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Drag Me to Hell . . . From the Director of "The Evil Dead Trilogy," is EXACTLY what the movie you're interested in seeing or have seen already is. The Evil Dead movies weren't very scary; not scary to the point of having to check under your bed or putting a chair up to the closet door or sleeping with the lights on at least. The Evil Dead movies are movies that are unlike ANY HORROR MOVIES "out there" because of the incredibly inventive genius at work behind and in front of the camera. Inventiveness seems to come from young, fresh malleable minds where neurons are still differentiating and areas of the cerebral landscape haven't yet been discovered. With age, the brain like, the body begins to calcify; it becomes MUCH HARDER to come-up with WACKY new things to put up on the screen. Drag Me to Hell is The Evil Dead without the (literally) GALLONS OF BLOOD and the grim, suffocating NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD feel. Drag Me to Hell feels like Sam Raimi loved The Grudge, The Grudge 2, The Ring, and The Ring 2 and thought (with his maturing and more world wary mind) it would be great to have another short-cute blonde-haired girl caught-up in the middle of "scary" "chaotic" "spiritually traumatic" pretense. Even though the "short-cute, blond-haired girl" in The Ring and The Ring 2 actually had black hair (actually Jennifer Connelly made-up to look slightly Asian in ethnicity for sake of argument), the "short-cute blonde-haired –girl" characters and their dark-haired boyfriends are ALL COMPLETELY Interchangeable. Despite the classic "Sam Raimi Moments" (Wacky Editing, Dancing Evil Dead Monsters, and classic JUMP moments), Drag Me to Hell can also be integrated with The Ring and The Grudge movies . . . possibly the Best Title for: Drag Me To Hell would be: "The Grudge 3--a Ring Sequel: The Button." I feel very bad about getting ripped-off by Drag Me to Hell. At least Joe Lo Duca's deeply visceral musical style can still be heard amid Christopher Young's credited score and KNB's special effects are always awesome. Even though there are only N and B and no K here. And there's a face that I missed; and the whole movie seems so empty without the face. Sam Raimi movies could not be the best Sam Raimi movies without the face and the chin present. The Face and The Chin are dear old friends to Sam Raimi movies and I am sad that I missed The Face with The Chin. SAM RAIMI better do The Evil Dead: Redux and include The Face with The Chin as the main character.

Terminator IV is truly "classic science fiction:" it takes "stuff" we have to "deal with" in everyday life and puts our "stuff" in a context foreign enough where we (the audience including me) recognize a starkly contrasted reflection of ourselves: our strengths and our flaws . Even though James Cameron is nowhere-really to be found in the credits, both James Cameron's heart and soul are in Terminator 4; possibly when Stan Winston passed-away, James Cameron paid a little more attention to "his baby's" (The Terminator 1984) third off-spring. Subconsciously James Cameron always takes us back to Harlan Ellison's "Soldier" (story/episode on "The Outer Limits"); Ellison, Cameron, Winston, Gale Anne Hurd, and William Wisher are ALL genius storytellers and TERMINATOR IV would never have been as great an entry in Science-fiction without the genuine enthusiasm of the actors and entire production staff!!!!!! The people in the row behind me and in front of me didn't seem too enthusiastic about Terminator 4 and that's a little sad. The audience didn't seem to like American Gangster and Cat in the Hat and Speed Racer either . . . I guess I'm the one who's "off" Oh well: T4 is great . . . if you're twelve or a 38 year old parent taking his 12 year older to see it.

If you are in for extra-gore read the screenplay and novelization of The Terminator . . . The Terminator "wastes" the "Sarah Conners" is a way-grosser way!

