Post by harrycanyon on Oct 26, 2012 23:45:20 GMT -5
A very misunderstood sci-fi horror shocker that has now gotten more respect now and got released on dvd and blu-ray in a special anniversary edition from Shout.
For those saying "Where's Michael? this isn't a Halloween movie" blah blah, they just don't even know the facts.
John Carpenter and Debra Hill both hated writing Halloween 2 as they decided to have Michael's story to end by having Laurie shoot both his eyes and have Loomis commit suicide by blowing himself with Michael up in the hospital at the climax and have Michael burn to ashes as he was cooked in his shoes, his mask was melted to his skull, he was a cinder and that his body was sooo overcooked into ash that his bones/body had to be removed by a chimney sweep, lol, with Laurie to live happily ever after thus Michael was terminated forever according to Carpenter/Hill.
The duo had a unique and visionary idea to transform the franchise into a big screen Halloween themed horror anthology about the title holiday every season, sort of in the style of Grindhouse, Twilight Zone, Creepshow, Tales from The Darkside, Are You Afraid of the Dark or some other anthology. As each movie was to have their own standalone horror story about Halloween itself in each story and have different directors/actors/writers.
This was the first and only attempt at that brilliant idea, but too bad they didn't tell the public about this except only in Fangoria magazine when they should had publicized their concept of an anthology including that Michael is dead forever especially on TV interviews even on talkshows and advertisements thus the public was confused when it came out and it bombed with the idea killed off forever and getting the same old rehash of the first 2, although H2O had it's moments and Rob Zombie's first Halloween remake was entertaining.
I always loved this since my brother rented the JC Halloween trilogy when i was 4 and thought it was an atmospheric and different movie but then in 2006 thanks to the internet i learned about what this movie's intention was and i grew to appreciate it more as did the people who enjoyed it as they finally learned to appreciate the film for being an experiment in the series and to make the franchise into a big screen anthology, i'd love to had seen that and i think Michael should had stayed dead/burned after Halloween 2 like Carpenter intended.