This may just be me, but I never saw that kill as Michael "toying" with his victims. Michael was always more frighting to me because of his near-mechanical nature, the blank white, expressionless mask (as well as his apparent emotionlessness after his very first kill, when his parents take off the mask). You can't tell if there's any thinking going on behind those darkened sockets. The "pure evil" that Michael in the first Halloween represents for me is more like a shark, an emotionless, inscrutable killing machine. The scene where he's just standing at the foot of the bed is all the more excruciating for this (IMHO)... it's like seeing someone fallen into a lion's den, and the lion is just standing there, staring intently... like there's some secret trigger waiting to be pulled, inscrutable to anyone but the killer, that'll signal the start of the carnage... insufferable tension for the audience as we expect the blood to fly at any moment... instead we just wait and wait and wait. Again, IMHO.
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Date: 2005-10-31 04:32 pm (UTC)This may just be me, but I never saw that kill as Michael "toying" with his victims. Michael was always more frighting to me because of his near-mechanical nature, the blank white, expressionless mask (as well as his apparent emotionlessness after his very first kill, when his parents take off the mask). You can't tell if there's any thinking going on behind those darkened sockets. The "pure evil" that Michael in the first Halloween represents for me is more like a shark, an emotionless, inscrutable killing machine. The scene where he's just standing at the foot of the bed is all the more excruciating for this (IMHO)... it's like seeing someone fallen into a lion's den, and the lion is just standing there, staring intently... like there's some secret trigger waiting to be pulled, inscrutable to anyone but the killer, that'll signal the start of the carnage... insufferable tension for the audience as we expect the blood to fly at any moment... instead we just wait and wait and wait. Again, IMHO.