's character is very annoying & just downright mean, and SPOILER (kind of) Zombie turns Dr. Loomis into more of a villain than Michael, who it seemed we were supposed to symathize for at the end.
exactly. Halloween was different from horror films because it used horror. What the general public call horror films now is bloody, gory, films where people die and every ten minutes something pops up and the music spikes. This film is horror, suspense, and one of a kind. Nothing will ever beat it.
@orkavorn What makes me laugh is that Rob Zombie said he supposedly hates remakes. He had an uproar against Zac Snyder's DAWN OF THE DEAD remake and Marcus Nispel's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE remake. So WHY did he remake HALLOWEEN and now wants to remake THE BLOB? I have no fucking idea!
@freddy3911 Yeah Rob Zombie is so full of himself it hurts. Halloween did not need a remake. Nearly all of JCs movies get remade and they are never as good as the original. I will cry the day Escape From New York gets remade. And if they ever attempt a big trouble in little china remake I might just kill myself.
@IronManOfficialguy Supposedly Gerard Butler is going to be in the remake of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. He is such a good actor, Gerard, do not step down to the level please!
@freddy3911 Gerard Butler is a good actor and I had heard that he was doing the remake. I dont think a british actor should be cast as snake. That would be like casting matt damon as james bond. Im sure Butler can do an american accent but thats not really the point. I have nothing against brits, I just think snake is kind of an american icon. I hope they dont make a remake at all but if they cast Gerard Butler I find that really offensive.
@iamcasihart Thank God it flopped at the box office, so it should be last on hollywoods list of things to remake. It is my Citizen Cane or God Father Part two whichever tickles your fancy.
@IronManOfficialguy Let us hope! There are just so many things to appreciate about Big Trouble. It is totally unique. Truly, there is nothing like it. I have loved it from the first time I saw it when I was about 8 years old. Kurt Russell is really one of my favorite actors. It was frickin' fantastic to see him return to his bad ass glory in "Deathproof." If you have seen it, what did you think of Kurt's performance? I loved him in it and I love that film!
@iamcasihart Yeah its my favorite film. Russels performance in Deathproof was good but I thought the movie was just ok. I thought it was Qts worst movie. I liked it but it wasnt as good as his other movies.
Rob Zombie made a mockery of himself by remaking this legendary film.
LOVERZLAND 2 months ago
Violent but entertaining? Arn't most slasher flicks violent but entertaining? A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Friday the 13th movies, Child's Play. Well movies like Re-Animator and Braindead may have gone overboard but still entertaining. Still, Halloween kicks ass.
Rantincorporated 3 months ago
Gene and Roger are right on the money about what is truly scary...now if these boneheads in Hollywood would wake up!!
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TheBitchinbabs 6 months ago
original: michael was a psychopath or a sociopath (can't get enuff of his profile)
remake: completely unrealistic... u can't become a psycho from bad childhood. u r born with it. if u r neglected as a child, ur targets will be not teens or just anyone in ur path. the original made more sense cus he was a psycho without any codes like dexter so he just played cunning and killed his preys.
pfl95 6 months ago
oh my god ebert is ugly
daveybaby131 6 months ago
@daveybaby131 Considering he is getting closer and closer to deaths door, I don't think he gives a shit.
TheNosGothica 4 months ago
@TheNosGothica guess you don't either but who cares?
daveybaby131 4 months ago
Roger Ebert is so right for Halloween. He was ugly and lacked style then, a monster now.
ZarahLean 6 months ago
Thats why I like Roger Ebert, he is against censorship. I think it's messed up how you can show a video with intense scenes of blood and gore here on YouTube but it will get pulled if the video shows a bit of nudity.
wickedklown50187 7 months ago
Halloween is a classic and I hate it when they remake them or they make a prequel.I could care less what made Michael Myers the way he is because once you show it,it makes him less scary.
mrgb46 7 months ago
I have got to be one of the few people who don't care for this film. But then again I don't care for a lot of slasher films. The only character I liked was the doctor, I found the other characters to be annoying. Plus the killer who keeps coming back isn't scary to me just repeative and annoying, I found myself screaming at the screen "Just kill him already!"
Sleepingsparklegirl 7 months ago
This movie is still scary 33 years later! Leave the light on when you watch it!
styx4ever1963 8 months ago
I love R. Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses & Devils Rejects but his remake of Halloween was crap. What made Michael Myers brilliant in the original was not knowing what was behind it all. And also Donald Pleasence character Dr. Loomis explanation of the embodiment of evil in Myers spoke volumes a lot more than Zombie's background story. John Carpenter is the King.
villion 8 months ago 14
They're right.
027220 9 months ago
go see my remade H A L L O W E E N!
