When I first saw this, I thought, “why does he look so young?” And then I remembered and was terrified by the fact that Micheal was only 21 in this movie
@@xers6704 that was on the remake, in the original he would've killed her anyway because he is pure evil, and in the remake he was getting crazy because of a lot of shit that was happening in his life, eventually he was going to start killing anyway too
@@xers6704 this is the thorn trilogy which isn't the canon version anymore, this was retconned with the Halloween 2018, even that story about Michael and Laurie being siblings was retconned in this new continuation, so they're not related anymore and Michael is simply pure evil following only the first movie storyline, with Halloween 2018 and now Halloween Kills and then ending with Halloween Ends
I think this face reveal is way more effective than any of the other face reveals in any other horror movie because in those movies it always turns out that the killer in always deformed, damaged or simply ugly while in this one it's revealed that he's just a kid. There's just something way more terrifying about it.
He's not a kid this point, he's grown up. He's a kid when he kills his sister, and during the hospital scene in the extended cut where Loomis tries to convince the board to send him to a maximum security facility. But at this point he's an adult.
This was one of the greatest and most terrifying endings in cinematic history. No other movie in this time depicted a horror icon surviving something like this, seeing Micheal not there was a real scare and it definitely shook audiences. Halloween is definitely a 10/10 movie
Yeah definitely, like everyone didn't know what was going to happen next, was he going to back upstairs and kill laurie?, was he going to plan a better situation next time?, the audience in 1978 didn't know what was going to happen and that's what made this ending terrifying.
Horror movies just aren’t made in this style anymore and carpenter nailed it. Just by looking at the storyline and the time it was made, I think your 100% right. No horror movie will ever beat this
Starscream91 true but the whole movie is a mess at other details too. Audio issues, editing issues etc. but for its time and budget they did a solid job hiding such errors in such a remarkable film and small details like this make up for it.
I love that Michael completely loses his cool when his mask is removed. Both here and in the opening flashback to when he was a child, he seems almost embarrassed and shameful when he can't conceal his face. It's almost like he needs a mask to disguise his humanity in order to feel comfortable while killing.
I’m starting to think that’s the whole point of his character. Michael doesn’t want to live in reality. He wants to be “The Shape/Boogeyman” and be in his own sick twisted world, where he feels powerful and in control of his surroundings. Like a malignant narcissist…
Fun fact, The original Halloween Michael and Laurie weren't related to eachother. That was added for part 2 because this wasn't meant to be a franchise. What makes this so scary is that Michael just happened to see Laurie one day walking to school so he instantly became obsessed with her for no real reason.
I like the original story too, but I've always thought that if they never did the familial connection with Michael and Laurie, that it's implied she reminds him of his sister Judith. That's why he wanted to kill her.
I like the family connection, better. The scene where The nurse tells Doc Loomis the real truth about Michael having a sister is chilling and you expect doc Loomis to get there in time to protect her.
I'm guessing he had a weird sexual attraction to Laurie but only knew how to show it through violence. I think this is hinted in the 2018 Halloween when the nerdy boy asks myers if he knows what it's like to want a girl so bad but couldn't have her.
@Jeremy Horne usually slasher series killers are usually different, like Leatherface and Fred Krueger and Jason but with Michael, he has his mask, but under the mask, is a normal looking person
all the halloween directors besides carpenter fail to understand what made the original unique, in this one you have michael in the background not just in one but several scenes, they're about him being behind someone,coming out a dark room, stalking someone from the window without the charecters knowing, it had you looking for every place he could've been since youve seen him in the background beforehand , its like a Hitchcock movie and his analogy of the charecters not knowing something's behind them like a shark aproaching you and of course the music was great not too loud or obnoxious it was more of a comfy yet creepy score , Halloween 2 is not as great but it still has alot of athmosphere and i love it ,i even love Halloween 3 for its athmosphere as well, i stoped caring after that, really didnt love anything from 4,5,6,H20,resurrection, rob zombie remake (the most unbearable one in my opinion) so yeah, i was excited for the 2018 one, i was disappointed since the things i didn't like from the ones they retconned were the same things they used in that one, not terrible they were scenes i actually loved but i prefer Halloween 2 (1981) as a sequel, im still excited for Halloween kills though, i think it will be more straightforward since its gonna take place on halloween night from the start
I always loved the shot of Michael just standing there in the dark at 1:16 after Loomis takes his first shot. Idk why, but that has always stood out to me. It’s just eerie…
It's pretty unsettling as one would think he would be trying to run away from someone who is armed, hide somewhere, or stand there ready to attack but nope, he's standing perfectly still like a statue and staring right at you.
I love how Loomis doesn't even bother trying convince Michael to turn himself in or return to the psych hospital. No words, just shoot. He knows him well enough to know there is no reasoning with this evil man.
0:09 the way he turned his head and looked at Laurie, the pause, the stare, whew this is why Michael is so scary in the original. Emotionless, dangerous & suspenseful.
Laurie's act of ripping off Myers' mask is honestly what made her the lone survivor of the 78' spree (1st movie, 1978). Think about it, Myers didn't hesitate during any of the previous acts and if Laurie wasn't able to get to the mask she likely would've been stabbed before Loomis can get up the stairs to confront Myers. Peak slasher horror right here.
This ending is true perfection. You think everything comes to an end but as soon as michael disappears the music starts the never-ending loop to prove pure evil cannot be defeated, and then you start hearing the breath and he is everywhere. The horror is not only the murders but mainly because everything that happened cannot be understood by common sense and only leaves you with fear and hopelessness
@@tonytoni1150 thanks, did my best to tell in English. Carpenter movies are unique, he is a superb story teller, leaving enough holes in the narration to let you imagine what happens and create your own experience of the story. To me he is a genius, he masters the narrative aspects, the directing, the actors he chose, the way the music is fitting image per image and the artistic values of the scene, it s just incredible how his movies can blow your mind. I remember when I saw assault, Jack burton, they live, and mouth of madness, the thing1rst time, the days after I was still thinking about it and still today I think they have had a huge impact on my point of view. I believe it s something a lot of other people are also experiencing with his cinema, which is completely different from being a star wars fan or anything like this. As I can read about carpenter on the web, there is a certain human code in his movies which transcends every group in which we are classified (religion, ethnic, country, race, rich or poor...), it s never said in the movies but that's the reason why people like them so much.
Honestly it would of been better if Halloween wasn’t a franchise with a bunch of sequels, that would of made the ending more impactful and scarier. That’s just my opinion though
Always loved this face reveal. Because you were expecting some Jason Vorhees-looking freak, instead you got some normal looking dude in his early 20's. Showing that evil has no prejudice, it can live in anyone.
@@iancruz6617 nope he was six when he killed his sister and imprisoned. The movie states it has been fifteen years since after his killing and imprisonment. 15 + 6 = 20 or 21
Of course. The gorgeous Rutger Hauer played the evil murderous hitchhiker John Ryder in the 1986 movie ,Hitcher. When the killer is good looking it’s so much worse.
