Halloween (1978) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!! 

Happy Halloween!! We loved our Spooky Halloween themed movies and hope you did too! We will have more variety on the channel going forward but will still have horror reactions so always feel free to leave us suggestions!

This was the origin of almost every "trope" we now associate with slashers. And it was the first movie to combine all the elements that now seem cliche because they were imitated SO much. This is one of my favorite movies of all time.

At least Jamie Lee's character had a reason for the slow running and tripping. The fall down the stairwell supposedly damaged her leg.

Dr. Loomis's role was to fill us with a sense of deep apprehension about Michael before the climax of the film. We have to assume that at one point Dr. Loomis was a totally buttoned-up aloof professional criminal psychologist who had dealt with a great many deranged and psycho patients before Michael came into his care. But he saw something in Michael over his many years studying him that so utterly unnerved him that he came to refer to him as "it" and "evil" -- hardly clinically correct terminology -- and drove him to purchase and carry a firearm. By the time we meet him here, he's developed an almost superstitious dread of Michael, seeming to perceive a supernatural demonic quality in him (which is ultimately vindicated, as he proves to be inhumanly strong and perhaps invincible).

Michael is kept in the shadows on purpose to enhance the suspense. Always on the edge of the shot.. making you think he's somewhere close.

"All these doors suck" had my dying (no pun intended).

You MUST see John Carpenter's film after Halloween. ..."The Fog" starring Jamie Lee Curtis and her actual mom Janet Leigh and the girl who plays Annie in Halloween is in "The Fog"

It was Jamie Lee Curtis's first film! They didn't plan on making a second one, The breathing at the end was to symbolize that evil never dies. However, it was such a big success that people wanted another. So, in 1981 we have the second one which was a direct continuation of the first one. Sidenote: Her mother Janet Leigh was Marion Crane in Psycho.

"It's Halloween; everyone's entitled to one good scare"

You guys should watch the 1981 Sequel "HALLOWEEN II". It begins 10 or 20 seconds after the First Movie ends and the Whole Entire Movie takes place on the Exact Same Night as the First Movie.

Great reaction. John Carpenter’s intent when co-writing the film was to have Michael Myers essentially be a real “boogeyman,” an unstoppable supernatural shape. His breathing at the end and the few locations you see is intended to let you know he is everywhere. John Carpenter never intended for there to be sequels, but he got involved when Universal told him they were making another one and he didn’t want someone else to take it over. He has never spoken highly of it, in fact, he has always said he was drinking a lot when writing it. A crucial part of the sequels story was also never intended. You’ll see if the both of you watch it. It’s not a good sequel as the blood and graphic kills are a slap in the face to the great stylish original. Happy Halloween! 🎃

I could watch this movie over and over and never get tired of it. This is the best horror movie of all time. The music makes it that much better.

The second Halloween, which takes place on the remainder of the same night, is my fav of all the franchise. Watching both back to back is the ultimate.

The greatest horror score of all-time. Absolutely haunting.

There were one or two slashers before this but this made them hugely popular and started all the popular tropes too, the sequels attempt to give Michael more back story and motivations which obviously dampen the horror. It's unsettling and scary when someone starts killing people randomly and without reason.

I got a sense that Michael wasn't trying to kill Laurie, but was instead terrorizing her, cornering her, and getting her to kill (him). He was courting her in his vile and horrific way.

19:58 that was hilarous knowing that in the begining of halloween 2 that doctor keeps saying "i shot him six times"

That one blonde haired girl was definitely going to die because she mixed the two most dangerous professions in horror movies. -The final girls best friend -Horny teen

You guys are the best. Love when "Don't fear the reaper" came on and you said "I know things" 🤣 Happy Halloween to you both 🎃

Halloween didn't exactly invent the slasher genre, but John Carpenter came close to perfecting it in this movie. Such a classic!

John Carpenter the Director wrote the music. Assault on Precinct 13 1976. Carpenter directed and wrote the music. Very enjoyable. His 1987 movie The Prince Of Darkness is an excellent horror movie.

theres a nice couple! what I like about your reactions is that you are pretty chill, dont talk much senseless or try to be funny unnecessarily and, know how to do a nice editing that match the reaction nice, keep going with your channel, u are great together

5:50 -- If you look in the distance in this shot, you can see palm trees, which belong in California where this was filmed but not Illinois, where it is set. This movie was so much giddy fun to watch in a dark, crowded theater when it was new.

