The Reel Rejects - HALLOWEEN (1978) IS SUSPENSEFUL AS HELL!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:02 and we are going to be watching this in three, two, one. All right, guys, we officially just watched Halloween for the first time. There's no way I've ever seen that before. I have seen the recent ones, but that was not familiar to me. We're going to talk all about it. But before we do that, big shout out to Prepper. Thank you guys for helping edit us down, especially when I'm doing things like pausing to go get my job.

Starting point is 00:01:29 jacket so that I don't flash my cooter. Also, if you're on Apple, Spotify, wherever we are, don't forget that five stars, the thumbs up, leave a comment, let us know your thoughts. If you want to be cool, like our Royal Rejects and you want to ask us questions, which we will get to at the, in a little bit in this review, then go to Patreon. And that's how you can do that. And that's how we take the questions. So we are getting to that.

Starting point is 00:01:52 But before we get to our Royal Rejects questions from you guys, I just want to ask you, Tara, as the Halloween queen. What do you think of Halloween? Oh, I loved it. You did. I did. There are some things, though, I'm a little upset at that Lori threw down the knife a couple times. I do not like that at all.

Starting point is 00:02:17 That kind of stuff, especially when it's, well, when it's any character, but mostly when it's, like, especially when it's a woman and I want her to be strong and kick ass. Just in general, you don't drop a weapon if there's a murder around, but it's okay. The rest of it, I mean, this, the pacing was really good. I really liked it. I thought it, like, it, I was very, I was in it the whole time. So we, we've done the Purge franchise, the Chucky franchise, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead. What other, what other horror big, big franchises?

Starting point is 00:02:56 Chucky. You did? Okay. I think those are the main ones that we've done together on this channel. Yeah. As the first one, where does this kind of stack up for you? Do you feel like this is as strong as some of our other franchises? Well, right now. Oh, and wrong turn.

Starting point is 00:03:18 We just did wrong turn. We just did that one. We just did seven movies of that. Yeah, you're right. God, cannibals. Huh? I mean, you know what? I think for this one, for the first movie,

Starting point is 00:03:31 I do really like the way it was shot. I think the reason why it felt like it didn't drag is because of those long tracking shots and also the music. And obviously, all the acting was great. So it's like on point for a film. So I'm excited to see where it goes. I'm also like, holy crap, he doesn't die.

Starting point is 00:03:55 Yeah. Like Michael Myers Is that in that the same with Jason and Freddie? Totally, they never die. You're right. Chuckie kind of too. They always, yeah. They all have this thing where they don't die

Starting point is 00:04:05 and I think we just have to kind of grow to accept that. I agree. And I'm like, okay, yeah, all right, they don't die. I just wish you wouldn't really just. And some of them are slow. Like Jason Swampoy is slow and Michael is slow, but Chuck he's fast and Freddy's fast. So I feel like I'm way more afraid of the fast ones personally.

Starting point is 00:04:24 Yeah. Like I'm slow as hell. I really love this movie, but in terms of the pacing, sometimes I feel like because he's so slow, we're moving a little slow because we can't go that fast because he can't go that fast. So it's like, you just run to the house next door and then we're kind of waiting,

Starting point is 00:04:38 and it's like, just run down the street and keep going. Right. You'll make it to the station. I mean, or you run into a house, you look through all the drawers, do they have a gun? And by the time he's walking across, you probably get to shoot him. I'm super with you, though.

Starting point is 00:04:51 I give her grace on dropping the knife the first time because she didn't know he couldn't die. She's nervous. She thought he was dead. The second time, come on now. Girlfriend, you not only did you drop it, you threw it right next to him. You were like, oh, I actually don't want your knife anymore.

Starting point is 00:05:03 This is for you, honey. And I was like, no, don't. But she's awesome. She's such a great actress. And I understand why she's so many people's favorite final girl. Yeah. Characters that we don't like, Annie. Annie's, yeah.

Starting point is 00:05:19 I mean, it's just really, just Annie. She was a twat, man. She was such a twat. She was not nice. I think it makes sense for the movie to have a character that we don't like but I will also say when she died I was like, nah.