TheMOVIEMANIAC13 10 months ago
On the Horror Ban... what makes no sense is Ebert LOVES Last House on The Left a total rape creepy snuff fantasy film & Siskel LOVED Saturday Night Fever.. a film with treating women like crap, gang bangs, anti gay, black, spanish people Travolta played! Listen to Siskel bringing horror hated women and didnt want women to have opinions.. His favorite of all time Saturday Night Fever HATED women! How isnt Last House on the Left NOT a freak show?????? These 2 are morons!!!!!!!
lucky44124 10 months ago
@lucky44124 You sir are the moron. You really don't know what you're talking about.
johnhamilton08 10 months ago
This movie not only reinvented Horror, but it also made Halloween scary again. It puts in the spirit and it made a lot of other scary characters, Jason, Freddy, Pumpkinhead, Leatherface started as setting the bar. Michael shattered it and only involved elemantal scares w/out all the blood and guts. This is still in my book the bar setter for any horror/slasher genre movie today.
angelofbcw247 10 months ago
Great, Thanks for ruining the ending for half of the people who havent even viewed this tour-de force, not only will this video diminish the effect this film could possibly have but its also a spoiler
mrmovieguide 10 months ago
@mrmovieguide I didn't know this was the ending until you just said that. I'm planning on watching this when it arrives through the mail (I ordered it on Amazon) and now you've given away the ending for me. Thanks a bunch.
MrHeslopian 9 months ago
@mrmovieguide well you would have realised it anyways by the time it reached the end and in similiar fashion also realised that you knew how it would work out therefore draining it of any tension or thrill. ( I watched the film after watching this scene so I would know)
mrmovieguide 9 months ago
@mrmovieguide Can you please reply to my comment? I only discovered this by chance. By the time you reach this scene you've already experienced the primary shocks and scares of the film, and as you're experiencing them, even if you've seen this review, you don't know this scene will be at the end. You don't know what happens directly after it. You recognise the scene when you it's playing of course, but that doesn't diminish what's gone before. Being told this is the climax scene does.
MrHeslopian 8 months ago
@MrHeslopian As i've said before as the scene appears you realize the way this scene will progress, thus diminishing the impact of the most fearsome scene in the film. Yes you don't know this is the climax but you will realize it is once it reaches it's climax by which time you will also realize that you have viewed this scene before which will impact you in a negative manner.
Let's end this argument over here, You WIn, i'm sick and tired of prolonging this argument.
mrmovieguide 8 months ago
@mrmovieguide You know it will end up with her stabbing the Shape, but given what's gone before you won't know if he's dead or not, so the suspense is still there. I don't see how realising this is the climax after the scene has unfolded and the end credits roll will affect you negatively. You'd have exactly the same experience watching the movie fresh. But reading your comment, as soon as she goes upstairs and hugs the children you know it's the climax, and THAT has a negative effect.
MrHeslopian 8 months ago
I'm surprised that they didn't talk about the other two reasons this scene works so well, which are that it holds some shots for a very long time and that Jamie Lee Curtis is a good actress who was able to do a lot with a role that was no more than sketched in.
jackal59 10 months ago
@jackal59 I also like what Carpenter did with the lighting.
HoodyBoy85 10 months ago
wow. and i was expecting serious review. how foolish it was to expect something like that from Sissy and Retard
ScAgCoWbOy 10 months ago
halloween 10 halloween 2 9 halloween h20 7 halloween ressurection 8
robe zombie halloween 3 robe zombie halloween 2 0
dcspartan117 11 months ago
Ebert panned Friday The 13th movies and they loved Halloween
Johnlindsey289 11 months ago
I'd love to see their old review of Carpenter's other masterpiece The Thing, which was pretty much trashed.
TheAltair4 11 months ago
@TheAltair4
Well The Thing got better reviews over the years as even my fave critics Mick and Marsha Porter of video guide gave The Thing 4 1/2 out of 5 stars.
Johnlindsey289 11 months ago
Ebert wasn't stupid=He always pandered to the ladies
As Siskel used to say 'you'd be surprised-Roger gets a lot'
PorkFrog 1 year ago
sometimes its fun watch to watch nasty shit instead of something that very little is seen or happens
BRm2008 1 year ago
I swear to God Ebert has a pussy! With all of the violence towards women bullshit! What a blowhard! Siskel is just as bad if not worse!
jrsjr81 1 year ago
These guys are both dumbasses
Wesson4 1 year ago
Im gonna dress up as ebert for Halloween.
zodom7 1 year ago
roger ebert is a moron. he is the most close minded critic ever. anytime he sees a woman getting brutally killed he assumed the director hates women. also he's hypocrit. he says in this vid that no subject should be off limits. yet he bashes the hell out of i spit on your grave.
jwhittle91 1 year ago
@jwhittle91 then check out his reviews of Childs Play 2 and Pokemon the First Movie, and hen see just how closed minded he is.
