Sangre, cuchillos, y tetas --- Horror Film Discussion

[Pop Trash]

Saw Halloween: Resurrection for the first time the other night. Painful. Awful. Embarrassing stuff. How was this directed by the same guy who did the more-than-decent Halloween 2?

If I had a time machine, I would love to go back to 1978 and show John Carpenter the footage of Busta Rhymes kung fu kicking Michael Myers through a window on a reality webcast. I don't know if he would laugh or cry. Or take all footage of his original masterpiece and burn it.

We also watched The Curse of Michael Myers (aka Halloween 6), both the up-to-now unseen Producer's Cut and the original Theatrical. The Producer's cut is HUGELY superior. It actually feels like a different movie. The opening is much longer, with more set up for the events that come later. It actually has fewer kills (and less gory ones), but the movie itself is so much smoother moving, and has much better music.

It's still not particularly great, but I strongly recommend fans of the series watch the two cuts back-to-back. It's a really cool experience and the drastic changes are incredible.

Then last night we watched H20. It's not great, but it was a much better ending to the series than the aforementioned abysmal Resurrection.

You need to read this:

http://thedissolve.com/features/by-t...d-percentages/

I haven't seen it since it came out but I have fond memories of H2O. Certainly the best cast since the first one: Michelle Williams, JGL, of course Paul Rudd was in Part 6 and that one supposedly sucked.

[Dukefrukem]

Re-watching the entire series-

Probably in the minority when I say Halloween is mediocre at best. I realize it was a first in the slasher genre, but I think Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm St. took the concept and did it much better. The dialog is shotty, the screenplay mundane- the two biggest praises I can give are the score and Carpenters use of rail-cams. We never feel the true terror of Michael- at least not in this movie.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Re-watching the entire series-

Probably in the minority when I say Halloween is mediocre at best. I realize it was a first in the slasher genre, but I think Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm St. took the concept and did it much better. The dialog is shotty, the screenplay mundane- the two biggest praises I can give are the score and Carpenters use of rail-cams. We never feel the true terror of Michael- at least not in this movie.

This might be the wrongest post I've ever read on any iteration of this site.

[Raiders]

This might be the wrongest post I've ever read on any iteration of this site.

Yeah, particularly with respect to F13... I mean that is the definition of shoddy filmmaking. I do like that duke admits he is "probably" in the minority with that post.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Duke.

Duke, Duke, Duke.

Beautiful, silly Duke...

Duke.

[Winston*]

My laugh-filled cinema viewing last year of the film would suggest he is not in the minority.

[Peng]

Some older films don't play well to modern crowd. I'm glad I saw Psycho first alone, because it ruined the mood a bit when I saw it next in film class, and people laughed to the two kill scenes. (To be fair, they are pretty engaged outsides of that, especially during Marion's getaway.

[Dukefrukem]

Yeah, particularly with respect to F13... I mean that is the definition of shoddy filmmaking. I do like that duke admits he is "probably" in the minority with that post.

I'd watch F13 100 times over Halloween. More terror. More death. Clever twist. More satisfying ending.