MOM WATCHES HALLOWEEN (1978) | This is about as scary as I can handle!

This is the last installment for "Momtober" this year. I've managed to avoid watching anything actually scary, until now!
I hope you enjoy my reaction. I definitely mentally defend myself by telling everyone on the screen what they're doing wrong 😂. Not sure I'll have the stomach for sequels, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on which ones are most worth seeing, if any.
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27:17 - Final Thoughts
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[@44excalibur]

Michael didn't take his mother's tombstone, he took his sister's tombstone.

[@joshuacampbell7493]

Fun Fact: This is Jamie Lee Curtis first movie in her entire life.

[@MavenCree]

First movie, but she'd had parts in 4 or 5 tv shows before this, including Charlie's Angels and Colombo.

[@tonyyul703]

Fun Fact number 2: Janie Lee Curtis's mom is Janet Lee Curtis's who was the victim in PSYCHO

[@mikeortiz6008]

Fun Fact 3 Jamie Lee Curtis is still Laurie in 2022!

[@FreddyKurganNimmo]

@Tony Yul - Her mother's name was Janet Leigh, *NOT* "Janet Lee Curtis"

[@luclachance4859]

Michael is very methodical: the stalking, the head games and then the murders

[@nsasupporter7557]

What’s funny is I had never heard of Michael Myers as a kid… I only knew Freddy Kruger and Jason Voorhees. I learned about Michael Myers later on

[@annie-my7gd]

@@nsasupporter7557 stop lying

[@nsasupporter7557]

@@annie-my7gd I’m not lol 😂

[@Myles720]

That head turn at the @19:10 mark is the scariest part to me. One of Michael’s signature things - that head turn.

[@DanJackson1977]

It's a common misconception that horror movies dont have story. Many do.. A Nightmare on Elm Street has an elaborate back story. Hellraiser not only had a backstory but an internal mythology. And sometimes horror can come FROM the story.. like Stephen King stories / movies. "Christine" for instance. It's not just about.. the horror comes from how the lead character is transformed by his car.

[@melijahcopeland4101]

There were no mobile phones back then. To call the cops those girls would have to get home or find a phone booth.

[@BezoRazo]

I'm 99% sure the "then we rip Lindsey's clothes off" was an error on either the scriptwriter or the actor's part. I'm almost positive he was meant to say "Annie", the name of the age-appropriate friend of theirs, implying that he wanted a 3-some.

[@movieswithmom]

I just assumed it was a drunken attempt to be funny, but your theory makes a lot of sense.

[@BezoRazo]

@@movieswithmom You may well be right, but I'm desperately trying to deny that cringeworthy possibility 😖

[@LuckyBastardProd]

No, it was an off color joke. I’m glad I grew up when I did. Millennials on down have no sense of humor.

[@BezoRazo]

@@LuckyBastardProd I'm likely as old or older than you. At no time would a "joke" like that have been well received. Unless we just move in wildly different social circles.

[@phillipjimenez9767]

@@BezoRazo I was a punker so I guess we did travel in different circles. It’s a joke.

[@chetstevens4583]

This is the movie that created EVERY horror convention you mentioned at the end. Previous to this you had the 30s and 40 Dracula, Frankenstein wolfman type movies. The 50s brought in atomic insects like giant ants and aliens from other worlds. Then Hitchcock raised the bar with Psycho. Carpenter gave us the unstoppable antagonist. Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St, Chucky etc all copied Halloween.

[@JBurnz001]

Lmao I love when people watch horror movies and tell the characters how to react. Whole time they don’t know what they would do 4real when faced with the same situation

[@movieswithmom]

I do very well from my armchair, and would do much worse than she in that situation.

[@tonyyul703]

@@movieswithmom Judith Myers is his sister

[@SlayerO013]

The viewer is privy to information the characters know nothing about a lot of the time. Almost from the beginning, we knew a homicidal escaped mental patient that likes dog steak was after Laurie. Laurie didn't know with any certainty she was being targeted by anybody until she got cut and proceeded to use the stairs in the most incorrect way possible close to the end.😝 It's easy to become a backseat driver or Monday morning quarterback when watching movies. I catch myself doing it sometimes.

