He talks about it all the time about how, like, I have the liberty to be furious in public. He can never raise his voice, but I can. Dave: You know who I think is probably a fairly tall man? John Carpenter. And you know, the list goes on. Dave: But he also directed movies that I think are kind of tweaking the idea of the tough guy like Big Trouble in Little China. Dave: Total parody. And then he also did Starman, which is a very romantic, sweet movie. So my question is, is John Carpenter the most woke director when it comes to straight white men making movies about straight white men?
Henry: I think that he is an eclectic director, and I think that he comes at things from a lot of different angles. Like sci-fi. When sci-fi and horror are at its best, they really can go into a social issue in a way that is kind of user friendly for all of us people that mostly just like screaming people or octopus monsters.
I am not a drama person or even a comedy person anymore. I basically watch genre movies all day long. So it helps me learn when they throw it in. Henry: You may learn something, you might get something. The Halloween 5 mask narrows the features to an inhuman degree; it screams nothing but "mask," a vital mistake for a horror character that thrives on the line between his real face and the one he chose.
In a grand act of irony, Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers is by far the closest any Halloween sequel has come to the original mask, making its return in the entry most interested in stripping Michael Myers of any mystery he had left.
Michael Myers got a bit of a reboot two years later for Halloween: H20 , which used Stan Winston , arguably the best makeup effects artist to ever do it, to design a mask for reshoots replacing the original design dreamed up by KNB EFX Group.
Winston is a legend, and legends several decades into their career are simply gonna' experiment—if you do both the aliens in Aliens and the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park , you're allowed to Make Choices—and the decision to make Michael's mask tight enough in H20 to see a good deal of the area around his eyes is an interesting idea on paper that robs the character of a shocking amount of menace.
The silver lining is that none of the actual mask's screentime is as unforgivable as the scene in which it's bafflingly rendered in CGI, making Michael look like a homicidal Mr. Potato Head. We will discuss it no further. There have been two separate Halloween reimaginings since Resurrection — Rob Zombie 's pair of films and the David Gordon Green trilogy we're currently two-thirds of the way through—but both can be combined into a new era for the mask, the era of Trying to Make Michael Myers Look Scary.
Where the sequels endeavored to strip Michael's mask down to its original state of emptiness, more recent films have added to it, whether to signal a change in aesthetic Zombie or a vast passage of time Green. Zombie, unsurprisingly, slopped a hefty layer of grime onto the mask for Halloween , rendering Michael Myers in his own gritty grindhouse-carnival style; for the sequel, Zombie tore the mask to shreds, exposing much of the man underneath, a metaphor for his hyper-violent deconstruction of the character.
Conversely, Green mostly greyed out the mask, like it'd been decomposing in a wet basement somewhere for 40 years, a reflection of the way its own had also stagnated in the years between Halloween and Halloween For Halloween Kills , a nasty, almost Friday the 13th sequel-ish slasher made up entirely of sound and fury, Michael emerges from a burning building, his mask grotesquely charred. In both cases, the mask becomes more visually striking Less Michael Myers , a character who feels less like a monster the more you try and turn him into one.
In that way, the evolution of the mask is just a microcosm of the franchise's uneven history. November 3, 0. October 24, 0. By christine on October 17, 0 Comments. Paul Salfen: What can we expect from this movie? Paul Salfen: What scares you Jason? Jason Blum: Donald Trump. R for horror violence and bloody images, language, brief drug use and nudity. In Theaters: Oct 19, Wide. Comments are closed.
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