Your Halloween Movie List

[Sheilbh]

I have, for my sins, been working through the Halloween films.

I see it's not popular but I really enjoyed Halloween III and wish they'd gone down that anthology route - maybe even do a full-blown portmanteau film like creepshow

Halloween IV was competent. I think when a set of films reaches that level, it's only going downhill

[PDH]

Euros, be wary of the pumpkin spice.  It is like Halloween - sure it starts off all innocent with kids getting hepped up on candy and psychopaths putting razor blades into apples, but soon it takes over and starts earlier and earlier.  Next thing you know, you will be sipping a Pumpkin Spice Latte in August while looking at the first Christmas Decorations.

[Valmy]

I have, for my sins, been working through the Halloween films.

I see it's not popular but I really enjoyed Halloween III and wish they'd gone down that anthology route - maybe even do a full-blown portmanteau film like creepshow

Halloween IV was competent. I think when a set of films reaches that level, it's only going downhill

Everybody lost their shit when they dared to declare Michael Myers dead when he burned to a crisp in Halloween II and dared to do something new and different in Halloween III.

Hollywood has never forgiven us for that and for our sins they will only ever do remakes and sequels forever more.

But I agree. No need to see any of the Halloween movies after III unless you just really want to see Jamie Lee Curtis kick ass in the 20th anniversary movie H20.

[Sheilbh]

So actually I love the recent Halloween from 2018 - I thought it was terrific. It's just I hadn't seen anything between Halloween and that one - a mistake(?) I'm now correcting.

[Valmy]

So actually I love the recent Halloween from 2018 - I thought it was terrific. It's just I hadn't seen anything between Halloween and that one - a mistake(?) I'm now correcting.

Ah. Fair enough I never saw that one.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I made a pumpkin pound cake the other day.  It was good.

Halloween Season of the Witch was good, despite it having nothing at all to do with the Halloween series.  Kind of like the Poltergeist and Friday the 13th TV series. 

[Malthus]

The best thing to watch for Halloween is a short animated series called Over the Garden Wall. I can't recommend this highly enough.

In terms of animation, it is an instant classic of dark absurd fantasy - in the vein of the early Fliesher shorts, but with hefty injections of folklore and whimsy. Manages to be absurd, moving, nostalgic and dark, but also strangely uplifting.

The rendition of "Potatoes and Molasses" in gratuitous operatic Latin is worth the price of admission!

[Eddie Teach]

Or the American version, Over the Hedge.

[The Brain]

Where can I watch the original Halloween?

[Duque de Bragança]

Where can I watch the original Halloween?

A cinematheque? A repertory cinema?

[The Brain]

Where can I watch the original Halloween?

A cinematheque? A repertory cinema?

Sounds like work. I want instant gratification.

[Duque de Bragança]

Where can I watch the original Halloween?

A cinematheque? A repertory cinema?

Sounds like work. I want instant gratification.

So much for the protestant ethic. 

[Savonarola]

It's that time of year.  What movies do you have planned and what else are you planning to do for Halloween?

This year we're planning on seeing Universal Horror's Mummy movies:
The Mummy (1932)
The Mummy's Hand (1940)
The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
The Mummy's Curse (1944)
Abbot and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

As well as Practical Magic, Hocus Pocus and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

While I've complained about Abbot and Costello Meet the Mummy in the past; upon watching all of them I realize it's the second best of the series.  After the original it has the best cast and best story (the mummy costume is chintzy in Abbot and Costello Meet the Mummy, Universal didn't think they needed a convincing mummy for a comedy.)

In the original mummy; the mummy is named Imhotep.  The author of "Bubba Ho-Tep" took its name from that.  In the other films the mummy is Kharis (or Klaris in the Abbot and Costello film.)  In The Mummy's Tomb and The Mummy's Ghost the mummy is brought to America and terrorizes Massachusetts.  In The Mummy's Ghost he's chased down by a group of concerned citizens and burned to death (or is he?)  Twenty five years later he awakens in a bayou where everyone speaks French (or at least with a French accent.)  That struck me as a fate worse than undeath for Tyr.   

[Josephus]

Where can I watch the original Halloween?

A cinematheque? A repertory cinema?

Sounds like work. I want instant gratification.

This to me is the problem with the demise of Blockbusters and the rise of streaming sites. If you want to find back catalogue movies, it's really, really hard.

[Josephus]

Looking at Amazon Prime. There is a 2007 Halloween remake by Rob Zombie. Anyone seen it? He also did a sequel.

BTW BRain, Amazon Prime, at least in Canada, has the original Halloween for rent.