[@LuckyBastardProd]

Here’s a trick or treat joke for you. A lone boy dressed as a pirate knocks on the door. A sweet old lady answers. “trick or treat!” He shouts. The old lady says “oh, wow cute a pirate. Where are your buccaneers?” He replies “right under my buccanhat, lady.”

[@44excalibur]

Laurie did try to turn on the lights. Michael shut off the power in the entire house.

[@d.diamond7442]

If Michael shut off all the power, why did the closet light work??

[@44excalibur]

@@d.diamond7442 Michael shut off the power in the Wallace house, not the Doyle house. He only cut the phone line in the Doyle house. I assume you're talking about the scene with Laurie hiding in the closet.

[@44excalibur]

Michael Myers displayed Annie's body on the bed and put his sister's headstone above her to recreate the night that he killed his sister, Judith Myers.

[@honda86tb]

When he high fives the window, you can see a wrench on his wrist

[@evilpickle67]

My all-time favourite horror. And what an amazing theme.

[@mickeykmiller]

The GOAT! Happy Halloween!

[@michaelcarey8388]

I saw this movie about a million times before it occurred to me to wonder why that house has a lock on an interior kitchen door....

[@GREW50ME_Gaming]

How? You can't kill the Boogeyman! That's how!

[@MavenCree]

Lori tried turning on the lights when she went in the Murder house. They didn't work.

[@WadeWallenstein]

I've been watching First Time reactions to this film for a few weeks now and it's great seeing how it still scares people. I would suggest watching Halloween 2 from 1981 just to finish this story off.

[@glennwelsh9784]

Michael wasn't wearing a protective vest. Dr. Loomis talks of Michael as if he isn't human, that he's beyond human. Compound that with his unusual strength and the amount of physical damage he received yet still kept going is strongly implying that Michael may be supernatural. It is intentionally left vague to allow the audience to come up with their own explanation. He is merely described as "purely and simply evil," almost as if the concept of evil were a force of nature. Or he could just be so deranged that pain and fatigue don't even register in his brain like a normal person.

[@kevinburton3948]

"Knitting needle to the neck, stabbed in the eye, shot how many times...... How?" John Carpenter himself has said that there is a supernatural element to Michael Myers.

[@SlayerO013]

Also, real people don't always die as easily as others seem to think. Mikey was shot 6 times. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppXNlIygiNh8pc0

[@williamwhitecage7988]

the thing is... you have to put yourself in the place (shoes?) of that time (1978)... where "supernatural" killers weren't known. When you stab someone in the jugular or heart that you knew that they wouldn't get back up. These movies changed that (Night of the Living Dead, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St., etc....). The second time when Laurie dropped the knife, it might have been (just my opinion) that if she was holding it when she knocked in the door to talk to the kids, it would frighten them. She didn't go with them because (as we find out in Halloween 2) she had a fracture in her pelvis (I think? Maybe it was her leg?) from falling over the railing and hitting the stairs, so she couldn't move very well. As for the car window smash... it took me a few times watching and watching a commentary on the movie... it's hard to tell at first unless you knew what to look for but in Michael's palm, he has a solid metal wrench and it's that that broke the window.

[@windsorkid7069]

Great reaction. Loved it!

[@richardjohn658]

this is the horror film that scared me the most and I've seen hundreds of them

[@mikeortiz6008]

Great fact Michael Myers mask is actually the mask of William Shatner who plays Captain Kirk of Star Trek fame!

[@jssonstillwell3243]

Did you know that the girl playing Lindsay would grow up and become one of the main housewives on one of those Real Hosewives shows?

[@acesfn7316]

The girl at the start was Mihaels Sister Judith. It was the sister's tombstone he stole

[@bryandempsey3840]

I’m in Des Moines, IA. They require children to tell a joke here for treats too. They also don’t let them trick or treat on Halloween. It’s always the night before on Beggars Night. We moved here from Houston & it’s so odd to us.

