It’s funny how much horror has intensified over the years. Now it’s kind of creepy but it never really made me gasp. I was 12 when I first saw this movie.
One could argue that the change in dialogue and acting performance at the very beginning with Laurie and the kids is a sign that this does indeed take place in another universe.
The music at the intro is so much more demonic and scary. The BEST OUT OF THE ENTIRE SERIES! The Visuals of the Pumpkin breaking apart matches perfect with the music. I just love this intro!
“You don’t know what death is!” It was at that point he realized the scope of Michael’s evil as completely inhuman. Iconic! I wish the new Halloween movie followed this timeline.
Me too. There were a couple scenes that were off a little. I do think it could've been a little better if they got a new William Shatner mask, redid it as well as having Wes Craven write and direct the film since John Carpenter wasn't interested in making it at all
@@gregorbegger9291 sorry but using another mask would be a horrible idea, especially since every mask in later sequels look terrible (minus H6's mask) and Wes Craven was part of New Line Cinema, so he would never write a Halloween movie, like ever.
@@gregorbegger9291 true, but know this that at that time, Moustapha Akkad hold the rights to the franchise, while Wes Craven was working on some of the A Nightmare on Elm Street movies and then other movies like Scream, so I don't think it would be possible for them to get Craven to write a Halloween movie.
Wes Craven never had a prime John Carpenter's creepy shot framing or attention to detail (when it came to horror films). JC at his best (with Dean Cundey as cinematographer) was peerless when it came to crafting creepy atmosphere.
POV: this gets recommended to you 9 years later for some reason Edit: it either pops up on ur recommended because u binge halloween movies or its just youtubes ridiculous recommendations
one of the most brilliant things is that it starts out as a homage making people its cheap, then you notice it zooms in and you then see the pumpkin break apart and you see the skull, brilliant one of the only horror film sequels that ever worked
Well the skull is the evil that lies within, one that has corrupted a innocent holiday for children. Then as the camera continues to zoom in to and then through the eye of the skull, as black completely covers the screen we're suddenly looking at events through Michael's point of view. It is simplistic in design, but the intention is clear, We are being subjected to another round of mayhem as he continues his rampage.
I love it but badly directed shouldn’t Pan down from a green tree 7 shots the shape wouldn’t make a perfect imprint in the grass plus the ending with the fireproof boots terribly shot enbassaring
I think the John Carpenter theme sounds the best in this film. Tell me you don’t get jacked immediately after the line “You don’t know what death is”. The first may be the best of the series and it is but this was not a bad sequel.
I LOVE this score and opening.... like the movie, this music is the same but elevated.... and I love how this movie picks up right where the last one left off... Halloween and Halloween 2 are like kill bill only linear.
Original Halloween, Halloween 2 (1981), Halloween 3, Halloween 4, & Halloween 2018 are My Favorite Openings to The Halloween film's but Halloween 2 (1981) stand out to me the Best one cause It Badass, Cool, & Scary as Hell Especially That Skull popping out of the Pumpkin is so Creepy/ Awesome.
@@Danbo22987 Yeah that one was pretty cool opening and I feel that Tom Kane nailed Donald Pleasence Dr. Loomis voice with that Badass Speech about Micheal Eyes in opening of H20.
Unreal.....40 years ago I was a year and 2 months old when this hit theaters....screw John Carpenter and his negative remarks about Halloween 2. This sequel was great and I refuse to acknowledge the following movies afterwards.
I remember seeing this on home video at a friend's house a long time ago when I was a kid, and I was totally freaked out when the pumpkin split open revealing the skull inside! Gave me nightmares not to be believed!