Just a note for dog lovers. All the shot of the dog dying is, is the owner of the dog in the jumpsuit and he's holding the dog and then letting him down and they filmed it in slow motion. So really it's a doggy hug.

You were right on the money. Halloween was the first “slasher kills slutty teens” movie. Setting the stage for horror movies of the future.

Yes, this is the film that started the whole slasher genre and established the rules.

Also check out Jamie Lee Curtis in The Fog (John Carpenter) Jamie's Mom Janet Leigh, from Psycho, is also in it.

@1:38 - sort of correct. The mask used for Michael Myers is a William Shatner “Captain Kirk” mask. Alterations made to the mask were: the face was painted white, the hair dyed brown, the eye holes were widened, and the sideburns were removed. Pictures of a side-by-side comparison can be found online

I've seen this movie a thousand times but somehow didn't realize until just now that the girl who gets killed in a car is the same one who yelled at Michael while he was driving by in his own stolen car. "Speed kills" indeed.

The way you two glanced at each other when Annie died, that was funny.

I never noticed Carpenter used the original 'The Thing' movie as TV eye candy in this. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise he ended up remaking it a few years later.

You're right. The Shape's mask was customized from a 1975 Star trek Captain Kirk Mask, which was created by TOMMY WALLACE, who would later go on to direct HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH, FRIGHT NIGHT PART 2, and the original 1990 "IT" mini-series. Plus, be prepared for MORE of the NIGHT HE CAME HOME as HALLOWEEN II picks up THE SAME NIGHT as the town goes into chaos while THE SHAPE continues his 'trick-or-treating'....and it gets REALLY BLOODY!

12:29. Hands down the creepiest shot in the whole movie IMO. I still get chills because of just how close he was there just staring at Annie.

You two were awesome! I loved how you really got into the movie. One specific thing I loved is how you both noticed the details, like the matches over by the pay phone, and how you appreciated the way Michael stalks his prey.

Side note Halloween 2 starts right where this film stops.

Your scared reactions are hilarious I saw this movie when I was 5 years old. It scared me almost to death.

This was a fun reaction! Now that you've seen Halloween, you gotta see Scream if you haven't already! It's fantastic!

You guys are so fun to watch and listen to. You pick up on the subtleties, you don't wash over everything, it's fun re-watching these with you guys. Stop being so adorable.

This IS where that started! 🎃🖤🧡

When I was 10 I saw this on VHS back in 1980. I was hooked on Horror movies from this point on.

15:29 I’ll never forget the first time I saw that I laughed soooo hard 💀

I know this is 2 weeks late but I just recently found your channel. One of my favorite stories from the making of this movie is about the expression on Dr. Loomis face after Michael disappears. Donald Pleasence went up to John Carpenter right before filming the scene and asked him how he wanted him to play it. The script only said something along the lines of "worried look" (I don't remember exactly what it said). Carpenter asked him what he meant. Pleasence said he could play the look as "Oh my God, he can't be stopped" or as "I knew this would happen". Carpenter filmed both and after watching them back they went with "I knew this would happen". I love the videos, keep up the great work guys.

John Carpenter is one of the top 25 Director's of all time. An one of the 3 most under appreciated Directors of all time. Man gave us horror classics like Halloween, The Thing, Christine and In the Mouth of Madness, gave us hope in Starman, and just amazing fun films like Escape of New York, and Big Trouble in little China. Man should be an Icon and it will forever *iss us off that he will NEVER get his place as one of the best most varied Directors and Story teller's of all time. PLUS he did his own music, The Halloween theme, the Shape Hunts Allyson theme, and Escape from New York Theme's alone are all ICONIC.