Diary of the Dead is a statement like the rest of Romero's Zombie films; technology has made us into the living dead. Just as consumerism made us the living dead in Dawn of the Dead and humanity being unhappy with itself made the zombies chief alternative in Day of the dead . . . Land of the Dead is Romero's "ignoring the problem" treatise. A funny thing in Diary of the Dead is when the General played by Romero appears on mass-communicated news saying there's a problem with immigration alright: the Dead are illegally immigrating across the border of Life. you have to really see that one. And Romero is getting up there in age he's a grandfather, this is an entirely new generation of folks Romero's trying to get the message across to. We're in front of computers 6 or 7 hours a day sometimes downloading and uploading so much we are the living dead. Diary of the Dead is a TOTAL "way-hoomer" you get it on the way home--the drive back to your house with your computer of Living Death. I'm going to take a walk in the sun right now come to think of it and leave my computer alone for the rest of the day. Stay Scared, Brother George A. Romero! Always.

kids, back in the day we had to dig the movie projector out of the closet, take the cover off, unfold the arms, attach the take-up reel, thread the sprocket holes of the little (usually) 200 ft. reel, turn on the bulb, put blankets up over the windows if it was during the day, and project the Super 8 film up onto a "Da Lite" screen. My Gosh, what a set of days those were . . . no VCRS . . . VCRS were a thousand dollars . . . by 1982 they came down to 600 dollars. Anyway, the films were great: Son of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, The Lost World . . . .those were the days! and Laurel and Hardy Movies: Be Big, Hog Wild; AWESOME! All of these films should earn a ten because that was ALL WE HAD from the mid-sixties to about '82 - '84 . . . .by 1984 EVERYBODY had VCRS. I miss the old Castle Films a lot. Super 8 . . .then the forty watt bulb would burn out and we'd have to get another form a pawn shop (very hard to find after '82).

I used to watch my MGM/UA VHS copy of this film (entitled THE FINAL OPTION) all the time in the 1980s now I have to watch the region 2 DVD as WHO DARES WINS; but who cares . . . its just as great although not enhanced for 16:9. What I love about action films up to 1990 or so is that the good guys are really the good guys and the bad guys are really the bad guys, there's no ambiguity here. The Final Option is a movie that works on many levels culminating with the hero being taken "hostage" by The People's Lobby taking the hero's wife hostage; you have two dramas occurring at once. Judy Davis is awesome as the lead terrorist--she's deep into her character; acts her heart out. And that guy playing the hero, Skellon is really tough and stoic and really James Bond all the way and really in shape too; his wife is really cute. And then we have Helga played by Countess Dracula and Carmilla herself INGRID PITT; a mean, very mean German who wants to literally "shoot the baby"!!!! There's a good catch about where the terrorists are actually getting their money from making us think about the power seekers and who the power seekers really are and how the power seekers are really pulling the strings. Roy Budd's music is truly great for a true action film with a deeper meaning . . . an awful lot of blood squibs in mouths, bleeding lips and so forth. See this movie!!!!

Will Smith gives an excellent portrayal of a man alone for 3 years (he Becomes "autistic" in a sense, losing his own humanity in the Loneliness) And Will Smith reinforces a positive image of African-Americans; other than Will Smith, the whole movie blows except for the interesting premise it robbed from Matheson's brilliant novel. The vampires are transmuted into mindless look alike rabid zombies that are cheap imitations of 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead (remake) The movie overall is merely visually stimulating as if a second unit director who was a visual artist directed the film. I think "fans" overall got tired of the formula of slow moving creatures trapping people in a building for two hours and demanded something different. As a result we have dumb "not even vampires"/Not quite zombies either with no personality or motive to attack Neville save for dumb animal instinct. Gosh it was awful . . . .a total D+. I'm never going to see another horror movie again after this I think. "The fans" have taken over. Legend was like: Steven Sommers directing the remake of Lawrence ofArabia . . . . a mistake

