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Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, PJ Soles, Nancy Loomis
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Halloween |
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On Halloween night, a 6 year old boy, Michael Myers, kills his sister and is committed to a mental hospital. 15 years later, on Halloween, Michael escapes from the hospital and returns home to begin killing again.
Loomis, Michael's doctor, knows how dangerous he is and he follows him to stop him.
Michael targets Laurie and Annie, two high school girls, and follows them.
Laurie and Annie are babysitting in houses across the street from each other. Annie talks Laurie into watching her little girl so she can be with her boyfriend, but Michael kills her before she leaves. Annie also lets her two friends use the house to have sex, but Michael kills them as well.
Michael gets into the house with Laurie and attacks her.
Laurie stabs him with a knitting needle, but he doesn't die. He chases her upstairs and into a closet where she uses a coat hanger and stabs him in the eye, but he keeps coming.
The two kids escape and run from the house screaming.
Dr. Loomis hears and sees the kids and runs to help. He shoots Michael several times, causing him to fall out a window. But, when Loomis looks down, Michael's body is gone.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar
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In 1963 a young Michael Myers killed one of his sister's in cold blood. He was sent off to a mental institution where he stayed for 15 years. In 1978 he escapes and heads back to his home town to kill his other sister and terrorize the town.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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The classic thriller that started the slasher genre. Masked maniac Michael Myers returns to his small town to stalk some teenage babysitters.
--Phil, Resident Scholar
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Tonight is Halloween and Michael Myers has just escaped, after patiently and silently waiting. Waiting for what? Escaping back to Haddonfield, Ill. to pick up where he left off fifteen years before. Maybe to chow down on a family pet.
Jamie Lee Curtis (first role) is Laurie, babysitter and normal friend to two nasty, mean, rude slutpuppies, Annie and Lynda.
(they SHOULD die; they're way too bitchy and mean to live) Lesson for the day: Don't curse at the weird guy in the white hockey mask, speeding through your neighborhood; especially if you don't know him. (yet)
This is one of the scariest movie of all time, if not THE.
Donald Pleasance is Dr. Sam Loomis, scared to death that he's too late to stop Michael....
--Dorothy Renshaw, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 35%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 35%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Horror film?
Yes
Horror Plotlets:
- mad guy with knife likes to slice
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- average (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- bald
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- killer
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- is very quick
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- average (man)
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- Bulging muscles
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
Kind of violence:
- mission to destroy something
- hand to hand
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- impaled
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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