Halloween (1978)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 91m
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence
Synopsis:
A boy who slaughtered his sister on Halloween returns fifteen years later to celebrate, closely pursued by the psychiatrist assigned to his case.
Review:
This jokey, cheaply made suspenser is probably single-handedly responsible for the run of slasher films that deluged cinemas at the end of the seventies, many more-or-less-conscious homages to Hitchcock's Psycho, though what warranted that particular coordinated obeisance is questionable. It seems likely that following Jaws the nation's desire to be scared drew those directors ready to oblige to the genre, and before long the antagonist of such films was typically evil without cause and all but impossible to kill (both tropes present in Spielberg's seminal thriller). Carpenter's film in itself spawned many sequels, all inferior, and is a pretty sleek exercise in directorial game-playing, shot with plentiful use of a steadicam and the telltale musical cues beloved of its maker; the script and acting are something else, though.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 91m
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence
Synopsis:
A boy who slaughtered his sister on Halloween returns fifteen years later to celebrate, closely pursued by the psychiatrist assigned to his case.
Review:
This jokey, cheaply made suspenser is probably single-handedly responsible for the run of slasher films that deluged cinemas at the end of the seventies, many more-or-less-conscious homages to Hitchcock's Psycho, though what warranted that particular coordinated obeisance is questionable. It seems likely that following Jaws the nation's desire to be scared drew those directors ready to oblige to the genre, and before long the antagonist of such films was typically evil without cause and all but impossible to kill (both tropes present in Spielberg's seminal thriller). Carpenter's film in itself spawned many sequels, all inferior, and is a pretty sleek exercise in directorial game-playing, shot with plentiful use of a steadicam and the telltale musical cues beloved of its maker; the script and acting are something else, though.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 91m
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence
Synopsis:
A boy who slaughtered his sister on Halloween returns fifteen years later to celebrate, closely pursued by the psychiatrist assigned to his case.
Review:
This jokey, cheaply made suspenser is probably single-handedly responsible for the run of slasher films that deluged cinemas at the end of the seventies, many more-or-less-conscious homages to Hitchcock's Psycho, though what warranted that particular coordinated obeisance is questionable. It seems likely that following Jaws the nation's desire to be scared drew those directors ready to oblige to the genre, and before long the antagonist of such films was typically evil without cause and all but impossible to kill (both tropes present in Spielberg's seminal thriller). Carpenter's film in itself spawned many sequels, all inferior, and is a pretty sleek exercise in directorial game-playing, shot with plentiful use of a steadicam and the telltale musical cues beloved of its maker; the script and acting are something else, though.