And the same thing happened with the adult parody! Jamie Lee Clitoris also impressed in her first major role in that industry, Halloweenie! The chemistry between her and the actor playing Michael Plowhers was electric ⚡
I agree with Donald Pleasence. It's better not knowing anything about Loomis other than the fact that he's hunting Michael. LOL, it's almost the same as you don't really need to know Michael's backstory.
This is the one movie I could/and have watched countless times! Just never gets old or tiring. The most fun is watching it on the big screen! I never got a chance to when it first came out, seeing as how I was only a year old at the time. lmao But over the last 10 years or so I think I've seen it at the theater like 6 or something!
yes, i agree! his premise sounds much more interesting than the last trilogy. keep in mind that carpenter was also offered a shot at directing an even later era halloween sequel. they asked for his idea and he said he wanted to shoot michael myers into outer space! it was rejected, but evidentally someone at the other 'camp' liked it enough to make jason X. in halloween : the curse loomis listens in to a radio talk show about myers and a caller states 'why don't they just shoot him into outer space?' also, halloween II 1981 was ALMOST shot in 3-d, but the studio didn't want to cough up the dough. and ... back when cannon owned the rights to texas chainsaw masaacre, they wanted to make a michael myers vs. leatherface film!
@@johnrunion5357 From what I understand, Carpenter's pitch for 4 was that Michael was going to be brought back more from Haddonfield's fear of him. I guess though that Akkad was afraid it would be compared too much to Elm Street. I kinda get it, though. That was in the middle of Freddy Mania.
I'm a Kansas City native and was lucky enough to catch Halloween on opening night at the tender age of 11. I didn't find out until 2007 that I had seen the film before the rest of the planet and I've taken fans to the spot where it opened. Fast forward 45 years and I've caught them all on opening night, even Halloween 5 and Halloween Kills. Interesting trivia, Paull Rudd of Halloween 6 and a few other films grew up a few miles from me. Tom Kane, Loomis voice actor from H20 (along with a ton of other voice roles) went to my elementary school although he was some years ahead of me.
An absolute masterclass in film making that still holds up 45 years later! Nothing at all happened to Halloween! They've been unsuccessfully attempting to duplicate it for decades. Never gonna happen!
Nice! Micheal Myers is a universal monster at this point, like Frankenstein and Dracula, and his story will always be retold and reshaped for new stories and generations. Some of those films will be atmospheric slashers like 78, Part 4 and Kills. Others will be weird like Season of the Witch, Part 6 and Ends, and I love every single one of them and cant wait to see the next timeline.
@@cbawitlife I refused to see the new trilogy on different grounds. They cancelled out all the sequels. Well, 3 of those sequels are among my favorite movies. But had I known that they would try to introduce Loomis into Kills, that would have been one more reason I'd have stayed away. The fact is, I have been slapped in the face again and again by the people who make these films. They have made clear that they do not want my money. So I'll give them their way.
I was six or seven the night Halloween debuted on HBO. I can remember my father calling me over to watch the end of the film with him. I can remember sitting on his lap when Michael chased Laurie back to Tommy Doyle's house. I remember thinking what is it that would scare my old man so. Then Michael sat bolt up right and the two of us freaked out! Thankfully, moments later, Dr. Loomis appears and shot Michael clean off the balcony. I thought, finally it's over. That's when my old man whispered in my ear, "How much you wanna bet, he isn't there?" And he wasn't! I was petrified. Not only was Michael still alive and on the loose, but my old man was a psychic!!
Bought this and H2 on a double vhs cassette at around 13yrs old. Watched both that night in bed and never looked back! Was my first taste into the Halloween franchise after growing up with Freddy and Chucky.
When this movie came out, I was five years old we waited for three hours in a long line to see this movie well worth it, but I don’t think today’s young people could take standing in a line that long
The reason the original is talked about the most is due to the way its subtlety in the way Michael methodically stalked Haddonfield. No sequel has tried to take the same approach and it shows.
Halloween is also the first supernatural slasher before the Freddy's and Jason's and Chucky's etc, etc which I also love, the originality of the concept of what Michael Myers is.
thanks for this. FINALLY some love AND respect for halloween 1978. most videos now give credit to friday the 13th 1980, which would literally NOT even exist if not for halloween, for starting the slasher cycle of the late 70's-early 80's. friday did add gore, but it was a halloween copy cat. they did not have the technical skills of carpenter and co. so they HAD to go for the shock of the gore. in 1980 halloween STILL ruled supreme. everyone said it was far scarier than friday. even the opening and the finale of when a stranger calls 1978 ranked higher with horror fans back then than friday. it seems many horror fans TRY to re-write horror history to suit themselves.
