Just an ok movie, nothing more imo. Falls into the same category as Scream/The Faculty/IKWYDLS/Disturbing Behavior/Urban Legend.
I’m glad you like it as well. I also love this shot of Laurie in H20, it’s such an epic and iconic shot.
Agreed, it’s an excellent shot!
I find the movie to be extremely underrated. It’s not perfect, but no movie is perfect.
Here’s another cool shot of Laurie in the movie.
I’ve really come around to the cinematography and color pallette of this movie after viewing the 4K an unhealthy amount of times. It’s not Cundey level or anything, but it’s a really well shot movie when Michael isn’t close up.
I’ve always thought it was a rather bland looking Halloween film with some solid shots. It just has a very subdued look to it and they handled/shot Michael poorly and made a good mask look bad (part of that was the Powerman 5000 hair). I say bland looking Halloween film because it works if you take away the Halloween aspect of the film (the opening comes closest to feeling like a Halloween film) in so many ways (plot, score, look, characterization). It’s a very late 90’s looking horror film for good or ill and has a lot more in common with say Kiss the Girls in how it looks and feels than a traditional horror look never mind a Halloween film.
I wouldn’t say there’s a bad looking Halloween film (though Ends is the blandest of the lot as Resurrection had some good lighting in its’ night scenes and H:40 and H:20 had some nice framing at times), but there’s a specific “that’s it” I feel they have to have in terms of looks; 1-6 all had that. I think Kills is the closest we’ve had to that sort of “this is what a Halloween film should look like” (too bad the film itself is very flawed), and Rob Zombie’s Halloween was pretty close at times Zombie’s Halloween 2 is fantastic looking, but a real departure visually at times with so many intimate shots (H6 had that as well) shot in 16mm and with a handheld cam look at times (I don’t want to say shaky-cam as it wasn’t that).
the masks in both h4 and h20 paired with the way Michael is portrayed in both, really take me out of each film. it’s a bummer too because both had the makings of faithful sequels.