Grab That Knitting Needle! HALLOWEEN Movie Reaction, First Time Watching

If you like brilliant scores and believing there's a murder around every corner only to be wrong until the end, then you'll love this full movie reaction to John Carpenter's Halloween!

[@dveiwer]

This woman’s commentary is top tier I swear 😂😂😂

[@AlandaParker]

Thanks!! 😄

[@shut_up_james]

This reaction was great from the very first second, but you gained a new subscriber when you screamed “he’s a little!” 🤣 so fun!

[@kwjones49]

Definitely she kept me entertained and made me laugh throughout, new subscriber here 😁 haha

[@zachengel196]

“It’s a free for all out here” really got me 😭

[@yes350yes]

Alanda appears very smart but Ive never heard anyone able to know and recite every popular actor by name as if she has the hollywood actors chart in front of her and this takes me by surprise.

[@glennwelsh9784]

"Jamie, get a knife. Get a gun. Get a dog. Get all three." And as you find out, none of them work against Michael Myers.

[@babyfaceweeb8937]

That last one was just food for him. Why you feeding your killer.

[@elisonbonell2584]

Coincidentally I read this comment the exact same time she says it in the video 🤯

[@tili724]

@@babyfaceweeb8937 😂😂😂

[@shutupnvibe]

It’s so crazy how she said that because all three truly did nothing to him LOLLL

[@henninggirl261]

If it makes you feel better, the shot of the dog “being killed” is just his trainer hugging him like a baby and then letting him down in slow motion. So it’s just a hug. 🤗

[@obirogkenobi]

it was playback in reverse..the dog actually jumped up and they played it backwards to give the effect of the legs falling due to being strangled

[@laalaag2auntyayag776]

Lol. I like that. I only ever heard the story of how they got the dog to aggressively bark- by mooning him! 🍑 TRUE STORY

[@bluranger4d7]

@@obirogkenobi no it’s not. You pick up a dog, and its legs will go limp and hang.

[@obirogkenobi]

@@bluranger4d7 on dvd or laserdisc version of halloween there is commentary from john carpenter..in the commentary he tells the viewers where all the bloopers are in the film..how he shot certain scenes and yes even explains how they filmed the dog scene so do your research

[@Bataowata]

@@obirogkenobi i didn’t know that. That makes me feel better!

[@RCHomemadeHobbies]

“Oh god the 70’s,” No phones Neighbours don’t give a damn TOOK ME OUT🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MikesGeekWorld]

I always laugh at the mother’s face when she finds Michael after killing his sister. She just looked annoyed like “Did you kill your sister again?”

[@paulonius42]

I think Carpenter wanted it to feel like a freeze frame, so he had them just freeze in place, but yeah, it's terrible watching her just...not care.

[@LA_HA]

Right, it's a theater/stage technique. There's actually a channel that talks about it. Just do a YT search. It's really a great video

[@user-tk4gr9zo7t]

Straight tf up 😂😂😂

[@primary2630]

@@LA_HA what's it called though what am I supposed to search lol

[@LA_HA]

@@primary2630 Okay, forgot I had it in my saved list. Sorry about that. Halloween 1978: Ending to Opening Scene Explained by Dave McRae, who's a huge Halloween fan and movie creator with tons of great Halloween content kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3Wwpqd-btmXrs0 Also, if you love Halloween, here's a couple pretty cool fan films you might really enjoy: - He Came Home. Fun short film kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2jPZ2yKm8iCeqc - The Blinky500 channel made a MYERS series of short films that are very good. This is the first in the series called, Rise of the Boogeyman kzbin.info/www/bejne/npaaaX1shauiiac Check them out sometime. Nothing in it for me. Just thought they were worth a look

[@imbwildrd3693]

A few fun facts: We didn't use backpacks to carry our books back then. The budget for this movie was only $325,000, because of this the actors wore their own clothes and styled their own hair Michael Meyer's mask was a Captain Kirk (from Star Trek) Halloween mask that was altered slightly and painted white 5 different people (not all of them actors, not all of them were male) stood in as Michael during the filming

[@asunnyplaceforshadycharact5979]

Actually 6 different people play Michael Myers in this film. There's Will Sandin as 6 year old Michael. The hand of the 6 year old, when he picks up the knife form the drawer is 'played' by producer Debra Hill. Also, when Tommy sees the Boogeyman on the porch for the first time, it was Debra Hill in the shot. Nick Castle plays adult Michael or The Shape as he's referred to in the credits. Tony Moran plays Michael when his masked is pulled off by Laurie. A stuntman whose name I can't recall, played Michael as he was shot by Dr. Loomis and fell from the balcony. Another unnamed person had to play Michael as he breaks the blinds in the closet that Laurie hides in, cause weirdly enough Nick Castle, and a couple of other people tried to break the blinds, but they couldn't do it in an orderly(?) enough fashion for it to look realistic in the shot. So......that person who was part of the crew had to step up and play Michael only for those 2 shots.

