Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Nov 6, 2017 6:02:56 GMT
There's a quote by Carpenter on interpretations of Halloween. Someone asked him about the one which suggested Laurie was driven to homicidal rage by her virginity and he relied: "I have heard that theory. It comes from a critic in Canada which uh, says a lot."
He didn't elaborate.
Halloween fits the trend of the 70s which the slasher film usually followed where the female character is not aided by any male protector (compare to a Hammer film where usually there is a man somewhere to help the girl).
Loomis arrives at the end to help, but the killer disappears, and it ends with Laurie crying as if she knows the danger isn't over.
This is why I said elsewhere that RITUALS and WITHOUT WARNING are anomalies since they follow some of the slasher movie framework--but in the first there are no women-just middle aged men, and in the latter the heroine teams up with an unlikely ally to defeat the killer (an alien but it plays out much like a stalker in the woods story).
He didn't elaborate.
Halloween fits the trend of the 70s which the slasher film usually followed where the female character is not aided by any male protector (compare to a Hammer film where usually there is a man somewhere to help the girl).
Loomis arrives at the end to help, but the killer disappears, and it ends with Laurie crying as if she knows the danger isn't over.
This is why I said elsewhere that RITUALS and WITHOUT WARNING are anomalies since they follow some of the slasher movie framework--but in the first there are no women-just middle aged men, and in the latter the heroine teams up with an unlikely ally to defeat the killer (an alien but it plays out much like a stalker in the woods story).