Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut) and Donald Pleasence, with P. J. Soles and Nancy Kyes in supporting roles. The plot centers on a mental patient, Michael Myers, who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his babysitting teenage sister on Halloween night when he was six years old. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his hometown, where he stalks a female babysitter and her friends while under pursuit by his psychiatrist.
Filming took place in Southern California in May 1978. The film premiered in October, whereupon it grossed $70 million, becoming one of the most profitable independent films of all time. Primarily praised for Carpenter's direction and score, many critics credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974). It is considered one of the greatest and most influential horror films ever made. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Halloween spawned a film franchise comprising thirteen films which helped construct an extensive backstory for its antagonist Michael Myers, sometimes narratively diverging entirely from previous installments.
Halloween The Curse of Michael Myers - What Happened? :specter:
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It was nasty, worst part it was my sisters bathroom, was visiting. Who the fuck leaves vagisil right next to the toothpaste. At least my dad got a good laugh. So yeah, not a good memory I guess. 🤢
It has to be mouth safe anyway right? There would have been poisionings before now if it wasn't
I once thought a tube of nail polish was a liquid lipstick which is I assure you not a fun experience.
Paid off student loans. They're Canadian student loans, so weren't too sizeable, but still. :party-blob:
Get ready for your paycheque to all of a sudden feel way bigger now that you're not sending X% to the government
i watched Halloween yesterday and kept making fun of it the whole time
the doctor is like "I looked at that little boy and I saw pure evil" and it's like "is that your medical diagnosis"
i also like the cartoonish morality it plays off as deep
"Pure evil has no meaning or purpose, it is random and a force of the universe"
Uhh no, pretty sure evil is just causing suffering in other sentient beings and it's done mostly for selfish gain or because of systemic issues, and the darkest and most depraved human actions often arise as purposeful libidinal reactions against the superego (sadists and cruel people who do things specifically because they are perceived as bad). That's not random or a platonic force, its a direct relationship to our social structures.
It's a low budget horror movie from the late 70s. They're trying to make a scary killer for a horror movie. This isn't a character study of Micheal Myers and the interwoven systems that led him to wear a a white Shatner mask and a janitor uniform to kill Jamie Lee Curtis.
Yes I know it’s fun for what it is but there are people who take it very seriously as deep or saying something about morality or human nature.
"the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes..."
is it goofy? yes. does it work for me, especially in setting up the ending where he gets shot 6 times and manages to walk away to kill again? yeah
the existence of any sequel to halloween basically is guaranteed to destroy everything cool about the original
“the blackest eyes… the devil’s eyes…”
"like a doll's eyes"
lmao
God, I'd watch a mashup where Captain Quint has to track down Myers instead of Loomis. Id watch that so hard.
my cat loves to play fetch but she only gets excited about a perfect straight throw down the hall and it's so hard :( I need to get a slingshot for her
the stupid idiot likes to trot down the hall for a head start too but she only likes it when she has to chase it :angery:
This makes me feel deeply uncomfortable about my relationship to music. It's not a thing I enjoy by itself? It's just another form of alienation?
tfw no quirked up white boy goated with the sauce busting it down sexual style BF: :bawllin-sad:
what are the vegas odds on rishi sunak being pm in 2 months? because it isn't like he's going to improve anything, and things are only going to get worse as it gets colder
"genie, i would like a way to stop this tory from continuing as mp"
:the-doohickey:
:the-doohickey:?
"[redacted]"As people start freezing to death, chances of riots are fair to middling. So maybe 20:1
British energy bills will jump 80% to an average of 3549 pounds ($4188) a year from October
not great
A band I like put out some NFTs earlier this year (modern!) but one of their side projects is apparently not available in any format other than vinyl (retro!) I don't think the relationship between art and technology has ever been as stupid as it is right now.
In October of 2024 facing mounting legal problems Hexbear.net was sold to NFT and cypto investor Jason "lulzboy" Johns for 100 eth. The site was quickly redesigned with a heavy emphasis on NFT avatars and a pay-to-post model involving crypto, much to the dismay of users. Six months later after all but a handful of users left, Hexbear.net (now renamed "The Ape Lounge") was sold to 4chan owner Hiroyuki Nishimura which served as a redirect to the /pol/ message board. :very-smart:
Some time later the the Hexbear dot net url gets sold again, this time to reddit, where it gets renamed to Chapo Trap House. History repeats it self. :very-smart:
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my father was talking about how bad it is that xi has been in power for a long time, but had also gotten mad at me for making jokes about how the queen had died earlier
curious :thinking-about-it:
I actually have no idea why the bear is spinny today. It might actually be cloudflare instead of us, for a change?
Thanks, as always, for your patience.
On the plus side, the feds would probably be running a much smoother operation, so at least you know we're grassroots af.
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