[@the8568]

@@asunnyplaceforshadycharact5979 the person who broke stuff was Tommy Lee Wallace, since he made most of the props he knew the easiest ways to break them.

[@asunnyplaceforshadycharact5979]

@@the8568 Thanks!

[@the8568]

@@asunnyplaceforshadycharact5979 no problem man

[@punkem733]

@@the8568 There is a vid where he makes a myers mask.

[@otakuwolf4ever985]

"How is he so strong?" Evil has no limits.

[@stilesstilinski9640]

Facts

[@thedeepfriar745]

Have you seen Halloween 2018 dude rips a kitchen island with a tile countertop out of its foundation, so he’s strong enough to dead lift at least 2000 pounds

[@mckenzie.latham91]

just pure will.

[@mememaguire5555]

@@mckenzie.latham91 no you can't kill the boogyman

[@jalenellis3594]

Try telling that to Jason and he's been brought back to life a bunch of times.

[@RH-jf9ty]

"Girl, you're a full f**king mess! Lindsey is the one really babysitting you. You better give her a cut of your hourly!" OMG, I'm figuratively dying of laughter! Alanda, you are a PURE GEM! :)

[@AlandaParker]

😄💛

[@thedeepfriar745]

No matter how many times I’ve seen this movie when Michael sits up it still takes the wind out of me. I think what makes Michael so frightening is he is the inevitability of death incarnate, and he doesn’t attack you in some foreign place like a camp or your dream killers, he attacks you at home, and he feels nonthing

[@AlandaParker]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@cyberpunkspacejams]

A fun drinking game is taking a shot every time Lynda says "Totally"

[@theheavymetalbrony2257]

You´ll die from it XD

[@fynnthefox9078]

@@theheavymetalbrony2257 Or just be super wasted.

[@drewbear1969]

@@fynnthefox9078 Totally!

[@graverob1910]

Totally.

[@keithjones7037]

Totally!

[@MainFMF]

A thunderstorm during your 1st Halloween watch is a whole vibe. Lol

[@ethancharles2189]

One of the things I love about the original Halloween is how completely unaware the characters are. I don't mean the stupid unaware where they know murders are taking place and still decide to walk down an alley alone, but unaware as they completely are in the right mind to suspect nothing is going to happen. That is one of the things I find most terrifying. Couple that with the shots of the Shape just watching them and again them being completely unaware, is what makes this a really chilling movie.

[@trevorjae-brinkman2472]

You screaming “HE’S A CHILD” had me rolling 😂

[@horrorgeek1840]

“My babysitter is a fool girl she was ass up in the window.” That piece of commentary is gold😂😂I absolutely love her and this is my first time ever seeing her❤️ new sub

[@LA_HA]

That cracked me up

[@rubylioness727]

😂🤣She’s so Perfect

[@horrorgeek1840]

@@rubylioness727 a true blessing to us all❤️😂!

[@falcon048]

From a film-making stand point, Halloween set the bar for "slasher" movies. One of the more innovative film techniques that Carpenter developed for this film, was starting off with mostly wide shots and as the film went on, the camera gets closer and closer to the subjects until, by the end, it's claustrophobic. That hadn't been done before. The movie is a slow burn with a lot of characterization, which is something modern day horror loses.

[@Virgo555]

Modern horror just thinks gore is all you need.

[@orangewarm1]

Psycho set the bar. Carpenter was copying.

[@cherellethewriterward5267]

I was weak when Alanda was like " He's a child! He's little. Wtf did he do that?! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@matthewbarton782]

Fun fact: When Michael's parents are just frozen and standing and not doing anything, it's called a TABLEAU SHOT in the film industry. It's basically a moment that's frozen in the stories timeline. So we (the viewers) are basically focusing on the fact that a child /sibling was the murderer. Great affect. Happy Halloween 🎃

[@punkem733]

You're right, except it's usually for stage plays.

[@matthewbarton782]

@@punkem733 usually, but not always.

[@punkem733]

@@matthewbarton782 True, but a majority of the time it's on the stage.

[@matthewbarton782]

@@punkem733 heard you the first time sweetheart.

[@punkem733]

@@matthewbarton782 It's the gift that keeps on giving.

[@matthewmarcinko9157]

This was the film that started the whole '80's slasher movie genre. Without this, there'd have been no Jason, no Freddy, no Pinhead, all pretenders to the level of excellence established by Mr. John Carpenter.

[@Haplo699g]

It didn't start the slasher genre (Psycho, Torso and Black Christmas all predate it), it did however make a ton of money which encouraged people like Sean Cunningham to make similar movies.

[@matthewmarcinko9157]

@@Haplo699g Those films you mentioned were anomalies. Random occurrences. The "slasher" genre as we know it didn't star in earnest ''til "Halloween", following that, besides the other ones I mentioned, every talentless hack with a film crew was cranking one of these things out every month. Go watch the Siskel and Ebert special they did on slasher films....