[@cleonmagabeefy8500]

This was hilarious!!! Thank you

[@lennygriffin1149]

There’s a total of 13 Halloween movies including Halloween 3 which is the only one that doesn’t have Michael Myers. Several different timelines so it’s a little confusing. After Halloween 2, Jamie Lee Curtis came back two more times in, both in different timelines. They are, Halloween 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6. Then Halloween 1, 2, H2O and Resurrection, and finally, Halloween, Halloween 2018, Halloween Kills, and Halloween Ends. The last three are direct sequels to the original and completely ignores ALL other sequels. And have to mention the Rob Zombie remakes of Halloween 1 & 2.

[@karicastanza5216]

LOL! That's cute...Shrek! Halloween isn't one of my fav John Carpenter movies. I would say "The Thing" is if you want really scary. I would also check out his version of "Christine". Also, I love the odd comedy/action of "Big Trouble In Little China".

[@scottaznavourian3720]

If you look closely the actor/stunt man has a wrench attached when he shatters the car window

[@BeardGuy-vz8tn]

Honestly, the first Halloween is an insanely awesome film. Even though it's the first film, that started off the whole story? This specific time line is my favorite. Because H1 and H2 are perfect. (at least to me.). Because yes, even though H2 does techincally "end", It leaves alot of things unanswered, open to interpretation, and discussion. I definitely enjoyed most of the other films/alternate time lines (excluding Halloween 3 of course.). But I can't really see much of anything happening after H2. I mean, yeah, sure, There's fan fiction/cool fan theories, etc, Which are cool to read, and such. Because I love when people speculate, and come up with their own ideas about what happened to Laurie, and Michael, etc. My theory is this. I've always believed (in my own mind.) that after H2, Michael is obviously dead after the hospital explosion/burning alive, (even if you're being driven by a force that seems otherworldly? You're still only human, at the end of the day.), Laurie goes to an institution, and eventually ends up just going insane, by obsessing over Michael, and the trauma she experienced. So, all of the attempts that Michael made at killing her, in the other films? (like H20, Resurrection, etc..) Were actually just very very vivid hallucinations, in her own head. All while she was institutionalized.

[@randysake5031]

The movie was originally called the babysitter murders.

[@FandomWithReploidBill]

I think my favorite thing about Halloween was how it took it's time. You get to know the town. You get to know the kids. You seen their parents. You see the normal everyday life they live. Most slasher films have people dying in the first 20 minutes but here we make it an hour in before things really get underway and that has you more involved people wise. Sure there are kills as early as the first 5 minutes here but I think it's for contrast. You see the common slasher idea during the intro. Zero development character dies. Off screen character dies. Evidence of crazy killer laid out. Then the movie stops and we get to know people. Once the movie kicks back in we have an understanding of these people. We might even recognize the way they live. The town seems real. The ideas seem normal. That's what has pushed this film to the status it has today if you ask me.

[@movieswithmom]

That's a really good point. You pinpointed one of the things that sets this one apart. In my mind it was just "better story", but you're right; it doesn't rush it. A pacing choice that they probably couldn't get away with nowadays!

[@georger.3489]

"12:51 Rule number one: Don´t kill the dog" nearly every reactor says that. Funny how no one gives a damn about the people😅😂

[@StevenSmith-ir2yc]

When he gets a gun unloaded falls off the building and walks away YOU HAVE PROBLEMS

[@Jayskiallthewayski]

It's one of my all time favourite movies, top 10 for sure, and in all these reactions people talk about Michael getting up after everything that has happened to him but I've seen psychopaths get up and just walk away from the most insane stuff. Hell, even 50 Cent got shot 9 times. And we don't really know what happens to him after the movie. (It was only supposed this one movie and it should've been) Which to me is the scary part. You hear him breathing but where and how is he? The only thing that bothers me is that Laurie has seen him all day but when Tommy says he sees him too she doesn't go "Wait a minute, fuck's going on here?" But I guess that's that small town '70's vibe where everyone just went "All good". Aside from that, it's a thing of beauty, a masterpiece of any genre. Direction, production, story, music, cinematography, all with no money. Filmmaking at it's absolute finest.