I actually like to think this is still canon to the new continuity. Not that it happened but that it was a hallucination that Laurie had while in the hospital, adding to her paranoia later in life
they had a fight about money along time ago last thing they did together was they live 1988 anyway I love halloween 2 saw it 3 times back in 1981 but crappy film making by rosenthal and he didnt get any better with halloween 8 if its supposed to be the fall you dont start the film with a pan down from a tree with green leaves also the losuy halloween 5 swedish boy director does the same thing he pans down from a green tree during the day and other shots of green trees at least the orginal they tried to not show this and the budget was the lowest by the way 208 film sucked by the standee with myers standing in a closet with the music play when to you open the door the theame plays I got one by kissing you know what still in the box only certain big theaters got this diplay go to drissi advertising and keelp looking you can see the door open and the theme play better than the crappy film
@@gkroll8467 Compared to Rob Zombie's Halloween where they made Michael be a bully, Killed off the mother, Come up with premeditated child abuse at the breakfest scene, Made Laurie turn into this sexual douchebag, Also made Laurie and Annie fight in Part 2, Multiple times....And also made scenes that doesn't even make sense like Michael's gerbil scene. Halloween (2018) was literally the best film i have ever seen. Everything made a lot of scene. Especially the scene where Laurie is the pray and Michael is the victim, That was the huge twist in the film. It's all a connection; Earlier in the film Laurie was shooting her dummies, She was preparing for the attack that would eventually come in that same house. A little later in the movie she scares her daughter in her daughter's own home; She was protecting her and training her for the worst to happen, Michael could just come in without her knowing; Like he did to that one girl that was talking on the phone on his first night appearance as "The Shape". When they were commemorating skipping scene-to-scene-to-scene-to-scene, Laurie screams. That meant she knew peacetime was over and that it could be her last night and also the night to fight with Michael and that she would be expected to lose her babies to Michael. She already lost Ray, Hopkins, and those 2 British people that interviewed with her in the beginning of the film. When Michael and Laurie came eye-to-eye she was getting ready to shoot, At that scene this was a huge reference to Halloween H20 where Michael and Laurie came eye-to-eye with Laurie holding a pistol. When they finally arrive to Laurie's house, Karen was emotionally complaining about her childhood being ruined, When Michael arrived, He was hiding from Laurie to surprise attack her, Like what Laurie did in Halloween (1978) in the (of course the same arm where she got stabbed in 1978, 1998, and 2007) Laurie was lurking, Looking for Michael, When Michael surprise attacked her, She was trying to lean him towards the balcony when she unfortunately she failed and let Michael lean HER into the balcony; Literally pushing her off of it. *(She survives this just like how Michael did in the 1978 film)* Karen and Allison was also searching for Michael. When they finally attack Michael by Karen shooting her *(Using her hilarious trick by the human logic of fake-crying)* They both move out of the way, Laurie pushes Michael into the chamber, after saying "Happy Halloween, Michael", Laurie and Karen sets up the chamber and officially announces it as a trap. Laurie says "Goodbye, Michael", Sets him on fire; the entire house on fire, They both walk out The End. So obviously the connection was actually to plan Michael Myers to be set on fire burned alive in his own little trap. Except Halloween (2020) says that Michael had escaped from his little trap. So we'll get to see what actually happened in Part 2 later next year. All of this makes sense, Even True Halloween Fans like Myself and thousands of others, sure enjoyed the living Hell out of this movie, And all of us definitely cannot wait for Halloween (2020) that's set to come out later next year. It doesn't suck, You just **THINK** it sucks, Because you don't like what Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael Myers Creator/Halloween (1978) Music Creator-Composer John Carpenter had planned for the new Halloween (2018) film. Which progressed into a smash hit in the box office which led to the franchise planned to come to an end with Halloween (2020): Halloween Kills, and Halloween (2021): Halloween Ends.
This has ALWAYS been my favorite opening movie title sequence!!!! And it's the GOOD one that says Mustapha Akkad presents, not that BULLSHIT Universal presents that showed up on a certain Blu-ray from a few years ago! God damn that pissed me off to no end!!!
It does explain why Laurie seems more serious than her friends, like she's been affected in some way by something or someone. I got the impression she lived in her own head a lot.