[@Haplo699g]

@@matthewmarcinko9157 While I agree Halloween popularised the genre. Films pre-dating it certainly weren't anomalies. Peeping Tom, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Black Christmas, Deep Red, Alice Sweet Alice and The Town that Dreaded Sundown all came before it. The genre before it had a more than healthy output, when Halloween hit and made as much money as it did it caused mainstream studios to pay attention and want a piece of the slasher pie. Hence the explosion in the eighties.

[@AwkwardKyle]

@@Haplo699g Halloween deserves the title as the one that started slashers as a genre for really laying the road map for the tropes we all know and expect from the genre

[@Haplo699g]

@@AwkwardKyle It might deserve it but it didn't. It's absolutely a hugely important movie in the genre but it didn't create it.

[@vlavelmoorehead]

23:45 “Oh, and you’ve got jokes? F-ing ghost?!” 👻 🤣 I love my people 😆🙌🏿

[@FelisDestructicus]

Yeah, I dunno, but you'd be my bet as final girl in any classic horror movie. We've all heard you gripe about their tactics.

[@AlandaParker]

🤣🤣🤣

[@yushigo12]

Fun fact: In A Nightmare on Elm Street they only show the outside of Nancy's house but they never shot scene inside that house. What Nancy's house looks like from the inside is actually the house from Halloween

[@thedeepfriar745]

Sadly. the house was demolished a few years back. I’m actually suprised they’re wasn’t a push to get it registered in the national historic register. Thank fully a fan had an exact replica of the Myers house built in Wilmington North Carolina and that’s why they filmed Halloween 2018 and Halloween Kills in North Carolina.

[@jackcarter1897]

@@thedeepfriar745 Well have I got some good news for you... haha! The Myers house was 'almost' demolished, quite literally on the brink of being demolished until a fan walking past ran to the builders forcing them to stop. That fan got the house recognised as a piece of movie history and it is now registered in the national historic register. The house was moved however. It now sits just down the road from it's original location. In fact, it sits just across the road from the hardware store that Michael broke into in Halloween 1978. The original house is very much still in existence and is in great condition. The Myers house used in H18 and HKILLS was actually built on a soundstage. The original house couldn't be used in the recent films because it doesn't sit on the same street anymore, as I mentioned before.

[@jackcarter1897]

Btw, the interior of the house you see as an exterior in Nightmare On Elm Street (Nancy's house) was only used in the T.V. cuts for Halloween 1978. It is used as Laurie's house.

[@ClaytonAFoster]

27:19 That literally happened to me in my own neighborhood. I was walking to a bar in the fall and these guys tried to jump me. They jumped out of their car and one hit me in the head, but I ran through bushes and rang the neighbors doorbell. They came to the door but closed the blinds. The neighbors nextdoor said they had a gun and would protect me. He drove me home.

[@togroglog2457]

Okay I don't see this elsewhere in the comments, so hopefully I'm posting new info here....what they're watching is the 1950's movie "The Thing From Another World" which is one of Carpenter's favorite movies. It's based on a book from the 30's called "Who Goes There," which is the same book "John Carpenter's The Thing" is based on. JC's Thing is MUCH closer to the novel than the old movie was, in case you were wondering.

[@jrlonergan6773]

This is one of my favorite tidbits about this movie

[@jimmyzee7040]

That was cool seeing that Thing opening.

[@JnEricsonx]

Raise your hand if you knew that the MIchael Myers mask is actually a mask of William Shatner, aka James T Kirk.

[@darthken815]

I've known it for 23 years.

[@RaikenXion]

@@darthken815 same, every Halloween fan knows that (atleast oldskool fans do).

[@elizabitty213]

🙋🏼‍♀️

[@QoQabai658]

Old news bro.

[@kaylasanderson1963]

That’s pretty well known actually by like, mostly everyone.

[@RobClark_theelusivefish]

So your comment about the backpacks got me curious and I went a googlin'. Most kids just lugged their books around or held them together with a belt. Backpacks were only used for camping. But with the introduction of lighter-weight canvas backpacks at the start of the 70s, college students started raiding sports supply stores for them as a way to lug their books around. The backpack manufacturers noticed the trend and realized they had a huge untapped market. But backpacks really weren't a ubiquitous thing among students until the 80s. The more you know .... shooting star. rainbow.

[@indiefairy09]

No wonder her friend never carried her books! I wouldn’t either

[@didyouseethat9847]

I honestly can't stop laughing. And the 70s were a wild time, how anyone made it out, I'll never know!

[@mjg1971]

"I did not let him go, bitch. I did everything in my power, including using insane hyperbole for somebody I had never even spoken to." 😂😂😂

[@AlandaParker]

Loomis TRIED!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭

[@desmondrattler4848]

Fun fact: Kyle Richards, who is Paris Hilton's aunt, plays the little girl Lyndsey.