Christian/SlimProductions yea there is a video of this same scene with 200k views the top comment was written a year ago while this was 8 months ago. Unoriginal
Same with all great movies,they have to bring crap sequel after sequel and stamp all over them.I thought the Bloom house one might have been good but that was pretty crap imo too.Just leave good movies where they are unless it can be improved on like mad max 2 and young guns 2. But money comes into the equation,understandable but ashame.
This is why Halloween is scarier than any other slasher. In most slashers, the killer is revealed at the end as some deranged maniac, and is then shot or killed, and peace is finally restored. In Halloween, you feel more throughout the movie that there is something “otherworldly” about Michael. At the very end, when we’re sure he’s dead (having been shot several times including to the head, and then plunging off the top floor of a house straight onto the ground), we discover that within seconds he has disappeared. That’s when we realise Michael Myers isn’t just some crazy homicidal man: he’s like a demonic entity, who could show up anywhere at anytime…
Loomis' expression at the end is so fucking eerie and effective. No shock, barely any reaction, just a look that says, "Of course it's not over yet....where are you, Michael?"
Fun fact: While filming, Donald Pleasance (Loomis) asked John Carpenter (the director), which way should he play it when he sees Michael is gone. Should it be played like "Oh my god, he's gone!" or "I knew this would happen." At first Carpenter said play it like "Oh my god, he's gone!" so he did. Carpenter didn't like it and thought it was too much, so he said to try it the other way, like "I knew this would happen." So Pleasance did that and Carpenter knew that was it. I'm glad they went with that. Made it much better.
I agree. You can tell by the look on Loomis's face saying, " It's not over." That was when Halloween 2 came out and it picks up exactly where the first one left off.
@@Jojo-bk2pq Thank you for sharing that fact. In my opinion, Donald Pleasance's performance is what takes this movie up and over the top as slasher films go. i first saw this with hy then girlfriend in during our spiring break in 1979. We were in her hometown, which was very rural, and the mall with the theater was out in the middle of nowhere. We chose the latest showing. When the movie ended, there was an eerie silence in the theater, and even the exit of such a large group of people (a Friday night, the last showing for the night) was oddly quiet. Outside, the parking lot was very pooly lit, and we had parked well away from the entrance, so we were very uncomfortable on the walk to the car. But what struck me then, and still strikes me today, fortythree years later, is the silence after the movie ended. I don't think I have ever experienced an audience exit like that one.
I grew up in a small village in South america.....I saw this movie when I was 13 years old, no electricity and had to walk half a mile back to my home in total darkness. I was so jumpy at any sound.
Why Halloween (1978) is scary is because Michael Myers is Walking Chaos he's Pure Evil, He's The Boogeyman. For me the scariest scenes in the movie are the opening when Michael Kills Judith, Michael stalking Laurie and her friends and this classic ending.
2:05 Me and my sister watched the movie for the first time back in 2014 and that ending was so unexpected and it legit scared me. It leaves you a sense that he can be anywhere. He's the Boogeyman, he's everywhere, it follows us wherever we go like a shadow. And is something so many horror or slasher movies have tried to duplicate with a surprise ending that the killer isn't dead, but no matter how many times they tried to capture the ending of Halloween, it will NEVER top what John Carpenter set out to make in 1978. If there was no Halloween, horror movies would be very different. No Freddy, no Jason, no Chucky. Or for 11 year olds, no Dead Meat.
When she rips off the mask you expect a creature or a Jason Friday the 13th look but in reality it’s just a young man not to far from my age and everyone else’s. I love this face reveal. The scene doesn’t just stop and to give a minute to see what he looks like, it was accidental. Her arms were flaring and got a grip of the mask and pulled it off. He caught up and tried to catch the only thing that is important to him and then walk up for a brief moment to reveal it’s a flesh and bone human. INCREDIBLE!❤️🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻❤️
Yup! And About the part where you mention the mask….In a horror movie After the mask gets taken off, usually The Survivor would be in horror with how the killer looks like but they did not go in that direction in this movie.
I always get chills at the end of the movie when it’s showing the shots of the different locations with the piano music and Michael’s heavy breathing in the background
the breathing is what does it for me....like you know he is out there and then loomis looking out the balcony, donald pleasance is an amazing actor even his facial expressions show it. Jamie too, with her crying and all. Best slasher of all time!
I first saw this in the spring of 1979, spring break from college, with my then girl friend. She lived in a rural county and the mall and the theater were in the middle of what seemed to us, back then, to be nowhere. The theater was full and as shock after shock unfolded before us, the audience was absolutely scared into silence. After the end credits rolled, and the houselights came back up, the exit, also, was curiously silent. My girlfriend and I were a little perturbed to have to cross the dark parking lot to my car, and we had to drive over some rural, unlight backroads to get back to her small town. When we arrived at her parents's home, where we were spending spring break, we knew we could not sleep (and, unlike our weekends at college, we had to sleep in separate rooms at her parents's house). So we stayed up all night in her living room. Her house was old, with a large cellar below it, and at night the noises of the inevitable settling were quite audible; and we kept hearing Michael Myers climbing up the steps from her cellar. We finally fell asleep just at dawn and her mother, rising early, found us sprawled out on the couch. We had to admit, sheepishly, that we had been too frightened to sleep, at which she rebuked us quite sternly for "wasting money" (as she thought of it, the tightfisted hag) on a movie that scared us silly. I saw the film again in 1981 (sometime after she and I broke up), and after that I refused to look at it for eleven years. It was just too intense. Now, an old man, and perhaps less impressionable than I was during my Junior year, I can appreciate the tremendous artistry behind and through every inch of this film. I recently saw a documentary which described how precarious this film was in its conception, and getting backing, etc. I believe it is one of the greatest horror films in the history of film, and the "reveal" at the end is, in my opinion, second only to Karloff's first appearance as the Monster in Frankenstein, 1931, at that moment when he walks into the room backward and then turns. Thank you, John Carpenter, Jamie Lee, and Mr, Pleasance for collaborating on such a magnificent film, far greater than any of its far too many sequels.
Hard to describe why I think Halloween is the scariest movie of all time. I think it’s just the total feeling of helplessness and dread. The feeling like you can’t escape while being chased by evil itself. Absolutely horrifying!
Looking back at it now, it did look pretty goofy the way he stumbled and fell on his ass on the lawn 😂. As a diehard Myers fan, it gave me a bit of a laugh
Sam Loomis expression at the end is one of character acting’s great underrated performances and really made the movie. His sublime expression is contrasted with the trauma Laurie has suffered. Loomis isn’t surprised Michael got up but he’s wishing he was wrong. He knows that something horrific is now walking the streets. Something that shouldn’t exist in this world has been unleashed. Waiting for his next prey. Breathing as if to say I am more than human. The greatest horror film ever made.
This has got to be the most atmospheric horror movie I’ve ever seen. They way he’s just gone and the camera pans to all over the house where he could be looming in the shadows, anywhere, everywhere.