I remember seeing this on Cable Tv years ago. I recall thinking this movie lacked what the original had. It was mostly jump scares and shock value. Would have been a better movie if it was a year or so later. MM would begin stalking her again...out of nowhere
joke line sounds like tommy lee wallace hillbilly voice even though he didnt have anything to do with watch the trailer for part 2 and you will hear a different voice that says Ive been trick or treated to death tonite with out dr loomis the films prettty much suck fish heads
Dr. Loomis is the only person in the world that would go into that backyard in the dark knowing The Shape is gone after shooting him six times off of the balcony.
I think he would have found out what death was if he'd been somewhere between Michael Myers and his intended target (Laurie, surprise, surprise!). That's how Michael deals with anyone he deems an inconvenience. "You're in my way!"
This was just as good as Halloween with John Carpenter's wanted to wear the best the others were okay but I hated Rob Zombie's I wish John Carpenter's would go punch Rob Zombie out for stealing his movie. His sucked only Carpenters where the best n Jamie Lee Curtis best actress looks so hot for 60 yrs old. To bad she's married. I marry her myself
It'd be like telling a starving African child that you are starving, even though you just ate an hour ago. Dr. Loomis knows death is serious and inevitable with Michael around and the neighbor wasn't taking it seriously.
@@pumpkinman4ever Because he wasn't being targeted. Michael Myers had specific targets in mind that night. If he happened to kill someone who wasn't, well, they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, which is usually how most people end up becoming victims of misfortune.
I remember seeing this in the theater and the audience literally gasped when the pumpkin split open. Absolute genius.
That’s funny. Someone on another video told the same story. You both must’ve been at the same showing back in the day. Small world.
@@UltimateThanos that's weird
@@UltimateThanos or maybe that happened in a lot of screenings.
It’s funny how much horror has intensified over the years. Now it’s kind of creepy but it never really made me gasp. I was 12 when I first saw this movie.
Like Halloween II not a terrible film by any means but first film is way better.
The longest terrifying night ever from the small town to the hospital. What a genius movie!
Exactly what I thought about also
You know what I mean eh my friend 😊
One could argue that the change in dialogue and acting performance at the very beginning with Laurie and the kids is a sign that this does indeed take place in another universe.
The music at the intro is so much more demonic and scary. The BEST OUT OF THE ENTIRE SERIES! The Visuals of the Pumpkin breaking apart matches perfect with the music. I just love this intro!
Same! Best movie in the Halloween franchise by far
I'm gonna cry bc of how amazing all these halloween films are
BEST OPENING CREDITS EVER!
“You don’t know what death is!” It was at that point he realized the scope of Michael’s evil as completely inhuman. Iconic! I wish the new Halloween movie followed this timeline.
Dr. Loomis was right when he said: "You don't know what death is!"
I love this movie so much!
Me too. There were a couple scenes that were off a little. I do think it could've been a little better if they got a new William Shatner mask, redid it as well as having Wes Craven write and direct the film since John Carpenter wasn't interested in making it at all
@@gregorbegger9291 sorry but using another mask would be a horrible idea, especially since every mask in later sequels look terrible (minus H6's mask) and Wes Craven was part of New Line Cinema, so he would never write a Halloween movie, like ever.
Well he was known for making horror movies
@@gregorbegger9291 true, but know this that at that time, Moustapha Akkad hold the rights to the franchise, while Wes Craven was working on some of the A Nightmare on Elm Street movies and then other movies like Scream, so I don't think it would be possible for them to get Craven to write a Halloween movie.
Wes Craven never had a prime John Carpenter's creepy shot framing or attention to detail (when it came to horror films).
JC at his best (with Dean Cundey as cinematographer) was peerless when it came to crafting creepy atmosphere.
Best opening credit scene to a horror film EVER!
