Fav. 'Halloween" movie?
 

Out of the eight movies, which one did you enjoy the most?

As for me, I like the first, original movie, but my fav has always been Halloween 4: "The Return Of Michael Myers". Michael's neice gives me ideas for the next chapter of my ficcy :D

Is it Jamey or Jaime?? Just wondering ^^

I liked the first two. Everything else is piss and vinegar as far as I'm concerned.

The first 3. It's all down hill after that (though I do enjoy part 4 to an extent).

Personally, I think the series should have gone with Carpentor's original vision; a completely new Halloween-related story ever couple years. That would've kept the series fresh and creative. But instead we got a slew of stale sequels retreading the Shape's story.

Continuity even got so bad by the end of Halloween 6, they had to start all over! H2 and Ressurection, in case some may not know, is a new continuity picking up after Halloween 2.

I enjoyed the first 2 Halloween films as they compliment one-another nicely and give some fitting closure to the Loomis/Myers story (there is NO way Loomis could have survived that explosions, c'mon). Halloween 3 worked as a story all by itself and really felt like a John Carpentor classic. It's the music that really makes his movies stand out, I suppose.

The Shape should be the godfather of the slasher genre (even if Black Christmas predates Halloween) but instead a ton of poor sequels has dragged him through the mud. He barely even rates with the lead 2, Freddy and Jason.

Agreed on all accounts. The first three are the best. Still, they don't compare to The Thing. Easily Carpenter's best film.

BTW, this thread is almost useless without a poll.

The Thing is magnificent, to be sure. I'm surprised it gets as much criticism as it does. People complain the monster looks fake. Not half as fake as some of the CGI garbage we've been getting in the past ten years.

However, I think my favorite Carpentor film of all time is In the Mouth of Madness. It's also the last good film he ever made. And it's the best movie-interpretation of Lovecraftian elements I've ever seen.