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Trick or treat without sugar!
This line, which hears the cocooning of the ears, is undoubtedly Halloween's loudest business card.
After decades of popular culture, Halloween Eve has long since lost the solemnity of religion and has become synonymous with terror.
Then the only one who really ruled tonight for 42 years, opened the Halloween file, and made a lot of movies imitate and rub the heat, presumably only John Carpenter.
John Carpenter, now 72 years old and known to fans as Carpenter, has earned countless accolades in his life – a master of horror, a master of B-movies, the father of Halloween horror films, and even the reincarnation of Lovecraft!
Starting with his step to the sky, in the history of horror movies, it will never be bypassed, and the top five slash movies (Slasher Movie) in the second list start.
In 1978, the 30-year-old carpenter presented his third feature film on Halloween— "Moonlight Panic," which had only been filmed for 20 days.
Even the melon-eating masses who don't watch horror movies at all on weekdays rushed to the cinema to see it at that time, calling out good guys!
Before entering the movie theater, fans only know that the main actor is 19-year-old Jamie Lee Curtis, the daughter of Marion Crane's actor Janet Leigh in the famous "Horror Story", and the director is the already famous Carpenter.
After watching the movie, they witnessed the Screaming Queen and Carpenter's Battle I gods!
As well as the screen debut of Michael Myers, the first little white-faced in the film industry, the blue cargo white mask, the butcher knife that is dazzling and cold, Jason will call him a master when he sees it.
The three slashing giants of the 70s and 80s are all legendary villains who have left their name in qingshi.
Fans want to watch Jason take a mountain knife and tear the frivolous young man, killkillkill mamama (Jason song)...
Want to see Freddy playing with the victim with a cannon and a morbid humor.
For michael Myers, the white-faced butcher, he "didn't want to see it."
Because people rarely hope to kill the protagonist of the film to survive, Laurie is not a template knife and fish meat, but a truly tenacious Final Girl (the ultimate surviving girl in a horror movie).
And Michael's main feature is also a suppressed mystery that fans love, walking slowly for 80,000 miles a day, and may peep out of the window. Background how an ordinary person does not die, why did he kill his sister on Halloween, and then pursue Laurie endlessly? No one knows why, and there is no need to know.
When the answers are given in later films, it is clear that the B-grade styles are heavier and lack the seductive soul of John Carpenter's mysticism.
Moonlight Panic pioneered the widescreen, making the dark streets in the shot more empty and quiet.
This complements Carpenter's smooth imitation of the killer's first-person perspective using a lens stabilizer, because no one knows where the haunted Michael will come from, Where? Here！
What sends the entire film to a new high that no one can surpass is definitely Carpente's unique soundtrack Halloween Theme - Main Title.
His father was a music professor and he was fascinated by music since childhood.
The 43rd Academy Awards for Best Live-Action Short Film, The Resurrection of Brown Corbyly, was a soundtrack work from Carpenter's college years, and he almost single-handedly handled the soundtrack work after becoming a director.
Carpenter claims that 99% of the soundtrack is improvised, and when a person manipulates the synthesizer, he plays the piano, and eventually slowly constructs the soul of the whole film.
In the 1970s, "Moonlight Panic" was the kind of invincible child of others, with a low cost of 325,000, killing 47.16 million at the box office, and the number of successful masters did not dare to brag about B.
In 2018, the reboot of the leading edge can be a great success, directly making the production of the trilogy, the reason is that Ye Qinghui!
Under the wind and rain atmosphere rendering, no one will tell you how the old man Michael is still as big as a bear, not old and immortal, watching this superman of the horror world kill the supporting role, leaving Final Girl is enough to satisfy.
Although the first part of the film is against the sky and is still a frequent guest of the top 100 today, Carpenter has never returned to the series directorship.
In his career, you'll rarely see a set of works. In addition to the two "New York Great Escape" and "Los Angeles Great Escape", the most prestigious should be the theme of its own system, officially announced by Carpenter's "Revelation Trilogy".