What we have here is a remake to a non-existent film based on a Stephen King Novella made 25 years ago. The Mist is horribly outdated in Stephen King's style and thoughts--it is shot in a reality-TV format That even sports fade outs where chapters or commercial stops should Be. No one wants to genuinely freak-out or repulse the audience Anymore . . . at least in The Mist's attack in the generator area. The Audience was laughing more than anything else. It was a shame. I hope The gunslinger Dark Tower will not be shot in the same way even though Stephen King favors low standard reality-TV entertainment and sold the Dark Tower's rights to the makers of Lost for 19 dollars at a Convention in New Jersey--the guy was painting a Gunslinger poster Before the storm hit, and the Aesop's Fable moral of the story is . . . . wait! Wait! WAIT! The arrowhead project is like the drilling in the Lovecraft Story and the "trapped" Pinter Play scenario is like Night of The Living Dead . . . the gore is like Dawn of the Dead. It stinks, I Wish I hadn't seen it.

The guy Frank Lucas is a tiger, yet Ritchie Roberts is the lion, the king of an awesome "jungle" of a movie; and to think it all really happened. Foremost Frank Lucas is the quintessential American (works under someone in the trade for 15 years, learns from his mentor's mistake, and GRABS the trade by its horns and revolutionizes the society that borne him.) Ritchie Roberts is equally an American (a guy with a lot of shortcomings who is honest in crucial areas yet dishonest in equally crucial areas). What a film; this will be the next SCARFACE for people in a trade like Frank Lucas. Critics who didn't like this film are completely misinformed--critics are people like us; some are thoughtful others are not thoughtful, we don't know where these critics came from their backgrounds anything. See the movie!

Joe Flynn, gone too soon . . . the outtakes of the TV show prove he was funnier "off screen" than on. Ernest Borgnione, Tim Conway and the rest of the gang remind me of Peanuts at sea (Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy, etc. at sea). Just as Charlie Brown and Linus hang-out on the ledge of the stone wall in the comic strip--the crazy gang of Mchale's Navy do the same. And the movie is in color! Its two hours (about) of comedy that is unmatched by this generation. Mchale's navy now would be just a bunch of put-down humor and Adam sandler jokes. It was funny when Tim Conway ventures near the occupied hut and funnier when we see what runs out on a Japanese Island in the pacific. Boy oh Boy . . . .Mchale's Navy . . . the show, the movie there's not much difference except the color . . . thanks guys for a wonderful time. Mchale's Navy forever!!! the movie and the show . . . Joe Flynn singing with the boys in the outtake is a must see!!!!! Thanks again: a real laugh riot -everytime

I loved it. I've been married to my wife 12 years so far and the movie's as accurate as Boyz N the hood and Meanace II Society were to depicting how it is 16 years ago. Things are a little wholesome in some spots; the characters are too well-defined. But the character's "well-definitions" serve a purpose in the sense that they are models (play acting figures) for us the audience to examine our own lives without having to decipher a lot of ambiguity with the characters'motives. I loved it and will see future Tyler perry movies in the theater. I loved it. the 80-20 slash 20-80 rule will be on a lot of license plates I'll bet and it makes a lot of sense within the movie and the film is a lot about things that happen yet simply aren't talked about. the movie is also a joy because its about African-Americans, has an African-American cast, and is made by African-American people without having to cater to multi-demographics. its our Americanm-Beauty (remember how minorities appeared in that film? Minorities didn't fit) It all even thank you Tyler Perry!!!!

This could be entitled: "Halloween 9: The Tragedy of Michael Myers" and that's not a detracting statement. The lovable kid seems to have been born with the same syndrome as the little girl in the Bad Seed.

Why do kids kill? The Devil . . . plain and simple. Evil never dies, just like John Carpenter says. There are a lot of great performances by character actors I grew up watching in the movies and on TV.

