Halloween (1978) is the low budget horror flick that started it all. If not for the success of the original, we won't Friday The 13th series, A Nightmare on Elm Street series, Scream series...yada yada yada.
After around 30 year since the original was released, and the franchise and mythology of Michael Myers have developed into a totally different thing presented in the original film, finally, inevitably, a remake is made.
This remake or reimagining is a combination of a prequel and episode 1. It tells us the origin story of this killing machine Mike Myers and retell the event presented in the 1978 film. While the original focused more on those sudden shock kind of horror, this remake present horror by the portrayal of graphic and brutal violence scene. The original may makes you pee in you pant (if you drank too much and refuse to go to loo during the movie), the remake will make you puke, not because of the graphic disgusting scene, but because of the idea a human did such a thing to its fellow kind.
Yeah human, the origin story of Myers make him a human, a disturbed, distorted mind, sociopath, victim or the by product of post modernism capitalism society. The whole remake is like biography of a serial killer. The cause, early signs, behaviour of Mike in the film fit so well with the analysis of all most of the serial killer we have - dysfunctional family, domestic violence, lack of love, violence towards animal, bad in school but not in the least stupid etc...
But this is also the bad side of the film. The magic of the original film is, we only know the 'shape' is a maniac killer. Even though we have the name, but we never know who he is, what kind of person he is, what he is capable of, his potential etc. We know nothing about him, and that's why the fear is more intense and the movie is more fun to watch, a feature length psycho killer slashing teenage slut.
Michael Myers
In short, I enjoy this film giving a life and soul to Mike, but sad that the magic and whole insane mythology built up all this year is erased to give way to this realistic portrayal of this serial killer behind a painted white mask of William Shatner...
Shatner, see the resemblance?
2 comments:
I thought u guys are having Halloween almost everyday in Lenovo with the existing on The Brother??
NO, that is "The Day of The Living Dump".
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