 Hello and welcome to another episode of frightfully forgotten horror movies, but before we get started. What are we drinking today? We are drinking slaughtered lamb English bitter. Haha. Yeah, all right today We're doing something completely different than our usual thing because this is a patreon request from Mark Miller to watch Iconic scenes from the original 1978 Halloween and do commentary on top of it a lot of people do these reaction fucking videos that The thumbnails always the same yeah first time reaction. Yeah, sure. That's you're fucking 40 years old That's the first time you watch ghost boss. Yeah Yeah, come on. We're not changing the channel to become one of those reaction people although you should actually put the thumbnail as We're gonna try to knock it down to five. Yeah iconic scenes from the first Halloween So let's kick it off Loomis's drive to Smith Grove in the car Mark actually wanted us to Talk about the opening scene Where Michael's a kid he kills a sister? But we you know it's a great scene and all but it's kind of you don't need it You know start the movie right here. Yeah, and it's and it's actually better if it does Yeah, because it adds even more mystery to Michael And they start If they open the movie with that you don't you have no idea he hasn't spoken a word in 15 years who yeah No, yeah, it actually would have been more mysterious if they didn't have the opening scene Smoking in the car. Yeah, she's all chain smoking too Yeah, I like how he like In front of the judge Thorzin That's And the way this scene is is lit to you really do believe it's not it's just the dash Yeah, just the lights from the dash that are illuminating the faces. Yeah The three never means it Yeah, and I like that too because he's always blamed for Michael getting out, but He says it right there because that's the law That's his hands are tied I love that that shot is brilliant with just a couple of not even many people just one or two one or two But because there's darkness behind them. You don't know how many more are in the darkness Yeah, and I love that that scene with Lumis where he's like go on move And that scene there too like when he climbs up is like a fucking spider And again, you don't see his face. Yeah, and again, this seems like really realistic like it doesn't seem like it's Hollywood it's like over embellished like if someone were to grab you That's how that's how you'd react. Yeah, you do press on the gas, right? Yeah And again, you don't see Michael bearing. I'll see this shape and it's still a shape Yeah, and it's not all crazy like there's not in the iconic line It was gone. He's gone He was gone and then you just see the headlights drive off in the black and that's it Why is that scene so great? Oh, well It sets up all of the mystery about Michael, right? It sets everything up It's and it's it also sets the tone for the rest of the movie and the lighting is great Even outside like when when when Myers jumps over the car Just the red just the red from the taillights, right? Yeah, that's perfect Exactly, and I like how they when they turn like the headlights see those few people in the field, right? Yeah, well Hold this isn't normal. Yeah, so already even without Michael that's scary Yeah, because these are insane people. Yeah in an insane asylum and they've broken out. What the fuck happened? Yeah, you know like yeah, you don't even need Michael in that in some of that, right? Right was that scene the menu for this DVD is just a fucking worst like I should really get a better version Classic dr. Loomis the blackest eyes speech And just that shot there of that house. Yeah with the car pulling up is fucking brilliant The way it focuses out. Can you can like what a great? Old abandoned house. Yeah, and the way it's lit. Yeah to right In a way it the house has the blackest eyes too. Yeah, just like Michael And it kind of does look like a face of it. We can't watch this without talking about the music did The music for this movie is fucking it it makes it it does make it It's that extra. It's not even the icing on the cake. I think it's it is yeah It's 50% of the recipe. It is the cake really. Yeah, it does make it a cut above the rest really it Yeah, cuz really the movie Is sort of mediocre without it And the fact this is all one shot is pretty crazy up the stairs falling through Seamless, they're not you're not seeing any shadows from like The lights the lights are the crew or it's it's they're trying to get their use out of that panic line I love how he's super way too slow with the gun like Like it's just grips and grips you in like I want to be able to talk over this speech But you see why it's so good But you don't want to talk over it because you don't want to interrupt such a fucking great piece of dialogue Yeah, it's really It's one of the best ever Evil love the fact to that like Loomis Like when he says you seem like you're really scared. Yeah, he's scared He's the only one who's scared because he knows is only one who that knows The evil that's working around Haddonfield right now It's less about Michael's more about Loomis. Yeah, really about what Loomis sees. Yeah in Michael, right? You know what's driving him the driving force behind Loomis. It's just so fucking brilliant where it tells you Nothing about Michael Myers as a human. Yeah, but it tells you everything about him as a monster a lot of scenes nowadays As soon as you have a scene like that got to have a joke. Yeah after to kind of cut the ice Yeah, it's like no keep the ice and the fact that Loomis is not perfect Yeah, he's not this badass like gonna go out and kill Michael. He's scared Yeah, he's just a human being. He's scared. He knows that His life and every other people's lives are on the line The next scene we're gonna do commentary on is when Annie gets killed in the car The first thing you hear a love in this scene is you hear the thing. Yeah You hear the tv and makes it feel like Halloween you there's there's scary movies on the tv. Yeah Turn off the lights I kind of miss That about Halloween like everything is so accessible now streaming netflix all this shit You can watch whatever you want whenever