Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Friday, October 29, 2010

Halloween II 2009


In a short flashback, Deborah Myers (Sheri Moon Zombie) visits her son, a young Michael Myers (Chase Wright Vanek), at Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Deborah gives Michael a white horse statuette as a gift. Michael says that the horse reminds him of a dream he had of Deborah's ghost, all dressed in white and leading a horse down the sanitarium halls toward Michael, telling him she was going to bring him home. Moving ahead fifteen years, after having shot an adult Michael (Tyler Mane), Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) is found wandering around in a state of shock and covered in blood by Sheriff Brackett (Brad Dourif). Brackett takes Laurie to the emergency room. Meanwhile, the paramedics pick up the Sheriff's daughter Annie (Danielle Harris) and Michael's psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), who are still alive after having been attacked by Michael, and take them to the hospital. Presumed dead, Michael's lifeless body is loaded into a separate ambulance. When the driver has a traffic accident Michael awakens and escapes the ambulance, walking toward a vision of Deborah dressed in white and leading a white horse.

Michael appears at the hospital, and begins murdering everyone he comes across on his way to Laurie. Trapped in a security outpost at the gate, Laurie watches as Michael tears through the walls with an axe, but just as he tries to kill her, Laurie wakes up from the dream. It is actually one year later and Laurie is now living with the Bracketts. Michael's body has been missing since last Halloween—still presumed dead—and Laurie has been having recurring nightmares about the event. While Laurie deals with her trauma through therapy, Loomis has chosen to turn the event into an opportunity to write another book. Meanwhile, Michael has been having visions of Deborah's ghost and a younger version of himself, who instructs him that with Halloween approaching it is time to bring Laurie home; so he sets off for Haddonfield....More>>
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Halloween 2007


On Halloween in Haddonfield, Illinois, having already shown signs of psychopathic tendencies, ten-year-old Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) murders a school bully named Wesley (Daryl Sabara), his own sister Judith (Hanna R. Hall), her boyfriend Steve (Adam Weisman), and his mother’s boyfriend Ronnie (William Forsythe). After one of the longest trials in the state’s history, Michael is found guilty of first degree murder and sent to Smith's Grove - Warren County Sanitarium under the care of child psychologist Dr. Samuel Loomis (Malcolm McDowell).

Michael initially cooperates with Dr. Loomis, claiming no memory of the killings; his mother, Deborah (Sheri Moon Zombie), visits him regularly. After a year, Michael becomes fixated on his papier-mâché masks, closing himself off from everyone, even his mother. When Michael kills a nurse (Sybil Danning) during one of her visits, Deborah can no longer handle the situation and commits suicide. For the next fifteen years, Michael (Tyler Mane) continues making his masks and not speaking to anyone. Dr. Loomis, having continued to treat Michael over the years, attempts to move on with his life and closes Michael’s case. Later, while being prepared for transfer to maximum security, Michael escapes Smith’s Grove, killing the sanitarium employees and a truck driver (Ken Foree) for his clothes, and heads to Haddonfield. On Halloween, Michael arrives at his old home, now abandoned, and finds a kitchen knife and Halloween mask he stored under the floorboards the night he killed his sister...More>>
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Halloween: Resurrection


Three years after the events that happened in California, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) has been sent to a psychiatric hospital after it is revealed that she had beheaded a paramedic instead of Michael; the paramedic had located the body of Myers in the dining hall of Laurie's school, but Myers had attacked the paramedic, crushed his larynx, and forcefully switched clothing and his mask.

On October 31, 2001, still in captivity, Laurie pretends to be heavily medicated, behaving as though she had extreme dissociative disorder. In fact, she hides her pills and prepares herself for the inevitable confrontation with Michael. When Michael finally appears, Laurie lures him into a trap, as she attempts to kill Myers, she second guesses herself, to make sure that it is really her brother this time when it's obvious. Myers takes advantage, and stabs her on the roof. She then kisses him then says " I'll see you in hell". Then falls to her death. Michael then returns home to stay. His mission is complete....More>>
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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later


The film begins on Thursday, October 29, 1998. Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens), Dr. Sam Loomis's colleague, returns to her house to find it has been broken into. Before entering, she runs next door and lets her two teenage neighbors know that someone has ransacked her house. One of the teens, Jimmy Howell (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), searches Marion's house, but finds nothing and Marion decides to wait for the police in her house alone. While in her house, Marion discovers her file on Laurie Strode (Michael Myers' sister who escaped the attacks 20 years earlier) missing and finds someone is still in her house and immediately rushes over to her neighbours house. When she arrives she finds both teenagers murdered. The killer, Michael Myers, attacks her. After a confrontation with Marion, he manages to kill her. The police arrive as Michael leaves the house with the file on Laurie Strode.

