Despite having seen Halloween seventy-seven times, Q is still full of amusing questions like 'How come he knows how to drive?' 'Why'd he kill his sister?' 'How come he's so strong?' 'Why don't they see they're being followed?' and other enquiries that miss the point - horror films are usually a load of old bollocks. (Which puts stuff like Repulsion on an exalted level.)
I wonder how long it took to film? Twenty days.
I love the fact that the music is played by a human being (Carpenter) and isn't perfect.
I don't think I've ever mentioned the editors - Charles Bornstein and Tommy Lee Wallace, who was also the production designer and became a director himself, e.g.of Halloween III and the TV version of It in 1990.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the two screen shots I was going to take I already had.
I first watched it on 2 January 1981, I guess at the cinema. I can't remember. I'm sure I saw The Fog at the cinema too but strangely I don't have one of my old filing cards on it. It's pretty wacky. It's essentially the same creative team as behind Halloween - Hill, Cundey, Wallace etc etc. Even some of cast. And Jamie Lee and Janet together. (Cueing thought - will Janet get bumped off again?)
Quite enjoyable nonsense. With Adrienne Barbeau (then Mrs. Carpenter), John Houseman, Tom Atkins, James Canning, Charles Cyphers (amusingly playing 'Dan O'Bannon'), Nancy Kyes, Hal Holbrook.
I have no idea what the 'blake effects' credited to Dean Cundey are, and neither does Google.
There are a couple of places where Leigh looks like she's been fogged over but apparently it's an unintentional camera fogging error.
Well, that's another Halloween.
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