What's always been my favorite part of this entire film is when Loomis checks on Michael only to find that he's gone and you get to see the terror and realization on his face wash over him. It's a hell of a thing to witness. Fantastic writing and acting.
This sounds dumb but this was the scariest part of the movie for me. Only because it was so shocking to see him unmasked, and how normal he looked was crazy
@@EvaSlayAllDay334 yea I hear you. I mean I was just expecting it to be more like Jason's face under the mask. Micheal's is a normal face compared to Jason's
Every fall when it gets dark outside (I'm from the artic north of Norway, we have midnight sun in the summer) i have to switch off all the lights, bring candle and watch this movie and just let the fall ambience just creep in, love it!
I always felt like a film like Psycho is what ultimately led to this film, I love how they're both full of suspense and are made very cheaply on very simple ideas but how effective and iconic they've become plus Jamie Lee and her mother are in both horror classics respectively
Yeah this movie is openly inspired by Psycho. Carpenter has often talked about it, which is of course a good thing. I mean Loomis’s name is even sam loomis
@@KobaAM this is what I’m wondering.....like what? Maybe it’s a youngin millennial who’s mistaken DVD for VHS.......just a guess....unless he’s hanging out with RLM
One of the most greatest, iconic, and memorable endings in horror cinema. To this day it still gives me chills and goosebumps as I stare in complete silence and shock as I'm trying to comprehend what just happen. It never gets old m 😍😎💯👍😏😰😱
It’s crazy how this thing with Michael and Laurie from the late 70s carries all the way into 2022. Like imagine having an adversary like Michael for more than four decades.
Man I just cant imagine how awesome it would have been to be in 1978 seeing this in the movies before Halloween. If anyone in the comment section has any stories about please share what it was like to see this masterpiece back then.
My brother was a teen then and told me people were leaving the theater before it was over because they were terrified . Those who did stay to the end were shell shocked
@@violentpuncher people's sleep? If only; people got scared of watching tv in their own house with the lights off, washing the dishes during the night, leaving the back door opened, or opening their own closets; Halloween was the "Jaws of house movies".
I saw it in '78. A different era. We had no Internet , We had a certain innocence (unless you went to war .). Back then, you see a film .... Laugh outside the theater.... you shake off the jitters .. and go have a pizza with your friends.
The look on Loomis’s face when he looks over the balcony and Michael is just gone… it’s like the perfect blend of shocked that he survived that but also seemed like he was expecting it and KNEW Michael wasn’t gonna be there.
Paul Lindley bro he didn’t even run up the stairs the same part 1 ending he ran up grabbing the stairway handles part 2 he ran up and made it look like he grabbed it when he didn’t 🤣
Oh! I didn't realise Jose was talking about the flashback scene we're supposed to get. 😆 In that case, aye, we _will_ maybe see how Hawkins apprehended Michael.
When Loomis looks down to where Michael fell and he is no longer there will never cease to send a chill down my spine. This ending is the best of any horror/slasher movie I've seen.
The ending scares the shit out of me, it’s just the sound of Michael breathing and showing pictures of different parts of the house, showing that Michael is never truly gone. Like the kid said. You can’t kill the boogeyman
I like how Michael is not even smiling. He looks as tortured as he was as a child, as if this is something he feels he has to do than wanting to do it. It's very rare that killers are given a humanized look without their iconic mask.
When you realize that of all things, Michael couldn’t manage to subdue a panicked, tired woman quickly compared to his other victims while she actually managed to shake him off and literally rip his mask off. That or he just dropped her since he seemed to really want to put the mask back on first before killing her. :/? Edit: Nevermind’ I think he was just distracted by the fact his mask had been removed. He actually fought her to keep her more when she managed to grab the bottom of the mask. Question is: Why is the mask so important to him, not many people know what he looks like :/
The Don Pretty sure he has always been described as having no true moral, no reasons and certainly having no such thing as emotions... He’s pretty much dead inside as people call it.
@@alexsuarez9556 In the book adaptation Carpenter confirms that Michael is indeed possessed by a spirit (and he used to talk, before possession), which allows him to do such things. Now, I guess maybe the spirit is attached to masks and can only activate it's true bloodthirst when masked, like some sort of bond with objects. Dunno, just a theory.
the greatest thing about this ending is how well the great Donald Pleasance played the terror of Dr. Sam Loomis. He puts six rounds into Michael Myers and THEN he falls off the balcony. He lowers his gun as though his job is done. Laurie's terrified "It WAS the boogeyman" as though she had seen evil personified (which lets face it, she did) and Loomis's "As a matter of fact, it was". He walks to the balcony expecting to see Michael lying there dead, but he's vanished without a trace. Loomis looks up, no emotion on his face besides his eyes, darting around, and you see there the once calm and sane Dr has been shattered, fear that evil survived. Laurie sees his reaction and begins sobbing in terror as the iconic theme picks up and Michael's breathing slowly gets louder. this ending alone for me personally makes it my favorite horror movie of all time. is it the greatest? no, but the suspense and emotions of the faces of Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance make it my favorite
The way MIchael gets up implies that he's not merely Human(He just got stabbed in the eye and chest). Laurie looks like she's entranced and the way Michael slowly ceeps behind her implies that he has ensnared her mind(with a supernatural abilitiy) before he strikes.
That’s the supernatural Shape curse for ya. People need to stop saying Michael is human because HE’S NOT! He has some kind of evil demonic supernatural spirit in him that keeps him from dying and he has a high healing factor too. I think there’s some kind of otherworldly shit in that mask of his. That’s why he’s so drawn to it I believe. There’s NO curse of thorn, but definitely something supernatural in that mask tho
@@cainbutler6291 you are absolutely right I always believed Michael to be possessed by a demonic spirit that explains his supernatural abilities and somehow someway his demonic spirit and that mask is connected I know that's a weird theory LOL but that's what I think
@@cainbutler6291 He's evil incarnate, a force of nature. A mere demon or devil would be nowhere near as emotionless, lifeless, devious, relentless, intimidating or precise. Trust me I know. He may be technically human but what lurks beneath the skin & flesh is faaaaaaar from Humanity.
@@8ZakattacK9 exactly Dr Loomis said it best I met him, 15 years ago I was told there was nothing left no reason, no conscience, no understanding in even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six year old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes the Devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up, because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply evil.
@@jamesjenkins400 in other words Michael is definitely a guy who looks human, but has the superhuman abilities to be looked at as a force of nature. Like a demonic beast from hell. The guy isn’t a regular person. He’s definitely possessed with something
When I first saw this, I thought, “why does he look so young?” And then I remembered and was terrified by the fact that Micheal was only 21 in this movie
Exactly, and his first murder was when he was 6... his own sister.
