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Jason X (2001)
I have mixed feelings on this movie
I don't hate this sequel nor do I love it. I do think that it was pointless to put Jason in space because the whole idea lead the series nowhere.
In the last Friday The 13th movie Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday, Jason's full body goes straight into hell. Now all of a sudden this movie begins when Jason is captured in a place called the Crystal Cake Research Facility as if the last movie was ignored. When captured in the facility he looks nothing like he did in any of the other movies in the series, especially the mask and the whole research facility is keeping Jason's body because it was discovered that he can regenerate lost and damaged tissue. I dislike how they added this into the story because if Jason was really able to regenerate lost and damaged tissue why would does his skin look like such a wreck in the previous films? I think he would be able to look good as new if he could regenerate lost and damaged tissue if you ask me.
What I did like about this movie is it did have some creative kills in it. Jason sticks a woman's face in below freezing water then smashes her face right on the counter and her whole face literally breaks apart.
I did not like how Jason gets an upgrade in this movie simply because Jason with metal protection and fierce red eyes is not the Jason I know. I didn't find him creepy looking at all once this happened.
This movie is not horrible nor is it great, it's mediocre. Not the best movie in the franchise but certainly not the worst.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Very underrated
I was very surprised when I saw that this movie only ranked 4.4 out of 10 on IMDb. Before I even saw it, people told me that it was a bad movie and that it was the worst one they made in the series. I'm glad I still watched it anyway because to be honest I enjoyed this movie.
There are two versions of this movie, A) The theater version and B) The producer's cut. The two versions certainly have their differences. The producer's cut gives a lot more detail to the curse of thorn. A curse in which drives Michael Myers madness. A lot of people that I talked to thought that the whole idea of there being a curse and cult behind Michael Myers madness was stupid. However, I have to disagree because it was never explained in the previous films as to why Michael Myers wants to kill his family. The makers of this movie finally addressed this and did very well. The curse was given to Michael Myers at a young age by Mrs. Blankenship a women that lives across the street from the Myers house.
"Thorn is the third rune in a group of 33. Thorn is also known as Thurisaz. This ruin appears every 1,000 years. It is a constellation in the stars which appears on October 31st, Halloween. It is also on Michael's wrist.
To the ancient Druids, Thorn represented a demon. This demon spread sickness which killed thousands of people and killed crops. The Druids also believed that one child from each tribe was chosen to be inflicted with the curse of Thorn. This child had to kill their whole family to spare thousands more." -http://www.angelfire.com/ma/babybrownsplace/thorn.html
The curse of thorn is the answer as to why Michael Myers wanted to kill every person in his family. The curse also gives Michael Myers incredible strength and he it makes him immortal. That's why Michael always came back to life even after being burned alive, and shot.
This movie also has creative kills with good suspense. I liked how the kills all had different methods (axe, knife, farm machinery, etc.)
I disliked how Danielle Harris did not play Jamie Lloyd in this movie. I didn't mind J.C. Brandy doing it, but she looked nothing like Jamie Lloyd and I found it odd how Danielle Harris didn't play her considering that she did in the last two movies.
There were two different endings to this movie. In the theater version it is unknown as to what happens. Dr. Loomis walks back into the clinic and you hear him screaming realizing that Michael Myers mask was left on the floor. I assume what happened was that Dr. Loomis saw Michael Myers face and was very freaked out. In the producer's cut Dr. Loomis in the end becomes apart of the curse of thorn and is destined to protect Michael.
This movie is very underrated, I don't know why people hate it so much. If you haven't seen it, I would recommend it. I do think this is an out of the ordinary slasher film considering that I've never seen a killer in a slasher film be motivated to kill by an ancient curse. I would give this an 8 out of 10. It had good suspense, with a creative and unique idea.
Halloween (1978)
Epic slasher film
Michael Myers has become an icon for horror films. John Carpenter's Halloween is still remembered as a great horror film classic and has had great success among slasher film fans.
