Lee cowan talks with directorcomposer john carpenter, whose next film is a real sequel to. Halloween 4 the night he came home full movie duration. Le film fut developpe en raison du succes du premier opus, il est toujours ecrit par john carpenter et debra hill. They tested it out and it appeared very demented and creepy. Halloween ii is a 1981 american slasher film directed by rick rosenthal in his directorial debut, written and produced by john carpenter and debra hill, and. Halloween not only launched an entire subgenre, but also launched a franchise with seven sequels, comic books, costumes, a video game, action figures, and two remakes by rob zombie. Halloween 2 full movie commentary rob zombies h2 youtube. Its become a staple on tv during halloween season, and has been remade badly by rob zombie. The success of the original halloween launched six sequels, a ravenous decades worth of imitators, and hollywood careers for star jamie lee curtis and director john carpenter. Every volume is a different story with different characters but the villain is always the same. John carpenters original halloween was a game changer for the slasher genre, and catapulted star jamie lee curtis into stardom.
John carpenters halloween scared the living daylights out of 25 million people and set a precedent in smashing box office records for a horror film. John carpenter halloween original soundtrack discogs. Rob zombies halloween 2 accidentally copied john carpenter zombies halloween and halloween ii from 2007 and 2009 took the framework of carpenters film, but went much deeper into michaels childhood and backstory, as well as lauries own fractured mental state. Thats a whole lot of maniacs killing teenagers, and it was all due to the success of one film. Halloween 2 movie 1981 jamie lee curtis, donald pleasence. John carpenters halloween 1978 is returning to movie. Whilst not the best nor worst of the series, halloween ii is a middling addition to the series but is far better than some of the later entries.
Halloween 2, the first sequel to john carpenters 1978 horror classic, greatly ramped up the franchises levels of blood and gore, and heres why. Set in the fictional small town of haddonfield, illinois, the story capitalizes on the sleepy nature of this agrarian american paradise, where. The film is supposedly being shot with a modest budget and has an expected release date of october 19, 2018 hitting. John howard carpenter was born in carthage, new york, to mother milton jean carter and father howard ralph carpenter. Every october my friends and i make a halloween fan film and present it as an anthology. The first was a don post emmett kelly smiling clown mask that they put frizzy red hair on. John carpenter is ready for another halloween movie. With jamie lee curtis, donald pleasence, charles cyphers, jeffrey kramer. This was an homage to how he killed his sister, judith, in a clown costume. This economically produced horror film started the slasher movie craze, made jamie lee curtis a star. The movie also made writerdirector john carpenter a name to watch, and he would follow up its success with a run of genre classics, including escape from new york, the thing and big trouble in. This is the first time carpenter has worked on a halloween film since 1981, just 3 years after michael myers made his debut.
Movie trailers john carpenters halloween fathom events spot john carpenters halloween fathom events spot john carpenters halloween fathom events spot. The latest halloween ii 2009 film videos on dailymotion. While the original halloween served as the impetus for what friday the th would turn into the 1980s slasher boom, its important to remember that carpenters film really wasnt that violent. This economically produced horror film started the slasher movie craze, made jamie lee curtis a star, and held the record for highest grossing independent film for many years. Joe denat, john carpenter, carpenter, john halloween. The making of john carpenters halloween consequence of. When john carpenter made the original halloween in 1978, it was just another in a long line of lowbudget horror movies. Although not the premiere weekend its the 3rd weekend, this issue contains a hardtofind ad for john carpenters halloween ii. Halloween is highly influential to this day lets talk about that filmmaking craft. John carpenters halloween is one of the best, scariest. A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and returns home to finish what he started.