The film then moves to Northern California, on October 31, 1998 - Halloween. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), is now revealed to be living under the assumed name "Keri Tate". As Tate, Laurie has a seemingly perfect life with an intelligent son, John (Josh Hartnett), and a boyfriend, Will (Adam Arkin), a great career (as headmistress at Hillcrest Academy High School, a private boarding school) however, Laurie/Keri is far from happy. The tragic events from 20 years previous still haunt her and adversely affect her parental capabilities. To everyone, this is "just another Halloween"; however Laurie still lives in constant fear from the attacks from 20 years ago...More>>
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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers


Six years after The Revenge of Michael Myers, Michael and Jamie are believed to have died in an explosion at the Haddonfield Police Station. It is revealed that the Man in Black is a leader of a Satanic-like cult, and that the Man in Black kidnapped Jamie and had her impregnated. The baby is born on Halloween Eve and is carried away by the Man in Black. Later that night, however, Mary (Susan Swift), a nurse, helps a now teenage mother Jamie (J.C. Brandy) and her baby escape. Michael (George P. Wilbur), in pursuit of Jamie and her newborn, kills the nurse by impaling the back of her head to a metal spike in the wall. Jamie, meanwhile, steals the truck of an angry motorist (who quickly becomes Michael's next victim) and flees to a dark and empty bus station where she calls in to a radio show that happens to be doing a broadcast about the Haddonfield murders. Jamie gets on the air, begging for help and warning of Michael's imminent return. Trapped, she proceeds to hide in the bathroom where Michael nearly catches her. She narrowly makes it out alive and again drives away. Jamie is still not safe, as she is forced off the road by a presumably stolen van driven by Michael. Beaten and exhausted, she makes her way inside of an old barn where Michael is waiting for her. He kills Jamie by pushing her into a corn thresher, only to find that Jamie does not have the baby....More>>
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers


The film begins with a recap of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, in which Michael Myers (Don Shanks) is shown being shot at and falling into a mine shaft. Michael, however, finds a way out and stumbles into a nearby river, making his way into a small shack by the river owned by a local hermit where he collapses and remains in a comatose state for a full year. On October 30, 1989, Michael awakens, kills the hermit, and returns to terrorize Haddonfield, where his young niece, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris), continues to live after nearly being killed by Michael the year before.

Jamie has been rendered mute due to psychological trauma, but exhibits signs of a telepathic link with her evil uncle. Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) is aware of Jamie's psychic link with her uncle, and tries to convince Sheriff Ben Meeker (Beau Starr) that Michael Myers is alive. Meanwhile, Michael kills Rachel (Ellie Cornell) with a pair of scissors, and begins to stalk her friend, Tina (Wendy Kaplan), as well as her friends, Samantha (Tamara Glynn), Spitz (Matthew Walker) and her boyfriend Mikey (Jonathan Chapin). Michael stalks Mikey and kills him outside a garage with a rake to his head. Tina, Samantha, and Spitz go to a Halloween party in a barn. Michael both kills Samantha and Spitz in a farm. Once the party was over, Michael chases Tina and Jamie with a car. While in pursuit of Jamie, Michael runs into a tree seemingly dead but Michael steps out of the car and is ready to kill Jamie however, Tina runs at Michael sacrificing herself to save Jamie and dies. After Tina and the others are killed, Jamie agrees to put herself in danger to help Loomis stop Michael for good. With Jamie's help, Loomis lures Michael back to the old Myers house.....More>>
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers


The film begins on October 30, 1988 with atmospheric establishing shots of farm land. Later that dark rainy night, we follow an ambulance truck on its way to pick up Michael Myers from Ridgemont Sanitarium. Michael Myers has been in a coma for 10 years since Halloween II. The ambulance truck comes to transfer Michael Myers to Smiths Grove, Michael awakens after hearing about his niece alive in Haddonfield and kills the four ambulance personnel and escapes. Jamie Lloyd, Laurie Strode's daughter and Michael's niece, has been adopted by the Carruthers family. Strode was thought to have died in a car crash. Jamie knows that Michael is her uncle, but does not know he is the man she has nightmares about.