[@matthiashafliger2969]

When the dog was killed.. 😮😯😲🤣🤣

[@ramonacosta2647]

Michael is the Boogeyman. You can't kill the Boogeyman.

[@raybernal6829]

We left doors open in 70s especially in small towns.... Remember this is 1978 not 2022.

[@michaelpoore8368]

Thats Michael's sister Judith that he kills in the beginning.

[@rf3899]

Here in Iowa, we went to the doors and told jokes also.

[@MavenCree]

You talk about stuff like, don't stand near shadows. Lock the door. Grab a knife... This movie was the end of innocence. People in general didn't need to do all that stuff before. Hell, I remember our car doors never being locked when I was a kid, right up until the mid 80s. People didn't know about home invasions and Serial killers then. Not in the suburbs. Maybe on the city but the burbs were supposed to be safe. That was their selling point. This was the first movie to bring the horror into the safe suburbs. That's what makes it legend.

[@jssonstillwell3243]

Then you really should give the original A Nightmare On Elm Street a watch. Nancy is a character I think you'd like. She proactive. Plus it's not scary. Freddy is only on screen for 7 minutes.

[@ronstout]

St. Louis…. Nice I was born and raised in STL and still here. Jokes are still asked for and still told but not like it was when we were kids

[@calebhodson7421]

This is the best one in the series… And here’s a cool fact about scream queens. Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcocks 1960 film Psycho technically started the term “scream queen” as the lady in the shower scene. Jamie Lee Curtis is her daughter.

[@tider77]

Speaking of Mike Myers, his buddy Dana Carvey has a small role in Halloween II which picks up right were this one left off.

[@nasserhafes3021]

it was not his mother gravestone..it was his sister's...

[@jamescole250]

I would love to see you do a reaction to the movie the Jerk (1979) starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters and please comment on how dirty Navin gets in the movie.

[@windsorkid7069]

Jaime Lee Curtis was 19 at the time and the director specifically told her to dress very conservatively because she was becoming known in Hollywood as "The Body" . The rest is history.

[@FreddyKurganNimmo]

This was Jamie Lee's first film role. She wasn't "becoming known in Hollywood" as anything yet🤦

[@vincentdawn9689]

I have a recommendation. A French movie from 2007 called INSIDE (French: À l'intérieur). There is a very simple story, it's one location, and if I were a gambling man, I would put money on Mom having a very animated response to it. It will be without a doubt in my mind the scariest movie you have yet watched on this channel. Also, don't be turned off by the subtitles, it's very easy to follow and there is not a lot of dialogue. I have recommended this to other reaction channels, so break the mold and be the first to do it. Note: Do not confuse this movie with its 2018 American remake of the same title. It's a very weak and boring version of the original French film.

[@SlayerO013]

I think she would be turned off by something other than subtitles. 😂

[@A-RedHerring]

Of you look closely at the actors hand when he broke the car window on the begining then you can see a wrench.😂

[@commsense1979]

Michael broke the window with his hand using a wrench taped over his palm. You can almost see it in the shot. I'd recommend watching Netflix's The Movies that Made Us episode about this film. Good stuff.

[@ctmdarkonestm]

you can definitely see the wrench if you freeze frame, its very clear on the blu ray and 4k versions

[@raunchy1313]

You can't kill the boogie man

[@charleswilliams6236]

Halloween movies are very great

[@charleswilliams6236]

Michael Myers is unkillable

[@Rudy4099]

Mom: How did he do that? He Hi-Fived the window and it shattered. Everyone in Smith's Grove knows that one! At least... the weirdo's do on a bad date. =8-/

[@TheCashcrue]

You should watch the Scary Movie franchise. They're comedies. 2 is the funniest. They're all comedy parodies of horror movies. Hilarious.

