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Post by pop_actor on Feb 6, 2017 21:09:21 GMT
I reviewed the script...
CONTINUED: Then she looks up at him with a glazed, wild expression. LAURIE It was the Boogeyman... Loomis looks down at her, then up at the shattered window at the end of the hall. LOOMIS As a matter of fact it was. He walks slowly down to the window and peers out.
Crap I was wrong all these years...Please feel free to kick my ass!
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 7, 2017 2:54:16 GMT
I have a buddy who absolutely loves Halloween, the original, and we often discuss the different versions of #1. Here are some of the differences, depending on which version of the original you watch.
(1) In one, Michael's sister and her boyfriend go upstairs for what I assume is a quickie. Must be VERY quick, because he's coming down the stairs less than five minutes later.
(2) In one version, he's putting on his tee shirt. In another version, the shirt is already on.
(3) When Michael's dad pulls off his mask in the beginning, Michael has late 70s hair, not 1963 hair--which probably would've been a buzz cut or "GI."
(4) When Laurie sees Michael standing outside by the clothesline, he's clearly wearing the mask--though the break-in at the hardware store, from which the mask is stolen--doesn't happen until much later.
(5) In one version, Laurie and her friend Nancy are driving and smoking a joint. In another version, it's a cigarette.
(6) In one version, Dr. Loomis appears before a board of physicians, begging them to keep Michael incarcerated.
(7) Later, in this same version, he goes to Michael's room and says something like, "I know what you're waiting for, Michael." Michael, meanwhile, just stares out the window.
(8) Who taught Michael how to drive? Was this ever addressed?
(9) Isn't it kinda disappointing to know Michael's just a chunky guy with dark hair and a double chin?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 3:14:16 GMT
(6) In one version, Dr. Loomis appears before a board of physicians, begging them to keep Michael incarcerated. (7) Later, in this same version, he goes to Michael's room and says something like, "I know what you're waiting for, Michael." Michael, meanwhile, just stares out the window. That's the television edit, and my preferred version.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 7, 2017 4:22:14 GMT
Is that the one where Loomis runs back to Michael's room after Michael takes off, and the nurses are cleaning up? Isn't the word "sister" written on the door?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 12:17:11 GMT
Is that the one where Loomis runs back to Michael's room after Michael takes off, and the nurses are cleaning up? Isn't the word "sister" written on the door? Yes, but I don't recall nurses cleaning up. You're probably correct. Also, there was a word but I don't remember what it was. And I just watched it last October. lol
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 7, 2017 13:24:01 GMT
I think that scene was added in later to connect the first film with the second.
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Post by pop_actor on Feb 7, 2017 13:42:41 GMT
I don't get that one?
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Post by northernlad on Feb 7, 2017 16:13:57 GMT
Were any of you around to see this movie in its first theatrical release? I wasn't. I'm just wondering if any of you out there were. If so...what was that like? I'd love to have been a teenager back in 1978.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 8, 2017 5:02:06 GMT
When he's attacking Laurie in the upstairs hallway, she struggles with him and pulls off his mask. We see he's just some chunky dude with dark hair and a fubar expression.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 8, 2017 5:03:48 GMT
Were any of you around to see this movie in its first theatrical release? I wasn't. I'm just wondering if any of you out there were. If so...what was that like? I'd love to have been a teenager back in 1978. For some reason, Halloween didn't hit my local cinema until April of 79. It was sold-out the day I went, so I saw The China Syndrome instead. When I finally did see Halloween, I had a hard time getting into the autumnal "feel" of the film, especially considering I was home on Easter break. It was fun to be a teenager in 1978, especially if you liked disco and dancing. I did, so I had a blast.
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Post by juicebox07 on Feb 8, 2017 5:20:53 GMT
Hi. Anyone want to discuss the movie Halloween? (best horror movie of all time!) Which is your favorite of the franchise "other" than the original? Halloween H20 is my favorite next to the original. I also love Rob Zombie's remake, even though he gets a lot of hate for it.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 8, 2017 5:58:07 GMT
Which is your favorite of the franchise "other" than the original? Halloween H20 is my favorite next to the original. I also love Rob Zombie's remake, even though he gets a lot of hate for it. I hated Rob Zombie's remake because he putzed around with Michael's origin. With a sister who's a stripper and a step dad who's a drug dealer, is it any surprise that Michael has anger issues? The beauty of the original was that Michael seemed perfectly normal, from middle class origins. That made his evil all the more evil.
