The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) - Movie Review

Sequels have a hard time even equaling the success of their predecessor, but The Hunger Games: Catching Fire does give the first movie in this series a real run for supremacy. Why? The story just keeps building upon itself, with many twists and turns that keep the viewer kept off guard the way through. If you have read the books, you know what is going to happen, but bringing the book to life is what amazes me.

Suzanne Collins wrote an amazing book, that was turned into a first rate script by screenwriters Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt. The cast brings to life the characters that Suzanne Collins created for her dystopian world. Donald Sutherland plays President Snow very well in both movies, in many ways he is the perfect villain. Jennifer Lawrence does a wonderful job bring to life Katniss Everdeen, and has run the gamut of emotions in both movies; in every sense she is the perfect heroine.

Because this movie has only been in the theaters for approximately 3 days at the time of this writing I won't describe in detail big amounts of scenes. I would like to encourage you to watch the movie as soon as possible. I will give my rating now though of 10 stars out of 10; really just to get it out of the way.

I will tell you three things I liked about the film.

First, I liked the emotional roller coaster that each character had to travel over the course of this film. Each character, from Katniss, Peeta Malark (Josh Hutcherson), Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks) and Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson) to Cinna (Lenny Kravitz), Snow, Johanna and Finnick (Sam Claflin). Taken as a whole the roller coaster of emotions makes sense, and they are a big part of the movie. Every scene invokes a different emotion and sometimes more than one at the same time.

Second, I will describe one scene because it has nothing to do with the plot of the movie. After all the tributes are introduced in the parade, Katniss, Peeta and Haymitch are making their way to the District 12 apartments, Johanna Mason from District 7, joins them in the elevator. Johanna is disgusted by the dress her stylist makes her wear and begins disrobing in front of the others. She asks Peeta to unzip her dress and then peels it off, leaving her naked. Katniss is visibly disturbed by this. Haymitch and Peeta give admiring glances. Don't worry, nothing is shown. It is a PG-13 movie after all. It's just the idea of Johanna Mason (Jenna Malone) disrobing is... exciting.

The third thing I liked was the graphics. The graphics in Catching Fire play a big part in the film and were excellently done. Since the graphics play a big part in this film I won't describe them, however, I will say that without them the whole series would probably be very boring.

The Hunger Games (2012) - Movie Review

The Hunger Games is one of the best movies of the last few years. Released a year and a half ago, The Hunger Games has grossed nearly $500 million; with a budget of $78 million. Suzanne Collins, with the help of Gary Ross and Billy Ray, wrote the screenplay for The Hunger Games using the book of the same name as a guide. The screenplay is as close to the book as possible given that the author is Suzanne Collins herself.

Suzanne Collins created an amazing story about a dystopian future, the totalitarian nation of Panem is divided between 12 districts and the Capital. Each year two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part Entertainment, part brutal retribution for a past rebellion, the televised games are broadcast throughout Penem. The 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors while the citizens of Panem are required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss's young sister, Prim, is selected as District 12's female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart Peeta, are pitted against bigger, stronger representatives, some of whom have trained for this their whole lives. (The Hunger Games storyline, IMDB.com)

Since this movie is more than a year old I can safely describe my three favorite scenes and not feel guilty about giving away any surprises.

The first scene I liked was the when Katniss volunteered to take her sister's place as tribute. All the teens assemble in order to be selected as tribute. They are selected by lottery, with each having their names entered at least once, many several times. Katniss is worried that Prim, who is only 12, would not be able to survive the brutal combat. In order to save her sister when her name is called, Katniss volunteers to go in Prim's place. It is an emotional scene, as is the scene in which Katniss is saying goodbye to Gale, Prim and her mother.

The second scene I liked was actually the sequence of scenes that each district representatives are in training. It is here that Katniss and Peeta gain allies and support. My favorite part is when Katniss shoots an arrow in the direction of the judges. It is not well received.

