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Before Halloween 1978, a classic horror film was released in the United States.
This Halloween-themed horror flick creates a knife-wielding, overalls-clad, human-skin-masked killer...
He has also become one of the most classic murderous villains in the horror film industry!
Even if you are not familiar with him, you have definitely heard his own BGM!
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All domestic programs related to case detection have used this BGM that is repetitive, nervous, and magical.
This classic is [Moonlight Light Panic]…
And this masked killer is Michael Myers!
This Halloween, he appeared again after disappearing for many years——
The moonlight is flustered 2018
Halloween
Before opening this new work, let's talk about the story 40 years ago ...
The 1978 edition of [Moonlight Panic] tells the story of Michael's murder.
When he was six years old, wearing a mask, he stabbed his sister to death with a knife...
Later, he grew up in a mental hospital and fled back to his home town. Also on Halloween, he began to kill again as an adult.
Now looking at [Moonlight Panic] 40 years ago, I will feel that it is not bloody and exciting enough, but I have to admit that its "horror" is incisively and vividly:
For example, the scene where Michael kills his sister with a mask at the beginning...
Shots allow the viewer to enter the film from a first point of view .
Witnessing the murder process through the two eye holes of the mask, until the mask is torn off, the camera is turned to a third perspective to watch - the murderer is actually a child!
From the first point of view, to witnessing the murder, to the revelation of the real murderer...
[Moonlight is flustered] It is to use the details to accumulate a sense of fear , even Michael's killing is not in a hurry, killing the prey a little bit.
Even that cyclical BGM is putting psychological pressure on the audience!
[Moonlight is flustered] with a cost of 320,000 in exchange for 70 million at the box office , and was rated as one of the 500 greatest films in film history by Empire Magazine.
[Moonlight Panic] also created a new type of horror with movies such as [Friday the 13th], [Texas Chainsaw Massacre], and [Chainsaw Horror] ——
Slasher Film
The classic [Moonlight Panic] comes from director John Carpenter .
He is obsessed with horror and thriller themes, and has made classic B-level films such as [The Shape], [Body Bag], [Philadelphia Experiment], and [Thriller Black Hole] .
During the shooting of [Moonlight Panic], from the screenwriter to the director, even the soundtrack was composed by Carpenter himself, without exaggeration—
There is a horror universe hidden in his mind!
There were no less than 10 films in the series of [Moonlight and Panic], but unfortunately Carpenter didn't take over after the first one...
It was not until this year's new edition that John Carpenter was invited to sit again!
Therefore, this [Moonlight Panic 2018] is also considered by many horror movie fans to be the real sequel to the series after 40 years——
On the eve of Halloween in 2018, two reporters came to a mental hospital.
They're going to personally interview the most mysterious, vicious, and notorious 1978 Halloween killer of this group of patients - Michael Myers
Michael, who carried so many lives, was not sentenced to death...
He lived in prison for 40 years, but never said a word, and now he is 60 years old, leaving only a sturdy back!
But just this one back has made people shudder...
Another key role is the heroine who escaped the catastrophe back then——
Laurie Strode
She was the closest person to Michael in that 1978 massacre, and the only one to escape Michael alive...
She lived the rest of her life in isolation, nervousness, and constant vigilance:
Put a protective net around the yard, set up a net in the room, and prepare all knives, guns, sticks, etc., and practice shooting and Sanda every day...
It didn't feel like a precaution, it felt like a wait!
Therefore, her behavior was disliked by her daughter, so Laurie stayed away from her daughter and granddaughter's life, hiding in her own camp...
But sometimes, fate loves to joke.
Another year on Halloween, Michael escaped from the lunatic asylum!
Michael's crimes have long become "urban eccentricities"
It was not until the real bloodbath occurred that the town residents realized that the terrifying murderer had come again, and the happy Halloween was once again panicked...
This time, the death toll has skyrocketed!
40 years ago, young Laurie tried to escape the clutches of...
40 years later, she, who was already a grandmother in Moonlight, went into battle with a gun and chased Michael who fled, vowing to kill the murderer.
Enemies get together, no, it's an enemy showdown!
This time the roles are reversed, Laurie is going to kill this once nightmare...
So many sequels of [Moonlight Panic] are repeating the thrill of "bloody killing" with Michael's horrific murders...
After watching too much, it is naturally difficult to escape the restrictions of horror B-level films.
This true sequel gives the story a "fateful" loop:
It was also Halloween, the same town that used to be, and even what happened to Laurie's granddaughter was very similar to what happened to her back then...
There are also details that pay tribute to the original work everywhere in the film: the escaped mental patient, the sheets drying in the yard, the wardrobe that may be hiding...
It's all just a replica of what it used to be!
But the difference is that Michael used to chase Laurie to kill, but now Laurie is ready to come and kill Michael...
From escape to revenge, it is the change of times experienced by horror films:
In the past horror B-movies, these murderers have almost no clear motive, they are born evil bloodthirsty lunatics...
As John Carpenter himself explained:
"He's something in between the human and the supernatural"
The killing scene is the curiosity in the audience's heart, and this psychological need and the director's creation together created his existence...
To put it bluntly, a murderer is a man-made horror landscape!
The Four Great Killers of the Classic B-movie
And in these kinds of movies, the ones who live to the end are often young girls , so these girls have also become a fixed character——
"the final girl "
Most of them are silly and sweet, but they are kind-hearted, and have a little courage and perseverance at critical moments, usually waiting for rescue at the end...
There is even a [Surviving Girl] spoofing this kind of character!
Think back to a horror movie you’ve ever seen…
The same story, the two plots of murderer chasing a man and chasing a woman, which one can stimulate your sense of anxiety and fear more?
Of course it's a woman!
With no power to tie the chicken, and with a little bit of sexual innuendo, the state of plucking up the courage to resist but being unable to resist is more exciting than chasing a man...
Laurie who survived the 1978 version of "Moonlight Panic"
That's the female character being shaped by the film and the audience.
This is also the film and television rules to be broken by the 2018 edition of [Moonlight Light Panic]!
At the end of the new version of the story, Laurie managed to capture Michael alive and wiped out the 40-year-old horrific murderer who had been on the loose...
At the same time, Laurie also repressed the psychological shadow of 40 years.
The last girl didn't run away, but turned around and overthrew the character of the past!
There's even a scene like this at the end of the movie...
Laurie and her daughter and granddaughter left in a car after killing Michael, a family of three generations who seemed to have lingering fears after the disaster.
As soon as the camera turned, the granddaughter held the sharp knife that assassinated Michael!
Some people say that this granddaughter is probably going to turn into a murderer...
But lactate-kun, I think, this detail should actually be understood as the final outbreak of "blood debt and blood repayment" after three generations of women were suppressed by fear.
Once a man chased a girl to kill...
Now it's time for the last girl to fight back!
Of course, I'm not talking about Zhang Yuqi.
(Send Moonlight to watch the film in a panic)
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