Halloween Review (1978)

Halloween Review, this movie inspired many sequels and is one of the best slasher movies ever made.

Director John Carpenter

Writers John Carpenter - Debra Hill

Cast

Jamie Lee Curtis - Laurie Strode
Donald Pleasence - Dr. Sam Loomis
Nancy Loomis - Annie Brackett
P.J. Soles - Lynda Van Der Klok
Brian Andrews - Tommy Doyle
Charles Cyphers - Sheriff Leigh Brackett
Sandy Johnson - Judith Myers
Tony Moran - Michael Myers
Kyle Richards - Lindsey Wallace
John Michael Graham - Bob Simms

Trancas International Films, Running Time 91 Minutes.

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Michael Myers killed his sister when he was just 6 years old, since then he was held in an insane asylum for 15 years until he escaped. After escaping he begins to stalk a girl and her friends before going on a killing spree. he is a man without remorse or regret, simply put he is pure evil.

Halloween is a great example of how to make a horror movie on a small budget, simple but well told story and a simple but very effective score.

The pacing of the film is perfect, the cast is good with good dialog. Unlike many other slasher films the killings are realistic and believable.

Halloween was the first of the modern day slasher type horror films, which had many sequels and remakes in 2007 and 2009, none of them matched up to the original.

Slasher films are not my favorite type of scary movie, normally I find them quite irritating because of all the stupid decisions the victims make which ruins my enjoyment. However the original Halloween is one of the few exceptions.

8 out of 10

Grave Encounters 2 Review

Grave Encounters 2 review, an obsessed student seeks to spend a night in the hospital where the first movie was filmed.

Director John Poliquin

Writer The Vicious Brothers

Cast

Reese Alexander, Officer
Stephanie Bennett, Tessa Hamill
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, YouTube Guy
Richard Harmon, Alex Wright
Howie Lai, Jared Lee
Sean Rogerson, Lance Preston
Leanne Lapp, Jennifer
Meeshelle Neal, Cop
Dylan Playfair, Trevor Thompson

Death Awaits Cinema.

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A student named Alex Wright is completely obsessed with the original Grave Encounters movie, and he is determined to prove to everybody that the psychiatric hospital that the first movie is based in, is in fact haunted for real. Alex and a group of this friends perform their research and then visit the hospital hoping to find some evidence of a real life haunting. What the group discovered was far worse than anything they could ever imagine.

I was pleasantly surprised by the first grave encounters, it provided some genuinely creepy and scary moments, despite the fact that in recent years we have been inundated with these types of first person perspective, reality type movies.

I liked the idea and approach of this movie with regards to the idea that the first grave encounters was only a movie within grave encounters 2 and that Alex the main character is performing research on the actors and director from the first movie looking for some evidence that the first movie was real and that it showed real footage of the haunted psychiatric hospital. This idea may not be completely original, however I did find it refreshing and different enough to keep me interested and immersed in the movie.

As the film progresses and we get into the psychiatric hospital the movie just goes downhill, the acting and dialog becomes very cheesy and it completely ruins any tension or potential scares. At times it felt like they were trying to make a comedy, a spoof of the original, other times it felt like it was trying to be a genuine horror movie, the whole movie became very confusing and a bit silly. Towards the end of the film I completely lost interest and I couldn't care less how it ended and to be honest I can't actually remember how things finished.

When I first heard about grave encounters 2 I was excited to watch it, I was hoping they would make it scarier than the first, the end result is a confused grave disappointment.

4 out of 10