So the original Halloween with Jamie Lee Curtis is my favorite Halloween movie ever but I've been watching the marathon on AMC today and I'm like Michael Meyers never freaking dies! He's been shot, stabbed, decapitated(maybe), etc. and just keeps coming Damn didn't Freddy and Jason eventually die I can't remember Its been fun watching though

Halloween was some crazy-ass shit 37 years ago the shit still crazy...

Tommy: "Laurie, what's the boogeyman?

Laurie: "It was the boogeyman..."

damn straight....

Don't ge me started on...

"A Nightmare on Elm Street 2".... I still don't watch that movie alone... which means my man is a punching bag for little over an hour.

TD3 said:

Halloween was some crazy-ass shit 37 years ago the shit still crazy...

Tommy: "Laurie, what's the boogeyman?

Laurie: "It was the boogeyman..."

damn straight....

Don't ge me started on...

"A Nightmare on Elm Street 2".... I still don't watch that movie alone... which means my man is a punching bag for little over an hour.

He still is the Boogeyman and I just can't mess with Freddy at all...that fool will cut u in your sleep

The first 2 movies are great. Part 3 is not really Halloween but season of the Witch. Halloween 4 is ok and the rest are bad including Rob Zombie horrible remakes

kpowers said:

The first 2 movies are great. Part 3 is not really Halloween but season of the Witch. Halloween 4 is ok and the rest are bad including Rob Zombie horrible remakes

I agree...love the first two and H2O but the others are really bad. I could barely make it through the Rob Zombie one's...just not my thing. The ones with the little girl annoy me

nursev said:

TD3 said:

Halloween was some crazy-ass shit 37 years ago the shit still crazy...

Tommy: "Laurie, what's the boogeyman?

Laurie: "It was the boogeyman..."

damn straight....

Don't ge me started on...

"A Nightmare on Elm Street 2".... I still don't watch that movie alone... which means my man is a punching bag for little over an hour.

He still is the Boogeyman and I just can't mess with Freddy at all...that fool will cut u in your sleep

well ain't that the truth.

I understand about Freddie... WTF!

nursev said:

kpowers said:

The first 2 movies are great. Part 3 is not really Halloween but season of the Witch. Halloween 4 is ok and the rest are bad including Rob Zombie horrible remakes

I agree...love the first two and H2O but the others are really bad. I could barely make it through the Rob Zombie one's...just not my thing. The ones with the little girl annoy me

Didn't care for H20

mmm hmm. watched the halloween movies and (apologies in advance) although they are entertaining, they are not scary. i repeat: Not. Scary.

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mind you, i'm no expert, but parts of those halloween movies are actually kind of...funny. maybe it's me.

XxAxX said:

mmm hmm. watched the halloween movies and (apologies in advance) although they are entertaining, they are not scary. i repeat: Not. Scary.

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mind you, i'm no expert, but parts of those halloween movies are actually kind of...funny. maybe it's me.

I feel the same way. Those movies are comedies. I call them humorous horror. I consider movies like The Exorcist and The Shining to be true horror, IMO.

XxAxX said:

mmm hmm. watched the halloween movies and (apologies in advance) although they are entertaining, they are not scary. i repeat: Not. Scary.

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mind you, i'm no expert, but parts of those halloween movies are actually kind of...funny. maybe it's me.

Disagree. The first 2 movies are. The music in Halloween is scary. When Michael Myers starts chasing Jamie Lee Curtis and they play that erie music,

it gives me goose bumps. I repeat Halloween is scary

the concept of "oh my goodness big bro went nuts and now he's trying to kill me" is scary, grant you that.

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but, michael meyers is not exactly fast on his feet is he? in fact, when he's "chasing" (your word) jamie lee it's possible for her to run out of the house, run to the residence next door, bang on the door, scream 'oh god!" when no one answers there, then run across the street to little tommy's house and bang on that door - all before michael actually steps out of the house she fled. not fast. it's clearly possible to hit the road and simply outrun that guy.

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and if jamie had devoted a bit less time to sobbing and screaming hysterically and cowering in corners that offer her no protection whatsoever while ominous music plays in the background, she might have found a way to stop mikey like, say, oh i dunno. bleach? toos it in his face?? gasoline? pour it on him and flic that bic? or she could have used a hairspray flamethrower. it was the 80s after all, and every bathroom had a can or two. that way he would have burned to a crisp long before he'd get out the bathroom and pose her any threat.

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really, the only terrifying thing about the movie imo is how passive jamie is.

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kpowers said:

XxAxX said:

mmm hmm. watched the halloween movies and (apologies in advance) although they are entertaining, they are not scary. i repeat: Not. Scary.

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mind you, i'm no expert, but parts of those halloween movies are actually kind of...funny. maybe it's me.