Hey, Schmitts. This landmark movie practically invented the slasher genre although a case can be made for Rene Clair's 1945 "And Then There Were None" based on Agatha Christie's novel. As you both had heard, the mask Michael wears is actually a William Shatner "Captain Kirk" mask bought off the rack for a buck! They removed the eyebrows and sideburns, darkened the hair and sprayed the face white. It forever became associated with the Halloween franchise. John Carpenter is a one-man band who writes, directs, edits and scores all his films. His body of work includes a number of pulpy classics and B-movie greats like "Assault on Precinct 13", "Halloween", "Someone's Watching Me!", "The Fog", "Escape From New York", "The Thing", "Christine", "Starman", "They Live!", "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", "Body Bags", "In the Mouth of Madness", "Vampires" and "The Ward". His first film, "Dark Star", was a sci-fi horror-comedy that partially inspired "Alien"! He also wrote the screenplay for "The Eyes of Laura Mars". His scores are instantly recognizable with their throbbing notes and he expertly uses silence and stillness to generate unbearable tension. Jamie Lee Curtis' film debut as horror's first Final Girl made her a Scream Queen icon. John Carpenter would work with her again in "The Fog" and "Halloween II". She is the daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. Janet Leigh has a famous horror movie to her credit as well having been Norman Bates' first victim in "Psycho"'s famous shower scene directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Donald Pleasance was a veteran British character actor of some standing known primarily for portraying unpleasant, grubby fellows. Haunted Dr. Loomis was one of his few heroic characters. John Carpenter would work with him again in "Escape From New York", "Halloween II" and "Prince of Darkness". Charles Cyphers, who played Sheriff Brackett, was part of Carpenter's troupe and appeared in seven of his films: "Assault on Precinct 13", "Halloween", "Someone's Watching Me!", "Elvis", "The Fog", "Escape From New York" and "Halloween II". Nancy Loomis, who played Annie Brackett, appeared in three Carpenter films: "Assault on Precinct 13", "Halloween" and "The Fog". Michael seems to be triggered by some suppressed sexual hang-up over his sister that he projects onto other females but he's an indiscriminate killer who was meant to have no motivation. He is simply murder incarnate. In one of the inferior sequels, Pleasance returns to the role of Loomis and has a terrific line about Michael: "I always knew WHAT he was but I never knew WHY." Michael's left eye is swollen and disfigured during his brief unmasking only because Laurie jabbed him with a wire hanger moments ago! The sequel, "Halloween II", picks up where the first leaves off and is primarily set in a hospital where Laurie is recovering from her wounds. Curtis, Pleasance and Cyphers return. Rick Rosenthal directs but John Carpenter writes the screenplay. The second entry and "H20", set twenty years later, are the only worthy sequels.

Great reactions by you two. love this channel. yup the music is the key element of this film. giving us that tension knowing something is gonna happen which is far scarier than simple jump scares. they go off as they scare you but this music makes us suffering even before we get scared. i remember how terrified I was from this movie in my childhood of 80s because of music. masterpiece of the horror genre

You two are the best reactors around. I'm SO glad I found you :)

@ 5:24 you can see the wrench they strapped to the actor's hand so he could break that window. They even spray painted it to match his skin, but you can see it.

Michael Myers was posting on walls long before Facebook came around!

True true classic horror movie love all the Halloween movies are the best cant wat till the new Halloween kills this year 😃😃😃

I LOVE watching both of your reactions to this movie! I have LOVED this movie for at least 38 years! I saw it for like the fourth time in the theater last month with my dad and it was his first time seeing it in the theater! My favorite part in the movie is his tilting his head from side to side after killing Bob and your reactions to that scene were perfect! lol

I like to think that when Michael pins Bob to the wall he takes a moment to step back and appreciate the simplistic beauty of what he did.

It was the 70's & yes we left not only our front doors open but our windows too js y'all

“You never want to have sex in a horror movie!” Don’t you know that we are all living in a horror movie?

As a Halloween hardcore fan and one that knew exactly what was coming during your viewing, I do appreciate this video and have become a subscriber to this channel. For a movie 42 years old, I am glad you didn’t poke too much into it and appreciate the movie for what it is. A killer like Michael can literally happen anywhere at anytime. Could happen in May, October, December, doesn’t matter. Having no motivation is terrifying. Very well done. For horror movie intros if you haven’t seen, would love reactions to the first Nightmare on Elm Street and even Halloween 2 since it’s the same night as this one. 10/10 for you guys.

When you were asking “Where are you Michael?!?”. Looks back to 12:31-12:33 is the iconic movie poster shot- Watch in In the upper frames of the rear kitchen door- Of Mike Myers faintly in the mist behind the rear kitchen door upper window panes...

I don’t know if anyone else has brought this up but did you notice when the car window is smashed the actor has a wrench in his hand to help with the smash ? I really didn’t notice until I watched with John Carpenters commentary and he pointed it out .