Starting point is 00:05:32 I know, I mean, it's not like it hurt because she was really not nice to Lori at all. I also kind of want to go back and figure out that petto joke. Like, was it really as, is it really what we thought it was? I mean, yes. And I think they went like, oh, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Starting point is 00:05:51 Like, they like, I get it. Like, oh, we're making dark jokes. with each other, but I'm like, that's very dark. Also, it's the 80s. Maybe that's what they did then. Yeah. Make those really, you know what I mean? Oh, now I have the hiccups.

Starting point is 00:06:06 God bless America. I can tell you were burping or what was happening. Chug, chug, chug. We also both obviously love the score. It's iconic for a reason. It plays everywhere. Not only is it the score of Halloween franchise, but it's also the score of Halloween.

Starting point is 00:06:23 Like, this is one of the most, on Instagram during Halloween It's the number one tagged thing When you go to a theme park during Halloween This is the number one played thing When you just have like Halloween tunes Going on on Spotify or Apple This is the number one thing that kind of pops up

Starting point is 00:06:37 So the Halloween score is iconic And it's maybe even more iconic at this point Than the franchise is It's so well known Right But I thought it was utilized very very well in these movies I agree And that like

Starting point is 00:06:49 When you hear it like pop in You're like oh snap Here we go. Where is he? And I love that they started with it and ended with it as well. I mean, it's dispersed throughout, but like specifically in the beginning, that's when we first initially hear it. And then especially it takes us out at the end, which is a lot of fun. The cop going around back ended up not being relevant, huh? He was like, I'm going to go out front. You go around back when her dad pulls up, Annie's dad, who doesn't even know that her daughter's dead. Oh.

Starting point is 00:07:23 And we never see him. Yeah, you're right. We don't. All right, well, maybe sequel. I don't know. Oh, right. Maybe he'll pop up. Yeah, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:07:32 Should we get to some of these patron questions? All right, here we go. There was a lot more. That's what I was trying to look up Patreon, but let's just go with these. Shout out to the patron questions coming for the Royal Rejects. If you want to ask us questions, go to patreon.com slash Real Rejects. You can ask us stuff that we answer after the movies. We've been loving doing this.

Starting point is 00:07:49 Here we go. Starting Mike Joyce. All right, Mike Joyce says, How do you think you two would handle it if you were in Lori's shoes? I would never drop the weapon. Yeah, you would never drop the weapon and I would bolt. Yeah. I mean, I probably run too for sure.

Starting point is 00:08:07 You're slow. Not you, him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm slow. You're slower. We'd both run with a weapon, I think, too. I understand that the kids were in the house and she probably didn't want to leave them there. But I think that you could have, you still had time to get them out of the house and start running. And he still wouldn't too slow.

Starting point is 00:08:23 So I think I would have handled it pretty well. I definitely don't think I would lock myself in any closet with a clothes hanger. But I can't make fun of her game because she lives. Yeah. You know, so. I definitely said to the closet thing, I would have opened up a window and just jumped. And just been like, well, he's going to kill me anyway. Let's take the risk.

Starting point is 00:08:43 It is innovative that she uses a knitting needle and she uses a coat hanger. That's cool. cooler than having her going to the kitchen grab a knife, which we see all the time. Right. A lot cooler. I agree with that. Next question. Pierre, the reject for Taryn Roxy. Who is your favorite final girl

Starting point is 00:09:03 in a horror movie? I dreaded the day that this question came. That's a toughie. I don't know if I know the answer to this right now. You know, the movie that I did not watch on this channel, but I did watch What is it? For AfterBuzz, ready or not?

Starting point is 00:09:22 Oh, I watch that movie. I watched that for this channel. Love her. Love that vibe of her being the final. But I think it's really just the picture in my head because she's completely covered in blood. But I do like, I did like her. You know, Lori as a final girl was great.

Starting point is 00:09:40 I'm going to see. Who's our other final girls? I'm Googling Best Final Girls. And the AI answer is, the best final girl in horror movies is a matter of personal preference, but Lori Strode. Oh, I thought it was stroder.