[@Xehanort10]

She's playing Lindsey again but as an adult in the latest sequel Halloween Kills which is out next month. It would have been out last October but Covid happened.

[@ztomas1]

little Lindsey is actually Kyle Richards from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, she reprises her role as Lindsey in the new Halloween Kills movie this October

[@babyfaceweeb8937]

Awesome

[@detroitmcpro]

I would love to watch horror movies with Alanda! This is exactly how my sister is during horror movies. The greatness of Black women reacting to horror movies simply can't be overstated

[@dipsydoodle7988]

Don't think I've ever laughed so hard during a Halloween reaction. 😆

[@jwreagan]

"Back-lit, button down, and 'bout to get murdered." I love it!

[@michaelwinkle4480]

I've read dozens of true crime books, and almost everyone, whatever year it's been set in (but usually in some semi-rural setting) has a quote like, "We never locked our doors or windows before this happened!" Almost up to the present day. I've seen films/TV shows from the '50s and '60s in which people will run up to a random parked car, jump in and drive away -- because people apparently just left their keys in their cars back then. Even as a kid in the 1960s, that sounded bizarre. And don't forget: You can't kill the Boogie Man!

[@amyjordan195]

I grew up in MT and never had a house key to my parents house. And I left the keys in the ignition of my car till '91.

[@loganbigmo]

@@amyjordan195 Was their house unlocked even at night?? Sounds scary as heck to do that

[@fynnthefox9078]

Fun Fact: James Cameron was inspired by Halloween when making the Terminator.

[@orangewarm1]

That's fun

[@robertgaydos1354]

i heard it was Westworld.

[@alexandervelez9507]

well michael and the terminator have similar emotionless demeanor when killing so i can see the similarities.

[@MKF30]

He actually got the idea for Terminator from a dream while he had the flu, thats how he came up with the terminator endoskeleton. If you watch the special features on terminator special edition he explains this and shows his drawings which are the T800 looks like something out of a nightmare. Pretty cool stuff, the first terminator had horror vibes to it but the sequels were all sci-fi action.

[@the8568]

@@robertgaydos1354 The gunslinger in Westworld inspired John Carpenter to make Michael someone who doesn’t go down easily

[@Jpew2007]

@Alanda Parker 4:09. That’s the “horrifying” effect Michael had on Dr Loomis. Loomis was a great psychologist (is that the right word) who was very grounded. But treating (and being around) Michael for 15 years managed to break this man down and believe that pure evil exists and that this “being” was its embodiment. Like a scientist who doesn’t believe in “ghosts” in anyway shape or form gets scared then drops all pretense of scientific belief and becomes extremely superstitious.

[@AnaFox]

Omg, the pep talks for Jamie were so funny! Your commentary made Halloween even better. It was never this fun before!

[@ethanwhite2210]

Michael Meyers is probably the one real movie villain that truly frightens me. You have more courage than I do for watching this.

[@AlandaParker]

Truly the devil 😂

[@jackwinslow6011]

@@jamie7398 what about ghostface??? He’s ten times more realistic than Michael meters

[@laylamorrison9596]

The fact that, unlike Jason or Freddy, he looks like a completely normal dude without his mask creeps me out even more.

[@CarloisBuriedAlive]

@@jackwinslow6011 yeah but ghostface gets his ass kicked in all the Scream movies lol

[@jackwinslow6011]

@@CarloisBuriedAlive yeah very true...I like that about Ghostface it never bothered me. Since it is just some psycho in a costume lol

[@zacharybear7243]

I love your comments lol 😂 “bitch aren’t we friends”

[@bethanythatsme]

Life has been kicking me in the shins, so I'm rewatching Alanda reactions as a distraction 🙃

[@AlandaParker]

May your obstacles crumble to dust and your enemies suffer the karma they deserve 🙏🏾

[@bethanythatsme]

@@AlandaParker 💜

[@joshfacio9379]

Heres one i like: We would gladly feast on those that would subdue us." Lol

[@josegiron7008]

the color palette, the fall weather feel, the spookiness, the coldness of night during October, everything in this film screams the halloween the holiday.

[@rodneybrewer7246]

Darlin ya ask why would ya do that when she runs to a neighbors house & they turn the light off & don't answer the door again it's Halloween & she's a teenager, back then we teenager's pulled a lot af pranks js

[@AlandaParker]

Ahhh!! Makes perfect sense just so awful 😭

[@BT405]

You also have to realize that if you heard some hysterical screaming outside in the middle of the night, how many people would actually risk themselves to go and try to find out what's happening. It would be the same thing that we criticize a lot of main characters for doing, going head on into a suspicious situation without thinking.

[@Vixx89]

@@BT405 very true

[@NyxSpirit]

@@BT405 If someone was in my yard doing this I’d call the police vs opening my door.

