Halloween (1978) - Page 4

I think the scene works regardless: if you want to ignore Halloween 2, you could say he is obsessed with reliving the murder of Judith.

If you're like me, ALL YOU FUCKING DO is wonder what happened to the little girls from Halloween and Assault on Precinct 13. Wonder no more!

Camille is lying her ass off, fuck her up Lindsey!

Merry Christmas, Chewers! Here is a rare, long-ass interview with Carpenter on the set of Halloween. I don't have access to editing tools this second, so there's also some spoilers for Blue Collar after the interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYjhYVug4Ag

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Awesome stuff, thanks Phil.

Watching Carpenter talk about Lucas, Spielberg, and Altman is probably the most interesting part. But watching Carpenter, Pleasence, and Charles Cyphers rehearse the window shatter scene is pretty fun too, particularly Pleasences reaction to the term "sexual deed".

Trying to think of something new to say about Halloween it occurred to me that there might be some Horror of Dracula buried deep in Halloween's DNA. For instance, both films feature a doctor of science with a pure belief in the existence of pure, seemingly supernatural evil hunting a villain that silently stalks his prey at night, effortlessly entering the seemingly safe middle-class/upper-class homes of his victims. Carpenter even offered the part of Loomis to Cushing and Lee.

 

Obviously there's a world of differences between the final films, but I don't think it's too big a leap to one of the films that Carpenter's admitted being a big fan of. I think it's also obvious that Carpenter has a different world view than Terence Fisher. There's no doubt in my mind that if Fisher had made the film the last shot would have been of Michael Myers, dead on the ground.

The Loomis role was a very deliberate decision to allow the film to have a foot in both worlds - Carpenter talks about how Psycho had a very spooky Gothic house behind a contemporary, mundane looking motel, and he loved that.

 

Absolutely, but it strikes me that Carpenter's Halloween most specifically is a reaction to Terence Fisher's films. In particular, in a Fisher film supernatural evil is absolutely vanquished at the end (although he's much more pessimistic about human evil). Carpenter rarely has his evil suffer an absolute defeat, more like a temporary setback, and I think that's a conscious reply to the Fisher.