2 SIDELINES Halloween, 1980 'Halloween' saved by director's waggish wit By TONY SIMONES the battered, supposedly Sidelines Staff Writer "haunted" house, the doctor ' A young boy on Halloween delights in scaring the pants off a night watches his sister go group of small boys. Before the upstairs with a young man, satisfied grin can leave his face, enters the kitchen, grabs a knife, however.the doctor himself is goes upstairs, dons a mask and horrified by the huge hand of s hacks her to death. After the local cop being placed spending some 15 years in an unexpectedly on his shoulder. institution for the insanely Obviously, the monster is not homicidal, he escapes and heads the only one inspired to devilry back to the hometown for yet on this Halloween night. another Halloween-night At one point the doctor refers massacre. to the monster's "inhuman At home the killer encounters patience." Carpenter himself a crew of promiscuous pre-teens exhibits this teasing patience in . whose deviant activities ob- many scenes, the result being viously blast the bull's-eye of his highly intensified suspense. The photo byCem-Braham prurient interest. The rest of the The tradition of Halloween always includes the carving of eerie jack-o-lantems. director often reveals the peril of film deals with the kiddies' a situation to the audience attempt to elude the mysterious before he shows the danger to his killer. characters. This occurs in the • By now, most everyone is Psychic. first scene, one long continuous aware of the rather basic plot of point-of-view shot from the (continued from page 1) that you have to do something "Halloween." However, it is killer's perspective as he enters person that has strong psychic about it," she stated. "If you director John Carpenter's the house, mounts the stairs, abilities, and they will be very- were given the gift, there is cinematic wit that not only saves places a mask over his face, and n friendly towards that person." nothing you can do about it but this movie but also makes it one stabs his sister. Mrs. Moore also has the be calm and relaxed and don*t of the funnest shockers of the ability to communicate with the worry." Seventies. ONE OF THE film's most dead. She has been in several During my interview with FROM THE beginning, engrossing scenes involves a girl stances. Mrs. Moore, she pointed her Carpenter teases us with hints of (Loomis) lying in bed, waiting "There are not any trance finger at another MTSU student things to come. Two of the girls for her lover to return from his mediums in my group." Mrs. 1 had brought along and said, "I (Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles) trip downstairs for a beer. • Moore said, referring to a group can tell that you are psychic." cruise around the neighborhood Unknown to her, lover-boy has of her psychic friends who get "Don*t deny your feelings. as Blue Oyster Cult's prophetic been lanced to the kitchen wall together occasionally to practice Just watch what you do with "Don't Fear the Reaper" blasts by the killer. The killer then their "art." Trance mediums, them," Mrs. Moore suggested. through the speakers. A third appears in the doorway wearing she explained, have the dead She said she believes it is im- (Nancy Loomis), destined also to a sheet with the boyfriend's speak through them. portant for everyone to pay encounter the madman, glasses on. Once again. Car- MRS. MOORE ADVISED attention to their "emotions." complains of everything she has penter makes the audience children not to play around with She closed the interview by to do and predicts she will be squirm with anticipation. seances because they can be very reading the palms of her two "wiped out" before tomorrow. INVARIABLY, IT seems that FREE PEPSI-COLAS visitors. movies involving horror or dangerous. Movie review with pizza delivery orders "When you call upon the She told me I would have a suspense can be classified in one * spirits, you invite any and all long life, get married three times With this film. Carpenter of two categories. Some, like on MTSU campus spirits to come, and some spirits and come into a "spectacular seems to be saying there is a little William Friedkin's "The 9" Pizza-1 Free Lg. Pepsi can be very dangerous. amount of money" in the future. mischievous madness in all of us. Exorcist" and such recent 12" Pizza - 2 Free Lg. Pepsis "I don't agree with wit- My life will be interrupted, Mrs. Obviously, it is in the monster. Carpenter clones as "Friday the chcraft," she added, "whether it Moore said, by an illness in my The little boy, Tommy, even Thirteenth" and "Terror Train," * 14" Pizza - 3 Free Lg. Pepsis is black or white." later years which I will be able though spooked out of his wits, wallow around, and eventually 16" Pizza - 4 Free Lg. Pepsis SOME PEOPLE who have to correct. takes the opportunity to try to drown, in their own preten- come to Mrs. Moore were afraid Mrs. Moore told the second scare a little girl sitting on the tiousness. Others, such as No Coupon Necessary Hitchcock's classic "Psycho" Ask for free drinks when placing order of being psychic, she said. They MTSU student that she would be couch watching a horror movie. were frightened of their married twice, see much hard- One of the girls makes a prank and, more recently, Steven Offer Good Thru Nov. 1980 abilities. ship and undergo a future illness obscene phone call to an Spielberg's "Jaws" and Brian "Being psychic doesn't mean that would not be correctable. already-paranoid Jamie Lee DePalmas "Dressed to Kill," * But, in spite of all of this, Mrs. Curtis. examine their macabre subjects " Moore assured the student that EVEN THE good doctor with a morbid sense of humor she will be very happy and have (Donald Pleasence) who has that entertains, rather than a steady career. come to the small town to track devastates, the audience. "The hard times that people down the killer gets into the act. John Carpenter's Mill have are really gifts of lear- While lurking in the bushes "Halloween" falls into the latter , ning," she concluded. waiting for the killer to return to category. 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