Starring donald pleasance, jamie lee curtis, charles cyphers, nancy loomis, pj soles. Halloween 4 the night he came home full movie duration. John carpenters halloween modernized trailer youtube. The success of the original halloween launched six sequels, a ravenous decades worth of imitators, and hollywood careers for star jamie lee curtis and director john carpenter. Halloween 2, the first sequel to john carpenters 1978 horror classic, greatly ramped up the franchises levels of blood and gore, and heres why. But its budget was a micro one, and director carpenter managed to save a few bucks by hiring the same composer hed worked with since his days as a student and struggling indiehimself.
Thats a whole lot of maniacs killing teenagers, and it was all due to the success of one film. Set in the fictional small town of haddonfield, illinois, the story capitalizes on the sleepy nature of this agrarian american paradise, where. In the mid1970s, irwin yablans saw one of john carpenters earliest films at a festival in milan and saw the potential for his own vision of halloween on film. This was an homage to how he killed his sister, judith, in a clown costume.
John carpenters original halloween is by far the best of the series. Halloween a screenplay by john carpenter and debra hill. Movie themes 19741998 by john carpenter, released 20 october 2017 1. Halloween 2 full movie commentary rob zombies h2 youtube. Le film fut developpe en raison du succes du premier opus, il est toujours ecrit par john carpenter et debra hill. A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and returns home to finish what he started. The filmmaker who is king of things that go bump in the night is a musical master of horror as well. The best john carpenter movie theme songs halloween, the. Carpenter had no involvement in the past 8 halloween remakes and reboots, but it appears he may be going back to his roots for the 2018 adaptation. The plot tells about a mental patient who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his teenage sister on halloween night when he was six years old.
They tested it out and it appeared very demented and creepy. John carpenter halloween original soundtrack discogs. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his. Although not the premiere weekend its the 3rd weekend, this issue contains a hardtofind ad for john carpenters halloween ii. Finally camera moves in close on the eye of the mask. Halloween is a 1978 american slasher film directed and scored by john carpenter, cowritten with producer debra hill, and starring donald pleasence and jamie lee curtis in her film debut. This ghost story angle is evident it the fact that carpenters next film the fog was an outandout ghost story complete with beginning campfire. With jamie lee curtis, donald pleasence, charles cyphers, jeffrey kramer.
John howard carpenter was born in carthage, new york, to mother milton jean carter and father howard ralph carpenter. Lee cowan talks with directorcomposer john carpenter, whose next film is a real sequel to. Halloween ii is a 1981 american slasher film directed by rick rosenthal in his directorial debut, written and produced by john carpenter and debra hill, and starring jamie lee curtis and donald pleasence who reprise their respective roles as laurie strode and dr. Whilst not the best nor worst of the series, halloween ii is a middling addition to the series but is far better than some of the later entries. Rob zombies halloween 2 accidentally copied john carpenter zombies halloween and halloween ii from 2007 and 2009 took the framework of carpenters film, but went much deeper into michaels childhood and backstory, as well as lauries own fractured mental state. John carpenters original halloween was a game changer for the slasher genre, and catapulted star jamie lee curtis into stardom. It is a large, full head platex rubber mask, not a monster or ghoul, but the pale, neutral features of a man weirdly distorted by the rubber. The film follows directly on from the first, iconic john carpenter movie so much so that there are mere seconds between the end of the 1978 original and this sequel. John carpenters halloween is one of the best, scariest. I n his brilliant turnofthecentury documentary the american nightmare, adam simon located john carpenters 1978 halloween as the end point of a decade of countercultural horror movies. Sacred bones records has released the full soundtrack for the new halloween, composed by john carpenter, ahead of the movies release.
Last year, the halloween filmmaker said, i would love to direct something, if its the right thing to do at my age. The latest halloween ii 2009 film videos on dailymotion. John carpenters halloween 2 1981 movie trivia night. Its become a staple on tv during halloween season, and has been remade badly by rob zombie. Movie trailers john carpenters halloween fathom events spot john carpenters halloween fathom events spot john carpenters halloween fathom events spot. Halloween not only launched an entire subgenre, but also launched a franchise with seven sequels, comic books, costumes, a video game, action figures, and two remakes by rob zombie. His family moved to bowling green, kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at western kentucky university.
