Michael Myers: Absolute Evil (2016)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Impressive film from director Rick Gawel acts like a television special that you'd see on Dateline. The film is a documentary on the events told in HALLOWEEN as if they were a real story. We get interviews with people who survived that night and then we have experts talking about who Michael Myers is and the various other crimes that would be committed over the next couple decades.
For a fan film this is quite impressive and if you're a fan of the HALLOWEEN series then you'll certainly find it to be entertaining. With that said, I did have a few issues with it, which I will get out of the way right now. For starters, I thought the "story" of Myers being told wasn't nearly as focused as it needed to be. I thought the film really started to drag around the one hour mark as we got off the subject and into different territories.
Outside of that the film is well-made and there's no question that it does a nice job connecting itself to the series. I honestly didn't feel that the movie came across as one of those television special but it was certainly good enough for what it was. One of the best moments deals with the events seen in the first two pictures as we get to known some of the victims or at least more than what the pictures showed. The finale of this picture goes into a ghost hunter episode where the hospital from part two is used for them to try and contact Myers and yes he shows up.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Impressive film from director Rick Gawel acts like a television special that you'd see on Dateline. The film is a documentary on the events told in HALLOWEEN as if they were a real story. We get interviews with people who survived that night and then we have experts talking about who Michael Myers is and the various other crimes that would be committed over the next couple decades.
For a fan film this is quite impressive and if you're a fan of the HALLOWEEN series then you'll certainly find it to be entertaining. With that said, I did have a few issues with it, which I will get out of the way right now. For starters, I thought the "story" of Myers being told wasn't nearly as focused as it needed to be. I thought the film really started to drag around the one hour mark as we got off the subject and into different territories.
Outside of that the film is well-made and there's no question that it does a nice job connecting itself to the series. I honestly didn't feel that the movie came across as one of those television special but it was certainly good enough for what it was. One of the best moments deals with the events seen in the first two pictures as we get to known some of the victims or at least more than what the pictures showed. The finale of this picture goes into a ghost hunter episode where the hospital from part two is used for them to try and contact Myers and yes he shows up.