The trilogy was Strange Shape (1982), The Devil Returns (1987), and The Black Hole of Shudder (1994).
Its theme of fear and death is somewhat subtly similar to the craftsmanship of "the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest fear is the unknown", and "Shudder Black Hole" is recognized as a Grammyer god.
First of all, please bring out "Strange Shape", which has a similar fate to Blade Runner, or the latter is even more unbearable.
Many people think that the reversal of "Blade Runner" is a simple fairy tale, and the audience's aesthetic has improved by leaps and bounds, singing for the turnaround god?
This is actually a mistake for innocent viewers, who were afraid that the audience would not understand and deprived Ridley Scott of editing rights.
And forced our hit worker Harrison Ford to record the narration of the life without love, not to mention the abstract ending that ran to the green waters and mountains of "The Shining", even if it is put into the present, the film is somewhat rotten!
"Strange Shape" is based on the novel by John F. Kennedy. W. Campbell's classic science fiction novel and the 1951 film Freak.
Its tragedy is really simple, word-of-mouth box office double crotch is still scolded, but it is the peak of Carpenter's own grievances in his heart.
There was no lengthening and no guide scissors, and a rotten year gradually became a god film of stars holding the moon.
As an outstanding work of monster movies, "Strange Shape" has a performance effect that is still fantastic in the 21st century.
Thanks to the exaggerated realism of the live-action special effects, I believe that no one will forget to open their mouths and bite off the stomach of the human hand, and the creepy human head spider.
The film is filled with fear of the unknown, of death – where it came from, what it is going to do, who it is going to kill, who it is now...
With both a small metaphor for relationships and the purest horror effect, Strange Shape is even more mysterious than Michael.
Most importantly, Carpenter chose an all-male perspective as a horror output after abandoning the carem and jump scare in the "Killing Light" series, which is radical and adventurous in genre planning, on the one hand, it copied the enclosed space of "Alien", all scientists, mysterious monsters, scratching lungs and popping eyeballs sprinkling ketchup and splashing mucus, etc., but it is nothing less than the depiction of monsters.
The title of the overall "the thing" is equivalent to the fact that the monster as a catalyst behind the dew is still unpredictable. The second half of the "catching ghosts" perception is actually funny, the open ending makes this story cool with darkness, there is a false mourning in the evil, and later it was selected by the media as the best horror film 100 hard, and it is also a turnaround.
The second installment of the trilogy, "The Return of the Devil", is a standard exorcism movie with a strong gram.
Scientists have discovered a mysterious green tank that has been sealed, and they are trying to find out whether it is WTF in the spirit of science, but they are looking for death.
The physical science at the beginning of the film is all floating clouds, and the second half is a crazy mysterious religious color that is not at all scientific.
The possessed section is similar to "Strange Shape", and the spitting liquid spreads a foul-smelling cross infection.
Exactly what is Cthulhu, what about Gram, the unknown of taboos is an important part of it.
If human beings are ants in three-dimensional space, then evil gods are things that humans in four-dimensional space absolutely cannot touch.
"Heavenly Devil Returns" does not answer who the protagonist is facing from beginning to end.
Its invisible claws and power are enough to kill everyone, and the void space through the mirror is the best interpretation of the agnostic world.
The final song that takes the realm to the next level is Carpenter's real hammer (big mistake) for Lovecraft's reincarnation.
The English title of "In the Mouth of Madness" and the famous "Crazy Mountains" are "At the Mountains of Madness", and the connection is self-evident.
The story of "Crazy Mountains" can be briefly described as the human expedition discovered the remains of an alien ancient civilization in the corner of the mountains, the monster Hughes at the end of the glimpse, the closest movie on the market to the story is recognized as "Prometheus".
"Shuddering Black Hole" has some reverse feelings, what if humans did not find alien relics in the mountains, but found themselves in the mountains?
