The music of the Halloween franchise is as iconic as that of any other series, and arguably the most impressive when listened to as a whole. Composed and performed by John Carpenter for the original 1978 film, then Carpenter and Alan Howarth Halloween II and Halloween III: Season of the Witch, and then Howarth alone … Continued
I Made This For You is a mixtape exchange series in which you’re dropped into email correspondence between members of the MV staff. Today’s entry, our fourth, has Alan Miller and Nick Spacek exchanging Halloween-themed tapes, separated into two sides….The Fear and The Fun.
Peter Jacksonâs 1996 ghost story, The Frighteners, was the directorâs first big Hollywood production. It didnât do so hot, making just a little bit above its $26 million budget. Given the fact that the filmâs star, Michael J. Fox, would make his triumphant return to the small screen just two months
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I have a weird relationship with the 1962 film Carnival of Souls. Part of the film was shot in Lawrence, Kansas, where I live. It was the director Herk Harveyâs only feature film, although he made many films for the industrial movie company Centron Corporation. The movie is a certifiable classic,
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In his review for David Robert Mitchellâs 2014 film It Follows, The Wall Street Journalâs Joe Morgenstern referred to the film as âa vivid example of musically transmitted anxiety.â Thanks to the score by composer and musician Disasterpeace, the film is a ridiculously tense piece of horror. Watching
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I have a weird relationship with the 1962 film Carnival of Souls. Part of the film was shot in Lawrence, Kansas, where I live. It was the director Herk Harveyâs only feature film, although he made many films for the industrial movie company Centron Corporation. The movie is a certifiable classic,
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As noted by Clive Davies in his book Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Wonât Write About, Herschell Gordon Lewisâ 1965 film, Color Me Blood Red, âis kind of an extension of A Bucket of Blood,â directed by Roger Corman in 1959. While the former is a brightly-colored, slightly serious picture, and
J.A. Kerswell‘s The Slasher Movie Book is, quite literally, a colorful affair. In addition to the myriad posters, lobby cards, and advertisements presented in loving detail, the different sections come in assorted background colors. The rather hefty tome, out now from Chicago Review Press, is a wonderfully illustrated and compiled love letter to the slasher genre.
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The fun of putting this together is pretty much impossible to describe. I basically came home from work yesterday, started throwing music on, and just let Audacity record the onboard sound, and whatever happened, happened. I cut all the pauses and gaps out, and what you’re left with is a Halloween show that – while not exactly 100% about monsters and the like, as I did last year – is certainly creepy and eerie and just about perfect for your holiday parties. There’s no announcing, just music and horror movie ads, so you’re good to throw this on at your party. Hope you enjoy it.
Can we talk about the opening to Halloween? Is there a more classic start to a horror movie? It seems that all the great ’70s genre pictures had their first ten minutes so tightly set up that they could stand on their own as short films. I’m talking the Exorcist, the Omen, et cetera.
However, it’s Halloween that is just especially masterful. It’s shot so well: obscured views, veiled images, perspective shots…really, it’s wonderful to behold. They don’t do the big reveal on Michael Myers until you’re chomping at the bit to see him, either. John Carpenter was spot-on with Halloween, making a movie that keeps you on the razor’s edge the whole way through.
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