@@xers6704 I really doubt that would stop him from killing her anyway but yeah, she should've lol
@@xers6704 that was on the remake, in the original he would've killed her anyway because he is pure evil, and in the remake he was getting crazy because of a lot of shit that was happening in his life, eventually he was going to start killing anyway too
@@xers6704 this is the thorn trilogy which isn't the canon version anymore, this was retconned with the Halloween 2018, even that story about Michael and Laurie being siblings was retconned in this new continuation, so they're not related anymore and Michael is simply pure evil following only the first movie storyline, with Halloween 2018 and now Halloween Kills and then ending with Halloween Ends
And the actor is 21 also
I think this face reveal is way more effective than any of the other face reveals in any other horror movie because in those movies it always turns out that the killer in always deformed, damaged or simply ugly while in this one it's revealed that he's just a kid.
There's just something way more terrifying about it.
Someone who looks so normal does abnormal things
ghostface/ scream?
A very demonic supernatural kid who’s clearly possessed by something that ain’t human.
Because a real person being shown insinuates it can be done in the real world by real people
He's not a kid this point, he's grown up. He's a kid when he kills his sister, and during the hospital scene in the extended cut where Loomis tries to convince the board to send him to a maximum security facility. But at this point he's an adult.
This was one of the greatest and most terrifying endings in cinematic history. No other movie in this time depicted a horror icon surviving something like this, seeing Micheal not there was a real scare and it definitely shook audiences. Halloween is definitely a 10/10 movie
I actually feel very sorry for Laurie Strode..
Couldn’t agree more. No horror movie will ever beat this one, never. John carpenters style is amazing.
Agree 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Yeah definitely, like everyone didn't know what was going to happen next, was he going to back upstairs and kill laurie?, was he going to plan a better situation next time?, the audience in 1978 didn't know what was going to happen and that's what made this ending terrifying.
Horror movies just aren’t made in this style anymore and carpenter nailed it. Just by looking at the storyline and the time it was made, I think your 100% right. No horror movie will ever beat this
I like how his left eye actually shows where Lorie stabbed him in the eye with the coat hangar.
Yep i agree
Yes! And his scarred eye is like that for the 2018 movie as well
Starscream91 true but the whole movie is a mess at other details too. Audio issues, editing issues etc. but for its time and budget they did a solid job hiding such errors in such a remarkable film and small details like this make up for it.
Its Laurie not lorie
@@somegeekguy Nah.
I love that Michael completely loses his cool when his mask is removed. Both here and in the opening flashback to when he was a child, he seems almost embarrassed and shameful when he can't conceal his face. It's almost like he needs a mask to disguise his humanity in order to feel comfortable while killing.
I’m starting to think that’s the whole point of his character. Michael doesn’t want to live in reality. He wants to be “The Shape/Boogeyman” and be in his own sick twisted world, where he feels powerful and in control of his surroundings. Like a malignant narcissist…
but like why does Michael look so innocent? he looks really sad.
@@princess-nia have you looked at his eyes? They're just... hollow, there's nothing in there besides evil, they're evil eyes
@@felipecosta-kv2fx The Blackest Eyes The Devil's Eyes yeah I say he was long gone. I only see a hollow empty emotionless child in the form of evil
It's the same expression he kept from when he was child.
No one does horror like carpenter. Music starts right as Michael turns his head after he sits up. Genius.
Horror has another name. Its name is carpenter
Except, Wes Craven is even better.
@@goldprime118 i fix something, horror has other name, it's name is Craven.👌
@@MasaM-c2c horror has many names. King, carpenter, Burton, and craven
What about the video game Manhunt? The soundtrack composer was Craig Conner they said it was inspired by John Carpenter.
apparently she wasn't listening Michael's terror radius
Esquadrão X dead by daylight lol
@@TubTheGreat yep,amazing game
Tier 1 undetectable
What terror radius you can't hear it till he's right next to you
@@pacman9347 ah shit
Fun fact, The original Halloween Michael and Laurie weren't related to eachother. That was added for part 2 because this wasn't meant to be a franchise. What makes this so scary is that Michael just happened to see Laurie one day walking to school so he instantly became obsessed with her for no real reason.
I like the original story too, but I've always thought that if they never did the familial connection with Michael and Laurie, that it's implied she reminds him of his sister Judith. That's why he wanted to kill her.
Didn't the nurse with Loomis mention them being related earlier in the movie or was that Halloween 2?
@@RetroAP that was part 2
I like the family connection, better. The scene where The nurse tells Doc Loomis the real truth about Michael having a sister is chilling and you expect doc Loomis to get there in time to protect her.
I'm guessing he had a weird sexual attraction to Laurie but only knew how to show it through violence. I think this is hinted in the 2018 Halloween when the nerdy boy asks myers if he knows what it's like to want a girl so bad but couldn't have her.
Michael's robotic rise behind Laurie's back is the stuff of nightmares. Carpenter framed the hell out of this scene. Iconic.
That was intentional. To make the audience think 'What is he? A human? A demon? A robot?'
The Undertaker has good taste.
Defintely the scaries part of the film and it gave me nightmares as a kid.
He is like some alien robot sent from space
The way he rose up was perfectly executed. Compare to H20 when he does the same move at the end and it looked hilariously bad.
The scariest part of Myers is that he looks like everyone else.
That's what makes him scarier. He's a normal looking guy.
SeedlessJellyBeans he was shot in it. His eyes are black because he’s evil.
@@GamesGaloreAndMore NO. He was stabbed in the eye with a coathanger, AND the reason his eyes were dark is because of the lighting.
@Jeremy Horne usually slasher series killers are usually different, like Leatherface and Fred Krueger and Jason but with Michael, he has his mask, but under the mask, is a normal looking person
He looks like a teen ngl
1st one has always been the best Halloween
Ayhan Hergunerler I agree 😅
Ye so true
D SAL he’s talking about the best in the Halloween franchise not horror movies in general
Halloween II was also one of the best
all the halloween directors besides carpenter fail to understand what made the original unique, in this one you have michael in the background not just in one but several scenes, they're about him being behind someone,coming out a dark room, stalking someone from the window without the charecters knowing, it had you looking for every place he could've been since youve seen him in the background beforehand , its like a Hitchcock movie and his analogy of the charecters not knowing something's behind them like a shark aproaching you and of course the music was great not too loud or obnoxious it was more of a comfy yet creepy score , Halloween 2 is not as great but it still has alot of athmosphere and i love it ,i even love Halloween 3 for its athmosphere as well, i stoped caring after that, really didnt love anything from 4,5,6,H20,resurrection, rob zombie remake (the most unbearable one in my opinion) so yeah, i was excited for the 2018 one, i was disappointed since the things i didn't like from the ones they retconned were the same things they used in that one, not terrible they were scenes i actually loved but i prefer Halloween 2 (1981) as a sequel, im still excited for Halloween kills though, i think it will be more straightforward since its gonna take place on halloween night from the start
I always loved the shot of Michael just standing there in the dark at 1:16 after Loomis takes his first shot. Idk why, but that has always stood out to me. It’s just eerie…
I have thought about that too!
