man bites snake Wrote:went to hell. I mean him no disrespect, but Ghosts of Mars was just horrible. The original Fog was a spooky film, little to no gore. It used settings and storytelling to hold the audience. I was 13yrs old when I snuck in to see this(1978 thru 1983 were great horror film years) and it scared me for days. I really dug the The Thing remake too, lots of solid atmosphere and Kurt Russell to boot. In recent years, In the Mouth of Madness was very creepy but it didn't work as a whole. Maybe the whole budget thing is really the reason. There will only ever be one Halloween though, Hollywood would be hard pressed to find that people really wanted a remake.
I love Halloween too. I thank God and John Carpenter for inventing the Michael Myers character. For me, he's like Jason, no matter how bad the film is, if there's a heavy dose of Michael Myers, I'm in. The character is just so cool. I remember watching one of the Halloween films, at the theater (I think it was the last one before H2O). It was the one where Michael was being controled by the other dark character. For most of the film, I was really pissed. Michael wasn't doing much. He was being told what to do like a puppet. He wasn't his usual psycho-unstoppable single-minded killer self. Then there was the scene where he finds the knife in the hospital, goes ballistic, and just butchers everyone, even his "allies". I litterally yelled, "Yeah!!! Kill those f**kers!!!" aloud in the theater. (I wasn't alone either.)
I've liked all the Michael Myers Halloween films except for Revolutions. I couldn't bear to finish it. A theater walk-out.