Disagree. The first 2 movies are. The music in Halloween is scary. When Michael Myers starts chasing Jamie Lee Curtis and they play that erie music,

it gives me goose bumps. I repeat Halloween is scary

I only watch Halloween I & II I have the collectors editions on DVD I cannot watch them alone, even in the daylight

missfee said:

XxAxX said:

mmm hmm. watched the halloween movies and (apologies in advance) although they are entertaining, they are not scary. i repeat: Not. Scary.

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mind you, i'm no expert, but parts of those halloween movies are actually kind of...funny. maybe it's me.

I feel the same way. Those movies are comedies. I call them humorous horror. I consider movies like The Exorcist and The Shining to be true horror, IMO.

missfee said:

XxAxX said:

mmm hmm. watched the halloween movies and (apologies in advance) although they are entertaining, they are not scary. i repeat: Not. Scary.

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mind you, i'm no expert, but parts of those halloween movies are actually kind of...funny. maybe it's me.

I feel the same way. Those movies are comedies. I call them humorous horror. I consider movies like The Exorcist and The Shining to be true horror, IMO.

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exactly, me too! psychological horror is what gets me. the growing knowledge that the good guy... isn't. the twisty ending where you realize it was all in his/her head... that sort of thing. like, the talented mr. ripley.

XxAxX said:

the concept of "oh my goodness big bro went nuts and now he's trying to kill me" is scary, grant you that.

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but, michael meyers is not exactly fast on his feet is he? in fact, when he's "chasing" (your word) jamie lee it's possible for her to run out of the house, run to the residence next door, bang on the door, scream 'oh god!" when no one answers there, then run across the street to little tommy's house and bang on that door - all before michael actually steps out of the house she fled. not fast. it's clearly possible to hit the road and simply outrun that guy.

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and if jamie had devoted a bit less time to sobbing and screaming hysterically and cowering in corners that offer her no protection whatsoever while ominous music plays in the background, she might have found a way to stop mikey like, say, oh i dunno. bleach? toos it in his face?? gasoline? pour it on him and flic that bic? or she could have used a hairspray flamethrower. it was the 80s after all, and every bathroom had a can or two. that way he would have burned to a crisp long before he'd get out the bathroom and pose her any threat.

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really, the only terrifying thing about the movie imo is how passive jamie is.

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kpowers said:

Disagree. The first 2 movies are. The music in Halloween is scary. When Michael Myers starts chasing Jamie Lee Curtis and they play that erie music,

it gives me goose bumps. I repeat Halloween is scary

and yes I said "chasing" why would I deny that, why would anybody

oh dear. i was making a funny. ^ by emphasizing your choice of word while describing how slow mike seemed to me i was enjoying ironic juxtaposition or something

XxAxX said:

oh dear. i was making a funny. ^ by emphasizing your choice of word while describing how slow mike seemed to me i was enjoying ironic juxtaposition or something

So was I

kpowers said:

XxAxX said:

oh dear. i was making a funny. ^ by emphasizing your choice of word while describing how slow mike seemed to me i was enjoying ironic juxtaposition or something

So was I

okay

XxAxX said:

oh dear. i was making a funny. ^ by emphasizing your choice of word while describing how slow mike seemed to me i was enjoying ironic juxtaposition or something

For me it really didn't matter how fast (or slow) Michael Myers chased Jamie Lee Curtis, he would always find her. She could get in a car drive away to another state but yet she would never really be safe.

kpowers said:

XxAxX said:

oh dear. i was making a funny. ^ by emphasizing your choice of word while describing how slow mike seemed to me i was enjoying ironic juxtaposition or something

For me it really didn't matter how fast (or slow) Michael Myers chased Jamie Lee Curtis, he would always find her. She could get in a car drive away to another state but yet she would never really be safe.

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ah. yeah, i get that part. that would be scary up to a point but imo as long as the michael meyers energy is embodied in a slow moving white faced body, he's not invulnerable. therefore, not quite as scary. for example, jamie could just get a sarcophagus, lock him in somehow and put him somewhere she can keep an eye on him.

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for me, making michael meyers truly scary would have to involve using everything in the book to reduce him to a pile of rubble, and have him still keep coming, even as his body erodes and disappears. having his soul carry on somehow by inhabiting objects/creatures/landscape if necessary, and continuing the attack on jamie in physical and non-physical ways would be pretty icky for jamie. she wouldn't be able to fight back, really. she'd have to die or something in order to fight him.

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sorry i'm being critical, and what do i know from horror movies anyway? i really do love the halloween movies just because they are what they are. they're classic and i'm a huge fan of that era and genre

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XxAxX said:

kpowers said:

For me it really didn't matter how fast (or slow) Michael Myers chased Jamie Lee Curtis, he would always find her. She could get in a car drive away to another state but yet she would never really be safe.

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ah. yeah, i get that part. that would be scary up to a point but imo as long as the michael meyers energy is embodied in a slow moving white faced body, he's not invulnerable. therefore, not quite as scary. for example, jamie could just get a sarcophagus, lock him in somehow and put him somewhere she can keep an eye on him.

