John Carpenter Interview During Making of “Halloween” + RARE Behind The Scenes Footage (1978)

[@TheBluRayCritic]

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[@dougcoleburn1579]

Also Halloween has stood the test of time. I can watch it every October several times and still enjoy. Donald was also a key component to the movie. 🎃

[@drlight6677]

Halloween 1 and 2 make a great double feature and are basically like one long and almost seamless movie together. Just avoid at all costs the various tv versions of Halloween 2 which have so many bizarre edits and dumb filler material that were correctly edited out of the theatrical version.

[@JaceD4V1S88]

its the perfect horror movie

[@drlight6677]

This is the first time I've ever seen "behind the scenes" footage recorded during actual production of the film, I had always thought that there were only photographs but never any actual film behind the scenes. Thank you so much for uploading this, these guys captured lightning in a bottle for this film.

[@johnwihebrink4017]

John Carpenter is a badass. I own most of his movies on bluray.

[@ProfessorKenneth]

Me as well 👍🏻💯 he's brilliant

[@theburningelement.6447]

Best horror movie ever made no other so called Halloween even comes close

[@THE.N1KO]

I love Halloween but I must say The Exorcist is a better film. Anyways... Halloween is in my top 5 for sure.

[@shanedenny5234]

John Carpenter is a brilliant filmmaker who knows how to please an audience. He is incredible.

[@hoptoe4761]

I have been a diehard fan since I was 12 and this is the first time, in 42 years, I've seen these clips of him directing the very scenes I know by heart and have been watching my whole life. I know the Pasadena neighborhoods, and know exactly where they are for these moments and interviews. Wow this is great!

[@dougcoleburn1579]

I think John wanted Halloween to be one and done. Then move to the next project. Enjoyed this.

[@buzzcrushtrendkill]

That is so awesome that BBC went to this effort. I would've loved it if they captured more behind the scenes of filming the movie.

[@drlight6677]

I didn't think behind the scenes footage during production had been filmed or ever publicized, this is awesome.

[@4luvofmovies485]

He definitely speaks his mind. I’ve been collecting his classic movies. What I like about his Halloween movies. 1&2 is not the over done gore. He builds the suspense just enough blood and I like that about the early films.

[@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto]

I honestly strike 2. That ending in 1 is never remotely matched let alone topped. I've noticed with women/girls in particular that John Carpenter's Halloween truly scared, if they refused to watch 2, it is these people who fear Michael, The Boogeyman, The Mask, the breathing, the score all of it, it's these people who are the most scared of Michael Myers. That ending gives them no closure and there is the feeling he did not die and he's out there watching, stalking, hunting. Those who watch the sequels, Michael is deflated from the Boogeyman to a movie character if that makes sense, in 1 he genuinely feels like he is the boogeyman.

[@wadewilson8011]

I don't care if it has blood & gore. As long as we get the same plot, musical score, cinematography, and directions, IDGAF how much blood is in it. I'm looking for a good story, not to nitpick whether or not how much bloodspatter is being shown on the walls during a murder scene. C'mon

[@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto]

I love John. I'm from 70 miles north of Smith's Grove KY, which is the town north of his hometown Bowling Green KY, which yes I'm sure you know was where John went on a 1st year of WKU to a mental hospital on Smith's Grove where he saw a child give him the blank schizophrenic stare that inspired little Michael Myers. That person may still be here, that would've been the mid or late 1960s.

[@bex.jackalope]

this is wonderful!!! wish they would release all the unseen footage and photos from this film..

[@ProfessorKenneth]

John is brilliant 👍🏻💯 one of my favourite directors/writers. Im an artist/illustrator so if im doing comics or just a piece on canvas I think of John or watch his films to get ideas and and inspiration.

[@shanedenny5234]

Donald Pleasance...his voice and his presence automatically make him admirable. Carpenter knows how to pick em and struck gold by hiring him. A match made in heaven. $30,000

[@danielbaugher826]

Loomis is my favorite character, he really adds to the creepy narrative

[@Njbear7453]

I thought It was $25,000? Movie was made for $725,000

[@Njbear7453]

The extra $25,000 going to donald pleasance

[@AEMachinas]

check out the movie Wake in Fright, he’s great in that film, by the director that went on to do First Blood

[@sukottoshinobe7360]

@@Njbear7453the movie was made on 250k

[@DreadNought-yp7sq]

Excellent interview. Thanks for sharing.

[@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto]

John is such an honest guy. I identify a lot with him, always have, he was the 1st filmmaker i recognized by name and double special he was a Kentucky boy, as i am. The Thing to me is the most horrifying fictional situation put to film, any other movie I'd rather do that then Antarctica with that Thing.

[@itnaklipse1669]

his intelligence and insight and also his laid back attitude make a reall good combination... love his interviews as much as i love his movies (all of them.)

