My main issue with Halloween was that its deaths were tame and didn't really feel, within its own context and world, that the characters were really dying, it felt more like actors play fighting with Nick Castle (who played masked MIchael Myers in the movie), before pretending to be dead. Going into this movie once again, however, I was worried that the issues that plagued Halloween that made it so it didn't stand the test of time as other classic horror movies would also plague this movie. (Edit: Turns out that I haven't reviewed this movie on this site, so here we go). So, technically, this review will only be for Letterboxd, as I already reviewed the movie for Rotten Tomatoes. I've already actually seen this movie once before, there was a special edition DVD released some years ago that I bought. Or at least existed in the form that it did in 1978. It is not preposterous to say that without this movie, Halloween might not have existed. The big, hulking faceless figure started here, the use of power tools also started here.
Of course, in the intervening years since its release and now, obviously, the movie has been reappraised as one of the best slasher movies ever made and for being one of the most influential horror movies of all time. Regardless, the film was banned in several countries and pulled out of some theaters as a result of complaints, both as a result of its violent content. I wonder what the original cut of the movie actually looked like, if the violence was actually toned down in this version. Obviously, that didn't go as planned as the movie still got an R rating. Hooper even edited down the movie so, hopefully, he could secure a PG rating from the MPAA. Tobe Hooper struggled to find a distributor due to the film's violent content. I think a big reason to that would have to be this film's controversy when it originally came out. That's something that's interesting to think about in retrospect, like why did it take four years in between this movie's release and for the slasher genre to become popularized. This one started it, but it was Halloween, in 1978, that legitimately popularized it. And here we go, with the movie that legitimately started it all for the slasher genre, at least in the U.S.
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