96gamerdude 1 year ago
@96gamerdude
Dude, "Child's Play 2" was garbage...and I have no idea if "Pokemon" was good or not...but I know I wouldn't waste my money on it!
andell1 1 year ago
@jwhittle91 Actually I do think that Siskel was a lot worse.
jrsjr81 1 year ago
man there is so much shite being written on this video . Rob Zombies remakes are total utter buckets of rancid bile. people on here discussing third reich lesbian feminist authors and other pretentious shite ( i thought i was in a scene from good will hunting ) simple fact is some movie's are good most are bad. Take it for what it is , pure entertainment. Why give a flying fuck what anyone else thinks. If you like's it you like's it if you don't you don't.
manowar0138 1 year ago
Halloween kicks the ass off of any of its imitators! These guys are right in that department. It's areal film. Its imitators are soooo poorly made in comparison.
elfhermie 1 year ago 2
@elfhermie
4 example, every slasher films besides Halloween and Nightmare On Elmstreet.
Slasher movies aren't scary at all. They are just about teens having sex and being brutally murdered.
juliusyeung0330 1 year ago
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elfhermie 1 year ago
"Halloween doesn't hate woman"
What the hell is that suppose to mean? These guys just need to pull the stick out their asses. But their just about one foot into the grave so who cares.
JAlbasLover 1 year ago
Firday The 13th is SHIT
Nightmare was another great one
Exorcist is overrated
Halloween is cliche now but it started a new horror genre
Texas is realistic
Jaws is scary
but...
ALIEN is the scariest.
juliusyeung0330 1 year ago
@juliusyeung0330 i wouldn't say friday the 13th is shit u may not have liked it but that doesn't make it shit.
Cropsy25 1 year ago
@Cropsy25
Hey, Many people like Transformers. and it's shit
LOADS of people love Twilight and it's shit.
I could say that friday the 13th is the Twilight or transformers of the 80s.
20 yrs from now, Twi-hards would say similar things like slasher fans of the 80s would now.
juliusyeung0330 1 year ago
@juliusyeung0330 yea but what im saying is just because u dont like it that doesnt make it shit im not a fan of transformers infact i think it was pretty awful but if i was gonna say its shit i would acknowledge the fact that its imopo i think twilight is pretty cool but it takes its heat i respect your opinions but i just dont think its fair to call it that out of an opinion.
Cropsy25 1 year ago
@Cropsy25 Ha...Cropsy...a "Burning" reference?
You seem to be getting bogged down in semantics; after all, if I say Zombie's "Halloween" is shit, isn't that in essence the equivalent of saying "I don't like it?" There will always be someone, somewhere who will come along to contradict. Respect for one's opinions is not the same thing as imposing one's choice of words on another person...in fact, in a sense it actually contradicts the concept of respect.
andell1 1 year ago
@andell1 well i wouldn't say i was being bogged down on semantics but i was defending friday the 13th because i dont feel that the movie is shit i was just trying to say that people should show some respect for certain films lets face it the minute you see somone trashing your favorite movie song or sports team we jump to its aid and get pissed that anyone says anything bad about it so what im saying is who are we to call them shit we have are opinions and should voice them but with respect.
Cropsy25 1 year ago
@Cropsy25 But if I say "that movie is crap," all it represents is a more assertive affirmation of the point "I do not like that film." Perhaps the real issue is, people shouldn't be so sensitive?
andell1 1 year ago
@andell1 well i guess i can agree to that.
Cropsy25 1 year ago
Top 5 horror movies
1. Halloween
2. The Shining
3. Teaxas Chainsaw Massacre
4. Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
5. Jaws
styx4ever1963 1 year ago
Laurie Strode, the kickass heroin! Trust me, it takes balls for her to shoot Michael in the face at the end of Halloween 2, also :) Too bad Rob Zombie really fucked that up >:l
xXMaJoRxSnIpEzXx 1 year ago
Everything these two said is true. I'm going to use the term "sleaze-bucket movie" from now on when referring to a gratuitous, trashy horror film. Which is to say ninety percent of horror films today. Other grand horror films from those days, slasher films no less, were The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for its almost documentarian feel and lack of splatter and A Nightmare on Elm Street for its brilliant premise and unique villain.
desotowright 1 year ago
Lol and everything YOU said was equally true. All these classic Horror/Slasher films really took off as far as creativity, suspense and true horror, eh? They were really fucked over by their remakes though, weren't they?
xXMaJoRxSnIpEzXx 1 year ago
The original Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street movies are the best in the genre and are classics. It is too bad that the crappy remakes have only focussed on the antagonists and not enough on what made the originals so special. GOD LIVE JOHN CARPENTER, AND THE ORIGINAL HALLOWEEN!
moviebuffreviews 1 year ago
All of today's horror movies think the only key to a good film is slashing teenagers left and right and having them all act like fucking idiots :P
xXMaJoRxSnIpEzXx 1 year ago
Michael Myers was just another serial Killer in the Rob Zombie's remake but the original made Michael mysterious and made him look much more evil.
