Halloween
Product Description
Fifteen years ago, Michael Myers brutally murdered his sister. Now, after escaping from a mental hospital, he’s back to relive his grisly crime again, and again…and again.
This is Halloween like you’ve never seen or heard it before! Halloween has been fully restored under the supervision of Lucasfilm’s THX digital mastering Services. The DVD was transferred by the award-winning colorist Adam Adams (Terminator 2, Titanic) from a new 35mm interpositive (made from the original camera negative) and approved by the film’s cinematographer Dean Cundey (Jurassic Park, Who Framed Roger Rabbit). The new Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack was created by Chace Productions in association with Alan Howarth using the original 16-track music studio master and the recently discovered original 35mm magnetic dialogue and effects tracks.Amazon.com essential video
Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town’s hormonally charged youths.
Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It’s a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie’s freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin’s character in Psycho.
In the end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience–it’s one of those movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen. (“No! Don’t drop that knife!”) Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more installments: 1981′s dismal Halloween II, which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate events, and 1998′s occasionally gripping Halloween H20, which proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years. –Robert HortonAmazon.com
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Reading the reviews of Amazon.com, one may come to the conclusion that John Carpenter’s slasher-flick Halloween is the greatest horror movie ever created in the history of America and started the slasher genre.
Well here’s a real review, rooted a tad more in fact.
This movie is the worst horror film ever.
We start off with a young boy stabbing his naked sister to death. Sounds like a keeper!
We then go into a long, tedious plot that involves, well, nothing really. The long wait the audience experiences before viewing much slice-and-dice action is apparently an attempt to aid it in learning more about the characters and to make a connection with the story. It fails in doing so. Rather, the audience is often left wondering if the only reason certain scenes are put into the movie is to make the runtime longer.
With the exception of the infamous “Halloween theme,” the music is terribly irritating. There’s about three songs in this movie, and usually, they are replayed several times over in long, useless scenes that you really feel the urge to fast forward to.
Then, finally we are treated to some violence. But even the violence won’t satsify those truly looking for a gorefest. Some scenes depict no blood at all.
And when will the lie that Halloween “created the slasher genre” die? No, you are wrong. Psycho created the slasher genre, and Halloween is simply a modern adaptation. With a lot more nudity and sex which has nothing to do with the plot.
Finally we reach the “showdown” between Michael Myers and… well it doesn’t really matter who it is. It’s just some girl that we hardly know anything about and really don’t care for. The audience has no emotional attatchment to the main character at all.
Jamie Lee Curtis, for reasons I cannot understand, is often described as a “strong female” character in this film. No she isn’t. Her primary action throughout the “showdown” is to scream. She isn’t even the one who ultimately defeats Michael. Dr. Loomis is.
Then finally, we reach the terrifying ending where the somewhat-intriguing theme music plays as a soundloop of dog-like panting repeats in the background like a broken record. The horror!
Want to see a truly disturbing slasher-flick with large quantities of gore balanced by a thought-provoking plot with important dialogue and realistic characters? Don’t see Halloween!
Rating: 1 / 5
Halloween
As a rabid horror fan, I’ve never been certain why so many other horror fans go “ga-ga” over this 90 minute film of predictability. It lacks any suspense. Albeit, Zombie’s “reimagining” was MUCH worse. This film is so bland and dull. Carpenter’s orchestration is the best “thing” to come out of this film. The characters are dull and lifeless, there is obviously NO talent involved within this film.
I must say that the story written for “Friday The 13th One” is far superior to this jive. I simply do not like this film. The character is never given any light of purpose. Horror fans are a savvy bunch, we deserve better DEBRA HILL!
Rating: 1 / 5
Halloween
this movie was maybe ok 30 years ago but for now this is a total old fashioned movie.100 percent “has been”
it was pretty difficult not to fall asleep.
don’t waste yr time and yr $$
there is absolutly no point to compare it with the “scream” and the “remember what you did last summer..”the final destination”…
`why people call it a “classic”????
Rating: 1 / 5
Halloween
this is not scary at all nightmare on elm street is scary then this
Rating: 1 / 5
Halloween
Blood and nudity abound in this tasteless thriller, starring Jamie Lee Curtis as a good girl babysitter, whose scanty friends get slaughtered off one by one, by a killer in a mask.
All is well, until Miss Curtis’ friends, who are babysitting at the neighbors, don’t answer her phone calls and she notices all the lights next door are off. So Miss Curtis heads across the street… From there, things fall apart until they reach an asinine conclusion.
The terrifyingly haunting music is the only thing that keeps this show from being a complete waste of time.
Despite other opinions, this film DOES deserve its `R’ rating, due to its gruesome themes, let alone the violence, language, and semi-clad babysitters.
All in all, enjoy “Halloween” if you must, but PLEASE don’t consider it to be a favorite.
Rating: 1 / 5
Halloween