Scott and I were talking the other day about how neither of us has seen any of the classic scary films, though we both know the important parts from seeing zillions of references in other movies and on television. With RIP going and Hallowe'en coming up, I thought we should get a start on actually watching these films... and when we found Halloween classic on display at the library, it seemed like fate!Only... I think maybe I didn't understand this movie. On the back, all the quotes were like, "Scary! Terrifying! Superb!" and when I was watching I was thinking, "Boring! Why do I care? More STABBY!"
I am clearly a jaded, cynical member of the Millenials. But this movie was absolutely not scary, and not even really that creepy. It did look good, though.
If you're like me and thought that this movie had maybe Freddy Krueger or Jason in it (I seriously have not seen ANY of these movies), let me tell you what this one's about. This is the Michael Myers movie, in which our antagonist starts off by stabbing his sister to death. When he's a six-year-old. Then, fifteen years later (when he's apparently magically twenty-three), he busts out of the clearly-not-very-secure mental place he's been hanging out in and goes back to his hometown for unclear reasons and decides to kill some babysitters, again for unclear reasons. I mean, I know he's a crazy person. But no reason other than that.
Most of the movie is not about the killing and the stabby, though... there's a lot of watching Jamie Lee Curtis look like she does today but act like a teenager, some pretty terrible acting, a girl getting stuck in a detached laundry room's window, and a weirdo psychologist who is looking for Myers anywhere but where he actually is.
Maybe I needed to be alive in '78 to get this movie. Or maybe I needed to watch it in '78. Is this like my beloved children's books that seem so amazing and novel at the time, but now I've read more and better? And those first books, while still holding a place in my heart, are not nearly as good as I remember them being? I would believe that.
Recommendation: Watch this at midnight. With the lights all off. Maybe with a cat that'll jump on you when you're least expecting it. Or watch it with an eye to the interesting cinematography. Or watch it just so you can realize that, ohhhhhhhh, that's where that music comes from!
Rating: 5/10
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3 comments:
That music CAN totally freak you out under the right circumstances. That being if you've been sent to the basement of a campus building where they have the haunted house for little kids but you are there waiting out a tornado/storm and then a bat is in the other room, freaking people out. Then you get back to your own dorm and after a little DDR, the lights go out and you and another girl walk across campus in the twilight to the chemistry building which has a generator so you can go to the bathroom with lights. And there you run into a creepy chemistry prof who starts to talk to you two until you decide to brave the dark. Upon which you decide that wasn't such a great idea and you start hysterically laughing and running back to the dorms in the pitch black. Then when you think it is over, the Halloween music starts and all of a sudden a car growls, pointing its bright headlights at you and you run screaming into the building. And then curse the person playing the stupid song on the piano. Yeah, good times.
-laughs- That sounds about right. :)
I haven't seen most of the old classic movies, either! I really should fix that!
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