Where is Laurie during all this, you ask? Gone is the assertive survivor Laurie from H The film strips her of her new life and plants her in an institution as a result of the ending of that previous film. To the extent that Halloween worked, they worked because Michael was still pursuing the Strode family and still combating Dr.
Are they direct sequels? No, these are spiritually faithful remakes of both. The film also delves into an aspect of his story that to this point had only been described after the fact: his psychotherapy sessions with Dr.
Loomis, here played by Malcolm McDowell. The second film, Halloween II , also extends this interest in psychology to Laurie Strode played this time by Scout Taylor-Compton , plumbing the emotional and psychological connection between her and Michael.
This version of Halloween pays direct homage to the original Halloween in numerous ways. It expects its viewers to know and love the original film, and to react to its echoes years later. Above all, this Halloween is fully aware of what Halloween films do best: let Michael Myers terrify viewers as he conducts his regularly scheduled eerie rampage through Haddonfield. So prepare to meet the face of pure evil — for the 10th time in four decades.
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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Michael Myers before the mask. Universal Pictures The tale of Halloween in Haddonfield, Illinois, has been told and retold: the night in that an angelic 6-year-old Michael Myers, dressed in a clown suit, brutally murdered his teenage sister, followed by the night 15 years later, again on Halloween, when he broke out of a mental institution in his famously mutilated William Shatner mask to terrorize the virginal babysitter Laurie Strode, a.
Got all that? Halloween : the one that kicked off an entire genre The Shape having some fun. Definitely a treat. Yes, very loosely. Yes, as the title implies. By the 9th century, the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with and supplanted older Celtic rites.
In A. The celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies. As the beliefs and customs of different European ethnic groups and the American Indians meshed, a distinctly American version of Halloween began to emerge.
Colonial Halloween festivities also featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds. By the middle of the 19th century, annual autumn festivities were common, but Halloween was not yet celebrated everywhere in the country.
In the second half of the 19th century, America was flooded with new immigrants. These new immigrants, especially the millions of Irish fleeing the Irish Potato Famine , helped to popularize the celebration of Halloween nationally. Young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or mirrors. In the late s, there was a move in America to mold Halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborly get-togethers than about ghosts, pranks and witchcraft.
At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season and festive costumes. Because of these efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century.
By the s and s, Halloween had become a secular but community-centered holiday, with parades and town-wide Halloween parties as the featured entertainment. Despite the best efforts of many schools and communities, vandalism began to plague some celebrations in many communities during this time.
By the s, town leaders had successfully limited vandalism and Halloween had evolved into a holiday directed mainly at the young. Due to the high numbers of young children during the fifties baby boom, parties moved from town civic centers into the classroom or home, where they could be more easily accommodated.
Between and , the centuries-old practice of trick-or-treating was also revived. Trick-or-treating was a relatively inexpensive way for an entire community to share the Halloween celebration. In theory, families could also prevent tricks being played on them by providing the neighborhood children with small treats. Thus, a new American tradition was born, and it has continued to grow.
Speaking of commercial success, scary Halloween movies have a long history of being box office hits. His plan: turn Halloween into a kind of anthology series in which each new film told a different story. Roundly dismissed at the time, Halloween III has since rightly picked up a cult following. How unconnected? A television can be seen advertising the original Halloween. In this trilogy, which picks up where Halloween II leaves off, Michael spends the next few years in a coma.
In the meantime, Laurie marries, has a kid named Jamie Danielle Harris , then dies in a car accident, leaving Jamie in the care of her unsuspecting adopted parents. By far the most convoluted corner of the Halloween verse, these films feature a Druid cult, a mysterious man in black, psychic powers, and, in the long-delayed Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers , Paul Rudd playing the grown-up version of the little kid Laurie was babysitting in the original.
Pleasance returns as Dr. Loomis in each, lending some gravity to an increasingly silly and convoluted story. From brainstorming spooky costumes to trying out pumpkin carving ideas with our kids, eating unfathomable amounts of Halloween treats , candy, and chocolate and indulging in everything pumpkin-spice-flavored, there's so much to anticipate during this frightfully fun October holiday.
No matter how old you are or how many times you've been around the block, the holiday simply never gets old. The littlest ones get a chance to dress up and go trick-or-treating , and parents have an excuse to sip on a boo -zy Halloween cocktail. But in the midst of the Halloween party games and sugar rushes, have you ever wondered about the origin and history of Halloween? Here, we're sharing Halloween's origin and meaning in the hopes that it'll make your celebrations even more enjoyable.
After all, this old-fashioned holiday actually dates back many, many years. It's a lot older than you might think! And as for the witches and wizards that you've come to associate with it? They're part of the story, too. Here's the true tale of how Halloween officially came to be. You already know that Halloween takes place on the last day of October, but here's something you might not know: The word itself literally means "hallowed evening," and was previously known to early European celebrators as All Hallows' Eve.
The name was eventually shortened to "Halloween," which we know and love to this day. The pagan and Christian occasions hadn't always been back-to-back, though. Perhaps in an attempt to offset the occasion with a religious celebration, Pope Boniface IV ultimately made the call to change the observance to its current November 1 date. Halloween falls on October 31 because the ancient Gaelic festival of Samhain , considered the earliest known root of Halloween, occurred on this day.
It marked a pivotal time of year when seasons changed, but more importantly, observers also believed the boundary between this world and the next became especially thin at this time, enabling them to connect with the dead.
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