One of my favorite Halloween movies of all time I can't wait until Halloween ends this year. But I want me and my girlfriend to watch it
POV: this gets recommended to you 9 years later for some reason
Edit: it either pops up on ur recommended because u binge halloween movies or its just youtubes ridiculous recommendations
Watching a 35mm print of this in a movie theater with surround sound was my favorite film experience ever.
one of the most brilliant things is that it starts out as a homage making people its cheap, then you notice it zooms in and you then see the pumpkin break apart and you see the skull, brilliant one of the only horror film sequels that ever worked
Well the skull is the evil that lies within, one that has corrupted a innocent holiday for children. Then as the camera continues to zoom in to and then through the eye of the skull, as black completely covers the screen we're suddenly looking at events through Michael's point of view. It is simplistic in design, but the intention is clear, We are being subjected to another round of mayhem as he continues his rampage.
Disastrous Dallas Shut the fuck up
@@Godzilla-on2mz
Lol. What the hell did he do?
Well with the new story line this never happened
Godzilla 1962 I think the only one that needs to shut up is you.
Best Halloween movie ever. Not just that the best horror movie sequel ever.
I love it but badly directed shouldn’t Pan down from a green tree 7 shots the shape wouldn’t make a perfect imprint in the grass plus the ending with the fireproof boots terribly shot enbassaring
@@gkroll8467 I do think it could’ve been better if Wes Craven directed the film, since John Carpenter wasn’t interested in making a sequel.
My Favorite too and beautifully filmed by Rick Rosenthal.
@@gregorbegger9291 yes
The Original 1978 Dawn of The Dead is an immortal sequel.
I think the John Carpenter theme sounds the best in this film. Tell me you don’t get jacked immediately after the line “You don’t know what death is”. The first may be the best of the series and it is but this was not a bad sequel.
Still the best theme and opening credits.
I used to always replay Loomis saying, "You don't know what death is" and running while looking at the balcony.
Excellent Opening!...👏👏👏
That pumpkin is scary as fuck
Jamie Shourt of Shourt Works Ltd nailed this opening title sequence
I am friends with EFX artists who know him and I need to get in contact and ask him about this.
I LOVE this score and opening.... like the movie, this music is the same but elevated.... and I love how this movie picks up right where the last one left off... Halloween and Halloween 2 are like kill bill only linear.
I remember watching this on USA NETWORK as a kid
Original Halloween, Halloween 2 (1981), Halloween 3, Halloween 4, & Halloween 2018 are My Favorite Openings to The Halloween film's but Halloween 2 (1981) stand out to me the Best one cause It Badass, Cool, & Scary as Hell Especially That Skull popping out of the Pumpkin is so Creepy/ Awesome.
Those are great, I also think the H20 one is pretty good too, even if the music is very 90’s
@@Danbo22987 Yeah that one was pretty cool opening and I feel that Tom Kane nailed Donald Pleasence Dr. Loomis voice with that Badass Speech about Micheal Eyes in opening of H20.
Best intro ever it's more demonic and evil😈☠🎃🔪
“You don’t know what death is!” 🎃 🔪
That organ part amazing and creepy like perfect for a vampire 🧛♂️ theme
Unreal.....40 years ago
I was a year and 2 months old when this hit theaters....screw John Carpenter and his negative remarks about Halloween 2. This sequel was great and I refuse to acknowledge the following movies afterwards.
He stepped and directed some scenes uncredited. Rick Rosenthal was annoyed I believe.
Best way to open up this solid sequel
I’ve been trick-or-treated to death tonight!
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT DEATH IS!
I remember seeing this on home video at a friend's house a long time ago when I was a kid, and I was totally freaked out when the pumpkin split open revealing the skull inside! Gave me nightmares not to be believed!
I bet you never looked at pumpkins the same way again
@@rehanchowdhury368 At least they didn't split open revealing skulls inside of them like this one did!
Favorite one out of the Halloween Movies :)
:)
Hopefully halloween kills opens like this.
I actually like to think this is still canon to the new continuity. Not that it happened but that it was a hallucination that Laurie had while in the hospital, adding to her paranoia later in life
@@Danbo22987 It didn't, hopefully Ends does
You don't know what death is. - Dr. Loomis best line in the movie ever.
