That’s what lost me. The size of Myers. The strength, etc. It just got old. The whole signature/trademark white mask, too. Kinda got boring to me. None of the masks to me look that good after HII. They could of chosen to have used different masks.
The THORN idea IMO was an okay idea. However, it’d of been better if it the THORN was not about Myers and it was someone else that had this Curse on Halloween Night. Not a Halloween/Myers related Curse movie its what I’m trying to say. A different movie. Like a Tales from the Crypt/Creepshow type of feel to it.
It’ll take more than just someone who cares though. The problem with horror right now is that there’s not a lot of stuff being made that has nothing really to be remembered by. Same old crap. It’s all Hollywood special effects with the sugar of the month celebrity stars.
When John Carpenter was making his 78 Halloween film, there’s no doubts about what and who his influences were. One would be Dario Argento. The other would be Giallo films from the late 60’s into the mid 70’s. There’s no doubt about it. I watch and own many Giallo films. The 1978 Halloween movie, from the lighting to the Halloween theme, to Myers as a killer. It’s straight up GIALLO. That’s what directors have lost touch with. The solid past of them older Horror movies.
The one thing to always remember in life though is different eras in time. That’s why many love the 78 film so much. Why many prefer older movies in general. Older music, older celebrities, etc. It was different eras in time. Special memories. That’s why Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield are still hot as hell today. Why people worship them still to this day. None can compare to realness, and special moments in time.
Anyways, Halloween 1978. To me, It’s Halloween night. It Is the Boogeyman. It is eerie. The white mask is creepy. It is horror. It is deranged. There’s a real feeling that a Lunatic is on the loose. The characters, the majority of us fall for them. We don’t want them to be harmed at all. Yet we love the man in the White mask as he’s prowling his way to kill them girls. That’s real horror. That’s why Halloween 1978 is one of the best horror movies ever made. That’s why it’ll be hard to ever top it, whether it’s this franchise or some new one.
Wilbur is 6’2, fact. also DW besides being 5’9 actually wore 2-3 inch lifts for the Myers role in H2 which would bring him up to around 5’11-6’ so in actual fact there was maybe only give or take couple to a few inches between Warlock and Wilbur in the movies, i know when you see them lined up for a convention photo Wilbur towers over Warlock but i don’t think was the case in their myers roles. also, you get shorter as you get older hehe.
i was being sarcastic,.,i know he is not a foot taller…although he does tower over him at the convention but you can tell it on screen also. Imagine halloween 4 with warlock in it with a mask just like the one or close to the one he wore in h2. movie would be better just bc of that
“What made it so good” is exactly why they’ll never be able to replicate it. It was made in a specific time and place by a special, talented group of people in their prime. We’ve seen more than our fair share of scenes that copy what was done in the original, and it always comes across as imitation rather than the real deal. That’s what I loved about Zombie’s H2. He finally said “Enough.” to trying to do what every filmmaker since the original H2 has tried to do: copy John Carpenter’s Halloween. He was the first director in the franchise to understand that Carpenter’s film was a truly special film that cannot be replicated, and he only was able to find that out when he tried it himself with the remake. I love the original, but the last thing I want to see at this point is someone looking over Carpenter’s playbook and trying to do the same thing. We don’t need another film that pretends that nothing has changed since 1978. You can’t be surprised by what you know is coming.