It was a great thriller and a horror movie. it's scarier when you don't know why the killer kills his victims.
was he killing them for sexual pleasure?
was he killing them because he wanted to feel the strength and power he had when he killed his sister?
Why are his MOs usually teens?
Is is a psychopath? a sociopath?
juliusyeung0330 1 year ago
Those types of explanations should ONLY be made when the franchise or series is dieing out. It's actually okay to have explanations as long as no further inductions to the series are made, IMO.
xXMaJoRxSnIpEzXx 1 year ago
@juliusyeung0330 Yeah, I especially liked the way they revealed him bit by bit. And yeah, like they said in Scream "Its much scarier when theres no motive". As for wantinto feel the strength and power he had when he killed his sister, thats the explanation Loomis gives in the comic book series. In most of the movies his MOs are teens but not all the time, teens just seem to always get in his way as they wud be out on halloween
BlackChriztmaz 1 year ago
The Halloween Remake was good... Better than that Friday The 13th remake peice of crap, but not as great as the original. And the 2009 sequel was total crap!!!!!
shangrilasfan2006 1 year ago
jeez id hate to see his review of the new hatchet 2 oh and cant there be a grusome and entertaining movie, amd besides most grusome movies are entertaining to the horror fanbase arnt they atleast most of them are
Rantincorporated 1 year ago
People don't like freakshows because there's no substance, which I thinkg is a bullshit reason. A freakshow is the ultimate primative form of entertainment; it's almost nihilistic. Ebert was right when he said it "demeans" the human race, but are we above that? Fuck no. The only thing I don't like about the freakshow is when it's disguised as something meaningful or even tasteful like those bullshit shows on TLC about the midgets and the women with 500 kids. THAT, to me, is disgusting.
Frowned 1 year ago
John Carpenters Halloween is a Classic movie!
gustavodfl 1 year ago
i agree nowadays i dont give two fucks if the victim dies because there bratty teenagers who deserve it
smcauley600 1 year ago
I love HD as much as anyone but there's something about old crappy footage of Halloween, Friday the 13th and all the old horror movies that makes the movies seem scarier, almost like a home video of a murder. It seems more like a nightmare when the picture is grainy and hazy as opposed to crystal clear HD.
rockyrack2 1 year ago
@rockyrack2
agreed! HD doesnt fit 80's horror movies, it kills them.
Darkez982 1 year ago
I love how Ebert talks about how great horror movies are when they don't hate women, yet when he talks about all artists, he refers to them as "he"...
crimsoncheeky 1 year ago
Rog looks like a mess here
TomFromJersey 1 year ago
I was disappointed by Halloween. I had heard so many times that it was extremely scary but when I watched it, I didn't find it very scary and I'm usually scared very easily by horror movies.
feelingfluffy 1 year ago
@feelingfluffy A lot of what makes it special has been lost in time, because every single horror movie has copied nowadays and pushed itself with violence and gore.
KilldozerRocks 1 year ago
I'm surprised they were ablee to show that scene on TV back then, with Laurie stabbing him.
TheeOneWhoTalks 1 year ago
I think this show was on late, and also you don't see the knife actually penetrate his chest. Often when it comes to what can be shown on TV, the difference between implicit and explicit is big. Here it's not explicit.
dzanier 1 year ago
I remember when they review the original Halloween! I can't believe it's been so long.
jemjean 1 year ago
Why doesn't she shut the bedroom door and stick a table under it?
lewisner 1 year ago
Hey, I saw this segment when it first aired! I loved "Sneak Previews" - better than their syndicated show (no commercials). And yeah "Hallowe'en" was a good'un.
vonbontee 1 year ago
My favorite horror film of all time...brilliant. It's sooooooo good.
iago07 1 year ago
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Fallenskate001 and orkavorn, shut the fuck up. Rob Zombie's Halloween is a horror classic in todays standards. faggots
Salvidor72 1 year ago
@Salvidor72 Rob Zombie halloween was terrible
consman22 1 year ago
Penny for penny, meaning how good it is versus how much it cost Halloween is the best movie ever made. Other movies that come close are Night of the Living Dead, The Blair Witch Project and the new Paranormal Activity. It's funny how there all horror movies. Low-budget filmmakers should take some notes on these movies.
