Halloween's John Carpenter & Jason Blum In Conversation (Crossover) | SYFY WIRE

Why does horror endure? What makes the Halloween theme so effective? Is bigger budget better? Watch two horror titans - Halloween (1978) director John Carpenter and Halloween (2018) producer Jason Blum talk, debate, praise and more.
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[@Lowrentfilms]

Jason Blum is right about lower budgets and more creative effects vs CGI

[@kyleday5026]

i think part of what he says is true but for horror practical effects and low budget is better but then again there have been a lot of great movies that have used CGI really well who framed roger rabbit etc

[@dirgramsey6132]

Only blumhouse movies feel cheap! They only spend 6 mill that doesn’t go far!

[@polpettaio]

The war against the CGI is so stupid. Like the war between paper and e-books. It's what you want to tell that matters, not the tool you use.

[@gkroll8467]

He’s a hack and crapenter is a sell out let them keep illegals at their houses bunch of ass holes full of shit jerks

[@gkroll8467]

Blum shithouse woke films

[@TheConstructiveCritic888]

They’re both right regarding budgets. With a larger budget, there are more possibilities; However, nothing stimulates creativity more than limitation.

[@derekseven1647]

We NEED more John Carpenters and Jason Blum's in Hollywood.

[@ryangettig274]

Need More Cowbell as well......:)

[@marshallzane7735]

Derek Seven We need more Truth or Dares in the world

[@cinemacola6398]

Na, Jason Blum is a buisness man first and foremost. He doesn't care if a movie is trying to do something new or not. He just looks to see if it's gonna sell or not.

[@mangotheif]

Look out Hollywood here I come!

[@jacobreeves3110]

@Michael it was decent. To much killing, not enough stalking imo

[@jaredrobertsonstudios6135]

Isn’t it crazy how the original Halloween movie still holds up?

[@Mistygio]

And for the first time ever, it just came out in 4k on iTunes last week.

[@poeticnation6251]

Both of these men are GENIUSES - I wish this interview was A LOT longer (Maybe an hour). I could listen to each of them talk about the science behind their magnificent creativity, over, and over, and over, again.

[@bigcrackrock]

@Dr. Loomis I agree Sam but I also agree with what he was saying so I'd have taken the hour as well.

[@danielbaugher826]

What's great about horror movies is you can utilize all the other genres within it and most great horror movies do

[@jr-zo9gi]

Jason is right about budgets. This applies to almost every form of art. The more money you have, the less inspired the final product.. Look no further than John Carpenter to see the evidence. His best films are from the early period of his career when his budgets were modest.

[@miltontavares9506]

I agree.I mean,Halloween was a very small budget film but it was impressive.Same with Escape From New York,The Fog,etc.

[@chrisdell5679]

same with stand up comedy.

[@destho4308]

Their principles from statements made in this interview is of high value toward cinema. A great horror movie must be one of the more challenging genres to get right. I'm grateful to have Halloween exist as an incredibly memorable movie.

[@stevehenrichs5091]

Very well said ! horror movies are difficult to produce because they have to be convincing and attract your senses of fear and of the unknown.thumbs up.

[@ThaShiznit1986]

*GREAT INTERVIEW from two geniuses of two different generations of horror.*

[@marshallzane7735]

Special KEV I only see one genius here and a business man to his left

[@jeffsanchez3418]

Saw Halloween on friday it was awesome and no cgi or even noticeable at all great film

[@joewhitehead3]

I didn’t even think John Carpenter was still alive before this

[@QuantumNoir]

I had to Google him.

[@granfo]

Even though I don't like when Blumhouse does remakes, I take my hat off to Mr. Blum for keeping the genre alive in a generation of super heroes CGI galore.

[@christopherritenour2330]

Two best Carpenter characters: Michael Myers and Snake Plissken

[@jeremiahc620]

Slasher films don't scare me at all, they are just really fun to watch!

[@flatgrimace]

You can do so much with them and they’ll most likely always be fun or entertaining

[@DMalltheway]

Psychological thrillers are what scares me

[@DiegoHernandez-xt2su]

*you don't believe in the boogeyman?*

[@QuantumNoir]

Si

[@Jayskiallthewayski]

I agree with Blum, John, sorry, you made the best Halloween with the least amount of money.

