Halloween Movies Thread... - Part 1

[Drizzle]

AMC has been having a Halloween marathon the last couple of days, showing all of them except for H20 and the Rob Zombie movies. Every time I turn on AMC, it's always when either Halloween 5 or Resurrection is on. Rotten luck. I'd take the Zombie movies over those pieces of **** any day of the week. I actually liked the remake and how it gave Michael more of a backstory, even if it was a little too Rob Zombie-fied. I barely remember much of the second one other that it wasn't good at all.

 

[BH/HHH]

Watched 'The One, The Only, The Classic.. Halloween' on the 35th anniversary Blu Ray tonight. It's always been my favourite horror movie but seeing it for the first time with this transfer was like a whole new experience, it just looks and sounds stunning.

 

[The Joker]

Watched 'The One, The Only, The Classic.. Halloween' on the 35th anniversary Blu Ray tonight. It's always been my favourite horror movie but seeing it for the first time with this transfer was like a whole new experience, it just looks and sounds stunning.

Snap. Watched it on blu-ray this evening, too. Looks terrific in HD.

 

[Broseph44]

Happy Halloween to all. I posted in the Horror thread but today so far has been Trick R Treat and Halloween III for me. On to Halloween 1978 now and hoping to get to Halloween II as well. Gonna watch ash vs evil dead later.

Yeah the blu ray transfer is wonderful. My favorite horror film of all time as well, never looked so beautiful

 

[The Joker]

Happy Halloween.

Watched Trick R Treat last night. That movie has an incredible Halloween/fall atmosphere. Just perfect. I'm currently watching Halloween III. Challis and Ellie just arrived at the Silver Shamrock factory for the tour. "Trade secrets"....

 

[Broseph44]

Niceeeee Joker, yeah I can't wait for Trick R Treat 2 and Krampus this winter.

 

[StarLord]

Post Mortem with Mick Garris - John Carpenter

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[Yowza]

I just watched "The Inferno" on Hulu.

It's an early atmospheric 80's film that starts off with a woman (who presumably dabbles in the occult) in a stylish yet perplexingly empty apartment purchasing a book from a local antique shop about "3 sisters" of darkness, tears, and sorrow (sort of like the fates, muses, or furies that as a singularity may represent death or some portent of doom). The author, presumably an architect, constructs 3 "houses" for the sisters with 1 in NYC (the youngest and crulest here), Rome (the most beautiful here), and Germany (the oldest sister resides here).

The film is slow moving yet kind of captures the imagination at certain points of the film from a sunken seemingly satanic temple beneath an alleyway next to the hotel to a bizarre deformed creature beneath a library in Rome, I kind of wish this was a series with a bit more to explore. Overall, I think the film is worth a watch. There are some brutal killings in it (although not shown in full but with some grisly after effects).

In a way, it kind of reminds me of Susperia just not quite as dramatic or scary yet has some interesting imagery and atmosphere.

 

[The Joker]

This is the coolest thing. Recorded sound of an audience reaction to watching the ending scene of Halloween back in '79;

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The screams from them t:

 

[Iron_Stark]

Watching the original Halloweens again this past week and the Rob Zombie remake, I enjoyed Rob Zombie's more than the original John Carpenter.


There, I said it.

 

[Loki882]

AMC has been having a Halloween marathon the last couple of days, showing all of them except for H20 and the Rob Zombie movies. Every time I turn on AMC, it's always when either Halloween 5 or Resurrection is on. Rotten luck. I'd take the Zombie movies over those pieces of **** any day of the week. I actually liked the remake and how it gave Michael more of a backstory, even if it was a little too Rob Zombie-fied. I barely remember much of the second one other that it wasn't good at all.

Is there some kind of legal rights issue that prevents AMC from showing H20 or something? Because I don't get why they constantly play the two that are generally considered to be the worst films in the franchise (H5 and Resurrection), and one that's considered to be really generic (H4), but not the one that's widely considered to be the best one since the original? It's weird to me.

 

[The Joker]

Watching the original Halloweens again this past week and the Rob Zombie remake, I enjoyed Rob Zombie's more than the original John Carpenter.


There, I said it.

 

[Broseph44]

Watching the original Halloweens again this past week and the Rob Zombie remake, I enjoyed Rob Zombie's more than the original John Carpenter.


