 Well, this is what I was doing over Halloween weekend instead of weeks ago, so I could have had this done by Halloween Well, I think people are still interested at this point. So I'll go ahead and do this I saw the original Halloween probably on television. I never saw it in the theater I never went to see horror movies when I was a kid not because I was afraid of them It's because I had a very low view of them. I thought they were trashy and I still do so I remembered Halloween and I knew that I had never seen Friday the 13th all the way through I had just seen bits and pieces of it But when I bought this DVD a year ago and sat down and watched it I realized as soon as the movie started I realized that I'd never seen it at all Seeing it last year was my first time. So I watched it again This weekend to refresh myself and now I'm gonna talk about the two movies The original Halloween was released in 1978. It was directed by John Carpenter. The first thing you hear is that remarkable electronic score I can't play very much of it for you here For obvious reasons, but this John Carpenter sound immediately became recognizable as John Carpenter And it's one of the things that set this movie apart and this particular sound Is used to great effect in in the film at least it is at first I mean here's Jamie Lee Curtis walking across the street and now here She is walking across the street with the John Carpenter music. See it's an entirely different experience It works to great effect at first to make these long tracking shots Suspenseful and eerie But John Carpenter over uses it the music just goes on and on and on when nothing's happening and nothing ever does happen So I found it monotonous after a while I mean here's Jamie Lee Curtis walking down the street and here. She is walking down the street some more and Here she is walking down the street with her friends and they continue walking down the street And this goes on and on for most of the movie Jamie Lee Curtis though is very charming and her acting is excellent. Every line she delivers is believable It shows especially when she's talking with her friends who are obviously amateurs And it makes her stick out in a good way and it makes the bad acting stick out in a bad way Speaking of excellent acting Donald Pleasants who plays the psychiatrist He has such screen presence and is so professional That he can deliver lines like this and make them completely acceptable I met this six-year-old child with this blank pale emotionless face and The blackest eyes the devil's eyes I Spent eight years trying to reach him and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind That boys eyes was purely and simply evil But then a few scenes later. He does this What what the hell is that about I Anyway, the movie I think is pretty boring the the murders take more than 40 minutes to start happening There's only three of them. They're Unspectacular not particularly creative The movie actually starts to get Pretty good and pretty suspenseful. I think when The killer is chasing Jamie Lee Curtis. Her character Laurie keeps her head about her and is very smart about things But ultimately she only survives because Donald Pleasants shows up and shoots the guy The the film has a very abrupt and unspectacular ending. I think at least by today's standards Speaking of which Friday the 13th, which came out in 1980 two years later was directly inspired by Halloween and like Halloween the first thing you notice about the film is The soundtrack that whispering Yeah that right there It it's used to great effect the the the music in Friday the 13th It's much better than Halloween as remarkable as John Carpenter electronic soundtrack from Halloween was and and how recognizable it is the Friday the 13th movie Music is better and I think used to better effect Friday the 13th starts out more interesting There's a larger cast all of the actors are unknowns all of them But they're not terrible. In fact, they're they're not bad at all the girl who plays the lead I can't remember the actress's name. I don't even remember the name of the character She's not a good actress at all. In fact, she's the worst of the bunch, but in the beginning the film It doesn't matter. She's doing fine But then the film starts to drag There's a long scene where they Chase a snake out of one of the cabins There's a scene where a Strangely hostile cop shows up on a motorcycle and then leaves and then the town crazy man shows up and tells them They're all doomed, but he just leaves the scene Goes nowhere so the movie starts out stronger than it ends up the In the final act of Friday the 13th This girl's acting gets really bad and gets really obvious and I think it ruins the scenes in a lot of ways Unlike Halloween though This movie's murders are kind of creative and kind of surprising at how creative they are in fact The the final scene is really over the top and unlike Halloween There's an afterward The movie doesn't just suddenly cut off an end But the the afterward is while it's interesting while it makes the movie more Interesting as far as the story goes The acting and the direction in the afterward are so bad These are not good movies Surprisingly enough, I don't consider these good movies. I wouldn't watch them for entertainment I might watch them with friends to laugh at them the the movies are kind of opposite of each other in that Halloween starts off slow, but gets good in the final act and Friday the 13th I think starts off pretty strong and gets slow And then doesn't save itself with its final act and both of them are variations on Albert Hitchcock's psycho and Friday the 13th Takes psycho and reverses it if you don't know what I'm talking about then Where have you been for the last what 40 years? You should know the plots of Halloween and Friday the 13th by now even if you've never seen them like like I found out I had never seen Friday the 13th, but I knew everything about it. I Knew how it ended. I knew who the killer is If you don't know all this stuff by now, then you've never watched robot chicken Okay, that's my little comparison review Maybe someday I'll do the sequels Whatever the case see then