[@brandonlent1121]

Hope you do John. Carpenters Halloween 2 in the next reaction

[@Anakinskywalkerfan1]

I love this movie

[@WilliamTheUnkownShoutout]

I hope to see a reaction to Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott and The Thing (1982) directed by John Carpenter both of them are the greatest sci-fi horror movies ever created as well:).

[@atraxos]

"OK, so far I have to comment that there's a clear story so this doesn't seem to be your typical scary movie - or at least the ones I've seen - which are few." True enough, there's a definite narrative backbone to this movie, but it gets taken in kind of a weird direction with the chronologically filmed-and-released numbered sequels. And then there's the Rob Zombie reboot duology. And now we have three new(er) films that discard everything which comes after this original _Halloween_ ending with the new _Halloween Ends_ . "Choose your own adventure"?

[@movieswithmom]

Which sequel path is most worth following, if I don't want to watch all of them?

[@atraxos]

@@movieswithmom I even forgot to mention two sequels; _Halloween H20_ and _Halloween: Resurrection_ both follow from the events of the first two films without really drawing anything from the others, though in the interest of not having you have to watch all of them I would discourage both of these. I suppose, from strictly a story standpoint, the chronological originals ( _Halloween II_ through _The Curse of Michael Myers_ AKA _Halloween 6_ , being sure to skip over _III: Season of the Witch_ as it's somehow wholly unrelated) do the best overall job of explaining *why* it is that Michael's a near-invincible killing machine fixated on murder. It's four additional movies, sure, though there's some consolation in _Halloween II_ picking up right where the first one leaves off.

[@paddyofurniture705]

Every reaction ....treating Michael as a human that can die.

[@longfootbuddy]

apparently theres a lot of reactors from st louis.. im from there, but im not going to become a movie reactor

[@mrjeffob]

There was almost no blood shown in the entire film as well even though Michael was supernaturally strong. He was meant to be a force of nature.. From a technique point of view, it's the best directed Halloween film in the entire franchise.

[@mrjeffob]

the payoff wasn't the jump scare, it was the long period of suspense that came before it.

[@calebhodson7421]

The moral of the story in horror films: Don’t drink, Don’t smoke, Don’t do drugs, Don’t skinny dip, Don’t show your breasts and never ever ever have sex. You’ll survive.

[@FreddyKurganNimmo]

Tell that to Ted in Friday The 13th part 2. Dude survived BECAUSE he decided to stay out drinking!😮

[@calebhodson7421]

@@FreddyKurganNimmo He lived because he didn’t return to the camp

[@FreddyKurganNimmo]

You should watch the original 1984 *A Nightmare On Elm Street*

[@DanJackson1977]

How? Hes the boogie man

[@kevinmangenot]

Bonjour de France 🇫🇷 "Big John" the best 👍 you have to watch "Christine" very good, Vive le Cinéma de Carpenter 🎬🇺🇸

[@Thunder_1977]

The gravestone wasn't the one of Michael's mother, it was his sister's, the one he killed 15 years ago... Telling the police to keep their mouth close and their eyes open was in my opinion the absolutly right advice. Think about the alternative: the people would either panic and see the killer on every corrner, or they would prank other people and the police with masks and false alarms. Sad but true, that's how people are. Good horror films always got a good story, that's why they are good! 😉Nosferatu, A nightmare on elm street, Alien, Interview with the vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Event Horizon, The others... Michael can't be killed, he is a supernatural force, "pure evil". The folloing movies are really confusing, because they have different time lines. "Halloween 2" for example continues right after this one, in the same night, "Halloween 3" got nothing to do with Michael, and the latest 3 ignoring all of the movies after the first one and take place 40 years later.

[@benntura]

I enjoyed Momtober. Will you have a Momvember theme?

[@movieswithmom]

😂 I'm open to suggestions. Not sure what Momvember would entail! I do have a bunch of movies coming up that I'm excited about, though.

