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Summary: Just a question.
Review: I don't plan to review this, I just have a question. Why didn't they just combine the 2 dvd's into one movie? Put the extra 12 minutes of footage into one dvd! Or does that make too much sense?
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Summary: Correction
Review: The March 10, 2001 reviewer is quite wrong. There are indeed references to other horror films in Carpenter's 1978 masterpiece. The whole sequence of the children watching horror movies is a tribute to "The Thing" and "Forbidden Planet", clips of both of which are shown on the television. The shot of Myers standing outside the house, in eerie silhouette, is taken over from 1960's Psycho. Final note: "Halloween" is a masterpiece. Beyond praise.
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Summary: "The evil is gone...he's gone from here......."
Review: Noone is a bigger Michael Myers fan then I am. What can I say that hasn't already been said a million times before? Michael is the man under your bed, the man in your closet and the man inside your head. He scares me and I dont get scared. Dont mess with this guy, and prey your last name isnt Myers!Halloween is among my top 10 films of all time. Its THE horror film PERIOD.
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Summary: Subtlety Works
Review: Wow! This movie is just plain great. And owning it on DVD makes it that much better, since it makes the graininess of the 1978 film a whole lot less grainy. This movie represents the Horror Genre. This is just plain scary. A great, subtle sound track that is terrifying in its simplicity. This movie invented the masked killer. John Carpenter knows all about subtlety, and he knows it works. You'll see plenty of it in "Halloween." The special features are fun to watch, especially the "Unmasked 2000" Featurette. After you watch this movie it will last in your head for a long time. Buy it. Do yourself a favor.
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Summary: A Classic of Suspense
Review: To call Halloween a "slasher flick" is to do an injustice to the film's creators and to the viewer. Michael Myers IS a killer and he uses a knife, but there is more going on below the surface. Also the film (like the infamous Texas Chainsaw Massacre) is almost devoid of on-screen blood or gore. Halloween pioneered the use of point-of-view to build suspense. You see through the killer's eyes. When you see a potential victim, you think "RUN! He's standing right where I am!" and at the same time you know that Michael could just reach out and take them. Will he? Therein lies the suspense. John Carpenter's use of color and lighting adds a dark atmosphere highlighted by oranges and blues. A livingroom lit only by a table lamp or a night time exterior lit only by the porchlight across the street. These convince you that it's night, and you are vulnerable. Maybe that is why most of the sequels fail. They rely too much on gore or cheap gimics. The night time in Halloween looks like the night time outside your home. It is populated by shadows. In Halloween one of those shadows is alive. It's a sly move to call Michael Myers "the Shape", because that is what he is. A shape moving among the shadows, and then he's gone. Anyone who is sqeamish and has avoided Halloween for fear of being revolted, should rest assured that this is a movie based more on suspense than horror. I saw Halloween for the first time on a Halloween night in 1982. I have watched it on Halloween night almost every year since then. So lock your doors and pop Halloween into your VCR or DVD player.
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Summary: Trick or Treat!
Review: Back in 1978 a little movie for a little money became a big hit! Now 23 years later it is one of a handful of true horror classics. Like Pyscho 18 years before and Scream 18 years later (notice the time trend)this movie spawned many far inferior sequals and copy cats in the slasher subgenere. The atmosphere of Halloween is exteremely spooky; shadows and low lighting add to the overall erie effect. One interesting fact is the music unlike it's followers didn't signal the arrival of Michael Myers. Even after repeat veiwings Halloween still frightens the majority of viewers. The story is stright forward; a young boy kills his sister and 15 years later comes back to finish off his family. Lighting and music make up most of the frights as this movie is not nearly as gory and bloody as one would expect from this subgenre. That is one of the reasons this movie stands above most of the rest. Halloween scares us without these things proving that the imagination can scare us much more than what we actually see! So even 23 years later Halloween is still a treat and not a cheap trick!
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Summary: You Feel Like You're Being Stalked
Review: The movie accomplishes what it set out to do: Scare the hell out of the viewer. It's too bad that this movie is the prototype for formula slasher movies. There isn't a murder a minute here, which is what makes it so refreshing to watch after seeing a few of the blood soaked imitations that followed it. The scene where Laurie is fleeing from Michael outside of the home she is baby sitting in is the one that stands out in my mind the most. As Laurie attempts to escape the crazed killer with the creepy mask while running accross the street, you see him in the background engaged in a methodical speed walk towards his intended victim. You feel the victim's helplessness and the actor playing Michael gives the viewer the impression that the killer is capable of walking through a brick wall if he has to in order to get to his victim. Well paced and filled with suspense, Carpenter does a masterful job directing.
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Summary: A Real Nail-Biter!
Review: The only word you can really use to describe "Halloween" is: scary. It's genuinley terrifying and wisely avoids being a typical "gore and nothing else" horror film. Don't see this one alone!
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Summary: Classic
Review: This is a classic horror film, John Carpenter(director) did an excellent job setting the atmosphere and energy of this film, and lets the killings be a little more realistic than imagination. This is one of the first films of its kind that would have a killer going after teen-aged kids, but even though it isn't where the teen-agers get killed because they are stupid but beacuse Micheal Meyers out smarts them. Halloween isn't a perceft film but is defenitaly a great film, a good movie to own and watch.
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Summary: Still the Best . . .
Review: This movie has all the best elements of a good scare . A simple but unforgetable soundtrack that grab the veiwer's attention and won't let go . A memorable villian in Micheal Myers whose faceless mask is scrarier than an elaborate one , it gives a feeling of blank mindless horror . A heroine that may not get the upper hand over Micheal . And then there is the voice of doom and gloom , Dr. Loomis . Ultimately Laurie's saviour but is he ? That's for the sequels to answer . The DVD itself is top notch . Anchor Bay is fast becoming my DVD company of choice . From the vast array of extras to the execellent cover work this is one that is worth owning .I look forward to more from Anchor Bay .
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