I was in junior high back in 1978. One Saturday night I was having a sleep over at my buddy's house. He said his older brother was going to treat us to some movie that had just come out called, Halloween. We went and saw it. I had never been so terrified in my young life. That night when it was time for bed my buddy fell a sleep, I stayed awake with the light on. Every couple of hours my buddy would wake up and tell me to turn off the light. I would reply, "Sure, I will in a minute". Needless to say that light stayed on ALL night long. Scary then but now a cherished childhood memory that I wouldn't trade for anything.
I REMEMBER BUYING THIS ON DVD AT BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO BACK IN 2009 AND I FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS MOVIE AND THE KILLS IS SUPERB. WITHOUT A DOUBT MICHAEL MYERS IS KING.
The key point about “Halloween” that all the copycats (and its own sequels!) kept missing: The charm came from it being a slasher movie without graphic blood and gore, based on the suspense from stalking and the violence we don’t actually see.
Friday the 13th is my favorite series but Halloween first movie can hold up in 90z 2000 2010's ect. Friday the 13th a little slow like most older movies.
John Carpenter's Halloween is already 45 years old! Made over $70 million worldwide being made for only a few thousand dollars Still remains the most successful independent movie ever made and created the slasher movie blueprint for decades to follow This made Jamie Lee Curtis a household name and a bonafide scream queen/final girl The late Donald Plesance gives probably his most iconic performance too Both of them are the backbone of this story Yeah it takes over an hour for things to get moving but it's perfectly suspenseful and expertly filmed Everything from the long camera angles to the hidden cues in the background to long shots full of empty space inside where something will pop out Carpenter also does wonders with the iconic score The ending is also the most memorable with Curtis putting up a fight being smart, resourceful, and relatable; this story is overall a loss of virginity for Laurie but since she doesn't go through with it she survives Pleasance also gives this very in-depth speech summing up why Michael is not human and irredeemable The success of this would also inevitably lead to 12 more installments all from various timelines (a choose your own adventure) making one of the longest-running franchises in horror history Carpenter always refers to the villain as the Shape, something that moves in the shadows, hidden, and without rhyme or reason It also adds to the urban legend of him being the boogeyman in the neighborhood the kids often talk about, nobody can kill him 'Halloween' is a classic for all time while popularizing and defining the subgenre paving the way for other slasher icons with great artistry thanks to John Carpenter
What happened is the movie was great, and Hollywood got greedy. They forced a sequel and started a snowball of ever growing stupidity in the story and lore.
The 'stupidity' was pretty much centered around 6. After 6, all they've done is make lamer and lamer efforts to start over. The early sequels, that remained relatively true to the original premise, were effective.
Halloween is just something you cant remake , i feel bad for my generation we have nobody 😂 horror movies need to make a comeback we need new characters
This is probably the greatest slasher and Blueprint of 80’s and 90’s horror movies. Even some movies today I feel like are influenced by this independent movie
Nah, F the 13th is more influential. Just ask the director of Halloween 2, which tries to mimic the F 13 series. The first Halloween is boring as fuck and I'm sick of people pretending it's not.
@anthonysoto2923 John carpenters halloween is more influential to indie filmaking and cinephiles. Sure friday is more entertaining and popular but Halloween has way more craft and talent behind the camera. I'm not fan of slashers but Halloween caught my intention for how it feels more like Hitchcock film than a average slasher flick.
In his defense, she was supposed to be babysitting him but instead she was getting it on and Michael meanwhile is outside across the street in the dark when the movie begins. So, did she deserve to die? No. But still a shitty babysitter
Well as the number one fans of this movie lets see how their Canadian narrator screws up the telling of this story. I digress, he actually did a damn good job on this. Much better than his other screw-ups on some of the other horror movies that he does.
@@jamesmorant1406 The people who paid their hard earned money to see those sequels....and who have continued to buy them on vhs, dvd, and blu ray for the past 4 decades....preferred otherwise. And I'm very glad they did, since several of the sequels are among my favorite films.
@@jamesmorant1406 No movie 'needs' to be made. There is an audience for it, and people willing to finance it, or there ISN'T. With Halloween, there always has been. Supply and Demand. Great thing about the 80's...the audience was king. If we wanted it, they'd make it...
Really? Almost everybody involved with the film, including Carpenter himself, has said that they needed a mask and, given the low budget that they had to work with, shoplifted the Captain Kirk mask.
Do an anthology as originally planned but we'll keep getting a continuation of the same movie. hollywoodland movies are pretty dull and stop paying to see them until something actually interesting comes along. that will probably take decades.
Yeah, they continued because people wanted to see it. Apparently, they still do. The recent films were quite profitable. There is still a large audience for the basic Halloween premise.
@@filthymcnasty5625 'Stupid'? For going to see something they like? Hardly...No, the word you are seeking is 'unpretentious.' Back then, people just did what they wanted.
