r/Halloweenmovies

I know I know..not another one of these posts. After rewatching Halloween Ends again, I think it’s one hell of a movie and one I’m glad we got.

When the flick first came out, I just didn’t get it. I think a lot of people didn’t. I downright hated it. The film left me empty. Michael doesn’t show up till 40 mins in.

Then I kept reevaluating and I see so much of what they were trying to do. There are so many nods to the original and trying to spiritually connect the two. When Corey sees Michael and turns, Laurie sees him outside in the same way she saw the shape in 78. When Corey kills him mom, it’s in the same way that Michael killed Judith (the camera work).

There’s an argument that it’s a bad shape movie, and it is, but as an experience, I think it’s stands with one of the best ones to watch after the original. And possibly the best to watch after…

I know, I sound crazy. But the more I watch it, the more I see what I was incapable of seeing in 2022. And the more I’m appreciative of it.

(And before anybody comes at me, I’ve been a hardcore since 30 years and have a bunch of Michaels tattooed on me…just saying I ain’t a casual)

This year, maybe give it another try because I fucking hatred and now I love it

It doesn’t look like a Halloween film. Doesn’t sound like one. The actor playing The Shape doesn’t look, act or move like Michael at all. I see fans in the sub everyday who cosplay Michael better than this dude. I mean I’m watching this thing now and I’m shocked that it’s not near the bottom of every list. RZH2 might be better than this movie.

I’d like to take the time to discuss one of the most ridiculous plot lines in any film I’ve ever seen.

I see a lot of discourse, and, surprisingly, a lot of praise, about Halloween VI: The Curse of Michael Myers. I won’t delve into my own opinion on the film, but I do want to know what everybody thinks about…

UNCLE DAD.

Like, wtf were they thinking?! Have Michael impregnate his NIECE and, therefore, be the FATHER to his NEPHEW? Fuckin’ disgusting, not to mention cringy asf.

This, along with the whole Thorn lineage nonsense, makes this film impossible to enjoy for me. Granted, I’m pretty sure Uncle Dad only appears in the Producer’s Cut, but it’s one of those things that you can’t ignore once you’ve seen it.

Any thoughts?

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"No … Not even a little bit. Like, not even a tiny bit. “I was like, ‘I’m not going to do that.’ What is it going to do for my career? I’m a model, and I need to do things that are kind of different to get this acting career that I want. He was like, ‘No, Josh Hartnett did Halloween, and look what he’s doing now!’” Not only did it not do anything for me, they cut the damn death scene. So, I have beef with Halloween 8!”

I think only the first movie sets Michael up to be something much bigger than just a serial killer.

I'd go that route after Michael gets shot out the window by Loomis. The governor send hundreds of police officers from around the state to hunt Michael but they never find him. And keep Michael on the loose for decades. Make it where he becomes a urban legend. And all disappearances in haddonfield are blamed on him. But when someone important goes missing. The town sends a search party that is brutally murdered by Michael and also goes missing in the woods..

But make michael much more unpredictable. Would it be uncharacteristic to anyone if michael kidnapped people and used body parts to make fucked up Halloween decorations in a decaying little shack deep in the woods. I'd use a clean mask not a rotten one also. I think the clean mask look scarier than the rotten ones. The decay takes away from some of the emotionless look in my opinion. And I wouldn't make Michael age much. Signifying he is more than human.

Make it where parents tell their kids to not be out late on Halloween night or Michael will take them.

I'm just tired of him being portrayed as a unstoppable serial killer only. And not the supernatural stalker he once was. OG Michael Myers could be in your closet watching, waiting and deciding if he wanted to take you. And you may never know it type of vibe.

H1, H2, H4 is the classic Halloween saga imo other than the mask problems in H4 it's a damn near perfect slasher and Michael Myers comeback.

I always wondered about the pumpkin's nose in the opening sequence of Halloween (1978). Did the carver slip and make a cut beyond what they intended? If so, why keep it? Because pumpkins were hard to find during the film shoot?

Or, hear me out... is that nose supposed to be a butcher knife and the pumpkin's right eye, the mask of Michael Myers?

In my opinion in the entire franchise I think only two injuries really hurt Micheal

1.getting his fingers blasted off by Laurie in 2018

2.getting jumped in Halloween kills

His fingers getting blown off would definitely hurt we even hear him semi scream in pain when it happens plus it heavily effected him for the rest of the trilogy having two less fingers

And Micheal getting jumped is the entire reason why he was so weak in ends yes he may of killed his attackers but I know for a fact after he killed Karen at the end of kills he was limping around haddonfield until he got to his sewer hide out

I realize it depends on the specific version, but could someone who is 5'7" pull off the *Kills* or *Ends* look and still do a great job? Does weight play a role too, or is it all about attitude? Enlighten me.

We gotta bring Busta back to beat Michaels ass