the original "Halloween" = BORING!
 

By my opinion the original halloween was boring because it had a low body count and no thrills. A terrible movie. however the sequel is thrilling and way better. Who agrees?

Body count is in no way a gauge to measure the quality of a movie.

body count is part of the thrills and he killed like 4 people.

So since that entire colony of people were killed in Jason X it's the most thrilling movie ever?

I only said its part of the thrill. now you going to vote or what?

I do prefer the sequel especially for it's relentless pacing. That film is fucking menacing and I rate it highly. Makes a great back to back double feature with the original which I personally don't find boring.

What it lacks (really, it doesn't lack in the department since the final tally of the body count matters absolutely 0%) it more than makes up for in atmosphere, suspense, and plain awesomeness. Now it may have been ruined for you after exposure to the subsequent slasher films with more bodies than cast members and films trying to juice up Halloween's formula, but for others it's an entirely different case. While I obviously wasn't around to see Halloween during it's original release it is the first movie I have any memory of watching. But if you think it's boring then you think it's boring and there's no changing that. Though I don't think you'll find many people who will agree with you on this forum.

The first one is the best one. A classic. The others are pretty much junk after 3. My personal favorite is 3, But i watch 1 to and 3. It is not boring though. That is the thing about these new movies. Everyone has ADD so bad they have to have brgining to end jam pack action or else it is "boring". THese kids cant sit through a good old horror. YOu should try to watch some old Bela Legosi. or Boris Karloff.

If Halloween is boring to him Lugosi and Karloff would be a chore at the very least.

Nah, not boring at all to me. Saw it as kid on it's original release and it scared the crap out of me. Still a good flick today.

One of the classics, so....not to me.

you trolling?

Halloween the original is the best and it's not even close :)

They all suck.

Slasher movies are dumb and their fans are even dumber..... no offence.

Not me. I love Halloween.

Are you trying to tell me Rob Zombie's is better? I watched those and wanted to slit my own throat it was so depressing.

For its significance & impact it sometimes called the son of Psycho and father of American Slasher movies! Yeah when I first saw it few years back I was also little bit disappointed as I was expecting too much from it. But as I grow as a fan of the genre I begin to realize the magnificence of this movie...besides the simple & effective characterization, an iconic background score (still which I use as the main ring tone for my cell), masterful camera works of Carpenter or even the breakthrough performance of Donald Pleasence & Jamie Lee Curtis, it's got the perfect way to telling such a chilling story of a modern day boogieman for any small town like Haddonfield. As I say more often...if The Haunting & The Legend of Hell House should consider as the holy book for film making for today's young film makers in haunted house sub genre, then the original Halloween is just the same for Slasher genre. It has all the elements for a successful slasher in perfect proportion...not a bit less or more. It's simple and fun...the evergreen fairytale of Slasher genre.

I'm not sure right now which part it was but besides the Halloween I & II, I'm also fond of another part of the original series where someone has a beautiful black car & Michele Myers later acquire it for his merciless murder mission?!?


but you are the dumbest!:D

Oh, I'm dumb, am I?



RACIST!!! :mad:

What?? Racist???:eek::eek: who..me??....when?? how come?:confused::confused:

I can't believe this is even a serious question.

Assuming this isn't trolling, I don't really care if someone thinks that a film that I love sucks. People tend to take this sort of thing way too personally.

I'll never forget the time I wrote a couple of threads on films I thought were pretentious and/or overrated. I certainly expected people to disagree, but the level of hostility shown by certain members left me quite shocked. Now that I see what a widespread problem trolling is, I understand why this happened.

Horrorzack, if you're on the level, I disagree with your opinion, but you're certainly entitled to it.

P.S. I still defend my choices for the most pretentious and overrated films.:p

All you have to do is watch the first 3 mins of each movie and you get everything you need to know about comparing these two flicks, in my opinion. The first is polished and well crafted, the second isnt. Plesance is on total auto pilot delivering those lines and its about as camp and cheesy as you can get. Watch for the pause right before he goes running off, too funny. The first has quality tracking shots, the second has Donald Plesance hamming it up. That said, I totally love the 2nd installment. Pacing is great and its got enough in there to remind you its just a bit of fun, the first takes itself much more seriously, but backs it up too.

Zack, I'm not sure how old you are but your reasoning defies all logic.
In one thread you want us to vote for Jack Torrence as the "Best Killer in Horror movies"...the same Jack Torrance who couldn't kill a little boy or meek female but did manage to kill one old feeble man with an ax. In this thread you're calling out one of the pivotal horror movies of our time because of only 4 kills.

:confused:

If you dont take this as serious then why did you vote its boring?

But Jack did have an awesome sweater.

That was part 5, he also wears a different mask for parts of that one.

I did not watch that much slasher movies in fact I only watched 8 those are Halloween, Halloween 2, The Shortcut, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien:Resurrection. I watch mostly non-slasher films such as The Orphanage, White Noise, White Noise 2, Boogeyman, Thirteen Ghosts, The Reaping, The Gate, Boris Karloff's The Terror and much more non-slasher movies.

Did you have trouble finding that one? ;)

You only need to kill one person to be a killer, and he killed that hotel cook didn't he?

Nope I found it at Target.

Seriously? Have you already forgotten how weird I am??


Sucker.. :rolleyes:

Get to work sonny.;)http://www.horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55471

Drag Me To Hell is on that list. no thank you that movie sucked.

Next he will be saying The Village was simply brilliant.


Puhleez, you are boringly normal. :rolleyes:


:D

That equals one. Michael killed five. You nominated Jack over Michael for best movie killer when you complained about Michael having a low body count (which increased over the next 8 movies featuring him) when Jack killed one guy and got lost in a maze.

You don't have to like them all; just get some more experience under your belt.

well I did like The Village. but it wasnt brilliant.

and knocked out by Olive Oyl

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"No comment" is a comment.

Wow.http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aTrKKEiz2...xasperated.JPG

Boringly normal, eh?



RACIST!!!

Lol-I clicked the wrong button and can't take it back!


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