For the DVD, Rob, you MUST have a longer version . . . a true director's cut. I think The Fans and The Producers made you cut the film and second guess yourself in a few areas: Udo Keir says all of two words, Sheriff Leigh Brakett's scenes seem shortened and/or cut altogether. I think after Grindhouse Harvey Weinstein and his brother wanted you to get "off stage" as soon as possible. Also try to have a segment "Directing Halloween" because you are a brilliant, astute director who knows the genre and have made excellent films in The devil's rejects and Halloween (and have included Kiss God of Thunder; Kiss t-shirts; a Slayer T-shirt; Don't Fear the reaper; and Rush's Tom Sawyer in your scene a masse) Bless you dearly, Rob Zombie . . . you're the best director working today . . . Happy Halloween!!!! (in August)

is there a way to get the veins to pop out of victims' foreheads? the effects would have been a little more real.

I was crazy about King Kong both 1933 and 1976 versions. When I turned 10 in 1981 at Addalin's Palace in the Granite Run Mall, my brother introduced me to Donkey King . . . it featured "King Kong" throwing barrels down at Mario who was trying to rescue a kidnapped girl JUST LIKE KING KONG in the sense of the kidnapped girl . . Donkey Kong therefore became a mighty Joe young descendant my mind. Then the next year COLECOVISION brought Donkey Kong home and followed by the LED stand alone version. After which Donkey Kong Jr and Donkey Kong 3 cam along. I still have my two-screen LCD Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong 2 games in my nightstand. My reflexes are just as sharp too even. Of course some people will not find this helpful. But I'm nuts about Donkey Kong. and of course we cant forget the awesome ADAM computer super game packs and the Atari 2600 King Kong and Odyssey 2's Pick-AX Pete spin offs. PLEASE RELSEASE DONKEY KONH for Gamecube and Wii in its original form!!!!

10 out of 10. EVERY movie should be as wonderful as the DIE HARD movies!!! I saw the first Die Hard in '88 three times in the same weekend as a junior in high school, Die Hard 2 in 1990 while at home from college, Die Hard 3 on my honeymoon, and now Die Hard 4 when I have a family of my own--I LOVE THEM ALL! There's nothing like the Die Hard movies--no matter who the director is, they always make me go crazy with excitement (the bad guys are always super-bad and John McCLane ALWAYS comes to the rescue . . . ALWAYS, man)and Bruce Willis makes me laugh and smile all the time in every DIE HARD! The bad guy in this one is a mean-spirited Pat Boone doppleganger and as all the bad guys in every DIE HARD he's very charismatic. Bruce Willis drives away from missiles from a jet fighter, flies a helicopter, and many other things with some far out computer dude and his bud The Warlock who looks like Wolfman Jack . . . and John McClain's daughter is kidnapped and such . . . see the movie!!!! I hope FOX uses Rodrick Thorpe's novel The Detective as source material for DIE HARD 5 . . . without the late Rodrick Thorpe there never would have been John McClane. For some more DIE HARD action read NOTHING LASTS FOREVER, 58 MINUTES, and THE DETECTIVE. An R-rated version needs to be released shortly in select theaters and on DVD. The PG-13 cuts make it seem slightly edited for TV.

Body parts; not knowing who to shoot and shooting everybody; brash, tired American soldiers: ITS IRAQ. The best zombie movie: does what Nightmare in the Contaminitated City, Demoni, and Demoni 2 attempted. Scenes almost too horrible to look at. Characters we grow to love are killed. 28 Weeks is savage . . . and wonderful. Without a doubt people will not like it and will say this review was not helpful. I wonder who these people are and what they like. I think people who go to horror movies are discouraged and enjoy discouraging others . . . hence, the horror aspect: its entertaining for horror film goers to see bad and sad things happen on screen; there is little sympathy.

