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Halloween (1978) (Patreon)

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Comments

JakeyShakeyBakeyBoy

One of the greatest horror openings of all time - music, camerawork, tension. Carpenter was firing on all cylinders in this film for sure. If you both enjoyed this one then Halloween II is definitely worth a look as well. The rest of them are their own story of ups and downs, to put it simply anyway. :)

Jeff K
>>120157087

The fact it’s literally just George, no mask, nothing else. Fantastic.

TomGas2025

I love your thumb nails...they are always so on point...and a lot of times super funny...

michael clarke

the mask was actually a captain kirk mask that they bought, flipped inside out and then painted white. also, someone was dropping those leaves. apparently they had one bag full and they would need to collect them and put them down for every shot. red letter media does a commentary worth watching. on youtube you can find a clips version. personally, i think part 2 from the original series is worth watching, and then checking out the latest run of 3 movies. could watch rob zombies versions just as an oddity, but they arent anything special, just more dramatic. part 3 of the original series, strangely, doesnt have michael myers. they decided that it was going to be a horror anthology. ive heard people talk about it as a classic, but i havent seen it for so long myself, i cant say if its worth watching. i stick with my recommendations, where i would suggest the entire series for friday the 13th and nightmare on elm street, the Halloween series just got to be the bad kind of bad.

Callum Cowan
>>120158861

I personally watched every nightmare and friday the 13th movie and I have to disagree. By nightmare 4 I was so lost I thought I was the one dreaming. And the trainwrecks that followed speak for themselves. I liked new nightmare though and freddy vs jason was okay. Friday was always a rip off of Halloween, and it started to stink early, like 3 movies in. I consider it an insult to even compare Friday and Halloween. EDIT: Halloween wasn't originally intended to be the Michael Myers saga, it was supposed to be an anthology series, they experimented with this idea for Halloween 3 but it was badly received, then went back to Michael Myers. I blame the fans for running it into the ground.

Niklas Ericsson

There are a few different continuities when it comes to the Halloween sequels. Jamie Lee Curtis was in the first sequel, then she returned when they rebooted the series in 1998 and then returned for the last three films as they rebooted again in 2018. Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a complete stand alone movie that has nothing to do with Michael Myers, though it's still a decent movie. There is the original continuity: Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989), Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) The H20 continuity: Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002) Rob Zombie's remake continuity: Halloween (2007), Halloween II (2009) Then there's the modern reboot continuity: Halloween (1978), Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021), Halloween Ends (2022)

Pam Nail

The mask is a William Shatner Star Trek mask (painted white) that the production designer got from a magic shop.

Ian Hunt

My favourite horror film! As you’ve probably heard by now, the mask is Captain Kirk William Shatner mask, spray painted white, cause thats how little it looked like William Shatner

Drew

All hail, the King of the Thumbnail

Pam Nail

If you want something spooky to watch around the December holidays, I recommend Black Christmas (the original 1974 version). It came out four years before Halloween and had a pretty huge influence on it. Halloween has a pretty tortured chronology with loads of retcons and reboots. There's no gore because it was such a low budget movie ($375,000) and they would have had to hire someone to design those effects. The Thing had a much larger budget and Carpenter was able to hire Rob Bottin to do those amazing effects (which is where about 1/10 of the budget went). Small note: Annie doesn't have a change of clothes because she's not at her house -- she's babysitting Lindsay at *her* house.

Prof. Writhms

I wore that mask for Halloween once. You can only keep that thing on for a few minutes at a time. It's hard to breathe!

Jeff K
>>120160280

And one fun fact: Curse of Michael Myers has a grown up Tommy Doyle… played by a young Paul Rudd.

Jeff K

Regarding Michael Myers and whether he's supernatural or human: John Carpenter has more or less said that yeah, he's more supernatural than human, and is just a force of evil. When Tommy keeps calling him the Boogeyman, that really is essentially what he is.

Monica Alarcon

Oh wow, Simone looks so much like young Jamie Lee Curtis that at first I thought they didn't make a special thumbnail this time and just used the original image...

Michael

Referring to the Jack-o-Lantern/grandma story: you might be aware, but traditionally many gourds had functional uses outside of eating. In The Evil Dead, those “things” hanging in the basement were dried bottleneck gourds which could be used as storage containers. Early Jack-o-Lanterns we’re probably just more decorative versions of what people were already doing by making functional lanterns out of gourds.

Logan Kerlee

I'm prolly just blind, but I didn't see my name in the credits. :/

Nico Colaleo

Pretty much all slasher horror movies over the past nearly 50 years owe a debt to this one. All the slasher tropes and clichés CAME from this movie. That's why not many young people today find it all that scary - because it was the first to do a lot of this, so many horror movies since have aped it. I still love the idea behind it though. It's not a monster, or an alien from space, or a mythical being, it's just a guy. A regular guy staring at you, popping up everywhere, coming to get you. The simplicity is its brilliance.

Ludovic Ligot

So George thinks he's scarier WITHOUT a mask… Interesting ! 😂

Steve H

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YourBigBut

Easy nominee for best thumbnail ever

E. D.

There is a movie that was overlooked by like all other big react channels so far, starring two great child stars: The Good Son (1993), I´d love seeing you react to that. Worth watching, in my opinion, not perfect but still well made and fascinating in a way.

