the original "Halloween" = BORING!

[BookZombie]

I do not really think a few inches in height matters so much for me when it comes to who is imposing or not. It is more the air they hold themselves with. I had a friend as a teenager, he was skinny as hell, and just over 170 cm tall. However he had studied Martial Arts since he was a little kid, and he worked as a bouncer. I mean if he looked at you wrong you backed away, even if he was a short, frail looking man. I also have a friend who is huge, he looks like a bear, but he have his kind, friendly nature that I can not imagine that he could scare a newborn kitten.

[ash89]

True, I know what you're saying. Tyson is shorter than me and look at what he was capable of! Anyway, I think it's just going back to the childhood thoughts of the 'boogie-man' you always imagined him much bigger i.e. taller and stronger, you never imagined a monster smaller than you, I think that's why Zombie chose Mane, if you're taller than Mane then all I can say is tough luck!

I'm sure that Carpenter at some point would have specified the kind of person he would have wanted to play 'the shape' and height would have been a factor in his decision making, it wasn't just by chance. I mean the original Myers or the new Myers I know which one I'd be more intimidated by. Though the original is still the better film, mainly because it was original!

[BookZombie]

Actually my boogy men where fairly normal looking juppies in pastel colored clothing with sports cars and fake smiles. I am not kidding, I had a nervous breakdown when I was nine years old due to bulling and I saw said juppies, and their car in my bedroom wall.

On another note I have always found grays to be creepy, and they are not big, they are like three or four feet, much smaller than me, but it is just those almost feature less faces and huge, all black eyes. Size never was a deciding factor for me when it came to whatever or not I found someone scary, perhaps because I have a temper and in school I usually would fight boys five or six years older than me and far, far bigger, and most of the time I would win. I was bullied allot at school, in the form of verbal bulling and that got rather bad, but if I got my hands on the bullies they where limping home, something my teachers did not appreciate.

I do see why high is a factor, but unless you are Godzilla it is not really a thing that matters for me when it comes to intimidation. For me it is the eyes, insane, or deformed eyes are allot more intimidating than body shape.

[ash89]

Ah, sorry to hear that. At least you gave what you got!

Don't get me wrong the original Myers I've never been so more freaked of than anything. I watched Halloween probably when I was too young but I guess that's why to me it's a bit more freaky. Had I watched it now I would have liked it but wouldn't really have been that scared by it.

On screen height isn't a factor to me. Just if I were to see say in real life, Myers the original and Myers (Tyler Mane) I know which one would be more terrifying. I mean I have a close mate who's 6ft 8 (measured) as well and he's massive compared to me! (I'm 6ft) but if he was the stature of Mane and put a lifelike Myers costume on I'd be out my house so quick :p

Whereas if the guy was even height or smaller than me I don't think it wouldn't be as intimidating, at least not to me. Granted though the way Carpenter films it Myers doesn't seem 5 10/11 in the original he seems about 9 ft tall!

[BookZombie]

I have my hubby's uncle fresh in mind. I was a girl of 17 at the time and was going to my boyfriend on the weekends and stayed with him as he lived some ways from me. Now my hubby's landlord, a man of over 80 made a pass on me, he was very insistent and very lewd and I was young and I do have Aspergers syndrome so I got rather upset, this made my boyfriend very upset as well so he called his uncle who lived near by and who is a policeman, not to rapport the man as he had not broken the law, but to give me some hints on security and how to handle people who behaved as morons. Now I said I was not afraid of the old man, he was small, thin and frail, and I am very strong for a woman, I just found the social part of it uncomfortable as I did not know what to say, what to do. Then my boyfriend's uncle said to never judge a person by looks and size to evaluate threat, for he had seen little 12 year old boys skilled in Martial Arts take down grown, top trained men. That sort of stuck with me.

However yes I do agree, the new Michael Mayers do have a more imposing figure, I think the difference between the two characters is about the same as the movies themselves. The original Mayers are silently imposing, it is his eyes, it is that you do not know where he is. He have a otherworldly feel to him, that even if he is human, he is this evil force that can not be stopped. The new Mayers had a more of a in your face way of scaring you, he is a killing machine. Both are scary, but in very different ways. The new Mayer smake you feel small, you have this powerful man who can rip you to shreds, the old one did not make you feel small, but he made you feel like there is no where you can hide for I am more than a normal man.

I think it vary from person to person which one of the two would be most scary.