[@jasonphelps4773]

I've seen a lot of ppl on here watch and react to Halloween but this was easily the most entertaining and funny 😂 🤣 🎃🎃

[@AlandaParker]

Thank you!! 😄

[@wampa25]

12:37 - This film broke a popular Horror film trope right there. Laurie, the survivor girl, smoked pot.

[@jacquelinecallejas1390]

I'm marathoning her reactions to this franchise before watching Halloween Ends and this reminds me how cool it is that the little girl being baby sat by one of the other babysitters is played by the same actress as the same character in Halloween Kills. I understand why they replaced the boy Lorie is babysitting because Anthony Michael Hall is a bigger name but I think it would have been cool if they'd used him too. BTW PJ Soles has the distinction of getting killed by both Carrie and Michael Myers.

[@craigjones1946]

I know the that original Tommy Doyle actor years ago said that they tried reaching out to him to reprise his role in Halloween 6 but he was unreachable at the time because he had no agent so he was replaced by Paul Rudd but I am interested to know if they tried reaching out to him for Halloween Kills

[@FlangoKhan3968]

This movie is one of the original "Oh no! Don't do that!" movies. The ones we rag on these days for doing this or that trope, but this is the era of film that started it all! The literal reason we talk about those tropes! An absolute classic! 😁 if I were you though, I'd stick to this, the one after this and the 2018 John Carpenter follow up. Carpenter himself said only the original and the 2018 one are his and canon but personally I think 2 in the 70's is very good. Love your comments during the reaction! You'd make a good ttrpg player I reckon! 😁😁👍👍

[@toddcortez714]

"Why is he so focused on Jamie?" I guess you will have to watch the second film to find out exactly why! Lol Great review as always! Loved it!! 😉

[@Sir-IKON]

the 2nd movie rewrote that connection. the original film title was "the babysitter killer" Laurie was never his sister

[@Banangel27]

Watch the second movie, and then forget that you watched it because it doesn’t matter

[@LA_HA]

@@Banangel27 Well, it matters for the original timeline. Just not this new one. haha

[@nopebih]

@@LA_HA It wasn’t the original timeline. They were never meant to be brother and sister. That’s why they retconned all the films except for the first.

[@LA_HA]

@@nopebih Yes, but what I mean is that one of the original timelines is Halloween I, II, and on, right? That particular timeline matters for the brother-sister connection. This new timeline doesn't because it's Halloween 78, 18, Kills, and Ends. It also doesn't count for the timeline that consists of Halloween 78 only, which is the Carpenter OG timeline because it wasn't supposed to go beyond that. I hope this clarifies things. haha

[@jonbolton3376]

I loved your reaction, especially telling Laurie to stab him more.

[@AlandaParker]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jonbolton3376]

Btw this is my favourite movie, that's why i want to see your great reaction a second time. I first saw this film in the mid 80's when i was 5 (i was a weird kid and got into horror early) i'm 41 now.

[@incoherent697]

The reason the movie to me is so great is that throughout the whole movie the soundtrack is on point and the setting and feel is just terrifying the fact of someone watching you is already bad but when you can't kill that guy. BOOOOOY

[@catchcan221]

I’ll never understand why they did away with Michael’s creepy breathing in EVERY single sequel. It was such an effective, scary thing.

[@dosnostalgic]

You can never go wrong with a John Carpenter movie. He's an amazing director, and most of his filmography is worth watching.

[@Tey816]

Alanda watching horror is PURE entertainment. I’m here for the commentary & hilarious quips. 🍿 👀

[@kdizzle79]

Jamie Lee's character WAS the original Nancy. She started all this Final Girl business

[@beverett417]

This is the best commentary reaction I've seen!!! Bravo young lady!! I was born in 1971 and I was way to young to be watching these movies when they came out! Halloween 3 is pretty scary too, even though its an anthology movie! I loved it..

[@vyxenthemua]

Fun fact it was revealed that Michael can teleport. Which is why he can walk slow and still catch up to ppl but in part 5 he definitely had a slight pep in his step lmao

[@40PTheyCallMe]

teleport?! where did they say that lol

[@n2nother]

One of the things about Halloween that made it so effective is that it was the suburbs. Back then people just didn’t think about killers being there. So Annie being “brave” really is just blind naivety.

[@sigutjo]

You like Carpenter and Curtis? Than you will enjoy "The Fog" for sure.

[@AlandaParker]

On my list! Excited for it 😊

[@sigutjo]

@Matthew Andrade I'm not sure exactly but as far as I know Poltergeist is a bit more family friendly and although The Fog is not particularly gruesome, it is darker in tone and a bit more violent. Here in germany it is rated 16. One of my favorite horror movies.

[@rockybalboa1653]

God I love the score for The Fog so much!!