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Post by Reynard on Feb 8, 2017 13:31:45 GMT
Halloween H20 is my favorite next to the original. I also love Rob Zombie's remake, even though he gets a lot of hate for it. I hated Rob Zombie's remake because he putzed around with Michael's origin. With a sister who's a stripper and a step dad who's a drug dealer, is it any surprise that Michael has anger issues? The beauty of the original was that Michael seemed perfectly normal, from middle class origins. That made his evil all the more evil. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers did the same mistake. Strange cults? Runic magic? Some kind of ancient curse? Come on. Michael was supposed to be a guy who kills because he kills. Someone who could, and did, walk the streets without anyone knowing about his homicidal nature. That's what the original classic was all about.
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Post by theshape25 on Feb 8, 2017 13:48:06 GMT
Were any of you around to see this movie in its first theatrical release? I wasn't. I'm just wondering if any of you out there were. If so...what was that like? I'd love to have been a teenager back in 1978. For some reason, Halloween didn't hit my local cinema until April of 79. It was sold-out the day I went, so I saw The China Syndrome instead. When I finally did see Halloween, I had a hard time getting into the autumnal "feel" of the film, especially considering I was home on Easter break. It was fun to be a teenage in 1978, especially if you liked disco and dancing. I did, so I had a blast. That's why I hated it when they started releasing the Halloween movies during the summer months. It's hard to get into the Halloween mood when you're in an air conditioned theater wearing shorts and 90 degree weather outside.
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Post by theshape25 on Feb 8, 2017 13:49:59 GMT
Halloween H20 is my favorite next to the original. I also love Rob Zombie's remake, even though he gets a lot of hate for it. I hated Rob Zombie's remake because he putzed around with Michael's origin. With a sister who's a stripper and a step dad who's a drug dealer, is it any surprise that Michael has anger issues? The beauty of the original was that Michael seemed perfectly normal, from middle class origins. That made his evil all the more evil. I agree. Part of what made Myers scary was that we really didn't know what set him off. I was even disappointed when they had the reveal that Laurie was his sister in Halloween II. It gave Myers a motive and in my opinion made him less scary.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 8, 2017 14:53:37 GMT
Yes, I hated the Laurie/sister connection, too. But the worst thing for me about Halloween II was the beginning, when Michael falls off the balcony and merely GETS UP and walks away! The original ends on such an eerie tone, with his disappearing into the night after his tumble to the ground. Brrr. Halloween II ruins that moment almost from the get-go. I remember seeing the film on November 2nd, 1981--again, after Halloween--and I thought it was slow going, with the darkest hospital in creation. And all those murders! It just didn't work for me and still doesn't work. In my opinion, Halloween II ruined the story. Laurie never should've been his sister. That she was just a random victim was much more effective.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2017 15:43:26 GMT
Hi. Anyone want to discuss the movie Halloween? (best horror movie of all time!) My favorite 'slasher' franchise with my favorite villain. It's definitely Top 10 for me. Greatly enjoy RZs Halloweens as well as 4, 5 and H20.
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Post by pop_actor on Feb 10, 2017 3:32:00 GMT
I saw it on cable in the early 80's when cable tv was becoming popular into people's homes...The good ole days when you have to look up TV guides magazine for the upcoming movies on late night cable of the week - The fun part was staying up late to see it, unless you were the early birds of the 80's like my family who bought a VCR, but in the early 80's the VCRs were sold close a $1000...No joke they were expensive at the beginning...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 16:01:37 GMT
One of John Carpenters' crowning achievements. Classic and influential, with style to burn, great atmospheric, a terrific cast, and THAT music by Mr. Carpenter.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 16:03:05 GMT
I thought she said "Was that the boogeyman?", but it's been a little while since I've seen it. She says, "That WAS the bogeyman."
Think about it: all movie long she's been telling Tommy there's no such thing. And then she gets confronted with evidence that, indeed, there can be such a thing.
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