Starting point is 00:09:50 I've been calling her story. I'm sure so many of you guys were yelling at me. Lori Strode from the Halloween franchise is often cited as a quintessential example of the trope. Other popular choices include Sidney Prescott from Scream, who I love, and Ellen Ripley from Alien. Oh, yeah. Alien. Just did that, too. Yeah, Ripley is a great one.

Starting point is 00:10:11 I like your ready or not answer, though, because I think that that's a unique, unique. Black Christmas I've never seen it Cabin in the Woods cited as people's favorite Final Girl Did we watch this? Oh the dissent I watched that and she is an amazing final girl

Starting point is 00:10:28 Evil Dead Ash Williams are calling a final girl That's interesting Huh Oh we did the entire Oh I did the entire Final Destination franchise Yeah you did

Starting point is 00:10:40 Yeah I didn't do that together Get Out Oh I guess they're calling a lot of guys final girls oh because i was confused by that evil dead reference oh happy death day we did that franchise oh that was a good that's a good one trees an awesome final girl that was yeah we forget because we watch so many things i'm just prepared for all of the people being like you call they the wrong name yeah and i did i'm so sorry uh nancy from a uh nightmare on elm street we really liked her oh we did like her yeah she was awesome and then she comes back so that one makes sense

Starting point is 00:11:14 I didn't do the... I haven't seen pray or any of those, but... You know me if you said pray? Hell yeah. I love that movie. It's on there? Yeah, this is on Indie Wire. A lot of people mentioning Scream.

Starting point is 00:11:28 Texas Chainsaw Masker, you just... Didn't you do those? I did watch that one. The thing... Us. Oh, yeah, that was... She was great as a final girl, too. Okay, those are just some of them. But thank you for the question.

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Starting point is 00:13:57 My half-room cutie. Who knows? So excited for you guys to watch Halloween. Yeah. I've been waiting for this reaction since the beginning from you two. You guys are awesome. My question is, what are your thoughts on Jamie Lee Curtis? version of the final girl and your thoughts on the overall tone of this film terr i really like her

Starting point is 00:14:19 character i think that she was down to earth really grounded you believe her when she talks you believe when she talks to herself she isn't like too over the top i don't think really anybody was but like her subtlety is there and i really like that uh that's something that i'm always very much drawn to. Um, so in her being a final girl and being, you know, finding enough resolve to find a weapon that's near her, great. I love that stuff. So her getting the knitting needle, stabbing him, although, sure, I'm still going to say, I'm mad that she, that she dropped the knife a couple of times. But other than that, her being as resourceful as she was and not just being like, uh, please don't kill me, which I would hate. That's obviously not a, uh, a, uh,

Starting point is 00:15:07 final goal status, she did a great job. I was, hell yeah. And the thoughts on the overall tone of the film, I think that the music, as I said, combined with like the long takes, the cinematography, it's weird how like Michael Myers, you said, he moves so slow, so do these shots. Yeah. Like the shots are like, they're walking all the way down the street, right? We're chilling.

Starting point is 00:15:35 We're holding. Hold. Nope, keep holding. Nope, stay right here. Totally. Chilling for longer than you would think is needed. But it works in this. And maybe obviously because there's a great soundtrack beneath it.

Starting point is 00:15:50 And I think the tone of like Halloween we're seeing like the pumpkins around. We did see some kids trick or treating earlier. It was during the day when the sun's out. I'm convinced maybe they took the kids trick or treating earlier in the day. The parents go out at night after they already took the kids. But then we needed to see like a candy bag and have you reference it. I agree. That's the only weird thing to me that I'm just going, yeah, but if they left, they probably go, take one piece of candy, here's the bowl, right? Or people knocking on the door or something.

Starting point is 00:16:21 Yeah. Because we've seen other franchises that take place on Halloween and they incorporate it, right? Trick or treat does a great job of that. Yeah. In the one short, in one of the shorts that they do. Yeah. Yeah, that was one thing that did bug me after we brought it up that we're like, oh, this is actually Halloween, except the movie pulls you in so well with this plot of like

Starting point is 00:16:44 where the F is this guy and where is he going to pop up along with the music that you kind of forget about it. Because we're still getting to pumpkins, we still get to horror movies in the back. Well, it's kind of the reverse for me. It's not that I forgot about it. It's that I didn't notice it until like halfway through where I was like, wait a second. Me neither. Yeah. Isn't that Halloween?