It's creepy as hell, as if Michael was standing there willing & able to take more shots
It's pretty unsettling as one would think he would be trying to run away from someone who is armed, hide somewhere, or stand there ready to attack but nope, he's standing perfectly still like a statue and staring right at you.
Maybe that's the moment he understood what he truly is. He's just waiting for Loomis to come finish the job.
No, I do that at work when my boss tells me to do something I don't want to do.
I love how Loomis doesn't even bother trying convince Michael to turn himself in or return to the psych hospital. No words, just shoot. He knows him well enough to know there is no reasoning with this evil man.
As he said he tried to reach him but realized all that was left was evil.
Rest In Peace, James Winburn. You'll always be remembered as Michael Myers in the original film.
Nick castle played Michael myers in the original film
@@kamiuianyem6118 He played him at the end though when getting shot and falling out the balcony.
And Tony Moran played unmasked micheal
Nick Castle I believe. I read how he was there being paid $25 a day during filming...
@@joeb2588 it was a low budget film ...
0:09 the way he turned his head and looked at Laurie, the pause, the stare, whew this is why Michael is so scary in the original. Emotionless, dangerous & suspenseful.
Didn't even need to use his hands or anything just pure back yeah definitely possess or just painless monster
You can be deadly and have a strong personality like Freddy or a dictator
Laurie's act of ripping off Myers' mask is honestly what made her the lone survivor of the 78' spree (1st movie, 1978). Think about it, Myers didn't hesitate during any of the previous acts and if Laurie wasn't able to get to the mask she likely would've been stabbed before Loomis can get up the stairs to confront Myers. Peak slasher horror right here.
In Halloween Kills, Lindsay saves herself by messing with Michael's mask, so this is the right thing to think now
*Gets shot 6 times*
Michael: ight I'm out.
Nice sasuke pfp
@@user-vi8ly3fn2h ur username and pfp 👁👄👁
maddie 😏
Also Michael when he gets back up: well I'm out for now
I wonder what this Nick Castle or Tony Moran who play the mask pulling off.
This ending is true perfection. You think everything comes to an end but as soon as michael disappears the music starts the never-ending loop to prove pure evil cannot be defeated, and then you start hearing the breath and he is everywhere. The horror is not only the murders but mainly because everything that happened cannot be understood by common sense and only leaves you with fear and hopelessness
I want to say there was I think an extended ending that after you hear him breathe you see him walking off
Beautifully put my friend. This movie absolutely terrified me as a kid, for all the reasons you named. He could be anywhere. 🎃
@@tonytoni1150 thanks, did my best to tell in English. Carpenter movies are unique, he is a superb story teller, leaving enough holes in the narration to let you imagine what happens and create your own experience of the story. To me he is a genius, he masters the narrative aspects, the directing, the actors he chose, the way the music is fitting image per image and the artistic values of the scene, it s just incredible how his movies can blow your mind. I remember when I saw assault, Jack burton, they live, and mouth of madness, the thing1rst time, the days after I was still thinking about it and still today I think they have had a huge impact on my point of view. I believe it s something a lot of other people are also experiencing with his cinema, which is completely different from being a star wars fan or anything like this. As I can read about carpenter on the web, there is a certain human code in his movies which transcends every group in which we are classified (religion, ethnic, country, race, rich or poor...), it s never said in the movies but that's the reason why people like them so much.
Honestly it would of been better if Halloween wasn’t a franchise with a bunch of sequels, that would of made the ending more impactful and scarier. That’s just my opinion though
@@maximustheshoosh227 well I'm not sure that s what carpenter had in mind. But business is business and the studio had the final word
Always loved this face reveal. Because you were expecting some Jason Vorhees-looking freak, instead you got some normal looking dude in his early 20's. Showing that evil has no prejudice, it can live in anyone.
I’m 21 myself. It’s kinda weird to think he’s my age the whole time
Well audiences back than weren’t because Jason Voorhees didn’t make his debut as a slasher villian until 1981. But I get were you’re coming from.
I am guessing 30
@@iancruz6617 nope he was six when he killed his sister and imprisoned. The movie states it has been fifteen years since after his killing and imprisonment. 15 + 6 = 20 or 21
Of course. The gorgeous Rutger Hauer played the evil murderous hitchhiker John Ryder in the 1986 movie ,Hitcher. When the killer is good looking it’s so much worse.
Jamie lee Curtis looked too damn good back then
She was dummy thicc too
@@spookypapi_45 not thicc had a gorgeous body though
@@asee818 she was thicc
💯💯💯
Fucked up thing is the boogeyman did too.
0:06 when you half asleep and hear your parents talking about ordering a pizza 🍕
You stole this comment 😑
Christian/SlimProductions yea there is a video of this same scene with 200k views the top comment was written a year ago while this was 8 months ago. Unoriginal
Same with all great movies,they have to bring crap sequel after sequel and stamp all over them.I thought the Bloom house one might have been good but that was pretty crap imo too.Just leave good movies where they are unless it can be improved on like mad max 2 and young guns 2. But money comes into the equation,understandable but ashame.
I love pizza lol
The one comment out of them all that is actually really funny😂😂
Michael was just 21 at this time, he was still young, still a damn kid...but evil is ageless I suppose!
21 isn't a kid bruh
@Blinking 11 yes 21 is a young adult but not a kid
I mean he stabbed his sister 9 times when he was six soooo
Hes not a kid
@DJ DaveRave aka Dave Gordon These are some long comments
I love how he waits for Michael to put on his mask before shooting him
Respect the face of an ogre
"nah bro, you think i'd shoot him like this? wait until he puts his ugly mask on."
It’s basically the villain waiting or the power rangers to morph
But what if he shot him in the face? Lol
I think he wanted to see him as the monster and not the boy he treated
This is why Halloween is scarier than any other slasher.
In most slashers, the killer is revealed at the end as some deranged maniac, and is then shot or killed, and peace is finally restored.
In Halloween, you feel more throughout the movie that there is something “otherworldly” about Michael.
At the very end, when we’re sure he’s dead (having been shot several times including to the head, and then plunging off the top floor of a house straight onto the ground), we discover that within seconds he has disappeared.
That’s when we realise Michael Myers isn’t just some crazy homicidal man: he’s like a demonic entity, who could show up anywhere at anytime…
Well i think him easily lifting up an adult men already sets up the atmosphere of demonic entity, but still, the ending gave chills.
He doesn't get shot in the head in the 78 halloween
Johan Liebert is also a character that has that feel to him. It feels more like a demon using a human body as a husk.
There's scarier slashers
Loomis' expression at the end is so fucking eerie and effective. No shock, barely any reaction, just a look that says, "Of course it's not over yet....where are you, Michael?"
Well said. Then they went and ruined that in the opening moments of part 2.
