‘Halloween’ 1978 Review – AMC Fearfest

Plot: A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.

Director: John Carpenter

Writers: John Carpenter (screenplay), Debra Hill (screenplay)

Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis and Tony Moran | See full cast and crew

Alright, so who hasn’t heard of Michael Myers before? Well, I know people who don’t know his name, but they know what he looks like. And the Halloween theme song! Who hasn’t heard that? It sends chills down each and every person’s spine. This is a classic movie and always will be.

Story: But let’s be honest, it was not as good as it was hyped up to be. To me, it just wasn’t as great as it should’ve been for me. Before watching this I heard that ‘Michael Myers goes around in a mask stalking babysitters’. After the first half of the movie, I started to think, ‘Wow. That is all he does’. I then watched Halloween 2 the next day, and now I know why he stalks her… Even so, it’s a nice story. The scares are pretty good. Nothing really jump scare, just a lot of suspense and creepiness. But suspense and creepiness is what really makes this movie great. So that’s all that really matters.

Visuals: For a b-movie, this is great. I loved it. Cinematography, lighting, editing, etc. Everything about this film was great and made it that much more better.

Music: Composed by John Carpenter, this is extremely great and legendary. Not only is this the theme to the ‘Halloween’ movie and the theme for Michael Myers, but one could even argue that this is the theme for Halloween, the holiday. When is it that we have a great director and great composer at the same time?

Cast & Characters: First of all, probably the best thing about this movie besides the music and Michael Myers was Dr. Loomis. He was just so slick and bald and just cool all around. Jamie Lee Curtis was also great taking the crown for scream queen from her mother, Janet Leigh Curtis, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’.

Verdict: Probably the best slasher film you’ll ever see from the 80s and 90s batch of horror films, John Carpenter shows people how it’s truly done.

‘Avatar 4’ To Be A Prequel Says James Cameron

‘Avatar 4’ to be a prequel? Whaaaaat? Are they trying to be like Star Wars? Does that mean the series will start sucking by the time they get to 4?

James Cameron recently spoke to MTV News,

“I have an idea for a fourth,” Cameron told MTV News when we caught up with him at a press event for “Titanic.” (A new collector’s edition of the record-breaking movie hits home video on September 10.) “I haven’t really put pen to paper on it, but basically it goes back to the early expeditions of Pandora, and kind of what went wrong with the humans and the Na’vi and what that was like to be an explorer and living in that world.”

“Because when we drop in, even in the first film in ‘Avatar 1,’ as it will be known in the future, we’re dropping into a process that’s 35 years in to a whole colonization,” Cameron continued of his interest in an “Avatar” prequel. “That will complete an arc and if that leads into more, we’ll start, not imitating ‘Star Wars,’ but it’s a logical thing to do because we’ll have completed the thematic arc by the end of three. The only thing left to do is go back to see what it was like on those first expeditions and create some new characters that then become legacy characters in later films. It’s a plan.”

It sounds to be a good plotline. Of course, it wouldn’t have the same actors since most of them would be kids 35 years before Avatar 1. All that really matters to make a fourth Avatar is that the 2nd and 3rd films are good. But even if they aren’t good, they’ll still keep going all the way to make 4. Since Avatar was the highest grossing movie at the box office to this day, the sequels and prequels are sure to make huge amounts of money also. Maybe not more or just as much, but definitely a crapload.

James Cameron is taking a George Lucas take on his series. George Lucas knew when starting a trilogy, whether it was the first trilogy or the prequel trilogy of Star Wars, that he was going to finish it now matter what.

“We’ve spent two years refining the whole pipeline,” said the filmmaker. “It was a hideously complex process to make that film and a lot has been said about that, but we don’t want it to be done in the same prototypical way as the first one, we want it to be a much smoother workflow just for creativity reasons.”

That “creativity” factor isn’t something to be ignored, either. Cameron said he’s still working on the story for the next two “Avatar” films, a daunting process “because I’m writing two scripts together as one big thing.”

Avatar 2 is said to be ways away and could be released around 2015. Avatar 2 and 3 are being shot simultaneosly, so it is unknown at the moment when the other sequels of Avatar are to be released. At this rate, it could span a decade till Avatar 4 comes out or even Avatar 3.

‘Paranormal Activity 4’ Trailer Review

“OMG I heard noises will I’m sleeping so I’m going to film myself sleeping with an HD camera all night to see what happens!!!!1!!!!111”

So I’ve never seen any of the Paranormal Activity movies. I almost watched the third one at a party once, but the people of the party chose to put in Soul Plane, so yeah. You know how that went…

This looks pretty cool but also stupid at the same time. Why is her whole house electronic? The doors open electronically, windows open electronically, lights turn on with sensors? At the end when the boy looks up at her window I was thinking “OH SHOOT”. Then it was like “Front door open… Back door open”. I was like “wut…” A weird twist meaning they are running out of ideas for it to be a scary movie.

Apparently, the stars of the 3rd Paranormal Activity are back. A mom and her baby are possessed and moved into the neighborhood.

I’m not gonna see this in theaters, especially since I haven’t seen the others. Maybe I’ll watch the whole Paranormal Activity series on DVD someday.