My third favorite scene is when Katniss kills Marvel. Marvel, the male tribute from District 1, attacks Katniss and Rue. Katniss dodges Marvel's spear and shoots an arrow at Marvel killing him. Katniss turns to Rue and sees that the spear she dodged had instead impaled Rue through her chest. Rue dies in Katniss's arms. Katniss decides that to honor her friend and ally she would decorate Rue with wildflowers. Rue's family and the rest of District 11 appreciate the sentiment that Katniss showed. Upon seeing the last of his daughter before her body was taken away, Rue's father and many of the other men in District 11 start a riot.

I loved The Hunger Games. The graphics were amazing. The storyline was awesome. I could see how some of the things in the story could actually happen.

I would, however, suggest that before you watch any of the movies in The Hunger Games series, please read the books.

I give The Hunger Games 10 stars out of 10.

World War Z (2006) - Book Review

First, I'd like to say that there are many people out there for whom zombies just freak the hell out of. The images of the zombies in World War Z that Max Brooks describes are almost as an afterthought. Yes, without the zombies there would be no World War Z and they are an important part of the story, but they are a secondary character to the real story that makes up the novel that is World War Z.

World War Z was published by Max Brooks through Crown Publishing Group in September 2006. For those that don't know Max Brooks is Mel Brooks' son. Mel Brooks wrote, directed or starred (sometimes all three) in such films as Blazing Saddles, Robin Hood Men in Tights and Young Frankenstein, among others. Knowing the kind of stuff Max grew up with being raised one of the best parody or farce actors, it makes sense that Max would take something as horrible as the living dead and create one of the best novels, and now movies, in several years.

When I read this I kept going back in my mind to the Howard Zinn A People's History series. This is a series that teaches history from the ground up, in other words from the common person's point of view. For instance, one of the books is about the American Revolution. In this book, Howard Zinn doesn't tell the story of the American Revolution through John Adams, George Washington or any number of the other big names; no, instead the story is told by slaves, women (and I'm not talking about Abigail Adams), men who work in the field or on the docks. The story is told by the everyman, not the "celebrity" of the day.

It is this aspect of World War Z that I like. When you read World War Z you can imagine Max Brooks traveling all across the globe talking to survivors of the war. He begins by going to the source of the infection in China. The narrator finds out that the infection began in a small village when a boy and his father went "night fishing". What the boy and his father were doing was salvaging artifacts from a sunken town they had once lived to try to sell and make money. The father disappeared and the boy was bitten. The boy came back to his "new" village where he died and then reanimated. From there the epidemic began.

I liked the part where the narrator traveled to Antarctica in order to interview a man that helped create a vaccine for the virus that creates the zombie. Unfortunately, the vaccine is useless. The vaccine neither cures nor prevents people from being infected. Worse yet, people who think that they can be cured or an infection can be prevented go home and after they die they infect there entire family and eventually their neighborhood. The narrator only interviews this guy once, but later on in the book, close to the end, the new head of the SEC indicates that the new U.S. Government is in talks with the Holy Russian Empire to not renew the lease on the building this guy is staying in. If that happens and he returns to any part of reconquered Earth, he most assuredly will be executed on the spot.

Thee are stories of kids who grew up without parents, some right from the beginning others later on. There is a story of a woman who was four years old when the war began and she never really grew up, at least mentally. There is another story of a teenage girl that went north into Canada with her parents and nearly starved to death, with her parents.

A majority of the book is about the actual killing of the zombies. I know that sounds weird, the zombie is already dead. To eliminate a zombie you have to take out the brain or the brain-stem. Max Brooks talks about the weapons that were used at the beginning of the war, and also the ones that were developed during the war.

The narrator describes one scene in which a Chinese submarine captain decides to load as much supplies as possible, along with his crews family and leave China. The submarine is successful for quite a while. At one point they try to regain some sense of normalcy, but another Chinese sub attacks. The crew of the AWOL sub thinks they are being attacked because they left and stole the sub, but what is really happening is that China went through a civil war, as well as the Zombie War. The second sub was on the opposite side of the civil war.

