Thursday, July 2, 2020

Face the Pumpkins

I just saw a television advert for a new movie. It sounds familiar. There was a movie in 1978 with the same title.

Halloween

John Carpenter's pumpkin head was a fine movie: a pumpkin with a brain. I have not seen the flick since 1991 -- as part of research I was doing on horror films -- but my main reaction at the time was I felt I was watching a film with some class.

What easily could have been another paint-by-numbers horror film, Halloween felt classic. As for Halloween '18: we'll have to wait and see if its filmmakers can cut out their own....

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First posted as "Halloween 1978 - 2018" on October 13, 2018.


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