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Hello!
It's gonna be Halloween soon, and I just found out that Brandon Hardesty has committed another tribute to a cult film character. Today, Oct 19th, the terrifying and vaguely supernatural serial killer known as Michael Myers was born.
I have never been a fan of the Slasher movie genre. I prefer by far the gothic horror of the 60's (Christopher Lee, Vincent Price...) and the torture movies of the 70's (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Last House on the Left, Ilsa...). However, John Carpenter is a gifted auteur, who has offered us some real masterpieces (The Thing, Fog, They Live...), commendable efforts (Prince of Darkness, the Escape From series...) and a few "meh" flicks such as Ghosts of Mars.
Halloween, IMO belongs to the middle category. It is amazingly suspenseful and the music is fantastic. It also launched the career of Jamie Lee Curtis, an actual supernatural being who seems to become more beautiful the older she gets (I'd love to tickle her BTW ). But more than anything else, it created a horror sub-genre, which although I find extremely dull, has undeniably had an enormous impact in the history of cinema. Without Halloween, I doubt there would have been Friday the 13th, and countless imitations. Despite the inherent flaws of the genre, Halloween is probably the best in its category.
The fans are probably gonna murder me, but I rather liked the remakes by Rob Zombie. Although less suspenseful, they feature two amazing actors (Brad Dourif and Malcolm MacDowell) and they compensate their lack of atmosphere by a ramped-up sadism which, I must confess, I found delightfully exciting. Seeing the various characters getting stabbed, often across the face, made to scream, beg and die in visibly a lot of pain gave those films a much-needed boost of visceral entertainment. The child actor Daeg Faerch (how the hell am I supposed to pronounce that? If someone wants to help.. ) was terrible, though.
So happy birthday Michael Myers!
It's gonna be Halloween soon, and I just found out that Brandon Hardesty has committed another tribute to a cult film character. Today, Oct 19th, the terrifying and vaguely supernatural serial killer known as Michael Myers was born.
I have never been a fan of the Slasher movie genre. I prefer by far the gothic horror of the 60's (Christopher Lee, Vincent Price...) and the torture movies of the 70's (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Last House on the Left, Ilsa...). However, John Carpenter is a gifted auteur, who has offered us some real masterpieces (The Thing, Fog, They Live...), commendable efforts (Prince of Darkness, the Escape From series...) and a few "meh" flicks such as Ghosts of Mars.
Halloween, IMO belongs to the middle category. It is amazingly suspenseful and the music is fantastic. It also launched the career of Jamie Lee Curtis, an actual supernatural being who seems to become more beautiful the older she gets (I'd love to tickle her BTW ). But more than anything else, it created a horror sub-genre, which although I find extremely dull, has undeniably had an enormous impact in the history of cinema. Without Halloween, I doubt there would have been Friday the 13th, and countless imitations. Despite the inherent flaws of the genre, Halloween is probably the best in its category.
The fans are probably gonna murder me, but I rather liked the remakes by Rob Zombie. Although less suspenseful, they feature two amazing actors (Brad Dourif and Malcolm MacDowell) and they compensate their lack of atmosphere by a ramped-up sadism which, I must confess, I found delightfully exciting. Seeing the various characters getting stabbed, often across the face, made to scream, beg and die in visibly a lot of pain gave those films a much-needed boost of visceral entertainment. The child actor Daeg Faerch (how the hell am I supposed to pronounce that? If someone wants to help.. ) was terrible, though.
So happy birthday Michael Myers!
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