secretlettermkr
Waiting Room
- Apr 12, 2022
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Prince Of Darkness is one of his best movies imo
Absolutely! SO, so underrated in every aspect. In my mind, the movie's completely on the level of Halloween, The Fog, and The Thing, and maybe in some scenes even surpasses them in the feeling of sheer cosmic horror that it evokes. Anyway, these four and In the Mouth of Madness are my favourite of Carpenter's canon - these are as good as it gets!Prince Of Darkness is one of his best movies imo
The first one was really good, the second one, Halloween Kills was AWFULL, such a train wreck.I'm really excited for Halloween Ends -- David Gordon Green's recent Halloween films have been more true to Carpenter's original vision of The Shape than any of the other sequels IMO.
I guess I'm in the opposite camp -- Halloween 2018 was good, but Kills was great IMO. No plot contrivance in the form of Dr. Sartain or Laurie's over the top Home Alone fortress, just Michael Myers trying to go home again and all the delusional citizens of Haddonfield throwing themselves in front of him. I do think that one hospital sequence was a little too drawn out and melodramatic though. I will concede that the recent flicks don't do as well with the Laurie Strode character as H20, but that's about the only of H20's strengths..The first one was really good, the second one, Halloween Kills was AWFULL, such a train wreck.
I haven't seen any of the recent Halloween films (the last one of that "universe" that I watched was Rob Zombie's 2007 remake) but I remember liking H20 quite a bit back in the day, though it came out during the period when horror genre was littered with teenie-weenie slashers in Scream mode - decidedly not my favourite period. I guess you could accuse H20 of this, as well, but the connection with the original two movies it was establishing felt genuine and heart-felt to me, so I guess that was what salvaged it. Plus I really liked the cast in it (everyone from Adam Arkin to LL Cool J), and MM is as brutal as ever... What was it about the movie that you disliked?I guess I'm in the opposite camp -- Halloween 2018 was good, but Kills was great IMO. No plot contrivance in the form of Dr. Sartain or Laurie's over the top Home Alone fortress, just Michael Myers trying to go home again and all the delusional citizens of Haddonfield throwing themselves in front of him. I do think that one hospital sequence was a little too drawn out and melodramatic though. I will concede that the recent flicks don't do as well with the Laurie Strode character as H20, but that's about the only of H20's strengths..
I think the movie does a few things right. The relationship between Laurie and her son feels very genuine and nuanced. And the whole dumbwaiter sequence is one of my favorite kills of the entire franchise.I haven't seen any of the recent Halloween films (the last one of that "universe" that I watched was Rob Zombie's 2007 remake) but I remember liking H20 quite a bit back in the day, though it came out during the period when horror genre was littered with teenie-weenie slashers in Scream mode - decidedly not my favourite period. I guess you could accuse H20 of this, as well, but the connection with the original two movies it was establishing felt genuine and heart-felt to me, so I guess that was what salvaged it. Plus I really liked the cast in it (everyone from Adam Arkin to LL Cool J), and MM is as brutal as ever... What was it about the movie that you disliked?
One weird criticism of Halloween 2018: Michael Myers had only killed 5 people at the beginning of that film, yet the podcasters and everyone else acts like he is the most dangerous criminal ever.