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for me, making michael meyers truly scary would have to involve using everything in the book to reduce him to a pile of rubble, and have him still keep coming, even as his body erodes and disappears. having his soul carry on somehow by inhabiting objects/creatures/landscape if necessary, and continuing the attack on jamie in physical and non-physical ways would be pretty icky for jamie. she wouldn't be able to fight back, really. she'd have to die or something in order to fight him.

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sorry i'm being critical, and what do i know from horror movies anyway? i really do love the halloween movies just because they are what they are. they're classic and i'm a huge fan of that era and genre

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Don't know about that. Honestly the first 2 movies were good and should have ended after part 2.

kpowers said:

XxAxX said:

the concept of "oh my goodness big bro went nuts and now he's trying to kill me" is scary, grant you that.

.

but, michael meyers is not exactly fast on his feet is he? in fact, when he's "chasing" (your word) jamie lee it's possible for her to run out of the house, run to the residence next door, bang on the door, scream 'oh god!" when no one answers there, then run across the street to little tommy's house and bang on that door - all before michael actually steps out of the house she fled. not fast. it's clearly possible to hit the road and simply outrun that guy.

.

and if jamie had devoted a bit less time to sobbing and screaming hysterically and cowering in corners that offer her no protection whatsoever while ominous music plays in the background, she might have found a way to stop mikey like, say, oh i dunno. bleach? toos it in his face?? gasoline? pour it on him and flic that bic? or she could have used a hairspray flamethrower. it was the 80s after all, and every bathroom had a can or two. that way he would have burned to a crisp long before he'd get out the bathroom and pose her any threat.

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really, the only terrifying thing about the movie imo is how passive jamie is.

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and yes I said "chasing" why would I deny that, why would anybody

Halloween was and is still scary. I've told this story for the upteem time. Halloween was released twice, the movie was pulled the 1st time because of low box office. It was re-released on the urging of Skiles & Ebert. My mother and I saw this movie in Calumet ILL. 7 people were in the theatre... two women and four guys. We tripped during that whole movie.... it was the build up the steady pace that drove your crazy and scared you.

As far a Ms. Curtis "passiveness" that's a staple in horror movies.. where have you been. Woman are falling, folks are turning their backs, dropping weapons, or running over to a corner and sliding dow. You didn't see Scary Movie Franchise did ya.. because the speak about all of this.

missfee said:

XxAxX said:

mmm hmm. watched the halloween movies and (apologies in advance) although they are entertaining, they are not scary. i repeat: Not. Scary.

.

mind you, i'm no expert, but parts of those halloween movies are actually kind of...funny. maybe it's me.

I feel the same way. Those movies are comedies. I call them humorous horror. I consider movies like The Exorcist and The Shining to be true horror, IMO.

I would call Scream that not Halloween 1 & 2

TD3 said:

kpowers said:

and yes I said "chasing" why would I deny that, why would anybody

Halloween was and is still scary. I've told this story for the upteem time. Halloween was released twice, the movie was pulled the 1st time because of low box office. It was re-released on the urging of Skiles & Ebert. My mother and I saw this movie in Calumet ILL. 7 people were in the theatre... two women and four guys. We tripped during that whole movie.... it was the build up the steady pace that drove your crazy and scared you.

As far a Ms. Curtis "passiveness" that's a staple in horror movies.. where have you been. Woman are falling, folks are turning their backs, dropping weapons, or running over to a corner and sliding dow. You didn't see Scary Movie Franchise did ya.. because the speak about all of this.

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i did see the scary movies and also enjoyed the scream franchise. but let's face it: an enemy whose success depends upon his victims being clumsy is not a very scary enemy is it?

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An excuse to replay a whole lot of shitty films. I will say I feel Friday the 13th is underrated. It is scary and the Mrs. Vorhees slant is neato. It is cheesy, but many horror films are.

Look for Evil Dead 2. That is one great film. Very funny too.

I think people sometimes over think for criticism too many things. It's tv, it's not supposed to be real etc etc

The reason Halloween I & II are so huge and were so huge in the time the were released and still watched to this day is because they are scary.

Michael Myers was a stalker. That by itself help create mystery and fear.

2freaky4church1 said:

An excuse to replay a whole lot of shitty films. I will say I feel Friday the 13th is underrated. It is scary and the Mrs. Vorhees slant is neato. It is cheesy, but many horror films are.

Look for Evil Dead 2. That is one great film. Very funny too.

The first 2 movies are great but the rest are very shitty (like Busta Ryhmes and Tara Banks were in the later ones how lame) I like the Friday the 13th movies but only the first 4.

I love the one with the girl who can move objects and the one in Manhattan.

evil dead movies rock! once you get past the crayon gory scenes those movies are hilarious

I don't have cable but I have DVDs of several of them and homemade DVDs of the rest of them that I recorded off of AMC back when I did have cable. I have all of them except for "Halloween III"... ... and the latest "Halloween II" that Rob Zombie made. I'm gonna have to pull them out and watch them this weekend. I like all of them, except III, but none of them are near as good as the first one.

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