[@RegularJStudios]

Love this interview, I would say that I'm the opposite of Jason Blum. I have no desire to be a producer and would be pretty terrible of managing it, but as a director and writer oh completely different story...

[@fabianzimmermann5495]

When they talked about that it doesn’t need a score to make it scary, I had to think about John Carpenters The Thing. The scariest scenes in that movie have either almost no score or no score at all.

[@Pinkranger87]

John knows how to build tension.

[@tapper701]

@@Pinkranger87 Just ask Adrienne Barbeau ...

[@conalcochran156]

Happy Birthday to John Carpenter!

[@funnyoscarfx]

My name is Karen Barragan am the chief marketing officer of blumhouse Are you a fan of my boss Jason Blum?

[@JeepTJWheelin]

Carpenter is moving his fingers in 5-4 time.

[@marcusosuna687]

No one is happier than me to see JC back in saddle again, but I'm still waiting to see his name attached to a sequel to The Thing.

[@jnulpi]

John Carpenter is a Legend.For me and sure for many others one of the Greatest Directors ever.

[@thekaniack]

this is a Wonderfull and inspiring piece. Thank you.

[@abe1sapien]

I hope Jason Blum has plans to get John Carpenter to make a film for Blumhouse!

[@jasencarpenter612]

I wish these two could get together and help make a friday the 13th. I feel as john would do amazing with voorhees

[@Pinkranger87]

I remember when it was announced John Carpenter was going to be apart it . I remember typing Daddy's Home

[@TheKing-bq4ez]

i'm surprised they didn't talk about michael vs jason voorhees or freddy krueger

[@beefknuckles]

Wow, you can tell John actually really likes Jason in the way he kids him. 2 geniuses in my mind

[@christoroppolo8742]

John should sequel the thing next not some wanna be . John Carpenter. And this producer should also hire Dean Cundey and get Rob Botin to come out of hiding and do it right. Peace Christo 👽🐕

[@paddymcdoogle6753]

31k Views, fitting.

[@amstel5468]

Written & Directed by Jason Blum 🤘

[@jamichaaustin8077]

Scerry. Movies. Ant. Scerry

[@jamichaaustin8077]

I no

[@johngrayatkinson1214]

I keep seeing both thêse men are horror geniuses...I agree with half that

[@kaitlinmojica9678]

Whos the one thats not a genius?

[@oberynmartell7758]

So thats why Halloween 2018 wasn't scary....gotcha😒

[@Patient1978]

Blumhouse makes terrible movies. Its a shame what their doing to the new Halloween. Plus John wrote, directed, made Halloween 1978 but he sold the rights to for the series and now he is changing the the timelines and erasing the characters biography.

[@chrissuponcic5181]

New halloween, this is a direct sequel to the original. Seems to me your confusing film with video. Halloweens 78 and 18 are true films. The other halloween movies were just vhs Era slasher flicks. Unless your referring to rob zombies snuff films he named after the real classic.

[@Patient1978]

@@chrissuponcic5181 I grew up watching the originals thats why I like the story, except Resurrection and Rob Zombies terrible attempt. Those 3 films are just attempt to not loose the copyrights. Same with the new movie, if they didnt make one soon the copyright would expire.

[@jentertainment1012]

+Trevor smokes what copyright would expire and what happen if it did?

[@Patient1978]

@@jentertainment1012 Then Disney would probably buy the rights because when the copyright for a franchise expires it up for grabs. Resurrection was actually only made so they could keep the ownership of the franchise. Just like the new Hellraiser movies

[@jentertainment1012]

+Trevor smokes but if they own the rights how can it be up for grabs if it expires and they are not selling the rights?

[@retrogore420]

Love Carpenter but this movie fell flat for me.

[@ted__ryan]

Better than avengers endgame. All that CGI nonsense

[@daveschall8764]

Is Jason Blum Jewish?

[@FervAnimalLover]

wtf does that matter?

[@Jripey13]

Well this new Halloween wasn’t scary at all... sad ...

[@Jripey13]

It’s a comedy movie not horror

[@JonManArmy]

If they can't find the original actor, Jason Blum would make one KICKASS Mark Hoffman in a Saw movie.

[@robertpreston2220]

Wow is he old!!!!

[@FUCKINGENIOUS]

And?

[@JeepTJWheelin]

Time waits for no one.