I understand why Chris would highly recommend this Halloween "must-see". In the horror genre, he not only interprets "fear" seriously, but also has all kinds of jokes and comedies. Movie lovers who like horror movies should be able to see a lot of things. The headmaster Steven Wilkins's part is a tribute to various Halloween murderous movies. The part of burying the body in the backyard was constantly disturbed by his son. It was very black and humorous. Later, it was revealed that his son's "bear" was not without its origin. It also pave the way for the story of the old man Kreeg next door. The fragment of the four children going to the cliff is obviously the spiritual heir to "Witch Kelly". The difference is that there is no blood falling from the sky. It also brings out the background of the Halloween school bus massacre thirty years ago.
At the beginning of the gathering of girls in the forest, the guess was a witch, but it was actually an alternative interpretation of "Little Red Riding Hood and Big Bad Wolf." Attentive audiences should find that all the men disappeared after the party. There is a saying in traditional fairy tales that Little Red Riding Hood is a symbol of innocent and ignorant girls, while Big Bad Wolf is a man who has evil intentions and lures them astray. The seemingly innocent girl here is actually the wolf girl hunting "fresh meat", and the theme reversal is very good. It is also very interesting when Little Red Riding Hood chooses her prey. She basically skipped those men who really have lovers, and finally ran into the Universiade and chose a "top scumbag", fulfilling her first "special" promise.
Chris has said that the reason why the director created the image of the pumpkin head is because Christmas and Easter have their own legendary images, but there is no Halloween, so he thought of creating this urban legend that maintains the rules of Halloween. It’s hard to say that Pumpkin Head can be regarded as “justice”. He basically only moves out for the sake of the rules. He tries to murder the old man Kreeg only because the old man does not give the child candy, not the murder 30 years ago. In the end, because the old man inadvertently "enjoyed" the pumpkin head child candy, he escaped for a short time (that period is the pinnacle of black humor. The old man also knows how horror movies have to make up for it). In the eyes of Pumpkin Head, it doesn't matter if the murderer is not saved, as long as he doesn't break the rules. Think of the perverted pedigree of the Wilkin family for so many years, but it happens to be the family in the community that obeys the Halloween rules the most (carving jack pumpkin lanterns, giving children candy, even playing with the son...), it is also black ironic enough.
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