Word: psychos
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Halloween II [Pi Alley]: Remember how the psycho disappears at the end of Halloween I after he got killed a couple of times? Well, that wasn't a symbolic depiction of the never-ending fight against evil, it was a loophole that allowed a sequel. Here it is, with the same plot, same characters, same everything. Nietzsche's Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence in action...
...McCullough appears ready to try her hand at a limited, intricate dissection of life's anomalies, rather than the universal truths she depicted four years ago. The five men on Ward X are all psychologically unbalanced, though not crazy enough to warrant being shipped off to out-and-out psycho wards at the army's expense. Nurse Honour Langtry tends this motley flock and plays the role of mother, protector and confessor to her charges. She and her patients have been patiently awaiting their discharges when the sudden arrival of Sergeant Michael E. Johnson, shortly after peace has been declared...
...people, warts and all, the makeup man went into a decline. A revival-the beginning of the Golden Age of Makeup-began with Planet of the Apes (1968), and The Exorcist (1973) and scores of films featuring a graphic spilling of blood and guts. In Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, some 20 years ago, a knife was never seen touching the victim, played by Janet Leigh. "Now, they want it to cut right through," says Mike Westmore, who did Robert De Niro's makeup in Raging Bull. "Movies run in strings, and we are now in a blood-spurting...
There are three Brian De Palmas-all the grinning, scheming sons of Alfred Hitchcock. With Sisters and Dressed to Kill, De Palma made his reputation as the Psycho student supreme, drawing curlicues of style and cheerfully obscene graffiti in the margins of that seminal horror-movie text. In Phantom of the Paradise and Home Movies, he displayed an impish, impudent sense of humor that recalls Hitchcock's macabre comedy The Trouble with Harry. But the most passionate Brian De Palma-and maybe the real one-is the child of Vertigo, Hitchcock's essay on the fatal power...
Caliban (Barry Miller) is depicted as if he were a punk-rock psycho, which scarcely suggests the "power of darkness...