SolidSnake032486 1 year ago
I love Jamie Lee Curtis in this. She plays her character as a calm, cool, approachable girl. So, when I saw Zombie's remake in 2007, I was beyond pissed off at his casting choice: a whiny, bitchy little brat. The difference between the two ladies? I was rooting for Jamie Lee Curtis in the original, but in the remake I was hoping that Scout Taylor-Compton would get hacked to little bits. Anyone else agree???
MorbidBliss22 1 year ago 49
@MorbidBliss22 Absolutely. I knew I was going to loathe her the second they had her finger-fuck a bagel.
TheAlmightySmurf 1 year ago
@MorbidBliss22 I know that you wrote on here about 2 months ago, but I totally agree with everything that you wrote. Not only was that Scout gal horribly miscast, she is quite annoying. I felt absolutely no empathy for her as Laurie. She is just a terrible actress. I will NEVER think of her as Laurie Strode. Out of the hundreds of horror films I have seen, Jamie Lee Curtis is my favorite heroine. One just can't help but to root for her!
iamcasihart 1 year ago
@MorbidBliss22 exactly how i feel about the 1984 Nancy and the 2010 Nancy from the Nightmare of Elm St. films.
21centuryg 1 year ago
@MorbidBliss22 Rob Zombie claims to love horror films. If so he should not have attempted a remake of a Carpenter classic. Why try to improve what's already a classic? He obviously has no respect for the genre. He is not interested in exploring themes of subconscious horror. He goes for the gutter humor and the gore. He just doesn't seem to see that horror can be an intellectual exercise. The Shining, Exorcist and Psycho are mazes of subconscious conflicts on display. Like Carpenters Halloween.
mindstormsabrewin 11 months ago
@MorbidBliss22 Agreed, despite not seeing the remake. There was a two hour documentary on the making of the original Halloween last night. It was amazing. $325,000 was all it cost to make. Shot in 21 days. Carpenter is a genius.
theivory1 11 months ago
@MorbidBliss22 Right on man, took the words off my keyboard.
OutlanderGG 7 months ago
Fuck rz i love this movie to death
almoztahbeast23 1 year ago
The original "Halloween" is untouchable. It's a masterpiece of horror.
Arthur5041975 1 year ago 2
You know what I hate? I showed my dad this and he thought it was too cheesy and would never give it a 5. I showed him Rob Zombie's trailer for Halloween II and he thought it was better just becuase its non cheesy.
faith22 1 year ago
@faith22 Your father is an idiot.
Arthur5041975 1 year ago
For an example of exploitation, also look at a film at the time called "I Spit on Your Grave," which Ebert famously gave a zero-star review because it is nothing more than junk.
KentuckyKid84 1 year ago
Halloween is a masterpiece, although one wonders: Why didn't the heroine follow the kids outside to safety? Then again, it's been a long time since I saw this movie.
pitbull103 1 year ago
@pitbull103 They were upstairs, and she knew that it was her that he was after (it was Michael--she knew that). She did it to draw Michael away from the kids.
greg5566 1 year ago
"your basic sympathies is enlisted on the side of the woman, not on the killer...Halloween does not hate women"
I think this is a really dumb thing to say. Like what slasher film, except the extremely rare, actually "hated" women?.
I think that was a huge misconception from the get go. All these slasher flicks usually had a female herione that out survived everyone. And all the males usually were wiped out. Wouldn't that mean there's more, perhaps unconscious, hatred for men?
unfortunatebeam 1 year ago
@unfortunatebeam At the time, exploitative killing of women was the normal. This was well before "Scream" or other movies, and even now, Jamie Lee Curtis is far more sympathetic than Neve Campbell was in "Scream" or Jennifer Love Hewitt was in the "Summer" movies because she acts as a likeable, strong human being throughout the movie, not just somebody running away the entire film only to get lucky at the end.
KentuckyKid84 1 year ago
@KentuckyKid84 well I don't know how "normal" it was, but if it was being done a lot I think it was precisely because it's considered more "horrific" to see women getting killed than seeing men--which, if that's true (and I think it is), it would make society more sexist towards men for basically shrugging their shoulders and saying who cares if men die.
unfortunatebeam 1 year ago
@unfortunatebeam Nah, horror movies are all about rape fantasies and objectification and conflating sex and violence. When men kill men it's just a fantasy of manliness. What's interesting is the difference in reaction between a woman psycho killer and male. When it's a woman the reaction is "what a bitch!"--fearful of a woman with power.
greg5566 1 year ago
@greg5566 the film monster is the only one that did this well. charlize' portrayal was incredible.