October 31, 1988, and Jamie's foster sister, Rachel, has to watch Jamie that night - instead of going on a date with her boyfriend Brady - while Mr. and Mrs. Carruthers go out. Michael kills a mechanic and a waitress on his way and makes it to Haddonfield. We learn that Dr. Loomis has survived the fire from Halloween II. Loomis sets off to find him......More>>
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch


On Saturday, October 23, shop owner Harry Grimbridge (Al Berry) is chased by mysterious figures wearing business suits. He collapses at a gas station clutching a Silver Shamrock jack-o'-lantern mask and says "They're coming. They're coming." and is driven to the hospital by the filling station attendant (Essex Smith) all the while ranting, "They're going to kill us. All of us,all of us." Grimbridge is placed under the care of Dr. Daniel "Dan" Challis. While Grimbridge is hospitalized, another man in a suit enters his room and pulls his skull apart, killing him instantly. The man then returns to his vehicle, douses himself with gasoline and lights himself on fire, causing the car to explode....More>>
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Halloween II


Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) saves Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) from his patient Michael Myers (Dick Warlock), a homicidal maniac. Loomis informs Sheriff Leigh Brackett (Charles Cyphers) that despite being shot six times, Michael has survived and escaped. A traumatized Laurie is taken to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where an EMS attendant, Jimmy (Lance Guest), begins to show an interest in her and later reveals to Laurie that her attacker was Michael Myers.

After Dr. Loomis sees a man that resembles Michael Myers wearing a similar mask, he and Sheriff Brackett jump out of the patrol car and chase the suspect on foot. As the suspect runs into the road, two cars crash in between him then explode, killing him. While Dr. Loomis and Sheriff Brackett are watching the body burn, an officer tells Sheriff Brackett that three teen bodies were found in a house, and one of them was his daughter, Annie. Dr. Loomis refuses to believe that Michael is dead without tangible evidence. The dental records of the suspect's burned body are examined and proven to not match Michael; the suspect is revealed to have been a 17-year old.......More>>
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Halloween


On October 31, 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers (Will Sandin) murders his fifteen-year-old sister [10] Judith (Sandy Johnson) with a large kitchen knife at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois. His parents arrive home minutes later and find him in a trance-like state. Michael is incarcerated in Smith's Grove Warren County Sanitarium, where he is placed under the care of child psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence). Eight years of treatment convince Loomis that Michael is pure evil. An additional seven years is spent trying to keep Michael locked up. On October 30, 1978 Michael turns 21 and is to be brought to court to determine if he is competent enough to stand trial for his crime. Loomis and his assistant Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens) arrive at Smith's Grove to take Myers to court. Michael attacks them, nearly killing Marion, steals the car and escapes. Loomis goes in pursuit of Myers. He learns that Judith Myers's tombstone is missing, and is convinced that Michael will return home.

Michael (Nick Castle), wearing a mechanic's coveralls and a mask, indeed returns to his now derelict home in Haddonfield. He stalks teenager Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), and follows her and her friends Annie Brackett (Nancy Kyes) and Lynda Van Der Klok (P.J. Soles) as they walk home from school. Laurie becomes unnerved after spotting Michael several times that day, but Lynda and Annie dismiss her concerns. That evening, Laurie meets Annie, who is babysitting Lindsey Wallace (Kyle Richards) across the street from where Laurie is babysitting Tommy Doyle (Brian Andrews)......More>>
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The Devil's Rejects


The Devil's Rejects is a 2005 American horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie, and the sequel to his 2003 film House of 1000 Corpses. The film is about the family of psychopathic killers from the previous film now on the run. At the time of its release and in the years since, the film has garnered a cult following.[1] Seven months after the events of House of 1000 Corpses, Texas Sheriff John Quincey Wydell (William Forsythe), and a large posse of State Troopers issue a Search and Destroy on the Firefly family for over seventy-five homicides and disappearances over the past several years. They begin a full-scale attack when the Firefly family fires on them. During the firefight, Tiny (Matthew McGrory) goes missing, Rufus (Tyler Mane) is killed, and Mother Firefly (Leslie Easterbrook) is taken into custody while Otis (Bill Moseley) and Baby (Sheri Moon) escape. Otis and Baby take refuge at a run-down motel, where they torture and murder four of the five members of Banjo and Sullivan, a traveling country band. Baby's father, Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig), meets Baby at the motel. Otis arrives a few minutes later and all three leave the motel together in the band's van. The last member of the band is accidentally killed when she runs out to the highway to seek help.

Meanwhile, Wydell slowly begins to lose his sanity when Mother Firefly reveals that she murdered his brother. After having a dream in which his brother urges him to avenge him, Wydell stabs Mother Firefly to death. The surviving Fireflies gather at a brothel owned by Captain Spaulding's brother, Charlie Altamont (Ken Foree), where he offers them shelter from the police. After leaving the brothel to purchase some chickens, Charlie is threatened at gunpoint by Wydell to give up the Fireflies. With the help of a pair of amoral bounty hunters known as the "Unholy Two," the sheriff takes the family back to the Firefly house where he delights in torturing them with similar methods they had used on their own victims. He nails Otis' hands to his chair and staples crime scene photographs to Otis' and Baby's stomach, beats, and shocks Captain Spaulding and Otis with a cattle-prod, and taunts Baby about the death of her mother. ...More>>



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