Fun fact: While filming, Donald Pleasance (Loomis) asked John Carpenter (the director), which way should he play it when he sees Michael is gone. Should it be played like "Oh my god, he's gone!" or "I knew this would happen." At first Carpenter said play it like "Oh my god, he's gone!" so he did. Carpenter didn't like it and thought it was too much, so he said to try it the other way, like "I knew this would happen." So Pleasance did that and Carpenter knew that was it. I'm glad they went with that. Made it much better.
I agree.
You can tell by the look on Loomis's face saying, " It's not over." That was when Halloween 2 came out and it picks up exactly where the first one left off.
@@Jojo-bk2pq Thank you for sharing that fact. In my opinion, Donald Pleasance's performance is what takes this movie up and over the top as slasher films go. i first saw this with hy then girlfriend in during our spiring break in 1979. We were in her hometown, which was very rural, and the mall with the theater was out in the middle of nowhere. We chose the latest showing. When the movie ended, there was an eerie silence in the theater, and even the exit of such a large group of people (a Friday night, the last showing for the night) was oddly quiet. Outside, the parking lot was very pooly lit, and we had parked well away from the entrance, so we were very uncomfortable on the walk to the car. But what struck me then, and still strikes me today, fortythree years later, is the silence after the movie ended. I don't think I have ever experienced an audience exit like that one.
@@jdxsr85 you don't even know what death is
"Halloween"(1978) is a masterpiece and one of the best horror movies of all time! The ending scene was amazing, unique, and very spooky!
I grew up in a small village in South america.....I saw this movie when I was 13 years old, no electricity and had to walk half a mile back to my home in total darkness. I was so jumpy at any sound.
It was boring. Maybe only scary to white people but it was boring, slow with cheap jump scares
@@Error_-ct2vp it dosent have a single jumpscare
@@Error_-ct2vp woah woah woah, race has nothing to do with being scared. Don’t say that
Why Halloween (1978) is scary is because Michael Myers is Walking Chaos he's Pure Evil, He's The Boogeyman. For me the scariest scenes in the movie are the opening when Michael Kills Judith, Michael stalking Laurie and her friends and this classic ending.
I always like that shot in the background of Michael getting up and turning his head towards Laurie
THE iconic shot of the film.
So iconic
that is one of the most iconic shots in film history
I agree with all of you. No horror movie will ever beat this one. John carpenter was born to direct this movie.
2:05 Me and my sister watched the movie for the first time back in 2014 and that ending was so unexpected and it legit scared me. It leaves you a sense that he can be anywhere. He's the Boogeyman, he's everywhere, it follows us wherever we go like a shadow. And is something so many horror or slasher movies have tried to duplicate with a surprise ending that the killer isn't dead, but no matter how many times they tried to capture the ending of Halloween, it will NEVER top what John Carpenter set out to make in 1978. If there was no Halloween, horror movies would be very different. No Freddy, no Jason, no Chucky. Or for 11 year olds, no Dead Meat.
Exactly the same reason i love the ending, he could be anywhere in the dark and with that breathing.. Classic!
There would be still be the conjuring and Annabelle though.
But how much of a impact did Halloween have on horror movies.
I love how he just raises up in the background and she is completely unaware he is behind her
Yep undertaker style
Donald Pleasence's line, "As a matter of fact, it was." ... one of my all time favorites.
The scariest part is when he breathes really heavily and never talks
True
That mask probably sweaty af no wonder he breathing heavy
That was a very effective element that made the movie a lot scarier and I don't understand why they never kept it in any of the sequels
His last words were, " I'm not Micheal.. I'm a clown!".
When she rips off the mask you expect a creature or a Jason Friday the 13th look but in reality it’s just a young man not to far from my age and everyone else’s.
I love this face reveal. The scene doesn’t just stop and to give a minute to see what he looks like, it was accidental. Her arms were flaring and got a grip of the mask and pulled it off.
He caught up and tried to catch the only thing that is important to him and then walk up for a brief moment to reveal it’s a flesh and bone human.
INCREDIBLE!❤️🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻❤️
Yup! And About the part where you mention the mask….In a horror movie After the mask gets taken off, usually The Survivor would be in horror with how the killer looks like but they did not go in that direction in this movie.
@@adammartinez8061 incredible Movie!❤️
I always get chills at the end of the movie when it’s showing the shots of the different locations with the piano music and Michael’s heavy breathing in the background
masterful
1:59
When you come back home to see if your switch is fully charged
But you forgot to plug it in the wall
Lmaoooo
😄😄
👌😭
You left home without your phone? The horror...
@@jedijones school or an open house aswell
the breathing is what does it for me....like you know he is out there and then loomis looking out the balcony, donald pleasance is an amazing actor even his facial expressions show it. Jamie too, with her crying and all. Best slasher of all time!
The sound of him breathing under the mask is damn Eerie
It always comes in mind when I scuba dive lol
I first saw this in the spring of 1979, spring break from college, with my then girl friend. She lived in a rural county and the mall and the theater were in the middle of what seemed to us, back then, to be nowhere. The theater was full and as shock after shock unfolded before us, the audience was absolutely scared into silence. After the end credits rolled, and the houselights came back up, the exit, also, was curiously silent. My girlfriend and I were a little perturbed to have to cross the dark parking lot to my car, and we had to drive over some rural, unlight backroads to get back to her small town. When we arrived at her parents's home, where we were spending spring break, we knew we could not sleep (and, unlike our weekends at college, we had to sleep in separate rooms at her parents's house). So we stayed up all night in her living room. Her house was old, with a large cellar below it, and at night the noises of the inevitable settling were quite audible; and we kept hearing Michael Myers climbing up the steps from her cellar. We finally fell asleep just at dawn and her mother, rising early, found us sprawled out on the couch. We had to admit, sheepishly, that we had been too frightened to sleep, at which she rebuked us quite sternly for "wasting money" (as she thought of it, the tightfisted hag) on a movie that scared us silly. I saw the film again in 1981 (sometime after she and I broke up), and after that I refused to look at it for eleven years. It was just too intense. Now, an old man, and perhaps less impressionable than I was during my Junior year, I can appreciate the tremendous artistry behind and through every inch of this film. I recently saw a documentary which described how precarious this film was in its conception, and getting backing, etc. I believe it is one of the greatest horror films in the history of film, and the "reveal" at the end is, in my opinion, second only to Karloff's first appearance as the Monster in Frankenstein, 1931, at that moment when he walks into the room backward and then turns. Thank you, John Carpenter, Jamie Lee, and Mr, Pleasance for collaborating on such a magnificent film, far greater than any of its far too many sequels.
The most perfect horror film of all time. From beginning to end, it was an absolute masterclass.
I like how he immediately puts the mask back on panicking
Hard to describe why I think Halloween is the scariest movie of all time. I think it’s just the total feeling of helplessness and dread. The feeling like you can’t escape while being chased by evil itself. Absolutely horrifying!
Lmfao, the way he fell out the window
It wasn't funny to me
@Jeremy Horne it was 1978, give them a break
Looking back at it now, it did look pretty goofy the way he stumbled and fell on his ass on the lawn 😂. As a diehard Myers fan, it gave me a bit of a laugh
@@jungkooksupremacy7675 On a VERY low budget as well
Wow ..... Really dude?