UpstairsMaid 1 year ago
@unfortunatebeam No no, you need to read more detailed and thoughtful analyses of slasher films. The women are always sexualized right before they are killed. The one that survives is the one that doesn't give it away. There is anger toward women in these movies. It's not universal, but it's there.
greg5566 1 year ago
@greg5566 ironic that you say I should read a more detailed analysis cause you surely aren't giving one (even considering it's only youtube) and probably aren't reading many yourself. You're giving the old, cliched feminist line about slasher movies, how is that a good analysis? I'm merely questioning what exactly is at work in the movies beyond the old cliche that all it is is hostility towards women. I mean that might be a small part of it, but there's more happening.
unfortunatebeam 1 year ago
@unfortunatebeam I love that you accuse an interesting analysis of gender roles in society and how they are represented on film of being "cliched" while your observation is by implication interesting? Anyway, if you'd just think a little deeper about possible reasons for the "horrific" nature of seeing women killed as opposed to me, you might come up with something interesting. What you say here isn't.
greg5566 1 year ago
@greg5566 --Greg , you are toally wrong in your puerile assessment of women's role in horror films. There is no empirical evidence to support your sexual connotations.
Gravelandart 1 year ago
@Gravelandart The fact that you are looking for "empirical evidence" of a feminist critique of culture explains precisely what it is that you don't understand about literary and cultural theory. So, nevermind.
greg5566 1 year ago
@greg5566 --Greg, in your pampered world of psuedo topics like "feminist critique of culture", as if mypopic hags like Naomi Wolf, Betty Frieden, etc. could offer learned "critique" , reality and standards play no role. Empiricist application can be applied in fictional observation. But such artistic license is lost on you. Shame--you fancy yourself such a race-mixing homo too.
Gravelandart 1 year ago
@Gravelandart Two more pieces of empirical evidence that you don't understand what literary or cultural or feminist theory are. Naomi Wolf is your example? (that's one.) And two, you basically repeated yourself, but you are right, reality and standards don't necessarily play a role. It is entirely not the point. As I said, you simply don't know what you're talking about. It's not a criticism to say it's not "based in 'reality'"--that simply isn't relevant.
greg5566 1 year ago
@greg5566 -and thus you attempt to co-opt my point, "feminist" critque is a misnomer for debased and cheap promotion of the myopic "gay" lifestyle--which has nothing to do with art. Camille Paglia has been the only feminist author of importance. Do you write these things because you are a race-mixing homo---or do you just have a misplaced antagonism against the occidental culture in general?
Gravelandart 1 year ago
@Gravelandart --which leads me to my second question, are you a homosexual Jew? Is that from whence your barely disguised ad hominems derive?
Gravelandart 1 year ago
@Gravelandart haha, it's funny that your only examples of feminist authors are those two. You seem not to know what "misnomer" means either. I think a trip to the dictionary would do you a lot of good.
greg5566 1 year ago
@greg5566 -- Did you know that the Third Reich had many great authors? But you don't know any of them. Do you know why you don't know any of them? Because you willingly accepted the smug and self-serving idea that there was no culture in the Third Reich.
Gravelandart 1 year ago
@Gravelandart You're making a really good point, though it's not the point that you intended. I do not know that there were many good authors in the Third Reich, but not because I have any opinion about it. Rather, the reason I don't know that is that I don't know anything about it. So I have no opinion about it. There is only so much time in a day, and the Third Reich is not something I have spent time studying. So I know nothing about it. . . .
greg5566 1 year ago
@Gravelandart You are precisely right. I don't know anything about it, so I wouldn't presume to say anything about it. Same as you (should do) with feminism. Very good. I agree, so okay, get back to that dictionary now. Have a good day.
greg5566 1 year ago
Spot on analysis here, pity they didn't see the same commitment to movie making in The Thing.
fireflyfan1 1 year ago
@fireflyfan1 I was thinking the same thing! After loving Halloween, how could they be so wrong about The Thing?
greg5566 1 year ago
I like halloween, but other slashers are good too. ebert and siskel just take them too seriously. They're just gory fun.
radiolocke 1 year ago
@radiolocke You're not wrong, except by saying that you are not giving Halloween credit for being 8 million times better than most.
greg5566 1 year ago
i agree with them...Halloween is a masterpiece
KingOfRock8887 1 year ago
I agree with them that Halloween is great.
Hollywoodsteve 1 year ago 2
So how did these two ( along with the rest of the world) turn on Carpenter in 82' for The Thing!??!!
And Don't give me any E.T. BULLSHIT!!!
negtype13 1 year ago
They're both assholes?
