hmmm

Rating: 5/10 (16 September 2007)

I'm going to start by saying this film does not stand up well to the passage of time and seems to get a little worse each time you see it. I was amazed when I looked at the list of stuff I'd reviewed that this film wasn't there! I've seen it many times and just re-watched it so here goes. So much in this film goes unsaid leaving far too much to the viewer to interpret.
I assume at the start it's Micheal Myers (i'll now be calling him MM) watching the girl and guy on the sofa. I think the camera POV is far too high up to be a child's eye view but thats just my opinion. How the boyfriend fails to spot MM as he looks back up the stairs is beyond me. MM's motive for grabbing the knife is never explained either. Also why the sister never tries to push him off, run away or defend herself in any way. His hair is light brown for those who debated it. And that knife looks very dry for having just stabbed someone seconds ago.
The next scene really bothers me to, The patients are out in the rain so we're never told hold MM escaped. He's clearly been out in that rain a fair while just waiting on a car to arrive to steal. Now another thing that annoys me, he was locked up as a little boy and has been there 15 years but he knows how to drive?
As Laurie Strode is walking with the boy to the Myers House no houses appear to be displaying any kind of Halloween decorations, that seemed odd to me.
Also how MM found where she lived is a tad unlikely too as he drove away from them and was at the house when she got there. I was trying to work out why Lauries friends car didn't fill up with cigarette smoke(and her dad would have totally smelt it as Laurie opened her window).
How far away was Laurie going to babysit? It was light when she left and dark when she got there. When Loomis & the sheriff 1st go to MM's house Loomis quite happily goes up to the stairs 1st with no gun or torch.
Now what did Laurie's friend spill on herself (and where) that meant she had to take off her shirt, t-shirt and trousers? (she later says butter, it must have been red hot for her to pull her clothes off like that!) The friend also just walks right back into the house where she was sitting (clearly having left the front door unlocked then?)
Who are the couple that go to where Lauries (now dead) friend is babysitting? They just walk into a total strangers house, have sex in their bed and smoke & drink in their house? And that single carving knife would NOT hold a grown adult off the ground like they show.
Right, Laurie ALSO walks out of a house where she's supposed to be watching 2 sleeping kids, leaving the door unlocked! Does NO-ONE lock their door in Haddonfield? Once in the other house she never turns any lights on - thats everyones 1st instinctual action in a darkened room, turn on the lights!
OK, Laurie discovering the bodies, Who screwed up there? Body 1 is her friend on the bed (still dressed only in a shirt). Body 2 is the boyfriend of the couple who had been having sex (but he was left in the kitchen stabbed to the wall with a knife!). Body 3 being the blonde girl of the couple who were having sex.
The fall over the banister down the stairs should have killed or at least crippled Laurie. And can't everyone spot the obvious pane of prepared stuntglass in the window waiting for Laurie to break it?
Laurie shouts for help a total of 11 times and no-one responds. Once or twice might be kids playing a prank but a girl on her own shouting 11 times? Real public spirited folks who live in that street, eh?
Now they expect us to believe that MM got through that tiny window ( and we didn't see him doing it in the background? Or that he'd survive being stabbed in the neck (in an artery no less!) with that knitting needle? And he pulled that needle out (at least 2 inches was coated in blood so he should have been spraying blood all over the place!)
Loomis put 6 (i counted them!) bullets into MM. He's dead. End of film. And no, screw getting up and walking away. 6 bullets from less than 10 feet, a needle in the neck and a carving knife. You Are Dead!