Damnable Comix: Halloween (2007)
Shitty Movie Detail: Halloween Resurrection
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Freddie tells Sara, “We got to get the fuck outta here now.” This is a subtle nod to the fact that Michael Myers has killed everyone and they are next.
Shitty Movie Detail: Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later
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At the end of the film, Michael Myers reaches out to Laurie. He is begging for a quick death because Creed’s “What’s This Life For?” is about to start playing in the closing credits. Mercifully, Laurie decapitates him with a fire axe. If only we, the audience, could be so lucky.
Shitty Movie Detail: Halloween
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I tried to get tickets to Haddonfield High’s prom by calling the listed number, 779-6861. I was thwarted because the number was incorrect, just like all the phone numbers strippers—who clearly loved me in the Boom Boom Room—have given me as I followed them to their cars at the end of their shift.
Shitty Movie Detail: Friday the 13th
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Like so many industries, filmmakers are in a mad rush to get their ideas out to the public first. The Halloween franchise beat Friday the 13th to the screen by two years because June didn’t have a Friday the 13th until 1980—whereas every year has a Halloween. Granted, Sean Cunningham could have thrown up his hands and put out his film with any old crap in it, but it’s the precision of the details that make all the difference in these low-budget horror films.
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