If you like zombie movies and books, I recommend World War Z. If you like to read, just to read... I also recommend World War Z. I give this 9 stars out of 10, but unfortunately Shelfari.com only has a 5 Star System so I give it 4 Stars on there. World War Z was well written and I liked it very much. I can't wait to see the movie starring Brad Pitt, not that I am a particularly big fan of Brad Pitt, I just want to see the movie.

Taken 2 (2012) - Movie Review

Usually the second movie in a series is not as good as the first, but Taken 2 is almost as good as the first. Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, who wrote Taken, followed up with a spectacular sequel. Set in Istanbul the families of the men that Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) killed in Paris have come calling for revenge. The tagline on the DVD I have says "First they took his daughter, now they are coming for him."

Bryan is working as a body guard in Istanbul and has invited his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace), and his ex-wife, Lenore (Famke Jensen), to join him as a get away for a few days once his work is complete. The families of the men Bryan killed in Paris are trying to track where Bryan and his family will be... they find him. On the morning of the first full day Kim and Lenore are in Istanbul the men attack, but they only get Bryan and Lenore. Kim had stayed at the hotel to swim in the pool and relax, claiming jet lag.

Just like in Taken there is almost nothing about this movie I don't like. However, in Taken 2 there is a scene where Bryan and Kim are racing through the streets of Istanbul in order to get to the U.S. Embassy. Bryan is yelling at Kim to drive faster. Kim is yelling back that she can't. The thing that I didn't like is that at every turn Kim whines that she "can't". But as we see she certainly can.

When you like the whole movie it is difficult to choose which scenes you like and want to talk about. But I'll try.

There is a series of scenes that I like that have to deal with when Bryan and Lenore are taken. Bryan tries to get Lenore to safety by telling her how to get back to the hotel, but that doesn't work and she is captured. Before Bryan finds out that Lenore gets captured he is ambushed and fights about five or six different guys, maybe more. Bryan finds one of the guys guns and points it at one of them threatening to "blow his brains out". Another guy then shoots his "friend" three times. That is when Lenore is brought to the courtyard and Bryan calls Kim. Bryan tells Kim what is going to happen and what he wants her to do.

The next scene I like is the car chase Bryan and Kim lead through the streets of Istanbul, despite Kim whining most of the time. The aggressiveness that is required to avoid not only the guys trying to kidnap them, but also to avoid the police is pretty cool. At one point during the chase Kim and Bryan are driving through a train yard; they dodge a train but one of the bad guys trucks isn't so lucky. Just after this Kim and Bryan make it to the Embassy, though they have to drive through a hale of gun fire by U.S. Embassy guards. Bryan calls his friend, Sam (Leland Orser), to make sure they are safe.

The final scene I liked is when Bryan goes after the rest of the group who have Lenore. Bryan now knows that the man in charge is the father, Murad Krasniqi (Rade Serbedzija), of the man he electrocuted in Paris. When Bryan and Lenore had been taken earlier that morning, Bryan paid attention to sounds and turns in the road. He followed those sounds and turns until it lead him to the house Lenore was being held in. Once he gets there... all hell breaks loose. Bryan kills every last one of the men in the house and tracks down Murad and another man, who have left the house with Lenore. Bryan tracks them to a bath house. After killing the last man, Bryan decides to leave Murad alive if he would just go home and live the rest of his life caring for his remaining sons. Murad has other plans and still tries to kill Bryan. Bryan shoves Murad's head into a coat-hook which penetrates the base of his skull.

Taken 2 is a great movie, almost as good as the original. Even though I say that sequels are almost never as good as the first and that I gave Taken 10 stars out of 10, I also give Taken 2 10 stars out of 10.

Taken (2009) - Movie Review

Liam Neeson is one of my all time favorite actors. I have many of his movies, I would like to have them all. I even have Krull, which will be reviewed sometime in the future.

The actors in Taken are some of my favorites as well; Famke Jensen and Maggie Grace are just two of them. I thought the acting by these two and Neeson were phenomenal. Some of the best acting I have ever seen.

The script was awesome. The subject matter was pretty daring. The action itself was great. The only negative that I saw was when Liam Neeson was running. But I can't fault him too much, I don't run well either. But enough of that.

