(1) What do you think about the common assertion that Halloween was influenced by Black Christmas?
(2) Stuff we never noticed before the image clarity of DVD: Smoke from Carpenter's cigarette drifting into a shot during an exterior scene with Laurie and her friends; the wrench against Michael's palm that helps him break the car window (I'm not sure whether this is a bona fide goof or whether we're actually supposed to see it and never did before because of all those atrocious VHS tranfers).
(3) I always amuse myself by thinking of Bob as David Cronenberg, because he looks just like Cronenberg did around that period.
(4) One of the best bits is when Michael gets unmasked, and is revealed to be...just a young guy. Not a vicious deform-o like Jason, but a normal, scared-looking, pained kid. It's as if 'Michael' as we know him disappears when the mask comes off. Then he dons the mask again and gets down to business.
(5) The novelization (by Curtis somebody — I don't have it at hand) bears out the theory that the Celtic angle was always present, if I recall.
(6) One part I always laugh at is Laurie's record-setting speed at coat-hanger-unbending. Carpenter cheats more than a little in the editing here.
(7) The sheriff is an idiot. 'If you are right, Doctor...damn you for letting him out.' I always want Loomis to say 'I didn't let him out, schmuck, he escaped — are we in the same movie?'
(8) Inaugural Shape (and longtime Carpenter associate) Nick Castle, of course, later graduated to directing, giving us the cult gem TAG: The Assassination Game (with a character named Carpenter and early appearances by Linda Hamilton and Bruce Abbott), The Last Starfighter, and the amusing-in-retrospect Mr. Wrong, which pretended that Ellen DeGeneres was hetero.
(9) The late Debra Hill was primarily responsible for writing the female characters and making their banter believable. I'd argue that her contribution goes a long way towards making the film a classic, because the girls seem like real people and we care what happens to them.
(10) Maybe it's just that I'm getting older, but the girls in Halloween look at least 17, maybe even college-age. The girls in Halloween H2O look way too young. I remember one girl got killed who looked like she maybe stopped playing with Barbies the year before. It was like watching child abuse. But Jamie Lee, Nancy, and P.J. were strapping young women. In general, the old-school slasher films, which allowed nudity among teenage characters (even when the actresses were of legal age), are preferable to the new ones with tiny little chicks who actually are teenagers, can't do nudity, and make you feel icky when they get killed.
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(2) Stuff we never noticed before the image clarity of DVD: Smoke from Carpenter's cigarette drifting into a shot during an exterior scene with Laurie and her friends; the wrench against Michael's palm that helps him break the car window (I'm not sure whether this is a bona fide goof or whether we're actually supposed to see it and never did before because of all those atrocious VHS tranfers).
(3) I always amuse myself by thinking of Bob as David Cronenberg, because he looks just like Cronenberg did around that period.
(4) One of the best bits is when Michael gets unmasked, and is revealed to be...just a young guy. Not a vicious deform-o like Jason, but a normal, scared-looking, pained kid. It's as if 'Michael' as we know him disappears when the mask comes off. Then he dons the mask again and gets down to business.
(5) The novelization (by Curtis somebody — I don't have it at hand) bears out the theory that the Celtic angle was always present, if I recall.
(6) One part I always laugh at is Laurie's record-setting speed at coat-hanger-unbending. Carpenter cheats more than a little in the editing here.
(7) The sheriff is an idiot. 'If you are right, Doctor...damn you for letting him out.' I always want Loomis to say 'I didn't let him out, schmuck, he escaped — are we in the same movie?'
(8) Inaugural Shape (and longtime Carpenter associate) Nick Castle, of course, later graduated to directing, giving us the cult gem TAG: The Assassination Game (with a character named Carpenter and early appearances by Linda Hamilton and Bruce Abbott), The Last Starfighter, and the amusing-in-retrospect Mr. Wrong, which pretended that Ellen DeGeneres was hetero.
(9) The late Debra Hill was primarily responsible for writing the female characters and making their banter believable. I'd argue that her contribution goes a long way towards making the film a classic, because the girls seem like real people and we care what happens to them.
(10) Maybe it's just that I'm getting older, but the girls in Halloween look at least 17, maybe even college-age. The girls in Halloween H2O look way too young. I remember one girl got killed who looked like she maybe stopped playing with Barbies the year before. It was like watching child abuse. But Jamie Lee, Nancy, and P.J. were strapping young women. In general, the old-school slasher films, which allowed nudity among teenage characters (even when the actresses were of legal age), are preferable to the new ones with tiny little chicks who actually are teenagers, can't do nudity, and make you feel icky when they get killed.