[@sigutjo]

@Matthew Andrade I know it's scary and violent but I still think The Fog is more violent and as I said, darker. I can't remember does anyone die in Poltergeist?

[@joevaldez6457]

Watching _Halloween_ on the Fourth of July? If Alanda Reacts comes out with a calendar, you've got my pre-order. I'm so glad you got into this one, on a dark and stormy night no less. Terrific commentary! Trivia: _Halloween_ was the first of three collaborations between John Carpenter and leading lady Jamie Lee Curtis, She next played a role in the ensemble of _The Fog_ and uncredited, voiced the opening narration for _Escape From New York_

[@kaikelley4528]

Halloween II picks up right where this leaves off. Still produced and written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, but it has a different director if you are interested.

[@melijahcopeland4101]

Not a bad film but I think she should just bypass and go straight to 2018 Halloween since that’s now the true sequel.

[@LA_HA]

Or both

[@willstylz5021]

@@melijahcopeland4101 God no, H2 plays way better as a sequel, H2018 is just a cheap rehash of all the movies it tells you to ignore.

[@melijahcopeland4101]

@@willstylz5021 I respectfully disagree. Myers was back with a vengeance with his brutality. And it took the series back to its grounded in reality roots. It got rid of the family connection with Laurie Strode which makes Myers 40 year infatuation with her that much more terrifying.

[@willstylz5021]

@@melijahcopeland4101 But see that's the thing Michael in this one wasn't a "brutal kill ppl for no reason" slasher like in 2018. He wasn't infatuated with Laurie at all, he was locked up not even trying to break out lol. The only reason they even had the final battle was a Dr literally breaking him out & driving him to her lol. Also why would Laurie think he's a super evil being that's going to come back for her? In 2018 as far as she knows he was some random dude that was shot & arrested. If that was the case no way this Laurie would even stay in the town after this happened. srry I was entertained by 2018 but it doesn't play well as a direct sequel at all, doesn't make sense. Just re-does moments from past movies in the franchise & ups the gore & cringe comedy for a new younger audience its trying to attract.

[@christopherhood96]

I had to pause it and play it back the first 3 mins “He’s a child!!! 🤣🤣 dead

[@brianmartin6486]

Halloween was originally supposed to be an anthology series , not strictly based on Michel Myers . But no one actually knew that and after the two , they tried going back to the original plan , and suffice to say it didn't work out , so in the interest of making money back , they went back to centering the stories around Michel and the rest is history .

[@kriegmesserdclxvi2833]

If I ever wind up in a horror movie, I hope you are there Amanda. You got your shit together.

[@LP-bi4vc]

"Oh, and you got jokes?" gets me every time.

[@anthonyyoutubefan7567]

"Oh, and you got JOKES?!" One of MANY golden observations and one-liners in this stellar reaction. Thank you. Happy Halloween.

[@lennypearl]

"Can we stop with the hit it and quit it?" Your quips are epic!

[@georgejrivera3388]

The way you unapologetically drag Annie the entire movie. 😂😂 I never realized how problematic she was as a kid.

[@professorsponge1554]

think back to the days of the movie theater. imagine seeing this, then leaving the theater, going into a dark parking lot, driving home, and then walking through the dark to your house. You'd be eyeing every shadow all the way to your room.

[@lakeishadean4298]

“Someone in a track jacket! With a knife!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kamillagutierrez9006]

I actually loved Annie’s character. She was a bad bitch and I’d like to think if she didn’t go out like that she would’ve fought back harder than Laurie lol. You gotta watch Halloween 2 now 😭😂

[@drewbear1969]

FYI _Starman_ just showed up on PlutoTV if you're interested 😀 This one's one of my favorite films! The next one, _Halloween 2,_ is when Univer$al got their claws into the franchise and saw how much money this one made, so they're like "do a sequel we want more money" and John and Debra are like "no that'll ruin it" and Universal's all "contract obligation fam" and John and Debra are like "well shit." _Halloween_ (2018) is considered the official sequel though, retconning the others to just be Laurie's bad fever dreams or something. _Halloween 3_ was the attempt to do a different story based on the holiday, but it didn't do as well so they went back to Michael for the rest of the sequels. _Halloween H2O_ is the only other one I'll watch because Laurie gets payback and it has her mother Janet Leigh, who was in _Psycho,_ which would be a really good classic to watch if you've never seen it before (the 1960 one, not the remake). Hitchcock rocks.

[@MKF30]

The others aren't so much retconed but more of alternate timelines since the others happened just different timelines. Theres 3. H1, h2, H4, H5, H6 then H1, H2, H20 and resurrection. And lastly the latest one H1, H2018, Halloween Kills and Ends. Carpenter originally wanted to do an anthology series with H3 season of the witch and other stories moving away from Michael Myers but the demand was so high for him nobody cared for H3 SOTW so the series continued with Myers while carpenter left after 2 until he came back in 2018. Theres also nods in the 2018 and Kills showing the masks from H3 implying takes place in the same universe as well as a wink. You also have zombies universe which is entirely separate as its his own vision and Michael is human in that version just a brutal brute essentially to Carpenters supernatural force of evil.