I give Taken 10 stars out of 10. From start to finish Taken is just a great movie.

Liking this movie as much as I did I have a hard time picking three of my favorites scenes. But The three that pop into my mind right now are some of the best of the movie.

The first scene is a difficult scene to watch. It's the scene where Amanda (Katie Cassidy) and Kim (Maggie Grace) are kidnapped from Amanda's cousin's apartment in Paris. Kim is talking on the phone with her father, Brian Mills (Liam Neeson). She sees through a window that a couple of guys have grabbed Amanda and she relays this to Brian. Brian tells Kim to go to the next room and hide under the bed. Brian talks to Kim calmly and explains what is going to happen and what he wants her to do. Kim is taken, but as she is being taken from the room she yells out things she sees. When everything is quiet Brian hears someone pick up the cell phone and hears breathing. Brian explains "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for, I will find you, and I will kill you." The response is "Good Luck"

What a great scene. Even if it was difficult to watch.

The next scene I like is when Brian finds out where the girls were taken to in order to get them hooked on drugs and turned into prostitutes. He enters the house on the pretense that he is part of the local police force and he is now in charge of collecting the "shake-down" money for not putting a stop to illegal activities. At the end of the conversation Brian asks the five men in the room to translate a phrase he has on a piece of paper, it's in Albanian. The phrase is translated and said out loud by one of the men, who says "Good Luck." At that moment, Brian realizes that that man was the one he talked to on the cell phone that his daughter had. That is when he takes those five men out, along with all the other members of the gang that are in the house. Unfortunately, Brian finds Amanda in one of the upstairs rooms... dead from an apparent drug overdose. Then he finds one of the men alive and tortures him by strapping him to a metal chair and hooking up what looks like jumper cables to the light switch and turns it on. When Brian gets the information he wants, he turns the switch on and leaves it on walking out of the house.

Awesome sequence of scenes. It shows that a father will do almost anything to find and protect his children. That being said, the sequence of scenes that lead to Brian rescuing his daughter says that he will do everything possible to save Kim. That is an awesome sequence.

Brian Finds out that his daughter is going to be sold because she is a virgin. He finds out through a man he thought he was a friend that the man he needs is St-Clair and where to find him. Brian enters St-Clair's house and finds the auction rooms in the basement. He gets one of the buys to buy his daughter in order to save her. But Brian gets captured and sentenced to death by St-Clair. Brian escapes and kills St-Clair. He then follows after Kim and her "owners" in order to rescue her. He kills everyone on board the boat his daughter has been taken aboard. When he finds Kim she is being held at knife point by Sheik Raman (Nabil Massad). Raman attempts to negotiate, but Brian is in no mood to negotiate, so he puts a bullet through his forehead.

There are other scenes I could have talked about. Like when Lenore (Famke Jensen) tries to browbeat Brian into signing the permission form for Kim to go to Paris because she is under 18. Or the scene when Brian goes to his so called friend, Jean-Claude (Olivier Rabourdin), in Paris by going to his apartment and shoots Jean-Claude's wife... in the arm. Or I could have described the scene where Brian saves Sheerah (Holly Valance) from some crazed fan who attempts to stab her after a concert.

Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen wrote one hell of a great movie. And Director Pierre Morel did a phenomenal job creating one of my favorite movies.

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) - Movie Review

Halloween 4 is a pretty damn good movie. I rated it at 9 stars out of 10. This movie could only have been better if Jamie Lee Curtis had reprised her role Laurie Strode, or as it is suggested Laurie Lloyd. As it is having Michael Myers (George P. Wilbur) and Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleascence) back in the script made this a hundred times better than Halloween III.

First of all, I have to say that the script and acting were pretty damn good. Bringing the next generation into the storyline was a great idea. The fact that Michael Myers ends up going after his seven year old niece, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris), was a nice twist. Also, writing in that Laurie Strode had died in a car accident with her unnamed, but assumed to be Jimmy Lloyd, husband; Laurie and Jimmy are Jamie Lloyd's parents.

Now for my favorite scenes.