[@fredrickgowans949]

Well if You don't like scary movies as Much then I hopefully Really suggest you React to the Movies Norbit Nutty professor Or Little Man 💯 Promise you won't regret those funny movies

[@alexwunderman190]

girl he took his sisters grave stone not his moms he killed off his sister in the begging now hes after his other sister jamie lee curtis

[@scottaznavourian3720]

I'm gonna pretend that Austin powers stuff is a joke right? Was Mike Meyers even Alive in 1978? And you realize micheal myers is the name of the character right?

[@terryhughes7349]

Michael is always causing problems

[@Tdog2354]

If you are going to start watching the Halloween movies, then you are going to have to follow through and watch them all. Don't be like other reactors who watch 1 and 2 and never watch anymore.

[@movieswithmom]

There are so many. Which ones are the must-see ones?

[@Tdog2354]

@@movieswithmom You can skip Halloween 3, it literally has nothing to do with Michael Myers or the story at all and you could probably skip Halloween Resurrection, its a good movie, but bounces around and skips story details. Other than that, watch them all. It's highly up to you if you want to start watching the newer Halloween movies. I would say watch them, as they continue the story in a their own way and they are up to date with effects and what not, but as someone who is just starting out, just watch 1,2,4,5, Curse and H20. Those are the main Halloween movies. The ones after that are up to you if you are still interested in them at that point.

[@wesmattimore2895]

First that was Jammie Lee Curtis.. I enjoy watching movies with mom.. Elizabeth you look like you would be a fun girl to hang with,, just saying... PEACE

[@MavenCree]

You keep saying "Call the police." He's literally doing nothing illegal. There's a weird looking man standing around watching me and my friends. Not illegal. 1978, remember. No stalking laws, or anything like that.

[@jssonstillwell3243]

And what was your go to joke when trick or treating?

[@movieswithmom]

If a rooster laid an egg on top of a roof, which direction would the egg roll?

[@jssonstillwell3243]

@@movieswithmom 😆😆😆😆 and which way would it roll?

[@jojodogface898]

@@jssonstillwell3243 down, I'm guessing, but roosters don't lay eggs

[@jssonstillwell3243]

@@jojodogface898 yes, but still I'd like to know the answer.

[@mikem7367]

Skip all other Halloween movies n watch Halloween 2018 Halloween kills n Halloween ends that are the new direct sequels to this one

[@Chris_34]

I hope you react to the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre at some point :)

[@movieswithmom]

Oh, man, I don't know if I'd have the stomach for that. Slasher is one thing, gore is another. That one sounds gory.

[@demonofelru3214]

@@movieswithmom You would be surprised honestly.

[@Chris_34]

@@movieswithmom it's more disturbing than gory. Depends on your definition of disturbing, though. I'd probably find My Little Pony: The Movie way more disturbing to watch 😲😵

[@demonofelru3214]

@@Chris_34 Now if you suggested say...Hellraiser (1987) I would say that has a bit of gore. 😉

[@adamlopez7947]

Hi Mom 🤗 Happy Halloween 🎃 they get much better from here, 😂 you kinda remind me of Fraser's wife on cheers 😆

[@michaelbibby6341]

Fun Fact: When he high fives the window, he has a spanner taped to his hand, you can see if if you play at slow speed.

[@DARTHTAKRA]

You should watch the three new ones that are continuation of this movie and finish momtober on Halloween with Halloween ends

[@dunmwarupreachan4567]

Sadly jiujitsu wont help you in a car. Get a gun. Its more effective. Especially of you practice regularly and maintain the weapon. Women should not square up with men.

[@scottaznavourian3720]

It's his sister's gravestone

[@dabe1971]

You realise movies are about entertainment and not sensible life choices don’t you ? If you are expecting lights to be turned on or logical decisions to be made I don’t think these kind of films are for you. Do you criticise Disney films for having talking animals I wonder ?

[@BillyTheBigKid82]

If you think this movie is scary and disgusting, horror movies are not for you.xD This is one of the most bloodless horror movies out there.=D Still a great one for sure but not that bloody or even scary, just awesome.