They recreated the first movie's into in 2018, hopefully they recreate this movie's into in Halloween Kills
DAMN IT ALAN HOWARTH!!! **PLEASE** Come back and work with your buddy JOHN CARPENTER in Halloween Kills!!!!
they had a fight about money along time ago last thing they did together was they live 1988 anyway I love halloween 2 saw it 3 times back in 1981 but crappy film making by rosenthal and he didnt get any better with halloween 8 if its supposed to be the fall you dont start the film with a pan down from a tree with green leaves also the losuy halloween 5 swedish boy director does the same thing he pans down from a green tree during the day and other shots of green trees at least the orginal they tried to not show this and the budget was the lowest by the way 208 film sucked by the standee with myers standing in a closet with the music play when to you open the door the theame plays I got one by kissing you know what still in the box only certain big theaters got this diplay go to drissi advertising and keelp looking you can see the door open and the theme play better than the crappy film
I mean 2018 film sucked
@@gkroll8467 Compared to Rob Zombie's Halloween where they made Michael be a bully, Killed off the mother, Come up with premeditated child abuse at the breakfest scene, Made Laurie turn into this sexual douchebag, Also made Laurie and Annie fight in Part 2, Multiple times....And also made scenes that doesn't even make sense like Michael's gerbil scene. Halloween (2018) was literally the best film i have ever seen. Everything made a lot of scene. Especially the scene where Laurie is the pray and Michael is the victim, That was the huge twist in the film. It's all a connection; Earlier in the film Laurie was shooting her dummies, She was preparing for the attack that would eventually come in that same house. A little later in the movie she scares her daughter in her daughter's own home; She was protecting her and training her for the worst to happen, Michael could just come in without her knowing; Like he did to that one girl that was talking on the phone on his first night appearance as "The Shape". When they were commemorating skipping scene-to-scene-to-scene-to-scene, Laurie screams. That meant she knew peacetime was over and that it could be her last night and also the night to fight with Michael and that she would be expected to lose her babies to Michael. She already lost Ray, Hopkins, and those 2 British people that interviewed with her in the beginning of the film. When Michael and Laurie came eye-to-eye she was getting ready to shoot, At that scene this was a huge reference to Halloween H20 where Michael and Laurie came eye-to-eye with Laurie holding a pistol. When they finally arrive to Laurie's house, Karen was emotionally complaining about her childhood being ruined, When Michael arrived, He was hiding from Laurie to surprise attack her, Like what Laurie did in Halloween (1978) in the (of course the same arm where she got stabbed in 1978, 1998, and 2007) Laurie was lurking, Looking for Michael, When Michael surprise attacked her, She was trying to lean him towards the balcony when she unfortunately she failed and let Michael lean HER into the balcony; Literally pushing her off of it. *(She survives this just like how Michael did in the 1978 film)* Karen and Allison was also searching for Michael. When they finally attack Michael by Karen shooting her *(Using her hilarious trick by the human logic of fake-crying)* They both move out of the way, Laurie pushes Michael into the chamber, after saying "Happy Halloween, Michael", Laurie and Karen sets up the chamber and officially announces it as a trap. Laurie says "Goodbye, Michael", Sets him on fire; the entire house on fire, They both walk out The End. So obviously the connection was actually to plan Michael Myers to be set on fire burned alive in his own little trap. Except Halloween (2020) says that Michael had escaped from his little trap. So we'll get to see what actually happened in Part 2 later next year. All of this makes sense, Even True Halloween Fans like Myself and thousands of others, sure enjoyed the living Hell out of this movie, And all of us definitely cannot wait for Halloween (2020) that's set to come out later next year. It doesn't suck, You just **THINK** it sucks, Because you don't like what Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael Myers Creator/Halloween (1978) Music Creator-Composer John Carpenter had planned for the new Halloween (2018) film. Which progressed into a smash hit in the box office which led to the franchise planned to come to an end with Halloween (2020): Halloween Kills, and Halloween (2021): Halloween Ends.