There is a why John Carpenter is called "the master of horror"

Leatherface, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Pinhead, Chucky and the Leprechaun are the best known slasher characters

7:05 the kid that runs into Michael, he comes out in the 2018 Halloween movie as Cameron, he dates allyson, lauries granddaughter.

"The doors just wide open?".... yeeaah.... we kinda did that in the 70s...

Great reaction to my most favorite horror movie. Halloween II picks up right where this one ends. Here's some things I put on another reaction that not many people know: * The iconic wrestler The Undertaker took a spot that he did for years in the ring from Michael Myers. in the ending sequence where Michael sits up by the closet then turns his head towards Laurie, Taker said he got that spot from him. He did so in almost every match for his whole 20-plus wrestling career. * The whole movie was shot with John Carpenter's college buddy playing Myers most of the time until the very end when the mask is pulled off. Nick Castle was the man in the mask through most of the whole movie with Tony Moran doing the only part where Laurie takes the mask off. Others who have played Myers in sequels include: Halloween II (Dick Warlock) Halloween 4 and 6 (George P. Wilbur) Halloween 5 (Don Shanks) Halloween 7 (H20) (Chris Durand) Halloween 8: Resurrection (Brad Loree) Halloween 1 and 2 Rob Zombie remakes (Tyler Mane) Halloween (2018) Halloween Kills (2021) (James Jude Courtney) * The first movie to have the camera shot from the killer's perspective was called Black Christmas (1974) about a crazy killer hiding in the attic of a sorority house. It was a bit cheesy and definitely doesn't hold up today, but it was remade twice so far (2016 & 2019). The climax at the end was epic though. Carpenter got his camera shot from this movie.

Halloween 2 picks up immediately where this leaves off, like immediately.

Mike Meyers is the actor. ‘Michael Meyers’ is the killer.

I love this movie! I had it on VHS years ago and I actually wore out the tape from watching it so many times, lmfao!

Not just because it's current affairs, Escape From New York (Shot in St. Louis) is a cult sci fi by John Carpenter worth checking out. FYI Halloween 2 is a immediate continuation to Halloween. As in it starts with the end of part one.

Now you gotta react to Halloween 2018 with Jamie Lee Curtis as a grandmother and an older, but even scarier Michael Myers :D

Halloween 2 is a direct sequel. It takes place the same night after Laurie is brought to the hospital. Halloween 3 was not a sequel at all. Its secondary title was "Season of the Witch". In recent years, they've brought back Jamie Lee Curtis' character and nothing ever seems to kill Michael Meyers. Definitely watch part 2, the others, eh, not so much.

No, all these doors suck. LOL!!! That had me laughing man.

Hallowe’en is actually an old Irish holiday (the carved pumpkins synonymous with the holiday were originally turnips, which I also vaguely recall from my 1970s childhood before We started in recent years carving pumpkins too). I don’t think we had relentless supernatural serial killers and slowwwww steadicam shots in mind at the time though, back in the 1800s day, as was not the fashion at the time...

You have to be in a 1978 mind set. To that point "horror" movies were Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolf Man. Carpenter included The Thing in this movie because that is the only movie outside of Psycho that upped the horror genre. So he combined them and made Halloween for almost no money. There was no Freddy or Jason before this. Killers stayed down when shot. Every trope you associate with slasher films now grew out of this movie and got expanded again and again.

This film utilizes music/score and sound design to such great effect…this is how you properly use it for tension and jump scares in a horror film.

This was the movie that created all the tropes. When this came out, it was all fresh and new.

I never noticed before (and I've seen this movie dozens of times) but when the window is broken at 5:25 you can totally see a crescent wrench in the palm of the hand (to make it easier to break the window). I only know about this because of the excellent series on Netflix called "The Movies That Made Us" where they document the making of these classic movies from beginning to end, frequently with hilarious narration. You'll find out lots of things, like the fact that the budget for this movie was only $300,000 but they spent over $70,000 of that budget on the Panaglide system which is how they got those super-smooth handheld shots in certain parts. It was actually only the second movie to have used that system. Because of the weight, it could only hold about 4 and a half minutes of film so they had to break up that seemingly continuous shot with a clever trick: When Michael puts the mask on they switch the film.