Starting point is 00:17:02 Yes. What is happening, but whatever, I think that that's probably a budget thing. I think they probably couldn't have any more background actors. Right. They probably didn't want to lengthen the script. I'm honestly okay with it. Yeah. It was a fine choice.

Starting point is 00:17:16 But would I like to see a couple more trick-or-treaters or at least a line or two from the kids? Like, we never get to go out on Halloween. Our parents always go out, like, please can you take this out for one, whatever, and just grab one piece of candy or something. Something to explain why all the parents are gone because there's all the high school curls on babysitting. They did say this was on Halloween. Yeah. Like, yeah. Yeah. And that's the and it's the anniversary, which

Starting point is 00:17:40 is why he you know, he put that headstone there. Right. He killed his sister on the 31st so he's out killing again. Good for you. I guess that's yeah, that's what he does. I guess he kills on Halloween. Interesting to get an origin story. We didn't get that for a lot

Starting point is 00:17:56 of our other big bads until further down the line. I remember with like the fire with freddie right and then we see that like that's later on way later yeah uh yeah i yeah tromp boy was later too yes exactly i mean we know about the the drowning pretty early yeah yeah but i don't remember exactly when but the pop oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah anyway uh to answer your question on this i thought that her version of final girl was awesome i believed that she was like at one point she says she's too smart for the boys and i do believe she was smart

Starting point is 00:18:30 and innovative, and I like that in the final girl. But I do also think, like, because it's her first time dealing with a serial killer, I would like to see her grow from here. Like, you never leave the knife. Learn your lesson. She kind of pick things up. But she was my favorite character because she was so grounded and she was so kind and good and helping with the babysitting and helping with her friends.

Starting point is 00:18:51 And, you know, she was the one who first clocked the car and she was paying attention to her surrounding. So I thought that was really cool. And overall tone, I think that the music really. help with the tone. I like the way that this was shot, obviously being shot on film. It just looks like gritty and grainy and cool. Yeah. Those long shots really worked for me. I also like the color palette we were working with. There's a lot of green. And we had some pastels going on, which is not the typical. And then the juxtaposition of that with later on the all the black and blue shadows. That really, really worked for me. So overall, I think this is a really, really great

Starting point is 00:19:24 new franchise we're embarking on. And I'm excited to kind of go through from beginning to end, even though I've seen some of the later ones, I clearly am missing a lot. Right. And even you saying, you know, on film, your favorite shot was when they're in the car and it's kind of down alone. We're facing both of the characters.

Starting point is 00:19:43 And those characters, I mean, on film, it's hard to pull a focus if you're not right. We've got to clean the gate, put new film in. Neither of them and their eyes were in focus. It was their hands and the windshield. And I don't know if that was on purpose or not, but either way, it didn't bother me. Didn't bother me at all.

Starting point is 00:20:01 I wasn't thinking rack focus, guys. No, I was just, we're chilling. And I loved the perspective of it. It was just a little bit different. And it might have been an actual choice. Yeah, they were like, you know, I don't know. Very cool. But it was awesome.

Starting point is 00:20:16 Tara, any final thoughts on watching Halloween for the first time, my Scream Queen? I'm stoked on it. I really do. I love this. I'm glad to know now. Like, I knew who Michael Myers was, but now since I'm such a huge, overall Halloween fan

Starting point is 00:20:31 I like being brought into this and I'm like oh I now know what the deal is with them I know what the deal is this is good for me clap your hands everybody you're getting strangled clap those hands this we know if you're trying to learn to drive just pop on that television yep you'll learn it in no time on that note

Starting point is 00:20:49 we'll see you guys for the next one's Halloween 2 I think so all right we'll see you guys for Halloween 2 later rejects Thank you.

The Reel Rejects - HALLOWEEN (1978) IS SUSPENSEFUL AS HELL!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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