Detective John is ordered to find Kane, a horror novelist who has been missing for two months, and because deadline arrives, he not only fails to deliver the manuscript but also hears nothing, selling books until the publisher that hangs Stephen King can't wait.
It's like the beginning of a suspenseful detective movie, followed by endless madness!
Bizarre things happen one after another, John gradually can't tell what reality is and what is an illusion, and the audience will pat his head and say: Why is it so messy?
The unknown changes that continue to occur in the details usher in the truth that John's world is above the ink of another world.
Classic otherworldly setting, and the ultimate is how many times you watch the movie and can't figure out the specific What happened?
John looks into the darkness of nothingness through the torn pages, and after the end of the world, he sits in the theater to watch himself, watching the audience also watching "The Black Hole of Shuddering", an inexplicable sense of horror and oppression.
Open the film review to check, full of two words written: Gram! The mysterious, unknown tentacles of the other world that are nested into each shot, invading reality.
The apocalyptic ending of the "Revelation Trilogy" without exception is what Carpenter believes is the best ending.
Although it seems that the end is brought about by monsters, demons, and evil gods, the details of interpersonal, religious, scientific and even cultural dissemination are not out of touch with reality, and Carpente is using fantasy to depict the plight of real society.
Ending Moonlight Panic and the Apocalypse Trilogy, let's conclude with a review of Carpenter's two unique entertainment films.
In the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, there was a word that was also popular to the heart - consumerism.
The middle class and the local tycoons are enjoying the pleasure of consumption, and the films that satirize this behavior are represented by George W. Bush. A. Romero's 1978 Dawn of the Living Dead.
Maybe it's a little hard to imagine that the original version of Zach Schneider's remake would have this meaning, but turned into a walking dead human being who instinctively and consciously wandered through the supermarket? come on！ Under consumerism, the dead and the living are walking dead leeks!
Romero also said that if you make a stinky and long drama film to play satire, you can't sell for thirty million DOLLARs, so zombie irony is very wonderful.
Why tell the story of Romero's heavy punch first? Because 10 years later, in 1988, Carpenter produced an upgraded version of "Extreme Space".
Aliens secretly rule the earth, and people are confused and brainwashed by illusions.
In the real world, the banknotes are printed with This is your god, the big posters say marriage and childbirth, buy, and the magazine pages are all: Don't be useless, buy it for grandpa!
George W. A. Romero, John Carpenter on television was heavily criticized by aliens and needed restraint.
Friends, this is one of Carpenter's masterpieces and the most straightforward social satire ever!
From reproductive slavery to consumerism is a frame slap in the face, you scold again?!
Another movie that is running a remake program, "Demon Haunting Chinatown", is a pure entertainment film that does not need any explanation!
Carpenter began to contact Hong Kong films in the 1970s, "The First Fist in the World" is his "first love" in Hong Kong films, and Tsui Ke is his favorite director.
What he learned from Shaw's films was simply cheerfulness, with Carpenter calling "everyone happy to be beaten."
The above six films, in fact, can not fully summarize Carpenter's directing career, "Night Fog Killing Machine", "Alien Love", "Christine Charm", "Black Planet", "Blood Splash Thirteen Police Station", "New York Escape" ......... It's too much.
In addition to the above, there is one more thing you can see that Carpenter's decades of creation are quite diverse and free.
The question is, Carpenter thinks that today's Hollywood has changed, and does the industry, which is controlled by several major companies, still care about movies?
In an environment where filmmakers can't make their own decisions, big companies only care about Money, "so there are a lot of superhero movies" (let's say I'm Dibao).
Reflecting on his concerns in this year's environment is particularly meaningful.
No matter what the future holds, I hope that the few filmmakers can constantly improve themselves, and the film company will stop swimming in the eyes of money, and learn carpenter's creative philosophy - no rules, no principles, the story is everything.
I also wish the great horror master John Carpenter, like his enduring films, to remain alive and healthy forever.
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