[@RB-.-]

Lol i love the phrase "flogging around in the swamps". First time Ive heard it and im gonna use it when i watch a movie thats completely off the rails and out of its element.

[@wadewilson8011]

It wasn't a random phrase. It's what actually happened in the film. Nothing extraordinarily creative about the statement. 🙄

[@thecat8513]

he is so down to earth and relatable, not at all like the psychos that work in the film business

[@CandaceTalley-tk1jd]

Thank you Mr Carpenter I'm a really big fan of Halloween and also Nightmare on Elm Street I just wanted to say one one day at the store they had a mechanical Michael Myers and I loved it I want to say to you thank you and God bless you 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@IvanZavala-e2m]

Most times when I watch his films I actually have to really really pay attention to what it is that he had wrote down on the script

[@neightdiggidie]

Legendary

[@tony1876]

The original Halloween will forever be my favorite film 🎃

[@JohnMartin-oh6bf]

Back then…there was nothing like a master exposing other so called ‘masters’

[@danielbaugher826]

Theater of the mind and suspense my favorite, not a fan gore , Carpenter hit the nail on the head with Halloween 🎃 lol

[@je862]

He sure is intelligent at such a young age. I don't really like the interviewer attempting to lead John with some of his questions/statements, but John answers honestly and much to my delight, those answers do not parallel the leading questions by the interviewer.

[@wadewilson8011]

He was 31 years old at the time, and from a completely different generation. I'm not sure how old YOU are at this moment. However, a 31 y/o adult SHOULD be well versed and socially articulate regardless of background. Even in today's social Idiocracy of young people, 31 shouldn't be looked at as being "mature" or "intelligent well beyond the years." I think that's presumptuous and lazy.

[@masonteague4039]

Halloween, christine , they live , the fog & the thing are his best films

[@JamesGadbury]

Christine is so underappreciated. Great film.

[@jakehobbs]

Agruably one of the most horror films of all time!!

[@IvanZavala-e2m]

Wow oh my God man he was so young in this video he must have been in his thirties when he did this one

[@haileyshannon7548]

“Sets about…reducing the population” 😅

[@CandaceTalley-tk1jd]

🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿😅😅😅

[@erichstevens3246]

The interviewer was confrontational but got some great answers out of JC.

[@lester9448]

Before Jason there is Michael 😂😂😂

[@erichstevens3246]

Pleasance is pleasant. 😁

[@tatianaes3354]

Is not John Carpenter a man of the 1970s? Look at his hair and moustaches from the video and compare how he looks nowadays.

[@paulascott5701]

People who were alive in the 70s (like me) look different from the way they did 40 years ago. Yep, after 40 some years, one looks a bit different.

[@tatianaes3354]

@@paulascott5701The point is that John is NOT looking different in his style, which was cemented in the 1970s.

[@genther6668]

The horror Master

[@LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto]

I too am not a fan of Close Encounters Of The 3rd Kind. Never have, always found it pretentious. For Spielberg, Jaws and JP are his golden standard.

[@pinkystinkinc3475]

Altman does suck

[@MatsThyWit]

Mash is the one good movie that Altman ever made.

[@Njbear7453]

McCabe and Mrs Miller is decent

[@dj7973]

Woke Hollywood should watch this interview and learn from a master.

[@oophorror2251]

John Carpenter is the quintessential boomer. It’s hilarious he doesn’t like messages in movies considering They Live is a cringe commentary on Reaganism.

[@dj7973]

Overly political Hollywood should watch this interview and learn from a master.

[@DSnake655]

Eh, he goes on to make THEY LIVE 10 years later, so...yeah.

[@_theporkchopexpress]

With all due respect to Halloween, but Big Trouble in Little China is his best film

[@FUCKINGENIOUS]

Halloween is my all time favorite and Big trouble is okay but too over the top.

[@midwestdepressed]

The Thing

[@ReadyPlayerTomVR]

The Thing is clearly his best film... Big Trouble is arguably my favorite though.

[@Njbear7453]

Escape from New York and The Fog

[@Ur2ez4me81]

They live is awesome as well

[@matthewlogan4267]

Jason is better

[@phoenixmagi2]

For me to poop on

[@paulzenco6182]

I am not a homosexual

[@Abrakadabro666]

Halejula

[@JohnMartin-oh6bf]

Me neither.

[@DSnake655]

🤣

[@paulascott5701]

At one time, Carpenter hated films with a message and then he made They Live, which only existed to ridicule Ronald Reagan and anybody who voted for him. I hope Carpenter has matured enough to see what the left actually is.

[@itnaklipse1669]

tbh i always thought that's something he told the funders of the movie, it's so clear the movie isn't about Reagan... at least in my opinion. i know he's said he's a leftist but leftists usually don't make movies like he does.

[@jameswilliams-zr8co]

carpenter is wrong about close encounters, and he's biased and clueless, very arrogant too