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SOOO much better than the recent Halloween films


Just watched this for the first time and it was so refreshing to see a nasty, efficient horror film with tits galore.

Was it a great film? No. It was too constantly in-your-face. I liked the gore and loved the tits, but there needed to be some breathing room for atmosphere, and perhaps some more intelligent and likeable characters (think Scream).

This was bros and babes getting brutally shredded with very little substance or compelling mystery. Cabin In The Woods did all this better and had an incredibly inventive meta angle.

This looked great but it was too dark. Jason would appear with the usual eye-rolling ‘dummmmm!’ bass note and then suddenly skewer someone with overly loud sound effects but the action was too close-up and dark to clearly see what was going on. They needed to dial it all down a bit and build some mood.

But as a 90min slice of brutal exploitation horror it delivered. It was much better than the utterly dreadful recent Halloween ‘sequel trilogy’ with their woke garbage, painfully stupid characters, and dreadful plotting.

15 years ago this was a pretty bad movie. Today it looks like a masterpiece. That’s where we’re at.

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This doesn't have a whole lot of distinct personality - it's just a well made piece of (relatively) modern slasher exploitation that doesn't pull many punches. It's the easiest "Friday" to watch next to Part VI.

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I’ve only seen this one and the original. Of those the original is still the king… but not by much. It had more atmosphere, mystery and surprise but for a ‘classic horror’ was surprisingly dumb.

Halloween is superior, with a much more memorable heroine in Laurie Strode. I love the feeling of night time in that quiet leafy suburb, into which steps Michael.

I’d say the formula wasn’t perfected until Scream (1996], that just got it all right with a layer of meta commentary to really mess with your head, a superb Scream Queen, and possibly the greatest opening scene to any horror film.

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