1:16 definitely one of the scariest shots of this entire movie
But it's a classic!
"Kill me if you can, Loomis"
Sam Loomis expression at the end is one of character acting’s great underrated performances and really made the movie. His sublime expression is contrasted with the trauma Laurie has suffered. Loomis isn’t surprised Michael got up but he’s wishing he was wrong. He knows that something horrific is now walking the streets. Something that shouldn’t exist in this world has been unleashed. Waiting for his next prey. Breathing as if to say I am more than human. The greatest horror film ever made.
1:09 The way Michaels head snaps back is hilarious.
Ikr 😂
Loomis a real shooter 😂
1:05 OH NO HES HOT
Exactly what I thought as a little kid when I first saw this 😂 I was like, “He’s HANDSOME?!?!”
Omg his face so cute The people who find the actors they find the cutest guys ever!❤️✌️
No wonder he doesn't die
I Thought It Was a Ulgy Face like jason
What is up with y’all thinking psychopaths are hot?
Loomis actually has the decency to let him put his mask back on before shooting him lol
He probably couldn't bring himself to do it while looking at the face of the child that he had looked after growing up.
@@jamlym4974 that’s my guess after seeing that scene too. Loomis wanted to shoot and kill
“The Shape/Boogeyman”, not the young man Michael Myers
Or he was just waiting to get a better aim
This has got to be the most atmospheric horror movie I’ve ever seen. They way he’s just gone and the camera pans to all over the house where he could be looming in the shadows, anywhere, everywhere.
1:15 when your dad tells you to go to bed now but he goes in your room and your standing there and don’t wanna go to bed yet
Sabbath o'neil 😂😂😂
I can relate
Does your dad pull out the gun as well?
@@ogjohnston05 how he puts her to sleep 😂
@@ogjohnston05 yes and starts breathing for no reason lol
2:16 this is top tier acting, especially for an 78’ movie. It genuinly looks like she got trauma from it. The way she cries.
That sit up was phenomenal, and the music hit on the money. John Carpenter is a genius.
The theme,the way he awakens,the Aura, the screams,the way he reacted to the first shot and the way he just vanished so epic
What's always been my favorite part of this entire film is when Loomis checks on Michael only to find that he's gone and you get to see the terror and realization on his face wash over him. It's a hell of a thing to witness. Fantastic writing and acting.
0:06 when you sleeping in the car and your favourite song comes on the radio
1:15 the way he's just standing there after getting shot is creepy as hell !!!
This Scene Means A lot Only Because It Clearly Shows U Nothing Can Stop Michael Not Even 6 Shots From A 357
@Magma92 That's the same thing wtf lmao.
@Magma92 lol it's same thing
@Magma92 it's the same thing lol
Nigga Michael Got Shot Up By 7 Different Guns And He Still Survived
The plot armour is so💀
This sounds dumb but this was the scariest part of the movie for me. Only because it was so shocking to see him unmasked, and how normal he looked was crazy
It’s not dumb at all. No human being has that look at 1:05. He looks literally possessed.
@@EvaSlayAllDay334 yea I hear you. I mean I was just expecting it to be more like Jason's face under the mask. Micheal's is a normal face compared to Jason's
@@ryanslotter2694 That’s when horror movies weren’t as idiotic
@@frenchinthetrenchh yeah the classics are scarier and funny
@@frenchinthetrenchh now it's the white girl who flicking screams because they thought they saw a bug or something
one of the most haunting endings to a horrormovie ever. i also love the ending of the thing, with that unsettling music and hopelessness
Every fall when it gets dark outside (I'm from the artic north of Norway, we have midnight sun in the summer) i have to switch off all the lights, bring candle and watch this movie and just let the fall ambience just creep in, love it!
02:04
Goosebumps everytime.
I always felt like a film like Psycho is what ultimately led to this film, I love how they're both full of suspense and are made very cheaply on very simple ideas but how effective and iconic they've become plus Jamie Lee and her mother are in both horror classics respectively
Yeah this movie is openly inspired by Psycho. Carpenter has often talked about it, which is of course a good thing. I mean Loomis’s name is even sam loomis
Micheal HOT
Yeah, when the mask is on
David Valdez Jr Hah
David Valdez Jr its william SHATner
Why are y’all like this 😂
Laurie Strode 😳 Laurie umm
The first time I saw this was 2018 on a blockbuster vhs, damn the ending got me in chills when the theme played
I watched this when I was 4 years old, 10 years ago. I remember rooting for Michael to kill them...
Yeah I was a fucked up child
I saw it when I was 7 in the 90s on vhs never get enough of it
…you found a Blockbuster that rents VHS in 2018?
@@KobaAM this is what I’m wondering.....like what?
Maybe it’s a youngin millennial who’s mistaken DVD for VHS.......just a guess....unless he’s hanging out with RLM
@@KobaAM I found the vhs with a blockbuster tag on it at a goodwill
Classic shit right here! Love it! "Was that the boogey man?" "As a matter of fact, it was". KILLER DIALOUGE!
One of the most greatest, iconic, and memorable endings in horror cinema. To this day it still gives me chills and goosebumps as I stare in complete silence and shock as I'm trying to comprehend what just happen. It never gets old m 😍😎💯👍😏😰😱
And you thought it was the undertaker who invented it
The ending to this one is brilliant. Evil never dies, and it's everywhere. They should've just stopped after the first one.
It’s crazy how this thing with Michael and Laurie from the late 70s carries all the way into 2022. Like imagine having an adversary like Michael for more than four decades.
Man I just cant imagine how awesome it would have been to be in 1978 seeing this in the movies before Halloween. If anyone in the comment section has any stories about please share what it was like to see this masterpiece back then.
My brother was a teen then and told me people were leaving the theater before it was over because they were terrified . Those who did stay to the end were shell shocked
derek mellino yea bro john carpenter destroyed peoples sleep with this movie. That mans a genius director.
@@violentpuncher people's sleep? If only; people got scared of watching tv in their own house with the lights off, washing the dishes during the night, leaving the back door opened, or opening their own closets; Halloween was the "Jaws of house movies".
I saw it in '78. A different era. We had no Internet , We had a certain innocence
(unless you went to war .).
Back then, you see a film ....
Laugh outside the theater....
you shake off the jitters ..
and go have a pizza with your friends.
He is beautiful.
I swear everytime I see that scene where Michael falls out the window and isn’t on the ground anymore my heart stops.😂
İnsan bi korkuyor
This gave me heart attack
Lol
It probably gave anybody a heart attack who saw it in the cinemas when it was brand new
The look on Loomis’s face when he looks over the balcony and Michael is just gone… it’s like the perfect blend of shocked that he survived that but also seemed like he was expecting it and KNEW Michael wasn’t gonna be there.
Thats actually how it was. The actor was told to have an expression of "i knew it would go that way"
@@TheCultDc2
At 2:32
his Expression…..
