"HALLOWEEN"

As people may know already I'm a huge fan of the Halloween movies. This franchise consists of 8 movies. I am a fan of what I call the Halloween trilogy. It's parts 1, 2 and 7. Yup I said 7.

Halloween 1 and 2 were about an escaped mental patient who (when he was 6 years old) killed his sister on Halloween night with a butcher knife while she was sitting in her bedroom. He was locked up for 15 years and then one Halloween night he escaped to kill his other sister(played by Jamie Lee Curtis). Michael is hunted throughout both movies by Dr Loomis who was his care physician for his 15 year stay in the asylum.

Not much too it. A simple story with now dated scares. But back in 1978 when the movie first came out and back in 1986 when I was way too young too have seen it, both of these movies were scary as hell due to it's plain, white emotionless mask and it's music, which again back in the day , was pretty scary.

(SPOLIER ALERT) In Halloween 1 Michael Myers was just a regular killer up until the ending. Michael was shot 6 times and fell backwards out of a second story window. The movie ends with the body disappearing giving the audience the implication that Michael is some how not completely human and is still alive. This was the first time a movie had ever done this. Actually this is a negative statement to make but Halloween is responsible for Jason and Freddy and their constant returns to the big screen year after year. Jason especially is a copy cat of Michael Myers.

Halloween 2 continues on the same night as part one and picks up right where it's predecessor left off. (SPOILER ALERT) I'm just going to cut to the end of the movie by saying that Dr Loomis gives his life and blows both Michael and himself up. Two movies, a little dated, but with great endings.

"Halloween 3 The Season of the Witch", since Michael was dead, tried taking the franchise someplace completly different but telling the story of a mask factory owner is a witch and everytime a child puts a mask on and watched one of the companys comercials the kids would get eaten by bugs and snakes. It was a fucked up movie. IT SUCKED!!!

Now we come to "Halloween 4 The Return of Michael Myers". This is a movie that critics felt was decent and fans loved. I remember being 10 years old when I first saw this movie. Now when I was 10 I liked everything I saw. I didn't have any taste. The 10 year old me didn't like this movie.

I recently watched Halloween 4 again to see if maybe there was something about this movie the 10 year old me missed and the now 27 year old me might like and at least respect the movie that all the fans seem to love. After watching it again he movie was still shitty. Not only that but I watched the making of with my friend Danny and we coudln't believe some of the dumbest shit we heard from these film makers.

Let me start off by saying that somehoe in Halloween 4 the Dr who gave his life and blew both Michael and himself up is still alive with Minor burns to the face and hands. Already their insulting the fans. Then because Jamie Lee Curtis was such a huge name they decided to kill her character off in an unseen car accident and give her a 7 year old daughter so that way Michael has something to go after. I thought it was interesting that Michael wanted his sister dead but now his niece? Why doesn't he want to find his parents and kill them, or his cousins etc?

In the first 2 Halloweens Michael Myers had sort of a basic body type. It wasn't huge and it wasn't muscular, it was average. In this movie he's huge and buff. They also added (what they felt was) eleborate death scenes to make it, I guess, cooler? Michael throws a construction worker in the the city power plant and that causes the whole city to lose power. He also took a shot gun and stabbed a victim through his chest and used the gun to hang him from a wall. Michael was scarier with subtle deaths and an average body. Now the movie that's responsible for giving birth to Jason is now copying Jason.

During the making of Halloween 4 the directors explains what the date Halloween is. Its the last day in October right before winter yadda yadda yadda. Are you for real? Thanks for explaining.

Then the composer talks about how he didn't want to use the Halloween theme right away. He wanted to let the audience get settled in before revisiting old themes. Then he said I quote " that's why you wont hear the theme until 4 and a half minutes into the movie". Wow that's great since 2 minutes was used for opening credits adn the other 2 minutes were of an ambulance driving in the rain. He really held off.

The screenwriter talks about how the replaced a prison bus with an ambulance but forgot to change the dialogue. That's why in the movie the ambulance is reffered to as a bus. Shouldnt a major motion picture have noticed that?

The movie also uses whats known as a "Hitchcock-ian" shot or a "Vertigo pull". It's when you pull the camera back but zoom in. You know this shot from Jaws when the boy gets eaten on the raft and the camera zooms in on the chief. Anyways the director likes to make clear more than once that he didn't invent that show when he used it for a brief and shitty scene in Halloween 4. He mentions that fans always commend him on how brilliantly used that show was. A little full himself? Maybe.

This movie is so sloppy; they get Michael's middle name wrong which I think is silly. There's (what they call) a climatic pick up truck scene where it's foggy out and Michael is killing people in the back of a pick up truck one by one and because it's so foggy, no one else in the truck realizes Michaels there killing his friends one by one. And last the Dr's scar seems to get better and better throughout the movie. Come On!!!

Here's my favorite thing said in the making of. They said they killed Michael at the end in a way that would leave the audience to believe that it would be impossible for Michael to come back. Want to know how they kill him? They shoot him to death. Didn't they already try that?

After that the franchise got worse and worse. Halloween 5 involved Michael Myers takes refuge with a guy for a year until Halloween approaches once again. He's also somehow telechineticly linked to his niece and why explain it, it just sucks.

Halloween 6 tries to explain why Michael is the way he is by saying Pagan witches gave Michael a curse to do their bidding and live forever. That sucked too!!!

Then came Halloween H2O also known as Halloween 7. Jamie Lee Curtis came back for this 20th anniversary movie that erases Halloweens 3-6 because, well, they sucked. The movie explains that Jamie Lee's character went into hiding and faked her death in order to hide from her brother Michael. She now lives in California and runs a private school. She's forever nightmared by the night way back when her brother slaughtered all her friends and tried to kill her. This movie achkoweledges that Michael and the Dr blew up it just says that Michaels body was never found...dun dunn dunnn. This movie is a good 20th anniversary tribute with an ending that kills Michael Myers in such a way he could never come back. Spoiler Alert!!! She chops off his head.

Then they made one more. Halloween Resurrection. This movie is another slap in the face to fans because it explains that Michael broke someones vocal chords and swtched outfits with him in part 7. So Jamie Lee's character killed the wrong person. Everytime this franchise seems better itself it then insults itself and its fans.

The producers name was Moustapha Akkad. He promised that he would never allow Michael Myers to die and maybe he would let it end at part 13. He said when Jamie Lee Curtis took control in part 7 and killed Michael he needed to find a way to fix it so Michael could come back. Akkad died a year ago and the franchise has been given to Rob Zombie. His plans are to not re-make, not make a sequel but to re-inven the franchise. At this point , whatever. Anything will be better than most of the already made sequels.