Sunday 21 October 2018

Halloween (1978 John Carpenter & co-scr)

Jamie Lee Curtis' character Laurie is without doubt the best baby-sitter ever...

So small was the budget that Pleasance was paid in peanut butter sandwiches. Some of his scenes are truly terrible. But who cares? It's all Jamie and the kids and the Panaglide camera, the night, The Thing From Another World, jack-a-lanterns, the mask in the background in the shadows, the piano...

For further comment, see all October reviews for the last seventy years.

Q says that in last shot of the film, the Myers house is 'breathing'.

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