There were many good things about this film. The thing I like about it the most is that it had a very eerie feel to it. The music certainly did it's role in giving this movie an eerie feel. Some people I know complained that it was a very slow movie and I think it suited this movie very well. When Laurie is walking around her neighborhood and it has creepy music playing at a slow tempo it makes a very creepy movie.
Dr. Loomis when describing Michael Myers gives great detail. Donald Pleasence does this role very well and portrays the "pure evil" theme in a very dark way.
I like how it is dark in a lot of the scenes. It gave off a great atmosphere and essence. During Bob's Death Scene, Michael Myers pops right out of nowhere grabs him by the neck and stabs him, it is very dark in this scene which gave this creative kill an element of darkness and pure evil.
Many of the kills in this film were creative particularly Lynda's death scene when Michael strangles her with a telephone chord.
I think the mask serves a great element of fear to the movie. Dr. Loomis in the film says "I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face." The mask certainly resembles what Dr. Loomis says, it's a white mask that looks completely emotionless.
I liked how Michael Myers is seen and then within seconds he is gone. Laurie Strode notices Michael outside a window when she is in class he's gone as soon as she looks back. This gives a very suspenseful essence to the film because you don't know where he went a lot of the time and he can pop out of nowhere.
This movie is a great slasher film. Not only did was this movie successful but many of the sequels were very successful as well. The Halloween franchise overall is simply great. If you haven't seen to many slasher films this would be a great movie to start with. This movie is a classic and always will be.
Halloween (2007)
A Decent Remake
I'll admit when I first saw Rob Zombie's Halloween I was very disappointed. I complained about how it was nothing like the original and how everything was completely changed. However, two months after I watched it I realized that I was treating it like it was the worst horror movie ever made, which I then realized was not true at all so I decided to give Rob Zombie's Halloween a second chance.
I do not believe that this remake is better or is as good as the original Halloween, there were things I liked and disliked about this remake. At first, I complained how it was nothing like the original but I realize that they changed some things and gave more detail to things that weren't shown in the original Halloween. For instance I liked how it showed more detail with Michael Myers in the sanitarium with Dr. Loomis and gave more detail to what went on at home. I also thought that the mask they used for Michael Myers was very creative and I enjoyed Annie Brackett being played by Danielle Harris.
The things I disliked about this remake were that Laurie Strode in the original Halloween played by Jaimie Lee Curtis, was a very mellow, nerdy, bookworm, kind of girl. In Rob Zombie's Halloween she isn't portrayed like that at all. I also didn't like how they portrayed Michael Myers father as an abusive person.
Overall I would give this remake a 6 out of 10 in my opinion it is by far not the best horror movie ever made and certainly not better then the original but it had some good things in it that I liked and it was a creative piece of work by Rob Zombie. This movie is fun and creative and I would recommend to people who haven't seen it to get some popcorn and watch it.
Goth (2003)
This movie blows really bad
I know enough information about Goth to know what the Goth Subculture is and this movie named EVERY SINGLE STEREOTYPE IN THE BOOK. The subculture already has enough problems with discrimination as it is, and of course somebody just has to make a movie about Goth involving those stereotypes. At first I thought it was possible that this movie was made by goths as a joke but as I watched the commentary on the DVD I realized that the cast and crew were serious when making this movie. They were comparing this movie to epic slasher films like Friday The 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre when this movie is nowhere near that level of excellence.
There is nothing good about this movie, I tried really hard to look and see if there was something I liked about it and no matter how hard I tried the answer was NO! I'm going to put this pointless 90 minute movie into a few sentences:
A "Goth" couple head over to a club/concert and run into a women named "Goth." Goth takes the couple into a van and through out the night she does drugs and kills people. Crissy the girl in the relationship soon realizes that Goth was the one that killed her sister in the past.
Already when the they meet the women named "Goth" I was thinking to myself that this is a very pathetic movie. The blood looked fake, the acting was not good, it was hard to understand what was going on at times, and the kills weren't creative at all.
This movie is horrible, do not watch it. Sometimes when I'm watching a bad horror movie I think it's so bad it's good. This film couldn't even do that for me. It was just horrible and nothing but horrible.