Halloween (1978) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction
Added 2022-10-08 14:00:05 +0000 UTCHey everyone! I hope you enjoyed The Shining edit yesterday. We are continuing on with kaiielle-oween with the first Halloween from 1978! [Direct link here.]
Early access for this is scheduled for Tuesday, October 11th.
Thanks for everything!
✦ KL
Comments
Haha wow thanks for sharing! Fun memories.
kaiielle
2025-07-07 01:37:48 +0000 UTCkaiielle, I think that, more than any other genre, horror movies are very much a matter of individual tastes. Many horror movies that others find frightening, from classics like “Possession” and “Rosemary’s Baby” to more modern fare like “Hereditary” and “It” (both parts), do not frighten me at all. In fact, it took me multiple viewings to get thru all four of the movies I mentioned (I have a touch of OCD, so quitting on them wasn’t much of an option). To me, they were so boring that I fell asleep and it took multiple tries to get thru them. Occasionally, I will rewatch a film and find it much better the second time around. “The Shining” didn’t faze me when I first saw it at age twelve. I saw it again a decade later (by which time my memories had faded into vague recollections) and was scared out of my wits. But “Halloween” was one that grabbed me the first time I saw it. I was 12 when it made its tv debut on Halloween in 1981. My mother took me with her to visit a friend. They gabbed on the couch, lights off, while I watched it on tv. I don’t think she even realized what I was watching, even though I sat on the floor not three feet from her - she was absorbed in whatever conversation they were having. I had always enjoyed horror movies, watching the Universal classics and Hammer horror films on tv as a small child. But I was never frightened. “Halloween” was the first movie that scared me. For one thing, I knew monsters weren’t real but crazed killers were. So it hit much harder. Also, the failure to ascribe any motive to the killings was chilling. He just NEEDED to kill, to destroy innocence. That’s horrifying to me. And, finally, no one had seen anything like it before. “Black Christmas” (Canadian btw) was made before it and is its spiritual cousin, but it somehow escaped the notice of the broader public (even a horror hound such as myself only first saw it about twenty years ago - it’s fantastic). My most vivid memory, after watching the movie, was replenishing our supply of firewood that winter. We kept a rick of wood at the bottom of our driveway and a smaller stack on our back porch. When the supply on the porch ran low, one of my chores was to replenish it from the rick. To do so, I had to walk past the dark rear corner of the house. For three months, every time I walked past that corner in the dark, I was sure The Shape was lurking and waiting for me. It never occurred to me to get the firewood when I got home from school, in the broad daylight. So, when people say that characters in horror movies make stupid decisions, I think to myself “Yep, just like in real life.”
Just Plain Bob
2025-07-07 01:34:42 +0000 UTCI know the feeling of "that's $5 wasted". Every time I go to Long John Silvers.
YoureMrLebowski
2022-10-08 16:37:30 +0000 UTC