Halloween 2 movie trailer 1981while sheriff brackett and dr. Finally camera moves in close on the eye of the mask. John carpenters halloween modernized trailer youtube. Starring donald pleasance, jamie lee curtis, charles cyphers, nancy loomis, pj soles. Back in 1978, john carpenters halloween was an urban legend, a movie so scary that audiences were screaming their heads off in theaters across america. Carpenter had no involvement in the past 8 halloween remakes and reboots, but it appears he may be going back to his roots for the 2018 adaptation. Why halloween 2 is much gorier than john carpenters original. The film follows directly on from the first, iconic john carpenter movie so much so that there are mere seconds between the end of the 1978 original and this sequel.
Movie themes 19741998 by john carpenter, released 20 october 2017 1. The untold truth of john carpenters halloween by mike floorwalker oct. Fifteen years after murdering his sister on halloween night 1963, michael myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of haddonfield, illinois to kill again. John carpenters original halloween is by far the best of the series. A new john carpenter horror movie is a possibility film. But the blockbuster about a masked killer murdering babysitters made.
In the mid1970s, irwin yablans saw one of john carpenters earliest films at a festival in milan and saw the potential for his own vision of halloween on film. Halloween a screenplay by john carpenter and debra hill. Halloween ii is a 1981 american slasher film directed by rick rosenthal in his directorial debut, written and produced by john carpenter and debra hill, and starring jamie lee curtis and donald pleasence who reprise their respective roles as laurie strode and dr. But its budget was a micro one, and director carpenter managed to save a few bucks by hiring the same composer hed worked with since his days as a student and struggling indiehimself. John carpenter keeps his office in a converted hillside hollywood home, on a quiet treelined street evocative of the sleepy suburb michael myers terrorized in. With donald pleasence, jamie lee curtis, tony moran, nancy kyes. It is a large, full head platex rubber mask, not a monster or ghoul, but the pale, neutral features of a man weirdly distorted by the rubber. His family moved to bowling green, kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at western kentucky university. The filmmaker who is king of things that go bump in the night is a musical master of horror as well. Halloween ii 1981 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Halloween is a 1978 american slasher film directed and scored by john carpenter, cowritten with producer debra hill, and starring donald pleasence and jamie lee curtis in her film debut.
John carpenters halloween 2 1981 movie trivia night. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his. In the documentary short, halloween unmasked 2000 1999, it was revealed that the crew had chosen two masks for michael myers to decide on. Last year, the halloween filmmaker said, i would love to direct something, if its the right thing to do at my age. The best john carpenter movie theme songs halloween, the. Halloween 2 rick rosenthal, jamie lee curtis, donald. John carpenter labelled halloween ii an abomination. Youtube coffee house jazz music positive jazz playlist for morning,work,study. Halloween ii john carpenter slasher film michael myers. Considered by many as the scariest movie ever made, john carpenters halloween was a milestone for slasher films, paving the way to innumerable, yet unmatchable, knockoffs. Due to its initial limited showing, such ads are uncommon, and perhaps no better issue could be found than this, the leading newspaper from the home of the entertainment industry. When john carpenters halloween was released in 1978, no one least of all the filmmakers could have predicted the phenomenon it would create. Halloween 2 movie 1981 jamie lee curtis, donald pleasence, charles cyphers.
As all savvy horror fans are aware, halloween was hardly the first slasher film the argument over which movie was the first is best saved for another time, but without it, the genre as we know it wouldnt exist. Rob zombie literally does the exact opposite of what john carpenter did in the original 1978 film. John carpenters halloween is returning in 2018 frightfind. Sacred bones records has released the full soundtrack for the new halloween, composed by john carpenter, ahead of the movies release. This ghost story angle is evident it the fact that carpenters next film the fog was an outandout ghost story complete with beginning campfire. The films were controversial reboots of the michael myers character, but rob zombie definitely put his own. I n his brilliant turnofthecentury documentary the american nightmare, adam simon located john carpenters 1978 halloween as the end point of a decade of countercultural horror movies. The plot tells about a mental patient who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his teenage sister on halloween night when he was six years old. Carpenter, 30 at the time, made halloween on a shoestring budget and worked with a small, young crew. Michael myers is 21 years old, which is also stated by dr.
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