Black Christmas predates Halloween, made in 1974, its about a mysterious psycho stalking a fraternity of women. Includes POV from stalker. Directed by the guy who directed A Christmas story. And there is another film that predates Black Xmas, a film from the late 60s.- Peeping Tom. These were the pioneers in the slasher genre, as they created many tropes like promiscuous teens getting picked off, or people 'splitting' up. Halloween, however, perfected the formula.

I wish I could like this twice awesome reaction

Off to part 2 haha hope u guys have great Halloween

It's a little off topic, but the game Dead By Daylight added several famous killers into the game. Michael Myers was the first, and he plays EXACTLY like this. He's rather famous for being one of the scariest killers to go up against, especially a build called 'jumpscare Myers', which can see you through walls and gives absolutely no warning about where he is.

Got to watch Halloween 2 its the from this ending and explains everything! Its really the most important Halloween because of the meaning or reason why he is back here.

There was a film in the 50s I think called Peeping Tom that's credited with inventing the slasher genre. It was the first film to put the audience in the killer's POV.

Side Note: the girl who played Michael's sister in Rob Zombie's Halloween is the girl who played Jenny in Forest Gump.

That's not Carpenter's remake of "The Thing" from 1982. That is the original "The Thing from Another World", from 1951. It's a good movie too

I heard somewhere that to make Michael aka The Shape even more inhuman and robotic, Carpenter would sometimes just tell the actor playing Michael to walk from spot A to spot B without telling him what Michael was thinking, feeling or what the motivation was. That made the character devoid of any empathy.

The jump count went for dayz!!! LOL Great reaction.

I really like the last 'Halloween' film and how it ties in to the original.

Great reaction to a classic you two! Its funny you mention the music as when this movie first screened in select theaters, one of the producers in the audience noticed that the audience were not covering their eyes, but their ears! This is a classic example of what a good soundtrack can do. Its not mentioned here, but in the novelization by Curtis Richards, it is explained that Micheal is a conduit for an ancient dark Celtic demon. This is why he may be temporarily subdued, but never truly killed. Thanks for posting this reaction for us🎃

John Carpenter’s “Big Trouble in Little China” starring Kurt Russell as Jack Burton is a fun, unique, action comedy you should check out together.

This movie essentially started the slasher genre. After Halloween, every studio seemed to set out to make their own slasher movie. There would be no Jason or Freddy without Michael Myers. The Halloween sequels get crazy when it comes to the continuity. There are roughly FIVE different timelines because the franchise has been rebooted repeatedly over the years. There's literally a "Choose Your Own Adventure" graph that outlines the different branching timelines.

Before I start watching this ... the first thing I did when I got up today was attempt to play the "Halloween" theme on the piano :) So iconic. AND it was the director that wrote the music!

How can you be sophisticated enough to know about horror tropes but have never seen so many movies?

The big 4 are Leatherface(1974),Michael(1978),Jason (1991) and Freddy(1984)

Great reaction/review of a horror classic. Another holiday-themed horror film that you might want to check out is "Black Christmas" (1974), by director Bob Clark who also directed "A Christmas Story". Black Christmas was a major influence for Carpenter's "Halloween".

Best horror movie ever! The music gave me nightmares as a kid. I slept on the other side of the wall from the TV in the living room when my parents watched it. I was facing the freaking closet while listening to that music. Creepy...

Y’all should react to Halloween 2018, it’s a direct sequel to 1978

John Carpenter's 'Halloween' is one of my all time favorites!! Another classic John Carpenter you should react to is 'The Fog'

Don't know if you noticed, but there is essentially no gore in the film. Which goes to show you, gore does not (necessarily) = scary.

I haven’t even gotten to the reaction yet but, calling him “Mike Myers” keeps making me laugh. I keep thinking of Austin Powers and Shrek.

The way you to look at each other is adorable.

I’m not sure where the whole punishing immoral people started but it definitely happens in Psycho which is much earlier. Halloween and all of the slasher films that came afterwards certainly milked that trope. Speaking of Psycho, that movie also starts with a really long tracking shot and has a killer soundtrack as well.

The fog 1980 with Jamie Lee curtis in it is also a recommendation.

What's crazy to me, is if they were watching a monster movie or horror movie that was as old as this movie is to us now, they would be watching something from the mid 30s.