DocLeggz 1 year ago
Because The Thing was all about the excessive Rob Bottin effects. The gore came at the expense of the suspense and characterization. And if you read Ebert's review of The Thing, you can see that he was merely disappointed with Carpenter, and that he had high hopes for his next endeavor.
tootcb 1 year ago
very good quality for a video that was made 30 years ago
shanebrennan0123 2 years ago 2
Yes, that's what I was thinking.
thx291 1 year ago
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the music is the only good thing about halloween. THERE IS NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN HALLOWEEN. you don't know the first thing about the "woman" they're talking so much about, not a damn thing. that's why it's so fucking boring, no one cares about her.
the story is as simple as can possibly be, what is so interesting here? there are such better horror movies, these clowns dare put down an intelligent movie like hellraiser and praise this thoughtless, boring shitpile
mun090 2 years ago
when he shows his face in this film he's quite cute
kangaroosbraun 2 years ago 3
The guy who played Michael when he was unmasked was Joanie from "Happy Days" brother, Tony Moran. And, yes, he was quite handsome, but so is Brad Loree who played Michael in Halloween Resurrection. (LOL, handsome is damning Loree with faint praise, the man is gorgeous.)
DocLeggz 1 year ago
I use to watch this show as a kid back in teh late 70's and early 80's. Halloween 1978 is my all time fave film in any genre.
RIPmyers 2 years ago 2
Brilliant. Thank you for sharing with us!
GimmeKitty 2 years ago
I do also like John Capenter's halloween better then Rob Zombies. I would not say that Zombies sucked. It was a original vision of carpenters classic story. But Carpeneters is still the best of the two.
mr1mills 2 years ago
I dissagree my sympathy is for the Killer not the women lol.. i allways cheer Micheal, Jason and Freddy. sure I like seeing women prance around nude showing off Tand A....but I watch the horror moives to see the killers.
Astraldragon1 2 years ago
Hey Astraldragon1,
It's "disagree" not "dissagree" and "always" not "allways" and "Michael" not "Micheal" and you meant to say "T and A" but you wrote "Tand A" instead. What the fuck is Tand A? Also "movies" is the correct spelling not "moives"
Learn how to spell properly you stupid fucking immature retard!!!
~Mr. Make Believe
HoldOnToYourDream 2 years ago
Psycho is the first slasher, Halloween revolutionized the genre and Friday the13th perfected it.
clashrogers 2 years ago
Friday the 13th is good but I do not think it perfected the slasher genre. The script for Friday the 13th is a rip-off from another slasher film that was in pre production at the same time. Unfortunately, that movie lost it's budget and got put on hold while Friday the 13th went on to be completed and made it to the theaters. The film Friday the 13th was partly ripped off from was for a slasher movie that later made it's way to success and it is called: The Burning.
in2theabyss17 2 years ago
what about Black Christmas? that was before Halloween
vincentpricesnephew 2 years ago 4
A BAY OF BLOOD came out before both of them--1972.
Nachtovision 2 years ago 2
i never saw it but now i will have to look for it
vincentpricesnephew 2 years ago
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It's on my other YouTube channel: monster4josh.
Nachtovision 2 years ago
friday 13th just sucks.
Assiman 2 years ago
You're forgetting about BAY OF BLOOD.
Nachtovision 2 years ago
Not forgetting, ignorant of.
VariedInterest 2 years ago
Carpenter's score in this is great.
Neonman78 2 years ago 2
far out, i haven't seen this original Halloween movie before, but that scene they showed was intense! much scarier than any of the new "horror" films out atm. i'm gonna go out and rent this
oiyoustfuplz 2 years ago 16
John Carpenter's Halloween-Horror Movie
Rob Zombie's Halloween-Freakshow
Fallenskate001 2 years ago 60
rob zombie is a great musician... but as a director i only enjoyed 1 film (devil´s rejects) and it wasn´t an amazing film... the most interesting thing about michael myers was that he was this mysterious guy in a mask refer as the "devil", for one of the characters, and rob zombie made a biography of him..he transformed this mysterious guy in a mask in a tipical psychopath... Rob Zombie´s Halloween is not an interesting film... is another piece of shit remake
ezesaw 2 years ago
michael myers is such a republican
exbronco1980 2 years ago 6
yea i like the rob zombies halloweens, ..i just saw part 2 and it was amazing, but im addicted to the orig. halloweens fromn the 70s and 80s
bennyratt 2 years ago
Could you elaborate for us all how you think 'Halloween 2' was amazing?
It was one of - if not the worst - movies of this year. It was just a montage of pointless imagery dwarfed by savage and brutal killing. Okay, I get it.
But like the other people have mentioned before me: The ORIGINAL Halloween was one of the most imitated movies of all time. Even those films that mimicked it in nature were better than 'H2'.
hollywoodmkx 2 years ago 3
I would say the 2nd worst of the year, first being The Final Destination
ConnDevi88 2 years ago
Rob Zomie made an interesting film, but it can't match the original.
Lovewarpstain 2 years ago
Rob Zombie's halloween sucked plain and simple. John Carpenter's Halloween was far better.
