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Title:Movie Reviews and Discussion
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Created:Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1249
Total number of notes:16012

511.0. "Halloween" by XCUSME::SAPP (Random Kindness/Senseless Acts Beauty) Sat Apr 02 1994 07:43

    	What?  No note for the scariest movie of all time? I'm shocked!
    This is one for the lifetime collection of films. Brilliant direction,
    acting, music and just an excellent film.  There is maybe one small
    incident where blood is shown. Once.
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511.18475::BRUNOFather GregorySun Apr 03 1994 11:555
RE: <<< Note 511.0 by XCUSME::SAPP "Random Kindness/Senseless Acts Beauty" >>>
    
          Alas, they just don't make 'em like this anymore, Edwin.

                                    Greg
511.2This one is the it!5468::DOWNSMon Apr 04 1994 10:206
    This has to be the scariest movie I have ever seen.  I was twelve years
    old when I first saw this in the theatres.  I went with my cousin and
    we walked there and ran all the way back.  I still get the creeps and
    think of this movie when I am walking at night.
    
    kim
511.3Definitely scarey....41188::HELSOMTue Apr 05 1994 08:4820
re. -1

I was a bit older than twelve, but I was jolly scared walking home from the
cinema after I saw Halloween. Also, I was sleeping in a ground-floor room at the
front of the house and a dog decided to get into the dustbins under my window
the same night. 

eeeeeeeeeeeek.


Actually, the base note gets it in one: it's all done with the point-of-view
camera. The point of view alternates between that of Jason -- is he going to
find somebody? -- and a very scared view -- is something going to find you?. The
move uses minimum of traditional horror movie conventions (eg Jamie Leigh
Curtis' white stockings so you know she's the virginal good girl who'll survive)
so that you know where you are, and then just lets it roll.

Great stuff.

Helen
511.49871::CLARKChairman of the BoredTue Apr 05 1994 12:234
There are several scenes throughout the movie where, if you look
closely, you'll notice the killer reflected in a window, standing off in
the shadows, etc.  Seems like I notice a new one every time I watch
the movie.
511.5Michael MyersDECWET::HAYNESTue Apr 05 1994 17:567
    re .3
    
    Just FYI, Jason Voorhees is FRIDAY THE 13th.... 
              Michael Myers is Halloween.
    
    
    Michael
511.67892::SLABOUNTYIs this p_n great or what?Tue Apr 05 1994 18:074
    
    	I don't believe I didn't pick up on that.
    
    							GTI
511.7Aha41188::HELSOMThu Apr 07 1994 09:307
re: -2

Thanks for the correction. I used to know a Michael Myers who was a perfectly
nice chap, and I've never even seen Friday 13th, so I guess it was a Freudian
slip.

Helen
511.8BUSY::BUSY::SLABOUNTYHoly rusted metal, Batman!Wed Sep 06 1995 14:055
    
    	"Halloween 6" is coming out mid-October.
    
    	Probably 10/13, which is a Friday.
    
511.9It's about time!!!!FABSIX::E_MAXWELLN.E. Patriots...Bound for glory.Thu Sep 07 1995 01:062
    re -1 >> "Halloween 6" is coming out mid-October.
             Probably 10/13, which is a Friday.
511.10BUSY::SLABOUNTYI&#039;ll kiss the dirt and walk awayMon Sep 25 1995 10:525
    
    	My original information was wrong.
    
    	"Halloween 6" starts this Friday, 09/29.
    
511.11Only the first two, after that.....HOTLNE::SHIELDSFri Jan 03 1997 00:5316
511.12COMICS::MILLSS&quot;Jump! Jump now!&quot; ...KoshMon Jan 06 1997 09:5713
511.13NEWVAX::BUCHMANNeolithic UNIX masterTue Jan 07 1997 12:376
511.14WONDER::REILLYSean Reilly, Alpha Servers, DTN 223-4375Wed Jan 08 1997 07:1611
511.15a couple of comments.....HOTLNE::SHIELDSThu Jan 23 1997 05:0232