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Post by Allenism on Oct 26, 2017 20:12:19 GMT
I feel like Black Christmas is the true granddaddy of slasher flicks, but it's understandable why it stands in Halloween's shadow. I think on balance the former is more imaginative and features more interesting directorial flourishes. I also think the ending is considerably more effective. A minus would probaly be all the stuff at the police station...it oftentimes killed the momentum. What Halloween gets right is raw atmosphere...the graininess of the picture quality only enhances the eeriness of that nightfallen suburban neighborhood.
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Post by Viced on Oct 26, 2017 21:09:26 GMT
Black Christmas is very good, Halloween is the grand daddy.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Oct 27, 2017 7:27:54 GMT
Black Christmas is an absolute joyride, but Halloween takes this choice with ease.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Oct 27, 2017 18:08:47 GMT
Halloween
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Post by cheesecake on Oct 28, 2017 4:04:19 GMT
Black Christmas.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2017 5:35:41 GMT
Agnes, its me, Billy...
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Post by Archie on Aug 5, 2019 0:27:46 GMT
Black Christmas wipes the fuckin' floor with Halloween.
Sorry, Mr. Carpenter.
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 5, 2019 0:44:55 GMT
I love both a lot... Halloween works every time, but as Carpenter himself said it's "programmed" to function that way with audiences. It's terrific on a technical level, with a tight impeccable concept, clearly one of the most influential of horrors, but it doesn't hold up in its details or depth or characters when next to Black Christmas, which gets better with every re-watch for me, especially its layered narrative. It's actually Altmanesque with the female ensemble and dialogue overlap, Argento or rather Bava inflected violence, tension, use of POV.... And certain sequences like the caroling-murder look almost like Chan-wook Park.
Hate to choose. But recently for me, it's jingle all the way....
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Post by TerryMontana on Aug 5, 2019 5:29:32 GMT
Halloween.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Aug 5, 2019 5:42:56 GMT
You can tell Halloween was influential because of how many of its successors feature characters making stupid decisions.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Aug 8, 2019 6:59:45 GMT
Just to offer up a recommendation here, as I always do when a chance arises to recommend it, if you like / love both of these films, you should check out Fright. |
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