Halloween

Guess I'll be the one to say it...this movie sucks. I get its influence, but it's boring as fuck, Jamie Lee Curtis is fucking ugly, the synth score is cheesy and second-rate, and there's no plot. Even the kills lack gore

no

I watched this film on Halloween night thinking I was popping my cherry to one of Horror's greatest -- and I couldn't had been more wrong. You basically summed up my opinion. Jaimie Lee Curtis has a manly face and couldn't do an innocent girl next door role -- this was a miscast. Jason is hyped up to be some force of evil, and yet he's very incompetent and lacks any subtly. The kills, like you say, were not bloody or shocking in the least.

Halloween 1978 is genuinely a non-scary movie. Don't give me the whole, 'context of its time' defense. A good movie is good for all time. This shit doesn't hold up.

Blake?

>Jason is hyped up
>Jason

Huh, wha?

>and lacks any subtly
So do you.

Halloween 3 thoooo

>Even the kills lack gore

stick to the saw movies, kid.

exactly my thoughts

>watches old movies like they are new
You are a fucking child. Patricians understand that watching old movies will likely result in seeing things you've seen before. These old movies are the predecessors and will likely be the source of many tropes. Plebs will watch old movies and whine about how they aren't as good as the new ones. No shit, kiddo.

I rewatched it recently for the first time in years, and noticed a lot of bullshit that I didn't before.

>How did the asylum staff not notice all the patients getting out, and wandering the grounds?
>Palm trees in Illinois.
>On over 100 miles of highway, Loomis happens to stop at the one random spot where Michael killed a guy
>The acting in general is pretty bad
>The chicks in this movie make an awful lot of noise while they're being strangled, despite having their airflow cut off
>The car Michael stole is conveniently parked a couple of houses down from the Myers' house, and even then, neither Loomis nor the sheriff notice it for hours

It really struck me how little Loomis is actually involved in the story. I guess that H1 and 2 just sort of blended together in my head over the years.

OP's post explains why all horror is shit now. This is the market that films are made for. Retarded millennial shitters with no understanding of what made horror good to begin with.

>there's no jump scares
>lead female has to be a super model for these kids to pay attention to the film
>wanting buckets of blood and gore over atmosphere and pacing
>not enjoying kino synth music

kys

There is a plot. The theme song is a classic and incredibly recognizable. Jamie Lee Curtis isn't supposed to be "hot", she's a bookworm and nerd. Only retards want to stare at blood and guts.

Fuck you

I actually agree that it's overrated but your reasoning is dumb as fuck. The attractiveness of the women doesn't impact the movie's quality, it's not a porno you 13 year-old. The score is great, again you'd have to be a 13 year-old to think it's "cheesy". Of fucking course there's a plot, you sound like one of those "literally nothing happens" retards.

The actual problem of the movie is that it relies too much on suspense and ends up being largely boring as a result.

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>The actual problem of the movie is that it relies too much on suspense and ends up being largely boring as a result.

Agreed. The first watch is fantastic but after multiple viewings it does get dull.

Couldn't agree more
Texas chainsaw massacre beats it by a mile

I'm normally a hater on old horror films. Not that they're bad but just not scary and tend to be boring. But I think Halloween is still fucking great. Still creepy af

I actually never watched the full movie before because everytime I tried to watch it, I stopped the movie due to boredom.

Yeah, not a fan. It’s ok I guess.

>Jason

I could be mistaken, but isn't this the first thing that Carpenter directed out of film school? It is pretty impressive on that level.

I have just the right movie for you, OP. It called The Conjuring and its sequels and prequels by horror mastermind James Wan. Skip Halloween and other boring and ewwww classics. Also check out Halloween remake. You'd probably like it. It was made for degenerates like you.

I think you'll find that most slasher films of old don't look as good in the eyes of our modern sensibilities as they once did. We live in an age of connectivity and being able to immediately display your current state for the world to see. These types of films worked better when we were more closed off and without access to immediate help (needed to be withing reach of a landline). Things were simpler before; people were spooked by this stuff because they were capable of putting themselves in the shoes of the victims. Not many people watching now can do that.

Shit opinion coming through but I liked Halloween 2 more, but I still think the first one is great.

The scene where he has the white sheet over him is pretty eerie. The girl slowly begins to doubt that it is who she thinks it is.