Halloween: Restored Limited Edition
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Features
• Anamorphic
• Box set
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 25 October, 1978
DVD Release : 28 September, 1999 |
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Halloween: Restored Limited Edition description
Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It's a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie's freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin's character in Psycho. In the end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience--it's one of those movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen. ("No! Don't drop that knife!") Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more installments: 1981's dismal Halloween II, which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate events, and 1998's occasionally gripping Halloween H20, which proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years. --Robert Horton |
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Fantastic Horror Flick
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| This is definetly one of the best horror films of all times and probably John Carpenters best flick ever made too since Carpenter knew how to scare people with this movie by making Michael Myers very sneaky as well as creepy looking with heavy breathing along with all the creepy music scoring he did throughout the whole movie, making it quite dark in many scenes. Additionally, on this Halloween DVD, they show clips of the Halloween movie trailer showing previews that were given before it's theatrical release in 1978, plus they showed a look back on how the movie Halloween was really made and what John Carpenter and a lot of the co-stars from Halloween had to say about it looking back on it when they were making the movie, which made it quite interesting. So John Carpenters Halloween I is still the most shocking and scariest one of them all and is definetly still the best along with the fact that this Halloween was the one that started the Halloween phenomenon in the first place, plus John Carpenters Halloween flick was way better and a lot more genuine than Rob Zombie's 2007 remake of Halloween, since Zombie's Halloween wasn't nearly as scary or as heart pounding as the original either along with the fact that Michael Myers wasn't nearly as creepy, nor as sneaky, nor as relentless as he was in Carpenter's Halloween either. The music score in Zombie's Halloween lagged a lot too, unlike the music scoring in the first 2 Halloweens. Additionally, I think what also makes John Carpenter's Halloween so genuine is Michael Myers was the first creepy mass murderer, especially with a mask, to kill people while secretly stalking them. Therefore, I think the movies of FRIDAY THE 13TH and A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET were inspired by Halloween and that the killers Jason Voorhees and Freddy Kruger were inspired by Michael Myers along with the fact that the original Friday The 13th came out 2 years later after the original "Halloween" did, plus Friday The 13th Part 2 was released the same year as Halloween 2 was, which both helped make the sagas of Halloween and Friday The 13th a real phenomenon. In addition, the movie title FRIDAY THE 13TH was inspired by John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN, since they both included holidays/superstitious days along with the fact that Halloween was the first movie that used a holiday in the title, which inspired the titles of later horror flicks that came out in the early 1980's like "Silent Night Deadly Night", "New Years Evil", "April Fools Day", "My Bloody Valentine", etc. |
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