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Re: Re/Made: Halloween

Filip Önell — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:13:54 -0000

The home video footage is in the remake, yes. Most of it is from the end credits. Actually, the remake doesn't have any opening credits. Zombie had the opening credits placed at the end.

The song is "Johnny Angel" by Shelly Fabares. I got the song from the alternate opening to Halloween Resurrection, which inspired my video...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Re/Made: Halloween

AJaye2009 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:23:52 -0000

Did those home video style clips appear in the remake? I can't remember the sequence - or are they part of the DVD extras? What's the soundtrack? It's appropriate for the material. H20 used Mr Sandman for its opener. It worked well for that flick.

I believe it was Mark Kermode that John Carpenter was talking to about Halloween when he mentioned the opening credits was the cheapest way they could go - a simple matter of title cards. So a brevity of funds necessitated a similar technique by you. It plays like homage.

Have you ever seen the photograph of the baby Hitler? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_o... It's just a baby picture right? The world knows what the baby was to turn into. Innocence rendered sinister. The viewers know what the child Michael Myers was to turn into as he whacks the toy horse with a baseball bat. Not so innocence rendered sinister.

You did a fantastic job. Though I will quibble about the sound effects at the end of the sequence. Gunshot or fireworks? The baby crying? Unnecessary. All in all this credit sequence is a promise of the old told anew.

Shame you didn't edit the feature.

The soundtrack

Re: Re/Made: Halloween

Filip Önell — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:58:28 -0000

Back in 2010 I worked on a fan edit of Rob Zombie's Halloween. I eventually lost interest, but I still have the remade opening credits left (inspired by the alternate opening to Halloween Resurrection)

Tell me what you think.

http://www.viddler.com/expl...

Re: Re/Made: Halloween

AJaye2009 — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:36:35 -0000

You have a beauty in your words. I too have been consumed by horror. His name is Freddy. Though I know of corse of Michael. The things he has done to others. And now the things he has done to you Valerie.

30 years is a long time. He's not really going away is he?

Re: Re/Made: Halloween

valeriemyra — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:01:54 -0000

I love horror movies . I think the best ones are , as Vincent Price put it , not knowing what's down the hall , behind the door or curtain . It's the suspense of what's coming .

I saw the original Halloween in the theater with my then boyfriend and another couple . Scared the livin crap out of me and I don't scare easy . It wasn't the killings , but 'him" , the "shape" . No one has played that character as convincingly as the first actor . At least not for me .
I walked out of that theater looking all around me , making sure there was no one in the back seat of the car . I couldn't sleep that night at all . Had nightmares for a week .

Then #2 happens .. I was in the kitchen and I heard this "music" and froze , eyes watering , skin crawling .The two tv stations I watched most at that time were showing the trailers for it . I waited till it was over and went and found another channel to watch .The nightmares came back .
My boyfriends brother and girlfriend went to see it and told me he died at the end , so off my hunny and I go to "kill him off" once and for all . Did it work ?Kind of . The new "shape was not very convincing as Mr. Myers , so I got through the movie pretty well . It did however start the nightmares again .
I bought the VHS of the first one when it came out . It took me 10 years to be able to sit down and watch it.
Did John Carpenter do his job ? Hell yes . A little too well .
I've seen each one that was made including and own the better ones .
I also own Rob Zombies remake . Even though I thought he spent way too much time on the young Michael , which "rushed" rushed everything else , I was however , glad to see Michael's transformation . I was not really impressed with his take on #2 . I liked the whole stalking her in the hospital better than this one . But it was brutal and showed what can happen to one's personality after an ordeal like that .

Even after my ordeal with you , Michael Myers you are by far ,my epitome of the serial killer . Funny , how
you seem to creep into mind when picking up that knife to get supper ready :)

Re: Re/Made: Halloween

AJaye2009 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:25:36 -0000

I watched them both on consecutive nights for the first time. They deserve the TFi treatment.

Re: Re/Made: Halloween

DTW — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:13:03 -0000

I still haven't had the balls to watch the Wicker Man Nic Cage remix... Look forward to reading your thoughts!

Re: Re/Made: Halloween

AJaye2009 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:06:51 -0000

DTW

Why do they do it? Like the football industry they don't care about their fans - only the fan's money.

The good news is I'll be posting Re/Made in the USA: The Wicker Man in the next few days.

You suggested it mate.

Re: Re/Made: Halloween

DTW — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:36:23 -0000

Meaning no disrespect to you, AJaye, your review pretty much said what I'd expected. The comment about it not making any difference if you watched the remake on an iPod I think is telling. Not only that, it is probably intentional. Sad times.

Re: Re/Made: Halloween

AJaye2009 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:46:02 -0000

Years ago a friend insisted I watch this movie - 'They Live'. I've always hated Rowdy Roddy Piper but it was a John Carpenter film right? Perhaps it's time to revisit it, and see what I think now.

'Escape From LA' in my opinion is an example of paradise lost. It shows the old man is done telling stories. That film, though it had some good ideas, was abysmal.

Like every horror fan I was excited over the Maters of Horror series - until I started watching it. Apart from 'Jennifer' in series one everything else sucked. I didn't even know (or have forgotten) Carpenter was involved in that.

Compare his work in the 21st C to his contemporaries from the 70s. Only Wes Craven is still standing as an artist. Like Stephen King for example, sometimes you run out of things to say. Having said that he is John Carpenter. If he makes another film I'm going to watch it. In hope.

Re: Re/Made: Halloween

bonsomme — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:49:01 -0000

I'd disagree with this statement: "It’s such a shame John Carpenter hasn’t made a good film in 23 years."

I think "They Live" (which is also, apparently, being remade) is a really effective movie, and I very much enjoyed "Escape From L.A.," although I haven't seen that one since it was first in theaters. His episodes of the "Masters of Horror" series, "Cigarette Burns" and "Pro-Life," are also pretty good.