[@danwilliams2551]

So just in case you're wondering what the case with all the sequels are: * There were the normal sequels directly after this film, Halloween 2, 3, and so on. * Rob Zombie directed a remake of this movie in 2007, with a sequel to that remake (Rob Zombie hates that one, and he directed it lol) * Halloween 2018 ignores all the Halloween sequels, and instead is a sort of reboot on the franchise that takes place 40 years after the events of this film. It features a traumatized Laurie who has dedicated her life to killing Myers, who was incarcerated after this film and escapes on Halloween night once again 40 years later.

[@tazzjamal7747]

Her commentary is A1!! And she's beyond beautiful

[@michaelfisher1395]

I like how she has to remind herself that it was the 70s and there were no cell phones.

[@ghost7524]

Michael Myers is a force of un-nature! Something I just realize about Michael..how did he learn how to drive and where did he get his strength from? I doubt he read the driving manuals from the highway department and he just doesn't look like the "doing pushups on the floor" type. I think Halloween 1 was the only time that Michael Myers' true face was ever shown.

[@johnmacmillan5732]

Your commentary is the best! "A haunted house of murdered loved ones!" "Don't you sense the rising doom?" :-) HA!!!!

[@GarrickMerriweather]

"... _And here you are still waiting around like Booboo The Fool in this bush_ ..." LMAO 😂🤣😂😂🤣😂. Too frickin' funny!!

[@dr.chopper1880]

"Oh!! And you got jokes?!" Lmaooo too good

[@HorrorGenreLady]

I had a conversation with someone about that the fact they were so calm about the fact their son had a bloody knife in his hands and wasn't freaking out asking about their other two children is very strange.

[@TheBearAspirin]

Fun fact: the little girl that played Lindsey Wallace in the original and in this year's "Halloween KIlls" is Kyle Richards from "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills"

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

We didn’t have backpacks or book bags in the 70’s & 80’s (or anytime before the 2000’s really). We just carried our books like that. Sometimes we’d take a belt & rope em together, but otherwise we just lugged em around like you’re seeing here. Edit: I grew up in the 70’s & 80’s & we almost never locked our doors, even when we were all gone during the day.

[@skbwolverine]

I had a duffle bag in the 80's when I was in junior high & high school. It held my books and sports equipment. I must have gone through a million of them because the zipper kept popping from over-stuffing it so much. 😂

[@technopirate304]

@@skbwolverine I was about to say the same thing. Every year I must have went through at least two.

[@Melancthon7332]

Maybe the seventies, but by the eighties book bags and backpacks were EVERYwhere, and every kid had them. Jansport, Eastpak, and even fashion brands like Esprit were cashing in. It was a huge market!

[@corvus1970]

I don't recall having a backpack in the 1970's, but by the time the 80's rolled around and I went to middle-school, I went through a LOT of them.

[@bootsierosenweig9495]

We didn’t have backpacks in junior high, but going into high school in 1980, we heard they carried their books in them. We told our parents what to buy us, and one of my aunts was dumb enough she bought my cousin one of those big camping things. It was a new thing still.😂

[@StalKalle]

Fun facts: Halloween was originally planed to be a anthology series where every movie was a new horror story but fans really wanted a real sequel to this so Halloween II was made and when Halloween III was made without Michael Myers, following the original plan, fans hated it so after that they made all the Halloween movies about him. The white mask Michael Myers wears is a Captain Kirk Halloween mask. The movie they where watching was the original The Thing from Another World (1951). Universal was making a remake and John Carpenter wanted to direct it but they said no because he was an independent film maker. This movie is what got him that job.

[@Nimbus1701]

This reaction is gold! Oh how I miss the 1970s. I was born in 73 and remember seeing the original Thing, saw this on like 1982 when it came out on VHS or TV/cable (forgot which format it was released first). Such a different time the 70s and 80s, and in many ways I liked it better than now, although admittedly it lacked several modern conveniences. Earned a sub for this... great reaction and commentary.

[@notjerod5076]

Idk if it’s confirmed but I think michael’s presence is what makes him so scary. Like you’d think the characters would at least feel his presence when he’s stalking them. But maybe they don’t feel anything when he’s watching/around them, because he’s so cold and unenthused about stalking and killing. It could also just be for the plot(which is most likely), but it’s much more terrifying to me that he can conceal hisself to the point that nobody even gets the inkling that he’s around. Fuck that lmao

[@ccjjpp1966]

Haddonfield, Illinois is a fictional town in this movie and is actually based on the real town of Haddonfield, New Jersey (Producer Debra Hill's hometown she grew up in). I live about 2-3 miles away from this town in NJ and it would have been a perfect town for this movie if they actually shot it here. It looks like the perfect Autumn town too with small roads and lots of trees. But, they shot it in Pasadena, California to save money.

