The night he came home!
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Nov 20235/10
**A competent film, with a killer who doesn't seem that ferocious when we read what's in the daily newspapers.** Well, before writing a review of this film I have to make a declaration of interest that I think is appropriate: I absolutely hate Halloween, it's one of the days of the year that I can't stand. It's not a festival that belongs to my culture, it's completely foreign to the Portuguese tradition, and a poor excuse for stray teenagers to go to strangers' houses, at inappropriate hours, to bother those who are calmly in their own business. I've already had to expel a group with some rudeness and I have no doubt that, one day, I'll still have problems because of this stupidity. Furthermore, for Catholics, the feast day is the following day, November 1st, when the Church celebrates All Saints. In any case, it's a good time to watch horror films on TV, and yesterday I happened to watch the film that brings me here today. Directed by John Carpenter, a director who became an icon of classic horror cinema, the low-budget film became a success, raised a real fortune and, over time, became a slasher classic, a type of horror that I confess I don't particularly appreciate. Carpenter
Read the whole review on TMDB - CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20237/10
I really enjoyed seeing this on the big screen again, 40-odd years after John Carpenter introduced us to his brand of slasher-horror with Jamie Lee Curtis great as the flighty young girl "Laurie" who finds herself caught up in the revenge antics of the faceless "Michael Myers" that perhaps only Donald Pleasence ("Loomis") can save her from. The pace and tension build really well - helped by some good use of sound and light (I didn't much care for the over-synthesised score), the supporting screams from PJ Soles and Nancy Kyes and the occasional intervention from Pleasence. The sequels never reached the heights of this, original psychological horror - there are precious few special effect to laugh at or even speak of, really - and if you get a chance to catch up with it as intended on 35mm then you should certainly give it a go.
Read the whole review on TMDB - GenerationofSwineon TMDB · Jan 202310/10
It really doesn't look like Illinois does it? Sorry, just had to say that, it's where I'm from and all... ...but still, leaves on the ground and green leaves in the trees. Not at all Illinois, probably because it was a low budget film, but it works. It gives it a very, I don't know, Nightmare on Elm Street surreal feel? And I think, if memory serves this is the start of the virgins survive sex is punished horror-slasher staple. Anyway, it's one of my oldest and dearest friends favorite slasher films and I can see why. It is most atmospheric. It is the one that has the most paranoid and bone chilling feel to it. It really is the ultimate slasher film, it's even better than my favorite...but that's neither here nor there. The fact is, this is the film that defines the slasher genre of horror and has often been imitated but has yet to be replicated. It is, in short, a masterpiece in its genre.
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Cast
- Donald PleasenceLoomis
- Jamie Lee CurtisLaurie
- Nancy KyesAnnie
- P. J. SolesLynda
- Charles CyphersBrackett
- Kyle RichardsLindsey
- Brian AndrewsTommy
- John Michael GrahamBob
- Nancy StephensMarion
- Arthur MaletGraveyard Keeper
Crew
- John CarpenterDirector
- Debra HillScreenplay
- John CarpenterScreenplay
- Dean CundeyDirector of Photography
- John CarpenterOriginal Music Composer
- Charles BornsteinEditor
- Tommy Lee WallaceEditor
- Debra HillProducer
- Moustapha AkkadProducer
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Godless 201773% alikeTelevision · Both grave, earnest, classical in form.
A Plague Tale: Innocence 201971% alikeGame · Both grave, earnest, classical in form.
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