you want, but back in the day Sometimes the only time you got to watch some of these movies was around Halloween You look forward to ah, what's gonna be playing on tv Around Halloween. I can only watch this movie around Halloween time. Yeah, that's that's only when they play it I miss tv for that for the randomness of it And again, like they don't show Meyer's mask full on You see him stand up. You know, he's got a white mask on but you don't know the features. You can't see it. Yeah So what is Tommy supposed to be dressed as what's this fucking costume? I think he's Luke Skywalker. He looks like Luke Skywalker to me. I've always thought I just kind of always assumed it was Luke Skywalker without even really thinking about it Oh, I think you see like what looks like a lightsaber or something on his belt It's Luke Thaber She's always looked like Bond Scott to me Annie she looks exactly like Bond Scott kind of looks like Bond Scott that kind of takes this the sexiness away from her Yeah, well Look Even the hair looks exactly like Bond Scott. Yeah Wonder if she's got the clap I Was like the fact that she's carving a pumpkin now after they're done trick-or-treating and everything I got it's like too late to carve the fucking pumpkin like Halloween's over It's time to smash all the pumpkins and everything if if the kids are home from trick-or-treating That's it. It's too late. Yeah pumpkin done. The kids will be counting their candy and all that shit And again, I love the kids are just fixated on the tv. Yep. They're not being I don't have my phone up here, but they're not they're not being distracted by their phone. They're just like watching that fucking tv So here. Yeah, very important. Yep locked doors locked and this is one of those things too that This is one of those kinds of things back then where you had to watch and pay attention to a movie Things weren't spelled out for you couldn't be on your fucking phone. Yeah distracted Yeah, and if you're on your phone and then you're have this on you're gonna miss all the important stuff and I love the fact that like That she's singing to herself is is neat. She's not like Open the door. Ah, I forgot my keys. No keys Yeah, I kind of like that's a neat little core to the character that you always remember. Yeah, it's not just Anybody it's Annie, you know, it's his character development and plot And moving the plot forward at the same time. Yeah Uh, and then she doesn't need the key doesn't need the keys, but she doesn't realize that Yeah, because she's singing and see how all the the windows are fogged up because someone's in their breathing. Yeah And that's the first real time you see the the mask. Yeah, but even it's still foggy. It's obscured by the fog. Yeah It makes him even creepier because you still don't really get a good glimpse of him and this all like And one and I wouldn't say one shop and it's continuous. You see the whole thing happen And I like how there's no blood. Yeah, no blood It's just the music that signifies that he killed her that scene I think has made everybody Whenever you go to your car at night, you always look to always look in the back. Yeah, and if your windows are foggy You better fucking get out of the car. Yeah So the next scene we're gonna do commentary on is the classic head tilt Yeah stab to the wall when paul dies We have it paused here just before he goes to get out of bed And the first thing we got to mention is the fucking pumpkin on the nightstand It's all lit and everything too. I love halloween as much or more than most people I've never put a pumpkin on my fucking nightstand. First of all, it takes up so much space. Yeah We're gonna put your beer Now I think the pumpkin on the um nightstand They kind of have to do certain things like that because they filmed this in the spring they didn't film it in the fall so It doesn't really feel like a halloween movie so much because it's actually in the spring. They had to force Fall halloween upon the movie. We just missed it. We missed the knee Yeah, you can hear the music though at the point and that's a trope that this movie started which I wish it hadn't Is the the musical cue when you don't always need it. Yeah Yeah Like okay, this movie it works in halloween because it was new refreshing But like even till this day, uh, watch the you know, whatever any generic horror movie Like you don't always need that musical cue Sometimes the visual cue and you questioning did I just see that it's it's is enough just simply not right Not knowing the uh the value of your own horror movie that you're making. That's what it is And again the lighting in this we said it before but it's very natural lighting. It's use a lot of blue light It's just from outside or In the fridge But I like how you barely see anything right? And then you see that door see the door is open it kind of so you know that it's like, okay Well, that's probably how he got in Because nobody locks their doors when they're supposed to Or back in the day nobody you trusted everybody no one locked their door Don't lock your door in the fucking country. This is why you're not supposed to keep your doors open And this they all copied this scene in the new one halloween kills and it's like well, fuck you already did this in the original See and again, you don't see the full features of the mask. No, it's almost completely covered And he's strong enough to lift a guy up A man up And he's also strong enough to stab a guy Right through Into the door like And that's the anatomy of a great Murder scene in a classic horror movie. We don't need tons of gore. There's no gore There's no real effects. The only effects is the way they framed Each shot when he opens that the door that michael ends up coming out of You don't expect that because you expect a red herring. You expect like a False a false jump scare because they already did it once because you always expect like oh and then like whatever the The ironing board comes out or whatever. So something else comes out You're expecting that because you've seen it so many times. You're not expecting michael actually to come out of that Closet Paul Looks like You know a decently