HALLOWEEN
The breathing sounds, Loomis’ expression, Laurie’s crying and the whole non-ending of it all. Truly frightening.
HALLOWEEN 4
My personal favourite. This isn’t the typical slasher you’d expected. This film packs a twist that placed it far above the fast-growing Friday and Nightmare films. Donald Pleasence’s truly shocked reaction still scares me to this day, as does little Danielle standing at the top of the stairs, truly evil.
HALLOWEEN II
Michael goes out with a bang. It just seems like such a powerful scene that somehow manages to not be tacky in it’s execution.
HALLOWEEN H20
The film was fun up until the end, where it just made me go D:
True balls, even if they did film an alternate ending where he escapes.
HALLOWEEN RESURRECTION
The opening couple of minutes up until Laurie’s death showed promise, even if Michael needlessly beheaded a guy. The ending in the coroner’s room was great, truly awesome, especially with the burnt mask. Much better than the original ending of a hand coming out of a sewer manhole, which looked stupidly straight to DVD ass (like the entire film overall). If the film was better, this ending would be below Halloween 4 as my second fave.
HALLOWEEN 5
Despite the silliness of Michael sitting calmly in a feeble prison cell, the performance of Danielle Harris, roaming the corridors of the police station really make this ending much better than the 100% crap it could’ve been.
HALLOWEEN 6: THE PRODUCERS’ CUT
Included it because it’s drastically different. I think personally that the Producer’s Cut is the worst film of the original series, it tries too hard to add plot whereas the theatrical cut hands you the plot and some smoothness and pacing that it needed. The idea of Michael roaming around with a mad Loomis as his master was very very contrived, and wouldn’t have worked at all (maybe they could’ve made Michael masterless, and Loomis kill himself? Returning to the H1 roots?). But the image of Donald Pleasence screaming in a horrible, toe curling way is scary as hell, and he manages to add some credibility to a scene that was drowning in story and plot ideas.
HALLOWEEN 6
After the awesome (yes, awesome, I really like it) pipe bashing scene, Loomis says goodbye to the heroes. This would’ve been a great scene, as Loomis enters the building, a cut to black. Mysterious and unanswered, like the original, it could’ve been one of the best endings of the series and one of the best films. But adding the bad, out of continuity shot of Michael’s now clean mask and a syringe, and Donald’s scream just didn’t make sense and was an obvious struggle at a twist ending. Less is more guys, less is more.
ROB ZOMBIE’S HALLOWEEN FILMS
Whatever tension he built up at the end of the first film is killed, and the film doesn’t last beyond the screen because of all the different endings’ bad direction and writing. Same goes for Halloween II. The (again multiple) endings don’t make any sense, the film stopped being a Halloween film a long time ago and it’s become a psuedo action film with a head trip ending. It’s not that I’m comparing Zombie’s ‘vision’ to the other Halloween films, it’s just that they’re not even horror by the final act, they’re just Zombie struggling to bring an idea to a close. His Halloween films should’ve been something original, they’re great films on their own, but not with the characters and name of the series.