Considered by many as the scariest movie ever made, john carpenters halloween was a milestone for slasher films, paving the way to innumerable, yet unmatchable, knockoffs. Michael myers is 21 years old, which is also stated by dr. In the documentary short, halloween unmasked 2000 1999, it was revealed that the crew had chosen two masks for michael myers to decide on. John carpenter keeps his office in a converted hillside hollywood home, on a quiet treelined street evocative of the sleepy suburb michael myers terrorized in.
This is the first time carpenter has worked on a halloween film since 1981, just 3 years after michael myers made his debut. When john carpenters halloween was released in 1978, no one least of all the filmmakers could have predicted the phenomenon it would create. Rob zombie literally does the exact opposite of what john carpenter did in the original 1978 film. John carpenter is ready for another halloween movie. The film is supposedly being shot with a modest budget and has an expected release date of october 19, 2018 hitting. The making of john carpenters halloween consequence of. John carpenter labelled halloween ii an abomination. Carpenter, 30 at the time, made halloween on a shoestring budget and worked with a small, young crew. With donald pleasence, jamie lee curtis, tony moran, nancy kyes. Halloween ii john carpenter slasher film michael myers. This economically produced horror film started the slasher movie craze, made jamie lee curtis a star, and held the record for highest grossing independent film for many years. Youtube coffee house jazz music positive jazz playlist for morning,work,study.
The movie also made writerdirector john carpenter a name to watch, and he would follow up its success with a run of genre classics, including escape from new york, the thing and big trouble in. John carpenters halloween scared the living daylights out of 25 million people and set a precedent in smashing box office records for a horror film. As all savvy horror fans are aware, halloween was hardly the first slasher film the argument over which movie was the first is best saved for another time, but without it, the genre as we know it wouldnt exist. Joe denat, john carpenter, carpenter, john halloween. Halloween 2 movie trailer 1981while sheriff brackett and dr. This economically produced horror film started the slasher movie craze, made jamie lee curtis a star. Why halloween 2 is much gorier than john carpenters original. Every october my friends and i make a halloween fan film and present it as an anthology. Halloween 2 rick rosenthal, jamie lee curtis, donald. John carpenter talked david gordon green out of refilming 1978 ending for the new sequel the score was done in 1978 on old tube synthesizers, said carpenter. The untold truth of john carpenters halloween by mike floorwalker oct. Back in 1978, john carpenters halloween was an urban legend, a movie so scary that audiences were screaming their heads off in theaters across america. A master of horror, john carpenter created the 1978 thriller hit halloween, which has inspired and influenced countless other filmmakers.
John carpenters halloween 1978 is returning to movie. Due to its initial limited showing, such ads are uncommon, and perhaps no better issue could be found than this, the leading newspaper from the home of the entertainment industry. John carpenters halloween is returning in 2018 frightfind. Halloween 2 movie 1981 jamie lee curtis, donald pleasence. While the original halloween served as the impetus for what friday the th would turn into the 1980s slasher boom, its important to remember that carpenters film really wasnt that violent. But the blockbuster about a masked killer murdering babysitters made. Halloween is highly influential to this day lets talk about that filmmaking craft. A new john carpenter horror movie is a possibility film. Halloween night, 1978 in the small town of haddonfield, il.
The first was a don post emmett kelly smiling clown mask that they put frizzy red hair on. Fifteen years after murdering his sister on halloween night 1963, michael myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of haddonfield, illinois to kill again. Halloween filming locations 1978 john carpenter horror classic. Halloween ii is a 1981 american slasher film directed by rick rosenthal in his directorial debut, written and produced by john carpenter and debra hill, and. Every volume is a different story with different characters but the villain is always the same.
Halloween ii 1981 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The films were controversial reboots of the michael myers character, but rob zombie definitely put his own. Dana carvey and catherine bergstrom in halloween ii 1981 jamie lee curtis and. When john carpenter made the original halloween in 1978, it was just another in a long line of lowbudget horror movies.
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