“I know you’re here Micheal.”
“Where are you Micheal.”
Anyone notice at the beginning of Halloween II this same scene and his face is barely shown.
They also change the music and The rain coat that Dr loomis wears
Paul Lindley oh really no shit I gotta check that out bro
Paul Lindley bro he didn’t even run up the stairs the same part 1 ending he ran up grabbing the stairway handles part 2 he ran up and made it look like he grabbed it when he didn’t 🤣
Music was better in part 2 IMO
@@paulanthony5274 not to mention Loomis fired 7 shots instead of six
Can’t wait for HALLOWEEN KILLS !!!! Want to see how he gets arrested!!!
He may not get arrested.
Aidan Farren-Hart he did, it was confirmed to be the deputy in 2018, the same one stabbed by Zartan, so yes, we will probably see how he gets captured
Oh! I didn't realise Jose was talking about the flashback scene we're supposed to get. 😆 In that case, aye, we _will_ maybe see how Hawkins apprehended Michael.
Anybody else notice how in the 2018 film, an aged myers starts to look like loomis?
Old people look old.
Oh my god, you're actually right...
that final battle is so iconic and i love how at the end you can still hear him breathing knowing he’s still out there lurking.
2:33 - The sound of his breathing reminds the people of Haddonfield, Illinois is not safe from the clutches of THE SHAPE!
Easily one of the best endings ever.
That music gives me the goosebumps!!! Best. Movie. Ever.
One of the best scenes in horror movie history. 🎃
I love the way he sits up and the fact he gets up after taking six shots is just creepy
This ending with him disappearing, Jamie Lee crying , the music , the breathing is masterpiece 😱😱😱
The look dr looms has when Michael is missing was is and will always be terrifying
By looking like that he's telling you that it's not over.
Without a doubt michael myers is indeed my favorite horror movie slasher
She's HOT in Halloween 1 !
ikr
Can't see any hotness but ok
Crystal Clarke shut up crystal
Jaime was fucking beautiful. Still is.
Crystal Clarke said the girl who looks like everyone else on instagram these days
When Loomis looks down to where Michael fell and he is no longer there will never cease to send a chill down my spine. This ending is the best of any horror/slasher movie I've seen.
The ending scares the shit out of me, it’s just the sound of Michael breathing and showing pictures of different parts of the house, showing that Michael is never truly gone. Like the kid said. You can’t kill the boogeyman
Nobody will ever be able to replace Dr Lumos
Is the best scene in a horror movie. Michael wake up and when he look Lorry, musics on. The Best 💜💜
John Carpenter really knew how to sycologicaly scar you with his tight directing of how he wanted the killer to be portrayed in this horror classic.
How did i ever miss him maskless after all these years
This has been my absolute favorite horror movie since I was a kid. So scary!
I like how Michael is not even smiling. He looks as tortured as he was as a child, as if this is something he feels he has to do than wanting to do it. It's very rare that killers are given a humanized look without their iconic mask.
Take Jason Voorhees for example: He has a very inhuman and deformed looking face.
He shows his face more often than Michael Myers.
Yes
One of the greatest endings ever
When you realize that of all things, Michael couldn’t manage to subdue a panicked, tired woman quickly compared to his other victims while she actually managed to shake him off and literally rip his mask off. That or he just dropped her since he seemed to really want to put the mask back on first before killing her. :/?
Edit:
Nevermind’ I think he was just distracted by the fact his mask had been removed. He actually fought her to keep her more when she managed to grab the bottom of the mask. Question is: Why is the mask so important to him, not many people know what he looks like :/
I guess he feels more comfortable with it on like a gate way to his evil actions
When he was a child he killed his sister with a mask on that's how he only kills.
The Don Pretty sure he has always been described as having no true moral, no reasons and certainly having no such thing as emotions... He’s pretty much dead inside as people call it.
@@alexsuarez9556 In the book adaptation Carpenter confirms that Michael is indeed possessed by a spirit (and he used to talk, before possession), which allows him to do such things.
Now, I guess maybe the spirit is attached to masks and can only activate it's true bloodthirst when masked, like some sort of bond with objects. Dunno, just a theory.
I know I'm a year late but I think he's probably likes to wear his mask like Wesley from "The Princess Bride" does, like the mask is a part of him
One of the best endings to a horror movie and the look on Dr Loomis face like I knew this would happen
As a matter of fact, it was.
I take a hat off to you for this great reference.
Classic
I see you have at least...some culture.
@@puterboy2 Oh, don’t worry, J.R., there’s plenty more where that came from. In my mind.
“Don’t be intimidated just imagine him without his mask”
“OH NO! HE’S HOT!”
the greatest thing about this ending is how well the great Donald Pleasance played the terror of Dr. Sam Loomis. He puts six rounds into Michael Myers and THEN he falls off the balcony. He lowers his gun as though his job is done. Laurie's terrified "It WAS the boogeyman" as though she had seen evil personified (which lets face it, she did) and Loomis's "As a matter of fact, it was". He walks to the balcony expecting to see Michael lying there dead, but he's vanished without a trace. Loomis looks up, no emotion on his face besides his eyes, darting around, and you see there the once calm and sane Dr has been shattered, fear that evil survived. Laurie sees his reaction and begins sobbing in terror as the iconic theme picks up and Michael's breathing slowly gets louder. this ending alone for me personally makes it my favorite horror movie of all time. is it the greatest? no, but the suspense and emotions of the faces of Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance make it my favorite
The way MIchael gets up implies that he's not merely Human(He just got stabbed in the eye and chest). Laurie looks like she's entranced and the way Michael slowly ceeps behind her implies that he has ensnared her mind(with a supernatural abilitiy) before he strikes.
That’s the supernatural Shape curse for ya. People need to stop saying Michael is human because HE’S NOT! He has some kind of evil demonic supernatural spirit in him that keeps him from dying and he has a high healing factor too. I think there’s some kind of otherworldly shit in that mask of his. That’s why he’s so drawn to it I believe. There’s NO curse of thorn, but definitely something supernatural in that mask tho
@@cainbutler6291 you are absolutely right I always believed Michael to be possessed by a demonic spirit that explains his supernatural abilities and somehow someway his demonic spirit and that mask is connected I know that's a weird theory LOL but that's what I think
@@cainbutler6291 He's evil incarnate, a force of nature. A mere demon or devil would be nowhere near as emotionless, lifeless, devious, relentless, intimidating or precise. Trust me I know. He may be technically human but what lurks beneath the skin & flesh is faaaaaaar from Humanity.
@@8ZakattacK9 exactly Dr Loomis said it best I met him, 15 years ago I was told there was nothing left no reason, no conscience, no understanding in even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six year old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes the Devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up, because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply evil.
@@jamesjenkins400 in other words Michael is definitely a guy who looks human, but has the superhuman abilities to be looked at as a force of nature. Like a demonic beast from hell. The guy isn’t a regular person. He’s definitely possessed with something