@@tgriffin3059 If you can understand for a primate. Where did you get stupid from I didn't type that are you putting your own meaning to what has been typed. Read again to get the point. Type about being pretentious. People said even back then what I've typed.
They need to let ends be the end. I love Michael since the 70. I started hating Jason after the final chapter. A maggot head running around is stupid and unrealistic. Let Michael stay dead there is nothing left now accept butchering a icon as this point. Let it die and let’s just rewatch the ones made and remember how awsome he was. No more Jason’s!!!!
I treasure 1978's Halloween movie. And the original6 sequels becuz I enjoy Donald Pleasense's Dr Loomis character and performance. I reject the remakes and latest reboot retcon movies that wipe out Dr Loomis characater in the sequels and Pleasense's performance (boo!) and I liked Danielle Harris' character Jamie Lloyd. I just wasnt invested in Laurie Strode and even less invested with them retconning her relation to Michael. No offense to Jamie Lee Curtis, I liked her in True Lies. But that new trilogy makes the claim that Myers is not superhuman...that contradicts 1978's film and with the amount of damage he cops in the new trilogy it contradicts their own claim that he isnt supernatural.
Halloween is not without its flaws. Terrible dialogue and some of the performances are ridiculously amateurish. Halloween is ok but it's definitely NOT the best horror film ever made.
It was PERFECTION....for it's time and era. It had never been done before like this. It was lightning in a bottle. However, it doesn't hold up with everything that's come afterwards. It's a great story, but definitely overacted. There were innovative camera angles. But by today's standards, it's slow as molasses. The ONLY THING that still holds up with this movie after 45 years, is the MUSIC. I tried to properly remake HALLOWEEN after the Rob Zombie failures. The Weinstein Company/DIMENSION FILMS owned the rights at the time, and in 2013 they were holding a screen writers competition on Facebook. And they wouldn't let me participate because I wasn't IN the United States at the time. I was overseas, serving my country. After the failed UNIVERSAL STUDIOS Pineapple Express Trilogy(H40, HALLOWEEN KILLS, and HALLOWEEN ENDS), there's only one way to properly restart HALLOWEEN from scratch. It needs to be turned into a streamed series. More than likely on Peacock. Completely changing the story for the better to modernize it. With no woke garbage permitted.
Slow as molasses? Maybe if every contemporary horror film wasn't in a rush TO GET NOWHERE you would beg to differ. The pacing is superb in Halloween. No one can or HAS been able to match what Carpenter did with this film. It's not just that there is little death and gore in this film, its that you are forced to canvass the entire frame. I've seen a lot of films that come out "We're Carpenter-esque" and they really aren't. There's so much going on in the mise en scene that goes unnoticed. The use of colors, the frame, everything hasn't been fully grasped since he did it in '78.
Unpopular opinion but the first Halloween is boring as all hell and is my least rewatched out of the big three. It's on par with the boring first entry into the Friday the 13th series.
@@tgriffin3059 it's a boring old b movie slasher with tame gore and a slow SLOWWWWWWW pace. I just don't get it with these fanboys at all. Fk I watch season of the witch waayyyyy more than Halloween. That's saying something about the lack of quality in the original. I can't help but feel that all the die hards for Halloween 1 aren't being 100 percent honest with themselves.
@@Gorgutsforcongress The deliberate pace is part of the brilliance. It begins to feel like real-time, so that when things DO begin to happen, it's as if you're watching real events unfold.
Donald Pleasance, Jamie Lee Curtis, and the character of Myers seem to be operating in an entirely different and better movie than the rest of the cast. Whenever the three main characters are on screen its a gothic experience, when ths rest of the cast shows up, its a student film. Not sure if this Carpenter's intention or just happened.
REVISED and more objective RATINGS HALLOWEEN 1978 10/10 Come on! You knew this would be the 10/10 H VI PC ✝ 9.5/10 ✝Dying Dr. Loomis X Mentally Scarred Tommy = PHENOMENAL! ✝ RZ (with alt end on DVD) 9.5/10 JLC is good. But Malcolm McDowell rules! H V 9.5/10 Chilling, Comical, Ends With Bang! H KILLS 9/10 It's a Hunter's Moon! Loved Cast Reunion! H III 8/10 It was unrelated. But SO WHAT?! H IV 8/10 No real flaws to honest. H ENDS 7/10 Healed wounds from RESURRECTION. But then flaws appear. H II 6/10 With alt end where Jimmy lives. H VI 6/10 Loved first half. But you had to change the ending. RZ 2007 5/10 Loved first half. But another male hero had to be degraded. H2O 4/10 Loved the first half. But them the Mary Sue came in. H II 3/10 You had a great ending. And you had to change it. H 2018 2/10 Can we please bash the male characters more? RZ II 1/10 Oh wow. It's better than RESURRECTION. RESURRECTION zero! This need surprise no one!