Burtal revenge pic--the 5th "Hannibal" film so its like a Matinée this time around. Its gruesome. Hannibal is the focus of this film like Damien was the focus of the Omen movies. This movie is a re-write of the Thomas Harris novel; really its an improvement, the novel reading more like a treatment for a screenplay than an actual novel. But its total sin: "Thou shall not recompense evil; Vengeance comes from the Lord your God" (Proverbs). The only way to hate Hannibal Rising, is to compare it to Silence of the Lambs--the series' energy is not as high now. Its a "rape and revenge" film really. The thing that got my heart really racing was the preview for GrindHouse's two movies for the price of one: Planet Terror and DeathProof. AWESOME . . . . I can't Wait for that one!!!!! See HannibalRising for the Grindhouse trailer if nothing else . . . Oh Hannibal's main squeeze is the chick from Miami Vice so no; its no Silence of the Lambs or Manhunter, or Red Dragon because its . . . Hannibal Rising. In the 6th movie I guess we'll see Anthony Hopkins once again coming full circle and dying once and for all (of old age) in a nursing home.

We have high expectations with this one . . . because its Zombi 3 the official sequel to Zombi 2 and directed by Lucio Fulci . . . however . . . its co-directed by Bruno Mattei (from Night of the Zombies) and not written by Dardino Sachetti but by Claudio Fagrasso (Night of the Zombies) and its shot in the Phillimines like Night of the Zombies and resembles Night of the Zombies (Hell of the Living Dead) a lot. as a result its more like a companion to Hell of the Living Dead than Zombi 2. Fabrazio DeAngelis who produced Zombi 2 and its editor Tomassi (?) and efx gianetto De Rossi gave Zombi 2 its magic . . . Zombi 3 is not magical . . . its like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without the peanut-butter. But over the years, I've grown to accept Zombi 3. I could swear I saw a version where a soldier was bitten on the arm and went to the hotel room . . . there was a senseless Fulci-cut and the Mattei/Fulci-cut is the one on DVD.

A complete waste of time; Rutgr Haur, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Isham's ambient score (the synergistic energy and charisma of the first film ) are gone in this one. Hitcher remake utters a sigh of life albeit briefly when the wonderfully acted police captain comes on the scene. I think a lot of younger people like the remake because they are impatient with the original . . . imagination and an ability to tap into atmosphere is missing from people "too young" to see The Hitcher in 1986. Grand Theft Auto, the original PC game is a lot more fun than this movie: The Hitcher remake left me very empty inside . . . all the lines from the first film are redelivered in this version and all the scenes are re shot in this version yet this version is devoid of the charisma and adroit kinkiness of Rutger Haur's almost love-interest toward C. Thomas Howell in the first one. It seems like the slavish filmmakers of this remake forgot to include that in the script. John Ryder, unlike in the first one, seems to wants to "do business" more with the Grace character in this one, yet he delivers all the lines from the first one to Jim Halsey and it makes little sense . . .Ryder was jealous of Grace in the first one as though he was spurned by Jim Halsey. and the the people are meaner in this version and the filmmakers rip-off the scene e mass of their own Texas chainsaw massacre movie . . .

Crash stinks. Its phony and never didactically teaches its audience anything except how its cynical, paranoid creators feel about their own fabricated schema (or world views). Its a shame that people actually buy into this silly movie that plays like an episode of Alien Nation . . . when the cop molests a guy's withe, the guy would have reported it . . . but because of phony dramatizing by the stupid, ill-informed cynical writers, there's additional, contrived dickering between the husband and wife. The worst movie in decades . . . ill-informed lies. ill-informed ideology. ill informed racist writers. its like Grand Caynon . . . i guess a "grand Caynon" film must appear in every generation.

It's Alive epitomizes the realization of the perennial fears: this could really happen and the (Frankenstien-esqe) ideal of setting something in motion that cannot be controlled or committing an act that you cannot repeal or take back. The First Its alive is truly an epic, we have Davis wanting to kill his monster-baby and evolving to the point of wanting to protect it--an adroit display of humanism. It Lives Again multiplies the fears of the first film exponentially by 3 (there are three babies) and the motives of the main characters evolve as well.

