Halloween: H20 - weird flick, mostly cos Myers has to drive 2,000 miles to get to Laurie Strode.
― circa1916, Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
there needs to be a film to document the Myers road trip IMO
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
As it turns out, there is a shadow transportation app out there that helps get slashers from point A to point B, called Slyce.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
LOL
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
turns out Michael Myers does speak, just wait til you fuck up his omelette at Waffle House - you won't hear the end of it
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
I will also say that 5 movies in I continue to be surprised at how tame they are, like ALL of the gore has been cut out and somehow all of the footage was lost and we don't have restored directors cuts of like, any of these???? titties aside, every single one of these has felt like an edited-for-tv version
― circa1916, Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
"Hey man, make sure you give me five stars, but watch those finger knives on the leather please."
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
my feelings on the sequelsHalloween 4 - mostly crap, cool endingHalloween 5 - mostly crap, crap endingHalloween 6 - whether you watch the original or director's cut, CRAAAAAAPHalloween: H20 - weird flick, mostly cos Myers has to drive 2,000 miles to get to Laurie Strode. very dated because shitty Creed songs play during the movie. but pretty good!Halloween: Resurrection - awful awful terrible shit this is like American Pie: Halloween featuring a very OTT Busta Rhymes, god I hated this era of horror(not part of this series but)Rob Zombie Halloween - lol fuck this movieRob Zombie Halloween 2 - didn't see, see prior commentand thenHalloween (2018) - wow this actually is fun, stupid moments aside (like the Loomis-esque doctor who turns out to be an OTT weirdo)
Halloween 4 - mostly crap, cool endingHalloween 5 - mostly crap, crap endingHalloween 6 - whether you watch the original or director's cut, CRAAAAAAPHalloween: H20 - weird flick, mostly cos Myers has to drive 2,000 miles to get to Laurie Strode. very dated because shitty Creed songs play during the movie. but pretty good!Halloween: Resurrection - awful awful terrible shit this is like American Pie: Halloween featuring a very OTT Busta Rhymes, god I hated this era of horror
(not part of this series but)
Rob Zombie Halloween - lol fuck this movieRob Zombie Halloween 2 - didn't see, see prior comment
and then
Halloween (2018) - wow this actually is fun, stupid moments aside (like the Loomis-esque doctor who turns out to be an OTT weirdo)
Yeah, during my current rewatch, I got up through 4, then skipped to 2018. Might revisit some of the other entries later. I watched the first Zombie entry years ago and don't remember too much about it, but I heard that the second one is the better of his two.
― peace, man, Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
i mean slasher movies from the 80s also just seem a bit tamer because they used to threaten X ratings for much more benign shit back then, so a lot of the more OTT stuff got shelved or 'edited' to cut away or were merely implied.
whereas nowadays you can show a brutal decapitation on a Marvel television show that is ultimately otherwise considered PG-13 ish (Daredevil) and nobody bats an eyelid.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
Halloween 3 fucking rules though
8 more days to Halloweenhalloweenhalloween
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
omg neanderthal, watch jason x immediately
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
or don't and just put on Moonraker or Superman 3 or something instead
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link
let's watch both *slams Budweiser down*
Jason X, Moonraker
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
i'm rewatching Halloween (2018), once I finish that, I will probably throw Jason X on. heard too much about it to put off any longer :)
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
halloween 4 is a good movie. halloween 5 is a cursed movie, much like friday part v. halloween 6 is like... a total misfire that is fun to watch but it also sort of sucks, much like jason goes to hell
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
halloween resurrection is fucking hilarious
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
like the moment where there's two Michael Myers walking around and for a moment you're like OMG, this is how he's immortal! he franchised serial killing, like Gallagher with his comedy show, he hires multiple Michael Myers to do the killing, omg this is brill
and then one of them pulls his mask off and he's Busta Rhymes trolling the people on his reality show.
weak.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
Yes, I will get around to Jason X sometime this season.Halloween takes are OTM. 3 is spectacular, 1 & 2 are fine, the rest of the OG sequels are zzzzzzzzzzzz. Most worthless of the Big Three slasher franchises, easily. Will also watch the 2018 sequel sometime soon, though.
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
resurrection is the hellraiser sequel of the halloween franchise, totally unrelated movie with michael myers grafted onto it
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
the dude at the end of Halloween 3 is kinda me at work every day
"STOP IT! STOP IT! STOOOOOOOOPPPP ITTTT"
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
(director's cut of the zombie halloween 2 is astonishing)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
the problem I have with early-mid 2000s slasher films is that it reminds you how lame bro culture was back then.
fuckin half expected Michael Myers to sip on a Zima
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
Halloween III is definitely unique. I wouldn't necessarily say it rules though. I think a lot of people try to defend it because of the backlash. It's like Phantasm meets Howard the Duck meets IT (1990) and probably a few other things.