[@cameronmills1172]

I love all the reactions she does, right down to her jokes, they make me laugh. I could sit in front of the computer and watch her do reactions all day.

[@Melancthon7332]

That scene where the neighbors turn out the lights and pretend they don't hear Laurie screaming for help...look up "Kitty Genovese". An infamous murder in the streets of New York where everyone in the neighborhood heard her crying for help repeatedly, but nobody called the cops or intervened, which might have saved her life. It was a hugely controversial story at the time (about ten years before this movie came out) and was looked at as a sign of America's/civilization's/humanity's decline into amoral selfishness.

[@darthken815]

I remember reading about that some years back. Fucking sickening.

[@LA_HA]

Halloween fans know that's not the case here. This is a small suburban town where everyone knows everyone. There are two reasons people state why the neighbors didn't respond: 1) As the sheriff told Loomis, it's a busy night because of the tricks teens and kids are playing on the neighborhood. In fact, it's a theme that several characters reference at least once. So, the neighbors believe this is more trickery. 2) Those who follow the Cult of Thorn theory believe that (many of) the people of Haddonfield are cult members and don't help her because they aren't going to interfere with The Shape's mission. Hope that helps

[@corvus1970]

That's the traditional story of what happened, however it's inaccurate, and the number of witnesses exaggerated by the New York Times when they originally published the story. The truth is that several people called the police, there were people who shouted out the window at the killer, and a woman who found Kitty and held her before the ambulance arrived. There are two articles I recommend via google search: "The Kitty Genovese Story Is A Lie" at Medium's website, and "'The Witness' Tells A Different Story About The Kitty Genovese Murder" from NPR, which is an interview with Kitty's younger brother, Bill where they speak about a documentary dealing with her infamous murder.

[@samovarsa2640]

@@corvus1970 I also heard, though can't remember where I read it, that the neighborhood where she was killed had a lot of gay people living there - and the NYPD in the 70s and gay people were... Not on the best of terms.

[@Melancthon7332]

@@corvus1970 I've seen that documentary The Witness, read numerous articles and listened to several podcasts about what actually happened that night in 1964, so I've got at least a fair acquaintance with the actual facts. There's no doubt how the murder was played up in the press and in popular publications at the time was massively overstated, and that as the legend grew many started to believe outright untruths about the case (you'll often hear that all thirty-eight witnesses literally watched her get murdered and did nothing, which is completely and utterly false). But it's still a pretty damning incidence of the Bystander Effect, as most of the listeners really did do nothing, and there are some particularly galling examples (notably the one friend of Kitty's who she sought out specifically and called out to by name, but confessed to police later that he was too scared to help and didn't want to get involved).

[@MikeSmith-ln6nt]

I died at, "AND you got jokes?" Too funny!

[@DirtMaguirk]

Donald Pleasance's (Dr. Loomis) Ernst Stavro Blofeld character in the 5th James Bond "You Only Live Twice" was the inspiration to Mike Myer's Dr. Evil.

[@fynnthefox9078]

There's some kind of connection there...

[@petegtorcan]

“Girl. Do we not sense the rising doom behind us?” Omygod 😆😆😆👏👏👏

[@rajdixit1605]

Hi Alanda. The movie Lindsey was watching was the 1951 The Thing From Another World, not Carpenter's 1982 The Thing.

[@fynnthefox9078]

The ORIGINAL Thing.

[@bobjohnston1239]

Damn. I want YOU with me if I'm ever trapped by a psycho!!!

[@tanweersharafuddin1919]

I love her commentary. Shes so amazing entertaining and so expressive

[@Badbronson]

Lindsey and Tommy were watching the 1951 version of THE THING. The Carpenter version was made in 1982.

[@vonnietruitt]

I felt like I was in the room watching it with you! 😄 Your voice is so adorable 😍💕🤗

[@AlandaParker]

🥰🥰🥰

[@hellomark1]

Props to you that you kept watching when a real-life thunderstorm started outside!

[@TJUC123]

Lindsey always been a real one. “She got stuck in the window. She’ll be right with you.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Bruue2011]

*HE’S A CHILD, HE’S LITTLE* Thank God i just ran across your channel. Love your personality!!

[@CEJRAID]

Hahaha “stab him everywhere, ankles, face, chest, ass, everywhere!” Hahaha! Love it.

[@kadrian9482]

Considering Scream 5 comes out in January, you should do the entire Scream series in preparations for it. Would love to see your commentary on those films!

[@JevonBrumfield]

I Second That!!!..

[@J_Rossi]

This is quickly becoming one of my favorite reaction channels.

[@trayweathersby7490]

She should be on the commentary on the special features of these Halloween movies 😂😂😂.