Halloween
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Halloween
Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring:
Donald Pleasence
Jamie Lee Curtis
P. J. Soles
Nancy Loomis
Released: OCtober 25, 1978
Budget: $300K-325K ($1.3M- $1.4M 2021)
Box Office: $60-$70M ($252.4M-$295M in 2021)
Ratings: IMDb 7.7/10 Rotten Tomatoes 96%
Metacritic 87% Google Users 90%
In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
First time you saw the movie?
Plot:
-Iconic theme music
-This whole thing starts because little Mikey Myers doesn't like his sister getting some from her bf.
-Why was the back door open?
-By the time Mikey watches them turn off the light to when he sees the bf come down the steps putting on his shirt, it's maybe 45 seconds? Is the boyfriends name Tucker?
-Mikey putting on the mask foreshadowing
-Terrible death acting...
-Incredible how it all read as one continuous shot
-The nurse smoking and driving with the windows up. How 70's.
-Drug Dr suggests using to bring Mikey in front of the judge: Chlorpromazine Brand name: Thorazine
Description: Antipsychotic - It can treat mental illness, behavioral disorders, tetanus, blood disorders such as porphyria, and severe nausea and vomiting. It can also reduce anxiety before surgery.
-Mikey steals that car pretty easily.
-Laurie in class, teacher talking about destiny and fate. "Fate never changes"
-Mikey is already walking around in the mask... How hasn't an adult called the cops on him yet?
-Good thing the Dr happens to stop exactly where Mikey got his blue coveralls
-"Totally"
-There are a lot of long, lingering, tracking shots
-Think the reason guys don't want to date Laurie is that big ol' dick
-Jamie Lee Curtis looks like an older version of Charlie Bucket from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
-Like they get high to go baby sit, with the windows up, like no one will smell it, or her dad a cop wont know what it is
-Mikey is not subtle about trailing folks.
-Mikey next to the tree watching... reflected in Trick r Treat, ~40 years later. The bad guy watching/POV shots
-Mikey eats dogs?
-Not letting the public know a killer is on the lose... Great move.
-She spills oil on herself and strips down to her underwear? Makes sense. Mikey just wants to see some boobies.
-So shes going out, in someone shirt, no pants, and no bra? Ok. I see the intro of every dumb kid trope in all horror movies.
-Feels like a lot of wide establishing shots, too. But there's action going on too.
-Hard to believe the kid that reads too many sci-fi comics.
-Mikey is just a big ol' voyeur. First with Annie, next with Lynda and Bob.
-Why is there a jack o'lantern in the bedroom?
-Bob saying, "I'll be right back" throws me to Scream.
-Posting Bob up with a knife through the stomach... unrealistic, but epic.
-Shame to kill Annie... Great tits.
-How damn small is Lauries waist? 8 inches around? It's tiny.
-The start of: Something is wrong, I'm going to to check it out... with the audience screaming, NO. Building suspense.
-Mikey missed an easy shot on Laurie.
-Mikey can pick a full grown man up, on handed and stab him TO A DOOR, and cant kick down one interior door to the kitchen?
-All this and a knitting needle to the neck stops him?
-Ok, so a hanger to the eye and a stab wound... maybe? (no blood on the knife when Laurie comes out of the closet...and why does she drop the knife, AGAIN?!)
-Nope. So the Dr with a 6 shooter.
-Nope again.
-When they were showing shots of the various scenes, Mikeys knife was still on the floor in the living room, despite having taken it up stairs and Laurie used it on him.
-I can def hear where Stranger Things got some musical cues from this theme.
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