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Originally Posted by Macfan4life
You dont like Halloween? Maybe in Peru they don't quite understand the holiday. That is a classic. Huge fan of John Carpenter who also wrote the music.
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We do "celebrate" Halloween, though not as much as in the States. Kids go out asking for candies, they say HALLOWEEEEN while knocking doors, not Trick or Treat. It’s a custom that’s dying out; when I was a kid, you’d see more children out on the streets on Halloween evening than today. There are indeed many costume parties. We latinos look for any excuse to go out dancing.
To be honest, I recently watched Halloween last year for the very first time; I’m not sure why I never had the chance to see it before—not even on TV. Same as the first Friday the 13th. I'm sure if I'd watched younger in the cinema the effect would have been different. By the way, the music is too similar to that of The Exorcist. It prompted me to look into it.
A very good question is What is horror and what is not. Checking websites with lists of best horror movies there are several that I'd ask Is that movie a horror film, or a suspense? In my experience when a film that doesn’t seem like horror makes me scream (and I rarely scream at the movies), I consider it horror. That happened to me with Misery.
Hollywood likes to milk a concept for all it’s worth for commercial gain, so some sequels are essentially rehashes. That’s why, for me, the Elm Street and Friday sequels are more about entertainment than horror.
I will look for Sinister.