WHD Studios 2 “true fans” argument is low and holds no water. That said each to their own - I enjoy Halloween 2018 but I prefer H1 2 4 and 6 to it.
This has ALWAYS been my favorite opening movie title sequence!!!! And it's the GOOD one that says Mustapha Akkad presents, not that BULLSHIT Universal presents that showed up on a certain Blu-ray from a few years ago! God damn that pissed me off to no end!!!
More of the night HE came home
Yup
I prefer the storyline where they're related. There I said it.
It does explain why Laurie seems more serious than her friends, like she's been affected in some way by something or someone. I got the impression she lived in her own head a lot.
I gotta say, this thin is much better in synth than on the piano.
You Can’t Beat The Original Music From 1978
Micheal is like a dog: You tell him not to do something and you punish him for doing that something and then he does it again
This is a perfect wedding entrance song,lol
I watch this already and the most part that I like when it gets closer to the eye of the skull.
You don't know what death is!
:)
I’ve been trick or treated to death tonight!
@@gabrielgaming199sofficialc3 Not the way some unfortunate teenagers were. By the boogeyman.
I remember seeing this on Cable Tv years ago.
I recall thinking this movie lacked what the original had.
It was mostly jump scares and shock value.
Would have been a better movie if it was a year or so later.
MM would begin stalking her again...out of nowhere
Besides Season of the Witch and Halloween 4, this is the only unique and recognizable theme since 2018, Halloween kills and the OG ('78)
Is this a joke? I’ve been trick or treated to death tonight
You don’t know what death is!
joke line sounds like tommy lee wallace hillbilly voice even though he didnt have anything to do with watch the trailer for part 2 and you will hear a different voice that says Ive been trick or treated to death tonite with out dr loomis the films prettty much suck fish heads
The Killer Do you not know that line from the movie? My god have you ever watched it?
Dr. Loomis is the only person in the world that would go into that backyard in the dark knowing The Shape is gone after shooting him six times off of the balcony.
Yup
Happy Halloween 2019 🎃🎃 The Shape Returns Next Year
I've been trick or treated to death !! Death ?? You don't know what death is !!
Thz
I think he would have found out what death was if he'd been somewhere between Michael Myers and his intended target (Laurie, surprise, surprise!). That's how Michael deals with anyone he deems an inconvenience. "You're in my way!"
0:02
You don't know what death is
He wouldn't want to find out either.
“You don’t know what death is”
I think I do 🎃🔪
Michael!!!
You'll know when you see him.
This was just as good as Halloween with John Carpenter's wanted to wear the best the others were okay but I hated Rob Zombie's I wish John Carpenter's would go punch Rob Zombie out for stealing his movie. His sucked only Carpenters where the best n Jamie Lee Curtis best actress looks so hot for 60 yrs old. To bad she's married. I marry her myself
Remake was done to piss off fans cause Akkad jr is a spiteful prick
What does Loomis mean when he says “You don’t know what death is?”
He's just referring to the carnage that Michael will continue to cause know that he's still out on the lose
It'd be like telling a starving African child that you are starving, even though you just ate an hour ago. Dr. Loomis knows death is serious and inevitable with Michael around and the neighbor wasn't taking it seriously.
Myers is a killer these surburbs white people is not used to seeing death they did when Myers came to town
You don’t know what death is!
@@pumpkinman4ever Because he wasn't being targeted. Michael Myers had specific targets in mind that night. If he happened to kill someone who wasn't, well, they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, which is usually how most people end up becoming victims of misfortune.
was that the bogeyman ???
as a matter of fact..I believe it was 🎃
2:44 Michael Myers mask
halloween 1978 halloween 2 1981 halloween kills 2021 halloween 2009 halloween 2018 halloween ends 2022
You don’t know what death is! 😂
looks like a german zz ring
Hheheheh
#RestoreTheSnyderVerse