The poster is one of the best movie posters of all time though. The comic book series Stray Dogs just used the poster art as a variant cover for their tpb.
https://media.keycollectorcomics.com/media/b1629464859608s-l1600__3_.jpg
― peace, man, Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
lol, I xposted right over Brad's Halloween opinions. I rewatched Halloween 4 a couple weeks back and I still don't think I've awoken from my coma. Sorry, Brad.
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:12 (two years ago) link
The Loomis turn in the remake is one of the all-time groaner contrivances.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:12 (two years ago) link
listen, if you fall asleep to a movie, i consider that a good thing. the thing that rocks about halloween 4 is the autumnal vibe is the strongest in that one
the michael myers mask sucks ass but i like pretty much everything else about it
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
there are a few undercooked ideas in Halloween 3 that keep it from being perfect for me, but Kupfer's entire family being killed is an astonishing critique of unchecked capitalism and it rules
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
Fun fact: I have read the novelizations of both Friday the 13th part 6 and Halloween 4.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
also I love that Helloween's first EP samples that annoying assed "8 more days to Halloween song" before the song kicks in
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
xpost
Jamie walked down the stairs, sobbing. She was wearing her uncle's mask, and holding a bloody knife.
Loomis did not even need a moment for the truth to sink in.
Jamie...
...was on drugs.
Immediately, he pulled out his pistol and shot Jamie dead.
Not in Reagan's America, you don't.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
halloween 2 (rob zombie)halloweenhalloween 3: season of the witchhalloween h20halloween 4: the revenge of michael myershalloween 2halloween (rob zombie)halloween 5: the cookie womanhalloween: resurrectionhalloween (2018) (sorry)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
Trailer for the 3rd in the new Halloween trilogy will have a slowed down/creepy kids’ choir version of the “8 more days till Halloween” silver shamrock song y/n
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
the editing of halloween (2018) is very bad and i hate the conception of laurie's character and the humor seems flown in from another movie and punctures the mood
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
Huh guess I need to see the second Zombie one. I didn't hate his first one, but never heard much enthusiasm for the second.
I find him to be a frustrating director, I love about half of his stuff and hate the others. I haven't seen 3 From Hell, 31 or Halloween 2 though.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
jon: seek out the director's cut of zombie's halloween 2, which is i think the default streaming version. it's a major exploration of laurie's ptsd
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
Will do! Was trying to decide what to watch this weekend.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
it is filmed in 16mm and looks so gnarly and grim and the moonlight looks like its emanating from the cover of a black metal album
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
also if you like lords of salem, most likely you'll find a lot to like in halloween 2
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
huh I just saw Lords of Salem and did enjoy it.
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
the autumnal vibe
Like when Loomis is poking around that desert gas station in (checks notes) Illinois? I love the part where the babysitter is looking for the little girl in the darkened streets (caused by the power outage, which was an awesome kill).
― peace, man, Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:23 (two years ago) link
the power outage is the other best part of that film
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
Yes! Definitely a top tier Zombie film, I love it.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
i only like that and Devil's Rejects
31 made me mad enough that I left 30 minutes in
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
and I was on a plane
i looove 31 but acknowledge that no one normal would ever think that
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
Jason Goes to Hell is hilarious for deciding to introduce new mystical mythology that will never again appear in any other Friday film - ooooh a mystical DAGGER, the heart is Jason, Jason is the heart!
some all-powerful heart couldn't help him SWIM BETTER, lil punk
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 7 October 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
Robert Campbell : I'm going to say a couple of words to you and I want you to say the first thing that comes into your mind.Creighton Duke : Okay.Robert Campbell : Jason Voorhees.Creighton Duke : That makes me think of a little girl in a pink dress sticking a hot dog through a doughnut.
― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 October 2021 16:11 (two years ago) link
Halloween briefly went the mystical route as well. Druids, iirc.
I loved Lords of Salem and Devil's Rejects is probably the best whatever that is that it can be. But those Halloween movies were so unpleasant, imo. Well, I think the first one is the one I saw. Maybe? Anyway, there's only so much of Zombie's ugly hillbilly grunge I can take.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 October 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
i like but don't love the first zombie halloween. i'm not married to the idea of michael as this unknowable embodiment of evil so i think glimpsing his actual home life as filtered through zombie's particular tobe hooper thing is really effective in setting the scene. the second half of the film is just halloween but less scary and gorier and i'm like... it's fine. ugh now i want to watch it again
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 October 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link