Astraldragon1 2 years ago 9
I liked Rob Zombie's remake. It wasn't as scary - no doubt. But it was very interesting to see the child transform
wakingchild 2 years ago
Rob Zombie needs to watch this and get a clue.
orkavorn 2 years ago 38
All people in the horror film industry should watch this, except Sam Raimi
One of these day, I'm going to create a great slasher film, with plot, suspense, character, cool practical gore effects, and no pointless sex scenes or weed smoking
Now if only I can get a couple of million dollars
PS cant wait for Trick R Treat
PSS hope to god Saw 6 bombs in the boxoffice
Tacom4ster 2 years ago 5
They're making a Saw 6?! Oh Lord!
I blame that series for what I call grimehouse: think 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and 'Halloween' remakes - not particularly scary but only repulsive.
orkavorn 2 years ago
Yes because his Halloween was the oppiste of this!
BentHenny 2 years ago
@orkavorn You are dead on!! Not only that he changed the entire core of the movie!
Micheal wasn't the neglected son of a stripper & abusive stepdad.
He was EVIL, born that way. Like Dr. Loomis said "His eyes were black, he was looking onto pure evil" Zombie screws it up from start. Never saw Zombie Halloween 2, never will.
SpaceAceTX 1 year ago 33
@SpaceAceTX What made the original so scary was that Michael Myers was a normal kid and than out of the blue he just snapped for no reason.. But Rob Zombie had to add his white trash spin to it where the Michael was neglected and abused and that's why he snapped. Its much more scary not knowing why the kid just snapped.
huckster699 1 year ago
@SpaceAceTX you are 100% correct! The movie was made around the time when people (social-physcologists) tried answering the reason for such violent crimes and evil's in the world, Carpenter boldly created an iconic/unique villian that is simply explained by the fact that he's outside of pyscoanalysis, Michael is pure evil, plain and simple.
dommer117 1 year ago 8
@dommer117 Actually he can be diagnosed psychoanalytically as having antiscoial Personality disorder
blahmehblah1 5 months ago
@SpaceAceTX It isn't good. Laurie Strode's character is very annoying & just downright mean, and SPOILER (kind of) Zombie turns Dr. Loomis into more of a villain than Michael, who it seemed we were supposed to symathize for at the end.
HoodyBoy85 10 months ago
@SpaceAceTX
exactly. Halloween was different from horror films because it used horror. What the general public call horror films now is bloody, gory, films where people die and every ten minutes something pops up and the music spikes. This film is horror, suspense, and one of a kind. Nothing will ever beat it.
checkeredflag90210 6 months ago 2
@orkavorn What makes me laugh is that Rob Zombie said he supposedly hates remakes. He had an uproar against Zac Snyder's DAWN OF THE DEAD remake and Marcus Nispel's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE remake. So WHY did he remake HALLOWEEN and now wants to remake THE BLOB? I have no fucking idea!
freddy3911 1 year ago
@freddy3911 Yeah Rob Zombie is so full of himself it hurts. Halloween did not need a remake. Nearly all of JCs movies get remade and they are never as good as the original. I will cry the day Escape From New York gets remade. And if they ever attempt a big trouble in little china remake I might just kill myself.
IronManOfficialguy 1 year ago
@IronManOfficialguy Supposedly Gerard Butler is going to be in the remake of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. He is such a good actor, Gerard, do not step down to the level please!
freddy3911 1 year ago
@freddy3911 Gerard Butler is a good actor and I had heard that he was doing the remake. I dont think a british actor should be cast as snake. That would be like casting matt damon as james bond. Im sure Butler can do an american accent but thats not really the point. I have nothing against brits, I just think snake is kind of an american icon. I hope they dont make a remake at all but if they cast Gerard Butler I find that really offensive.
IronManOfficialguy 1 year ago
@IronManOfficialguy As I said, Gerard Butler is cool but definitely not right for Snake.
freddy3911 1 year ago
@IronManOfficialguy I would be devastated if Big Trouble in Little China were to be remade! I don't even want to consider it.
iamcasihart 1 year ago
@iamcasihart Thank God it flopped at the box office, so it should be last on hollywoods list of things to remake. It is my Citizen Cane or God Father Part two whichever tickles your fancy.
IronManOfficialguy 1 year ago
@IronManOfficialguy Let us hope! There are just so many things to appreciate about Big Trouble. It is totally unique. Truly, there is nothing like it. I have loved it from the first time I saw it when I was about 8 years old. Kurt Russell is really one of my favorite actors. It was frickin' fantastic to see him return to his bad ass glory in "Deathproof." If you have seen it, what did you think of Kurt's performance? I loved him in it and I love that film!
iamcasihart 1 year ago
@iamcasihart Yeah its my favorite film. Russels performance in Deathproof was good but I thought the movie was just ok. I thought it was Qts worst movie. I liked it but it wasnt as good as his other movies.
IronManOfficialguy 1 year ago