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It is a film in keeping with the career path Carpenter was taking at the time. The Fog, Prince Of Darkness, and Season Of The Witch are tonally close to each other, IMO. All three rely heavily on a supernatural element, bolstered by dark attacks that ooze juicy gore.
I rather like the film, but not as a Halloween film, evidently. It's a silly film, especially in its attempts to sell awesome Tom Atkins as some kind of sexual magnet who gets even young, beautiful girls half his age excited for a night with him. "Where do you want to sleep, Dr. Challis?" Delicious! 😄 I also love the Old Man from Robocop, Dan O'Herlihy, as the bad guy. Lastly, the score... Carpenter's score for this film is among my favorites, along with his score for Prince Of Darkness. Great stuff! So yes, as a Halloween film, this is a big 0.0, but as a bonafide Carpenter horror flick... you know, it's not half bad!
Does this trilogy have a name? I would call it he Haddonfield Trilogy given its emphasis on how The Shape impacted everyone’s lives both directly and indirectly.
Absolutely! Along with Prince of Darkness I think this is Carpenter's most eerie and most foreboding score. I know Halloween III isn't part of Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy," but I think it fits the bill better than The Thing since The Thing is sci-fi rather than supernatural. HIII is not a perfect film by any means, but it's still steeped in early Carpenter goodness.
Very much so. Had the film not been called "Halloween", I bet it would've done better. As it was, it left audiences confused. People came to see Michael Myers slaughter a bunch of tweens, yet what they got was not what they expected. A supernatural horror film about a sect taking revenge on all the children for mocking Halloween instead of a straight-up slasher flick was probably not the best surprise act. I've seen HIII be poorly reviewed quite often because it happens through the lens of the Halloween series when it should be reviewed as a stand-alone ghoulish experience.
Agreed. Rebecca Hall has been killing it lately. Check out Resurrection sometime, both she and Tim Roth are fantastic in it. It's a really twisted film.
I was planning on seeing Resurrection, so thanks for the reminder, @Creasy47. ;-)
I just rewatched it last night with my girlfriend, she'd not seen it before but she ended up loving it. Hopefully you enjoy it too.
Roth really upset me too. When she meets him in the park in broad daylight and he just says a few weird things about
I had a visceral response. When she later tells the story about what happened, I felt real pain and nausea, especially with my two-week-old boy in my arms as I was watching the film. But the final scenes really capped it all off very well. Thanks for giving me the extra nudge to watch the film, @Creasy47!
You're so welcome, I'm glad you liked it! Hall nailed her role, such a tremendous performance from her. I love her one shot monologue to her coworker that reveals her past. So harrowing.
Her coworker's response was hilarious. After a pretty tense moment, she goes "is this a joke?"
I loved that reaction. Something like "this must be a joke because that's really horrible."
Yeah, if only.
The climax is still registering with me.
My horror top 3 for this year so far:
1) X
2) Terrifier 2
3) Barbarian
2022 has been quite generous with its horror output so far.
I'm desperate to watch it again for all the inevitably awesome details you'll only pick up on once you've already seen it.
And wow, X did release this year, didn't it? It feels like last year, I'm not sure why. It's wild that we got that and Pearl all in one year. I thought that one, while a different beast entirely, was very well done and powerfully acted (Mia Goth has quickly become one of my favorite actresses working today).
I don't know where I stand on gore, really... I watched Possessor by Brandon Cronenberg and the scene that made me pause and go outside was when the blood was falling down Andrea's face while she had the mask thing on... and I had to do the same thing for the "de-gloving" scene in Gerald's Game... I think I'm too much of a wuss for it.
The "stories" are pretty insidious. There's not pathos, even that you might find in a film like TCM, where even Leatherface could be seen as a victim of his family.
It's literally just torture porn.
That eye snip in the first one? Absolutely brutal. Gives me chills just thinking about it.
And as soon as I saw you list The Human Centipede 2, I thought "he's probably thinking of the baby scene" before I even finished the sentence. Check out mother! for some equally twisted nightmares. I've scarcely seen a more divisive film than that one but I love it so damn much.
That's why I had to finally check out A Serbian Film (which I surprisingly enjoyed). Salo or lots of Gaspar Noe (brilliant director, one of my favorites) films apply too.
Why oh why was that film never made?! I keep yearning for it.