Word: halloween
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...losing touch with my fellow man; I have an urge that creeps like chocolate syrup up my pant legs when I see a woman I can't have: to take out a big bowie knife and cut and cut. I go to the movies instead. I loved Halloween. That was a hell of a good movie, all the aggression at the heart of every horror film distilled into this pale, clean little engine, its camera gliding from baby-sitter to baby-sister while director John Carpenter applied the organ music like an expert masseur...
...Halloween II is in Dolby Stereo, and it's a lavish, epic hack'em-up, the Deer Hunter of the horror genre. The Shape, Michael Meyers, has become a mythic Bogeyman, and he's practically indestructible. He's also a one-man charnel-house--there wasn't a drop of blood in the original, but the sequel ladles on the gore like Chef Boy-ar-dee. Most of the movie takes place in a hospital where Jamie Lee's been hauled after her first bout with the Shape. The targets are mostly nurses. I've always hated nurses. They flash...
Jamie Lee Curtis is sedated for most of Halloween II, but she hobbles out of bed, ultimately, in a bouncy hospital gown that shows a lot of leg as she rolls around in trash heaps trying to stay a couple feet ahead of the Bogevman. She's really cute, the best screamer since Fay Wray and in a class by herself as a whiner. Donald Pleasance is back too as the flip side of the Shape, a nubby, sexless, shapeless little fanatic, certainly a speed freak, killing innocent people in pursuit of his alter-ego. He gets offed...
...Halloween II has been photographed colorfully, the splatter effects are outasight and Carpenter has supplied a couple of key changes to spice up the old score. But what is particularly heartening is the purity of the writer and director's vision. This is a deliciously bold and uncompromising movie. It made me feel like a kid again...
...write me nasty letters, dear women readers. I'm just reporting what I saw, and what I feel I'm supposed to feel. Someone's actually spent millions and millions of dollars to make Halloween II and it doesn't go to the bump-and-grind houses; for a couple of weeks it was the highest-grossing film in the country. The theatre was filled when I saw it, but not densely packed: generally the single men keep a few seats between them, the better to maintain their reverie...