built man michael actually looks like a skinny twerp Like when they show him there's you kind of see his body here and there he looks skinny But he overpowers him no problem and he lifts him up no problem So the next scene we're going to cover is kind of the final act almost where Loomis stumbles upon just by chance. Yeah Where michael is see I love this is windy. It's the end of halloween. You could see the toilet paper the people of Strung up it feels like the end right and this line coming up here perfect You can see him coming up. Yeah, you can see the shadow coming up or just great In that line you can't kill the boogeyman Yeah Oh shit And then the music kicks in And he's hurt Yep, you can tell he's hobbling a bit. Yep. Uh again this scene of the the iconic lighting through the blinds Exactly and I like how she opens the she opens the the balcony doors to maybe trick him. Yeah, it looks like But then she hides in here in the closet In the music you can't deny the music that it's pretty kind of like very similar to a heartbeat It's not a heartbeat per se but the beat is similar to a heartbeat. It puts you on the edge of your seat And when you see how flimsy that door is. Yeah, you know, he's getting yeah Like it's there's nothing nothing's keeping him out But I like how he he really reefs on the door though, too Like he's pissed off and he's determined Like he really wants to get in right so I mean he's coming And she gives it away like by screaming. Yeah, I mean But this too like I like how she grabs the coat hanger, right? Like she doesn't have anything special. No, she just quickly Uses it The light coming off around and oh man. Oh And again the breathing like that's something that they don't utilize in any of the sequels Is that breathing nearly as much as they should is the breathing She stabs him, but you don't know exactly where no the fact he's right there He's laying exactly where she needs to walk walk over Like that's building great suspense because you don't know you're well. Yeah, it's like It's perfect. It's the perfect moment for him to grab And again the way the shot is lit like the frame from the window the window frame brilliant lighting Brilliant in its simplicity A lot of that is Dean Cundey. I think Dean Cundey was the D. O. P. On this and did a fucking brilliant job. Yeah It's great because they didn't have I like how there's no haste there in the kids Yeah, they just kind of stumble only oh and this is just the best ever I think every oh Oh, man, you It's like, what do you say to that right? What do you say there's that is I think every horror movie always aspires to a scene like that But nobody can ever match that And just by chance lumas happens to be in the vicinity. Yeah And this too like lori. She thinks she's clear. Yeah she's She's finished And the fact that michael's out of focus too is really cool now. He's in focus And again the breathing. Yeah is a big part of it and the shadows like and then lumas is just there. Yeah Yeah in this part like Like did he puts it back on like he needs the mask on right? The mask is the priority. Yeah. Yeah Super walking up that ramp. Yeah. Yeah, they all show it even more in the second one It was Yeah, like can you get Much brilliant and simpler writing than that. Yeah, no, it's simple and brilliant and it works perfectly Look at this and how he comes up and I love just his face. Yeah His eyes kind of widen he's Not he's surprised but not surprised at the same time. He knows great great acting there. It was like Uh, yeah, he doesn't say anything. It's just all in the performance And the music Then like that Yeah, that he could be anywhere could be anywhere and he could be anywhere And that's what the movie's supposed to leave you feeling with the was when you're going home that night after watching the theater He could be anywhere. You're getting into your car at the theater. What do you think of? Well, Michael admires in the back of the car. Is there condensation on the windshield? Or when you get home is Somebody waiting in the pantry. Yeah, and that's the brilliance of the movie is you getting into your car At the end of the movie and thinking ah, fuck. So we have a bonus scene here for you Because it is a kind of a bonus scene this scene was shot specifically for the tv edit of the first Back in the day where they shot extra scenes for tv edits to make him longer Yeah, to make up the time slot. So this is the scene that we see a flashback of lumis visiting michael in his room When he's still like child And he has a little something to say to michael He's all got the hat. Yeah, like what he's wearing is all like They're trying to make him look a little bit hip or any hunger, but not quite work Yeah, like he's a standoffish already. He doesn't want to get too close to him. Yeah Because he knows He's waiting for something. We're waiting for what? Yeah, but obviously lumis has to start. Yeah, because michael's not It's kind of a western standoffish type like You feel them I like how he kind of smiles too. Like I got one up on you. Yeah And michael was listening to that saying yeah, he hasn't fooled me. Yeah. Yeah, like When you think about it. Yeah, he hasn't so lumis is always a threat Yeah to him right because he knows that lumis has not been fooled. He's always the van helsing. Yeah Always well, he knows but The thing is is that lumis's hands are always tied by bureaucracy It seems right and then he's always getting blamed for everything. He's always the scapegoat for everything So that's the end of our little Halloween commentary breakdown of five actually six Iconic scenes a little different for us hard to do. I thought it was hard to just sit and talk Yeah, yeah Well, the thing is like especially with halloween like You get so engrossed into the movie too that you don't want to really talk You don't want to talk over it. Yeah, it's it's hard. And then you you also just want to keep watching the damn movie I don't want to stop it. It's like no, I keep going and forget about the video So I hope you enjoyed it Yeah And if you have any comments to make about the scenes we commented on let us know and until next time keep drinking