2014-10-28

2014-10-28         

                'You can't kill', one of Jamie Lee Curtis's characters / (siblings ? -id.) says it better in John Carpenter's Halloween as fellow character (sibling ?) Michael Myers (this film must have made it hard for future director Mike Myers, 'I know guys on crack', one of Mike Myer's Dr. Evil's henchmen says it better in one of Myers' Austin Powers movies - and the same has been said about this here Take Thing Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and flog - 'that makes more sense / than you.') as Michael Myers goes after ever person with a heartbeat in this classic / of the season, 'the boogeyman'.

                'Lori dear' Jamie Lee Curtis' character's saucy friend in the movie calls her better by her character's real / name, as Michael Myers stalks the girls in the middle of the after, before during and after excaping from the booby hatch - referring to the big dude in the stolen station wagon, not yet aware of who / he is - 'he wants to take / you out.' 

                'Scared another one' Lori's saucy friend admonishes Lori better before during and after Michael disappears from view yet again, as only he / can, 'away' - when Cin goes south, it's Out Come the Cuffs, but Michael's on Part XX, last Cin checked - only to re-appear of course brandishing his weapon of choice, that cinfamous superfluously large / chef's knife.        

                Your bogey-(wo) man Lori and her BFF don't take enough notice of the shaggy 6 footer in the jumpsuit following them around their neighborhood in his stolen station wagon and pre-Halloween costume of a jumpsuit and politician's  mask, creepy even for / the '70s.  They're too busy smoking dope, before, during, and after school and getting pulled over by Lori's Da, the town / Sherriff, who doesn't smell a thing when it comes to his sweet sweet daughter. 

                'A man can't do that' the Sherriff says as he videes a dead cat (sorry you little / monsters) what ran out of its nine lives too early, 'unnatural' - the West Virginian coroner calls the cause of death and murder / most foul better during his own examination in Jonathan Demme’s take on Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs while Clarisse Starling watches / and learns, taking pictures of the butterfly larvae in Buffalo Bill's latest victim's throat - 'death', while the Sherriff in 'Halloween' is after accompanying Michael's long-suffering psychiatrist ('I told you people' is the doctor's, played by Donald Pleasance and more / than once, line from 'Halloweens Part I' to 'Part XX', and more / than once, 'but you refused / to listen !') on an ill-advised visit to Michael's childhood home, to which the psychiatrist, who has brought along a pistol for the occasion and soon / draws it, is obliged to reply ,'this is no / man.'

                Course your humble / humbled / humiliated narrator doesn't hulk-smash away at this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and slog ©indiscriminately - ever loving word is thought out beforehand during one of his many moments of leisure and cintemplation that precede and follow ever loving edition of the same (hooker please –id.) - and Michael Myers on his rampages up on out on on up out there doesn't kill all of Lori's BFFs, just the unlucky / ones.                    

                'And if you are right' the Sherriff curses at Donald Pleasance's psychiatrist - in these halcyon days of horror, before the psychiatrist became the menace, in the form of course of Anthony Hopkin's Dr. Hannibal 'the Cannibal' Lecter, aka the 'Thing' in this Take This Thing Back / to Baltimore me-moirs and blog, from The Silence of the Lambs - after Pleasance has warned the sherriff, and more / than once, that his bucolic town is about to become 'a slaughterhouse', 'damn you' - it's the same line that 'the Crown', before, during and after House Arrest the Horror / the Cintencing Parts I to XX, also allegedly used on the judge in the courtroom, according to Cin's lawyer, before the judge did just that - 'for letting / him go.'

                Michael likes to admire his handiwork, viddeeing the jag-off teen that Michael's just been after gutting and mounting in the kitchen, before during and after dressing up in a bedsheet as a ghost - the ensemble completed by the nice touch of having Michael wear his latest victim's glasses over the two holes in the bedsheet for Michael's soul-less eyes in this erstwhile Casper the Friendly Ghost get-up, 'his eyes' -  Thomas Harris writes it better of FBI Director Jack Crawford's same in The Silence of the Lambs, the audio book of which novel, read aloud by Anthony Heald, who played another doomed psychiatrist, Dr. Frederick Chilton in the movie version, and whose ®IP is announced by Dr. Lecter towards the end when he announces to Jodie Foster's Clarisse Starling that Dr. Lecter is 'having an old friend / for dinner', had Cin looking over his shoulder as he drove and the audio version played in the cassette player of his car, and more / than once - 'were dead' - before visiting the female part of the sexy teen couple, a blonde who's been waiting for the boyfriend in the bedroom, 'see' she akses it better to a disinterested Michael Myers thinking it's / her boyfriend and exposing her dirty / pillows, 'anything / you like?'.

                Jamie Lee Curtis's Lori of course excapes with her life in this edition of the 'Halloween' franchise, which surprisingly enough is the only edition of the Halloween franchise in Cin's permanent / collection, surprising that is for someone who like Shelley Duvall's Wendy Torrence in Stanley Kubrick's take on your The Shining, innit Mr. King, Wendy according to her husband 'an avowed'    - What Would Jack Say 'film / and horror / buff.'

               

                It's a solid film, end credits take 5 minutes at most to roll - as opposed to the marathons that are more recent films' / equivalents of the same - over the sounds of the spooky jangling piano theme that has been coming in and out effectively through the movie already, theme of course is a cousin to the bells from William Friedkin’s take on William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, two or three major chords and the occasional minor arpegio / thrown in, and perhaps the best DVD splash screen / ever, main page is just the theme music and the occasional knife slash sound effect, innit monsieur debonaire - kill kill kill slash slash slash - Cin's first viewing of the film earlier this evening after dinner ended with 20 minutes of this splash screen / main page with your humble / humbled / humiliated narrator resting his dead eyes and preparing what's left of his mind, between all the drugs and the horror and the booze and the cincussions, and we weren’t that bright / to begin with, innit DD, as he girded up for tonight's Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and flog's horroreview, matter of fact it's exactly the same thing as he's been doing these last twenty minutes as he's been after hulk-smashing away at this current and endless / paragraph, like Michael he cannot be stopped by normal means, 'this is' Donald Pleasance's psychiatrist says it better, 'no / man.'

                 'With no Hollywood stars' the Extras bit of this movie - 'the 'Gone With the Wind' another breathless narrator narrates it / better, 'of horror' - narrates it better, 'and no special effects, the movie slashed its way / to box-office millions.'  For the sake of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and flog, Cin better hope so, 'you get worried when there's too little money involved' the executive producer or wtf says it better of the original financial circumstances of this film, 'and you get worried when there's too / much', getting worried when there's too little or too much is all / we gots.

                'It's a little' Donald Pleasance says it better of the film, as part of the 'making of' bit of this Extras bit of this DVD, filmed during the making of the movie, 'melo / dramatic', and you can tell that / he disapproves.  'It was the worst mistake' the actor who turned down the role of the psychiatrist - and who played the only dude in the universe who gets to boss around Darth Vader in Star Wars, that English Imperial Commander dude, not / the Emperor -'I ever / made.'

                And Michael Myers as a name?  Given to your man the now-immortal slasher character by director John Carpenter to honour his first benefactor in the movie business, another British bloke who gave Carpenter his first / break.  Now that's / immortality son.                     

               

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