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Hmmm. Sums it up pretty much. Very good. I don’t think I could of answered any better . Well, I guess it kinda wraps up this post. 🙂
My favorite image belongs in The Exorcist.
:Reagan kneeling on her bed, arms out stretched over her head with the staute of Pazuzu behind her.I’m a huge fan of Heretic. Linda Blair looks absolutely marvelous!!
Let’s hear it…. doesn’t the scene where Richard (am I sober yet) Burton steps on the spikes in that pond to, I think it was test his faith, make you cring? It does for me.
Come on, is it really that bad?I think that the sub-title “The Version You’ve Never Seen” works so much better than “Director’s Cut” for this particular film.
When I saw the phrase The Version You’ve Never Seen I immediately thought, my god I have to relive this nightmare again? (not that it was a problem) What other horrors will I see? I don’t think Director’s Cut would of done it for me. I mean I still would of seen the film…Dude, I can’t imagine anybody other than Jason Miller in the role of Father Damien Karris.
Also, I agree completely with you:
“There are some exceptions, like Kidman in The Others, Willis in The Sixth Sense, Gibson in Signs”Hey granville1, you are not in the minority. I like the film, don’t get me wrong but it seems to me that The Omen has that “Hollywood Chock Full O’ Stars Summer/Holiday Weekend Blockbuster” written all over it.
You may laugh but Mr. Peck, Ms. Remick, Mr. Warner were probably still bankable when this came out.Halloween should be left alone! What can Zombie do to this film that wasn’t done anywhere else before? More buckets of gore perhaps? Gimme a break! It’s shit like this that makes it very hard for me to watch “new” horror films of today.
Caught Sweet Hostage on TNT one night. Copied it to video and then made the transfer to DVD-R. It’s butchered…. but it’s mine! All mine. 🙂
You’re right. For me, I have no sense of dread whatsoever when I see a “star” cast in the lead of any flick. I just know he/she’s going to save the day so the series can continue.
But with The Exorcist and with the above mentioned male cast, I still feel (even though I’ve seen this film umpthteen times) like there’s no relief in sight.For me, Halloween still works. We could possibly say that we know a ‘Laurie Strode’ or that we know someone who kinda resembles her friends.
It’s a possible very real setting and situation. Has it dated? Maybe. The clothing styles of the youths at the time are very 70’s. But the things they do are still happening now. So what Carpenter didn’t overwhelm us with blood and guts. He didn’t need to…. you know why? Because there was a story there. Here is one film that didn’t need gore and cgi to sell it.
The original Halloween is today still spooky in my book, doesn’t need a reimaging (sorry Mr. Zombie and all you other hanks out there looking for a spot in Hollywood by taking the horror route but there are films that shouldn’t be fucked with). It was made right the first time. And it is watched every Halloween night in my house hold. Sorry for the ranting… shit pisses me off thats all. Jeez, what’s next?…. The Exorcist?