There, I said it.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Watching the original Halloweens again this past week and the Rob Zombie remake, I enjoyed Rob Zombie's more than the original John Carpenter.


There, I said it.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

Watching the original Halloweens again this past week and the Rob Zombie remake, I enjoyed Rob Zombie's more than the original John Carpenter.


There, I said it.

Spoiler

 

[StarLord]

This is what happens to me when I watch the Rob Zombie abominations.

 

[Broseph44]

Spoiler

This is what happens to me when I watch the Rob Zombie abominations.

 

[redfirebird2008]

This is the coolest thing. Recorded sound of an audience reaction to watching the ending scene of Halloween back in '79;

[YT]J-B1NX97bNY[/YT]

The screams from them t:

That's awesome. I've always figured that movie must have scared the living daylights out of people in theaters. After endless sequels and knockoffs, it is easy to forget just how crazy the original Carpenter film was at the time. That insanely creepy music, a killer who cannot die, and so on.

I remember the first time I saw it on TV, I was probably 5 or 6. The moment that scared me the most was when Laurie is outside the locked house and can't get her keys out of her pocket. I genuinely felt like he was going to get her at that point. I had no idea about the cliches of the genre even though I was watching the film in the 1990's. You always wish you could go back and re-create that experience again, but it can never happen.

 

[Drizzle]

To this day, Halloween is still the most scared I've ever been watching a movie. I first saw it when I was 10 and after I watched it I couldn't sleep that night. I think it scared me so much because it felt like something that could actually happen in real life. For some reason, Michael in the ghost sheet with the glasses was more unsettling to me than his actual mask.

 

[Wildcard]

This is what happens to me when I watch the Rob Zombie abominations.

At least Rob didn't make Michael take his mask off to cry or rape his niece to produce a baby that he is going to of course kill.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

When I saw the movie last week, people laughed at his rising off the floor. Nobody screamed either.

 

[antsman41]

When I saw the movie last week, people laughed at his rising off the floor. Nobody screamed either.

A bunch of idiots, they are.

That moment, with the music... oh my.

 

[The Joker]

That's awesome. I've always figured that movie must have scared the living daylights out of people in theaters. After endless sequels and knockoffs, it is easy to forget just how crazy the original Carpenter film was at the time. That insanely creepy music, a killer who cannot die, and so on.

I remember the first time I saw it on TV, I was probably 5 or 6. The moment that scared me the most was when Laurie is outside the locked house and can't get her keys out of her pocket. I genuinely felt like he was going to get her at that point. I had no idea about the cliches of the genre even though I was watching the film in the 1990's. You always wish you could go back and re-create that experience again, but it can never happen.

Yeah John Carpenter has said in interviews that he never had any idea audiences would go as crazy as they did in theaters. Screaming, and yelling at the screen to Laurie to not go into the house etc. He said it was unreal.

I think my scariest moment when I first saw it was Laurie's slow walk up the stairs in the Wallace's house. The way the camera shots kept cutting to the top of the stairs I kept expecting Michael to jump out at her at any second because we knew he was lurking around up there. It was one of those scenes you peep at from behind your hands.

To this day, Halloween is still the most scared I've ever been watching a movie. I first saw it when I was 10 and after I watched it I couldn't sleep that night. I think it scared me so much because it felt like something that could actually happen in real life.

Snap. It's the only horror movie to give me nightmares. I was 12, everyone else was in bed so I was on my own, and I was flicking through the TV channels and there was the start of the movie with the pumpkin and Carpenter's theme playing. By the end of the movie I was so scared I was terrified to go up the stairs to bed.

I kept imagining I could hear Michael's heavy mask breathing in my room!

At least Rob didn't make Michael take his mask off to cry or rape his niece to produce a baby that he is going to of course kill.

Neither did Carpenter.

But Rob made him a dirty long haired bearded hobo, who fantasizes about white horses and his stripper Mommy.

 

[Broseph44]

When I saw the movie last week, people laughed at his rising off the floor. Nobody screamed either.

Pretty dumb reaction if you ask me. Nothing funny about that moment at all.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

At least Rob didn't make Michael take his mask off to cry or rape his niece to produce a baby that he is going to of course kill.

Neither did carpenter