It's the best of the Halloween movie franchise unironically.
>>214172143robots ruin it
>>214172143This but unironically
I first saw it in the video store when I was a kid. You know, when you're walking through the aisles and conjure up phantasms of films you're not even allowed to rent, spin an entire movie in your imagination based on potentially misleading cover art? This creeped me out from the first time I saw it. I don't actually know if I even noticed the frightening face in the sky, but that's not what scared me.Objectively, the foreground shouldn't technically be scary, in theory. It's just three trick or treaters walking along, right? Yet it was no uncanny to me, so unsettling. The gaunt, black silhouettes against the preternaturally orange dusk. It was a haunted landscape, haunted by something primeval and atmospheric. A presence without a face, pervading the landscape. You can feel how cold it is.Those three figures. There's something odd about them. They are children, and yet, something else. They looked distorted to me. STRETCHED out to an unnatural degree. Like a walking projection from carnival mirrors. You could imagine limps and necks and faces that look ostensibly human, but distorted to a demented degree, a cruel mockery.And where are they going? It's so ominous. This isn't fun trick or treating, because they are monsters as much as children, though the image of the latter distorted into the former is incredibly disturbing. Look at where they're walking. If it weren't for that street light in the background, maybe I could pretend it's some fantasy apocalyptic landscape, safely removed from all of us in fiction. No danger to us who still did go out trick-or-treating. But no. That light. This image is from modern America. How close are you to where they walk? When you go out on your innocent Halloween fun, might you run into this terrible trio? What then? (1/2)
>>214172881It casts a spell, this poster. We true connoisseurs of dread know that in the right dearth of light, dusk can be a lot more unsettling than night. Maybe it's because as the last warm and safe beams of the sun fade at last, you're witnessing something dying. Day. The death of safety and the rise of something that does not rise, but instead pervades the atmosphere. The enchanting moon has yet to come out and the stars in the firmament have not woken, so in this witching hour between day and night, the light is a dying friend, and darkness is an enemy at the door, its presence inevitable. All the horrors of the night, real or imagined, have yet to show their face, and thus you only can dread. Evening is also colder than night, because it is cool, a shivering briskness still so close to warmth you can remember, not so cold you're acclimated. So even through your costume, your arms grow goosebumps and you shiver. It's cool where these three are, and it's OUTSIDE. The great outdoors has no safety, and they may only be a small selection of the monsters it has to offer. Yet there are no houses in the background of this poster. Where can you flee?Not long after seeing the video box, I got curious about the score. This was well before iTunes. I don't remember what website I heard the sample on. In one of the most perfect marriages of sound and image, the title track by John Carpenter & Alan Howarth was uncannily evocative of the exact feelings I had reacting to this poster. Take a listen as you take a gander (It's the first track on the soundtrack, simply titled Halloween III: Season of the Witch). Don't you hear the dread? The ominous suggestion of an ancient evil these three are walking in tune with? I guess I already knew about All Hallow's Eve's and its sinister Celtic origins. I didn't know the word Samhain or really anything about the plot of this movie, but I guess I already made the connection to something ancient and dreadful. (2/2)
No, the first is still the best. H3 suffers from a completely unnecessary romance subplot that adds absolutely nothing to the plot or characters.
>>214172143I like Rpb Zombie's Halloween the most
>>214172934Tom atkins is the most hunky man of all time.He can get any woman. Any time. You Cant put him in a movie without someone wanting to fuck him.
>>214172143I agree. It's the only with an actual plot.The rest of them were just plotless slashers.
Its such a shame that it did not become the anthology series it was suppose to be. But someone decided that Freddy and Jason were making big bucks and sticking with Mike was a cash grab to good to give up. On top of that alot of fags said its the worst for years. The movie encapsulated white 80s Halloween perfectly. I hope it never gets remade, unless we are talking about upgrading the quality of the film onto new physical media. Now Halloween is ruined by niggers stealing candy. Fuck niggers.
Agree. It's the most entertaining. I love John Carpenter, but Halloween has gotta be his most overrated movie.
>>214172934> unnecessary romance subplotIt’s some gruff 40 year old cheating on his wife and getting with a cute 19 year old, it’s just the type of high test thing movies used to have. It doesn’t even ruin the flow of the movie
>>214172143I think the first edges it out but 3 is very underrated and was really just a victim of bad marketing. 2, 4 H20 and 2018 all have some decent parts but are still leagues below
The last one that came out is one of the better ones because it isn’t just Michael going around killing people again. And it’s a disjointed, sloppy movie.
Nah it’s shitty as fuck and not having michael is the least of its problems. It is like a long goosebumps episode where they just keep adding stupid shit to make it longer
It doesn't need Mickey Meyers to be creepy as fuck. This is pure cinema right here, doggy style
>>214173343They abandoned the anthology idea because "critics" complained about the lack of Michael Myers.
Never knew existed
>>214174786Watch that shit, son. That's got history behind it
>>214174842Just watched the pumpkin head TV clip. Pretty cool
>>2141748674 more days til Hall-o-ween! Silver Shamrock
>>214172143I love this movie. It really didn’t give a shit and tried to tell the weirdest Halloween story it could make. I also like the little details like how the main character is progressively getting more and more wasted throughout the movie and no one really comments on it or how he really didn’t want to spend time with his kids. Also, that ending is goated