Part 3 still manages to pull on my heart-strings yet its tired-feeling. I look beyond the technical deficiencies of all three films and am captivated my their magic. Somehow fans allow themselves to watch King Kong 1933, Phantom of the Opera 1925, The Lost World 1925, and Niosferatu 1922 and three of these films don't have sound and all are shot in black and white and King Kong's effects are far out-dated. We have to look beyond a lot of things to really, to be carried away . . . too often our expectations are too high and we're not humbled in our approach to these genre pictures. A lot of us don't go to church because we feel its boring because there's nothing there . . . same with the movies . . . we have to allow ourselves to feel sometimes what's really there in order to love the films.

Heartfelt, warm, inspiring . . . Rocky is great all the way through . . . in a world that seems to give emotion and feeling over to technology and movies are referred to as mushy and weepy, Rocky triumphs triumphantly and I am happy I saw it on the first showing of its first day of release. Rocky must leave as he came . . . with the Best Picture of the Year . . . if silly politics gets in the way, the Academy of Motion Pictures should be shunned .. . Rocy triumphs triumphantly and I am grateful to see this day where Rocky VI comes out . . . thirty years ago, my parents got a baby-sitter for me when THEY saw the first Rocky . . . suppose there's a rocky vii through with Rocky in a wheelchair .. . anything's possible.

Every movie has its moments . . . this one had a boat tipping over and a stagy shot of the monster in good detail. I can hardly remember this movie but giant fish movies terrify me a great deal . . . something i fear about there being something huge and horrible under the surface of a placid and beautiful surface . . . scary fish movies and zombie movies. I think if this one comes out on DVD anytime soon, buy it for 5.00 but no more . . . its not as good as L'Utimo Squalo, not as bad as Tintorea but about as good as Crocodile . . . not nearly as good as Alligator .. . see Alligator and this as a double-feature and your night won't totally be wasted . . . great a couple of pizzas too. thanks. its a 10 because of that shot of the fish . . .it makes the whole film, really . . .but don't make this one you single night's viewing.

John Belishi: The Orson Welles of comedy if he were still alive Moses and Aaron in the Ten Commandments would be Belushi and Ackroyd. WHAT an AWESOME pair these two guys were . . . the LAST COMEDY TEAM (Laural and Hardy; Abbott and Costello; Burns and Allen; The Marx Brothers; The Three Stooges; Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi) They fit right in . . . thank God for these guys. . . . right: the movie . . . the BEST BLUES BROTHERS MOVIE ABOUT BLUES MUSIC an QUEST and a mission movie ever made . . . and the car crashes Superb i don't think we can really ever appreciate the awesomeness of the blues brothers . . .I mean Halloween, John Carpenter's The Thing, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Evil Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street, Jaws, ET, Psycho, The Blues Brothers, Forrestr Gump, Star Wars III, IV, V, VI, Rocky 1,2,3,4,5, The Karate Kid 1, 2, 3, Poltergeist, Alien, Aliens, Its a Wonderful Life, The Graduate, The Terminator, American Werewolf in London, Coming to America, The Road Warrior, 48 hrs., Sid and Nancy, stand By Me, Kramer Vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Radio Days, Take the Money and Run, Arthur, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Buehler's Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Ghostbusters i and ii, The Godfather i and ii, Deliverance, Star Trek II, IV, III, Animal House, The World According to Garp, Summer of '42 ) THESE MOVIES . . . man, The Blues Brothers, we can't really appreciate them: they're so damn good. THE BLUES BROTHERS: its a classic that I carry in my memory wherever I am. John Candy: hey guys; we're in a truck. or the scene where everyone asks: where's Jake and we see the guy smoking a pipe on stage . . . implying Jake or John's getting high somewhere. God, i miss John Belushi . . . Belushi's name is up there with those movies i mentioned. God, I miss Belushi. he was hilarious and sad at the same time. Judy, keep loving John--i read Samarui Widow and man, those kids at the grave . . . speaking for them: I'm sorry for your loss, God bless you. THE BLUES BROTHERS. If anyone reading this is feeling down. Watch The Blues Brothers, you'll carry it with you. its beyond a 10 its a classic.

