FILM 31
FILM: HALLOWEEN
PREMISE: The year is 1963, the night; Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that a 17 year Judith Myers had been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother... After being institutionalized for 15 years, Myers breaks out just days before Halloween. No one knows nor would wish to find out what would happen on October 31st 1978, besides Myer's physciatrist Dr. Loomis. He knows Michael is coming back to Haddonfield, but by the time the town realizes it, it'll be to late for many people...
REVIEW: John Carpenter took a low budget film and he scared a generation of movie goers. He showed that you don't need budgets in the 8 or 9 figures to evoke fear on an audience. Because sometimes the best element of fear is not what actually happens, but what is about to happen. What was that shadow? What was that noise upstairs? He knows that these are the ways to scare someone and he uses every element of textbook horror that I think you can use. I even think he made up some of his own ideas and these should be ideas that people use today. But they don't. No one uses lighting and detail to provoke scares, they use special effects and rivers of blood. And it is just not the same. You can't be scared by a giant special effect that makes loud noises and jumps out of a wall. It's the moments when the killer is lurking, somewhere, you just don't know where, that scare you. And Halloween succeeds like no other film in this endeavor. One of the best horror films of all time and it still creeps me out to this very day. I give this a 10 out of 10.
3 comments:
Not to mention that relentless score...
I'm curious why you didn't include 'Earnest Scared Stupid' on your list?
Yes: the score! Also, I just LOVE the blank white mask. No expression, no features, it gives that everyman feel, like this evil could be in anyone and there is no way of truly knowing. Also, good 'ol Jamie Lee Curtis has a hell of a set of pipes! AAAAAHHHHHHHHH
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