E. D.
>>120167247

Him being supernatural sounds more like a justification for making many sequels aka money and I don´t wanna spoil anything but it´s frustrating after a while not being able to get rid of him, you know what I mean. It´s like Neo and Agent Smith punching and kicking each other for an eternity and neither of them has a scratch. Then it´s more like "in what -more or less- creative way can I harm the other so he´s gone".. not for good.. but for a couple of scenes, until they see each other in an other sequel.

Chase Schleich
>>120212037

Definitely. I haven't seen that movie in forever, but it may be my favorite Macaulay Culkin role because it's so different than anything else he did.

Martin

As expected, this movie did not age well.

Joe

You guys have to watch The Thing. It's one of the best horror films ever made.

Harold Wright

Loved the reaction! If you want another 90's horror film, I love "In the Mouth of Madness" It's directed by John Carpenter, stars Sam Neil, and pays homage to Lovecraft. What more could you ask for, regrettably most people I ask have never seen it.

Middy
>>120192248

Just a shame the franchise very quickly turns supernatural.

Buhr

It is not a horror movie but I think you both would really enjoy October Sky with a young Jake Gyllenhaal.

JoeNotCharles

Now that you've seen this, you can watch It Follows - it has a lot of specific references and homages to this movie so I think knowing Halloween enhances the experience, but it's got its own thing going on too.

Brandon Scott

A general explination of the canon is to follow. I'll make it with several "!!!'s". Michael Myers was created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill for this film. The character was intentionally designed to be enigmatic and terrifying. Other's have already mentioned that the mask is just a Captain Kirk (William Shatner) mask painted white. As for the explanation for his murderous tendencies, there really isn't any in this film or in the original lore. At the end of this film, as far as anyone knows or could say, Michael stalked and killed Laurie's friends and tried to kill her because she happened to walk onto his porch. This is one of the many pieces of the original lore that gets retconned multiple times before we get to the recent trilogy. In the script as well as the credits, Michael was listed and referred to as "The Shape." He is portrayed as a relentless, 'almost supernatural' force. !!!!!!!!!CANON!!!!!!!!! As for the watch order and how that giant rats-nest gets pulled out: Originally, this was not planned for a sequel. After its success the made a second also staring Jamie Lee that picks up immediately after the events of the first one. Some new lore is introduced here but I can't share it because of spoilers. Halloween III: Season of the Witch has NOTHING to do with Michael or Laurie and was an attempt to pivot the film series into an anthology of spooky stories. This failed. It's not a good film. I wouldn't bother watching it. After the failure of SOW, they returned to Michael but Jamie Lee declined to return. They moved on to other peripherally connected characters through the first retcon of the series, the reception of which is divisive to say the least. In my opinion, they were worth watching but aren't good films and, given what has happened since, their value is pretty much zero. This includes Hallowing 4: The Return of Michael Myers, 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, and 6: The Curse of Michael Myers. There's a lot more to say about these but that gets into spoiler territory. In my opinion, then next film after the Part Two worth watching is the 7th film: Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. This essentially retcons the previous three films (ignoring SOW) and sees the return of Jamie Lee as Laurie Strode. To be clear, this isn't a great film, but it is the first "modern" halloween/Michael Myers movie and it's not awful. It boasts a pretty decent cast of 90's teen heartthrobs and personally I thought it did a pretty good job bringing Michael back in a way that made sense and did the original justice. After this is the cash-grabbiest of all the Halloween cash-grabs, Halloween Resurrection featuring Jamie Lee again but staring a young cast along with a few marquee names such as Busta Rhymes and Tyra Banks. It's not a great film, but is canon up to this point and is one of those that are bad in just the right ways to be fun, imo. After this we got Rob Zombie stepping up to the plate to reimagine the character of Michael Myers. These two films are true remakes. They have no connection to the previous or following films. They are DEFINITELY worth a watch in my opinion, but be warned, Rob pulls no punches (the second one was a little strange). Then to the Halloween 2018 trilogy. With Jamie Lee as its driving force, the filmmakers wipe the franchise of any previous sequel and treat the world as though all the events after the original never happened at all. The general consensus is that the first and second of this trilogy are really good. The third one, Halloween Ends, is a bit more of a hot button topic for debate. I personally wasn't happy with the wrap up but I guess it's worth a watch. Personally, as subpar of a film as it was, I prefer the wrap up given by Halloween H20 for the overall lore. Hope this was helpful.

TokyoLopez

god this movie is dated, should be on cinecringe

Josh

Don’t know if anyone’s said this but you guys uploaded this on Michael myers birthday

Middy
>>120436880

The ones who think it's dated probably didn't watch it, like me. I'm a huge horror fan and I'll totally dig into old, obscure, slow, cringy stuff, but for some reason this one always sends me to sleep.

Joel

I like the originals and also Rob Zombies two Halloween films. Killer stuff!

Nobody

IMO: Skip 3, 4, 5, and 6. Watch the rest. I watched Halloween H20 as a kid with my cousins, so it holds a special place in my heart!