Carpenter said during the Criterion Laserdisc commentary the producers said that, in order for him to get paid for part I, he and Debra Hill would have to to a PART II. It sounds sleazy on the part of the producers (I mean Halloween cost 600,000 to produce and sold to NBC-TV for 4 million--everybody got paid except for Carpenter and company who needed the job) . . . anyway despite the obvious set pieces, the neighborhood looks like it was built on a studio back-lot, Halloween 2 is the same (the score sounds a little over-produced--but it IS HALLOWEEN II-sequel, BIGGER, BETTER: STEREO too). the performances are the same. and there's genuine continuity--the car accident (again, not a spoiler, no details) has connections to the first movie . . . its like Halloween were a freight-train and Halloween 2 extended the ride by another hour and a half and mass-culture got bored . . . I love Halloween and Halloween 2 collectively. but they rip off the Italians: Deep Red, Twitch of the Death Nerve, Blood Spattered Bride, Hatchet for a Honeymoon . . . right down to the face melting scene but whereas the needle through the eye is bloodless in Halloween 2 the meat-cleaver butchering in Deep Red has blood going everywhere.

FRom the opening Point Of View shot to the motif of a child's being involved with a long-ago murder to the 3-note 4 beat fingered music score, to the bath-tub scalding scene (in Halloween 2), to even the working title: The Baby Sitter Murders, John Carpenter's Halloween is a complete and unimaginative rip-off of Deep Red-The Hatchet Murders and when compared, Halloween pales in complexion. BUT . . . HALLOWEEN is so totally Frightening and AWESOME . . . Deep Red terrifies yes sure but it doesn't FRIGHTEN and totally alarm the audience like HALLOWEEN . . . The uneasiness is in HALLOWEEN's "primality"--everything is so basic, bare-bones. three-notes in the score, three acts in the movie, three fleshed-out characters (Michael Myres, Dr. Loomis, Laurie Strode) at least in terms of motive. Where Deep Red is complex with a few plot holes HALLOWEEN is like a freight train whose only purpose is to take us from point A to point C and leave us-the audience, looking over our shoulders, checking the closets, and looking under our beds for The BOOGEYMAN . . . how incredible . . . and HALLOWEEN II is just as good . . . i think with sequels everyone knows what to expect and its like eating one too many slices of pizza where the pizza's great to start off with but a nice deep dish of lasagna would really hit the spot . . . HALLOWEEN II really makes HALLOWEEN into a three hour movie and a three hour Freight-Train Ride really wore the mass-pop culture out . . . I am not "mass culture" and adore Halloween I and II. But the Italian sources these films came from Twitch of the Death Nerve, Blood-Spattered Bride, Profondo Rosso are awesome in that they are not bloodless . . . when the guy has a needle stuck in his eye in Halloween II (not a spoiler-I didn't say what guy), its bloodless whereas in Deep Red when the lady is butchered by the meat-cleaver Bright Red Blood goes EVERYWHERE . . . HALLOWEEN's more than a 10 its a CLASSIC beyond any rating.

I love them (Death Scenes 1, 2, and 3) although the last half hour of one of them feels like the video-maker let an accident video run w/o pressing the fast-forward button. but its pretty sick (all three), one has a scrapbook of ugly, gruesome, and sick crime scenes: this one picture is of an undercover detective with his throat cut, the dude didn't even have time to spit out his cigarette or take his hands out of his pockets then there are the obligatory Manson murders in parts 2 and 3 (you can't watch only one part really)and the awesome Twilight Zone Accident in part 2 (I think a dual-layer DVD with all three death scenes is n order). part three has that Transylvanian dude and his wife getting blown away by firing squad. these aren't spoilers . . . there's no plot to be spoiled here . . . just , brutal, ugly death . . .