My first favorite scene is when Dr. Loomis is heading to Haddonfield tracking Michael Myers. Loomis stops at a roadside gas station for gas, but finds only death. Loomis goes into the service bay area where he finds the mechanic dead. He then goes into the restaurant and finds a waiter behind the counter, also dead. Loomis looks around and sees Michael standing in an adjacent doorway, he tries to talk to Michael, but is unsuccessful. And so Loomis shoots at Michael. Michael escapes but not before destroying the gas station and Loomis's car, and taking out the telephone lines.

The second of my favorite scenes is when Jamie Lloyd goes out trick-or-treating with her foster sister Rachel Carruthers (Ellie Cornell). They go to several houses and end up at Sheriff Ben Meeker's (Beau Starr) house. When Sheriff Meeker's daughter, Kelly (Kathleen Kinmont), opens the door Rachel sees her "boyfriend", Brady (Sasha Jenson), inside. Rachel notices that Kelly is half dressed and so is Brady, at which she walks off and Brady chases after her. Jamie wants to continue trick-or-treating so she and Rachel end up getting separated.

The third scene I liked was when Michael Myers gets into Sheriff Meeker's house. Michael first kills Deputy Logan (George Sullivan) and sits in the chair that Logan was sitting in holding the shotgun. Kelly Meeker comes out of the kitchen with a tray of coffee and discovers that Logan is dead. She tries to leave but Michael stabs her with the shotgun. Thought that stabbing her with the shotgun was an interesting choice.

I really love this movie, but it is still not as good as the original. What do you think?

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) - Movie Review

Well, what can I say about Halloween III: Season of the Witch?

It's very hard to find something positive to say about Halloween III. I can say that Dan O'Herlihy and Tom Atkins both did a pretty good job of delivering their lines. Some of the other acting was OK. However, with the script not including Michael Myers this was a poor movie over all. I guess that the writers tried to explain why Michael Myers was hell bent on killing his family.

When I bought this movie I only bought it because it "belongs" in the series. I'll try to come up with something or some scene I can say that is positive, but there isn't much I can say. I've only watched Halloween III about a half dozen times, including while writing this review. IMDB.com only has 4.2 Stars out of 10 as a rating, I have to say that I only gave this a 5. If I can't find anything positive to write about this movie I am sure I won't have to apologize too much or be asked to.

It would be easier to list the things wrong with this movie. For instance, no Micheal Myers. The damn commercial that hypnotizes the children into killing their parents and then kills the children. The robots that do the dirty work such as killing. Really?! Robots?!

The tour of the Silver Shamrock factory was pretty cool. I liked that they showed how the masks were made, from pouring the latex to the painting. Wow, if I am talking about a tour of a factory from a movie then there really isn't much hope for the whole movie. I think I might have to rethink what rating I am giving this movie, it's pretty hokey. However, unless the story is pretty bad, the acting is horrible and many other aspects of the movie are substandard then the rating will stay where it is. OK, I might raise it to a 6, but not any higher. I think not having Michael Myers in this movie detracted from it significantly. Although, having Nancy Kyes and Jamie Lee Curtis play some kind of role in this movie was somewhat of a plus.

Halloween II (1978) - Movie Review

Halloween II picks up right where the first movie left off. Of course, it wouldn't be much of a sequel if Michael Myers (Dick Warlock) was really killed by Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence). Dr. Loomis shot Michael six times and Michael fell of the second story balcony of the Doyle House. However, when Dr. Loomis runs downstairs to investigate Michael is gone.

John Carpenter and Debra Hill wrote a great sequel. They continue their use of lighting tricks and psychological tricks to keep the terror going. John Carpenter and Debra Hill almost single handedly jump started the horror genre.

Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is taken to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital to get treatment of her injuries. Michael Myers finds out where Laurie is and makes his way to the hospital. Somehow he gets inside.

I love this whole series, not so much the third one, but for most part the whole series. There are plenty of scenes I like that others like just as much.

The first scene I like is when Jimmy Lloyd (Lance Guest) walks into a minor surgery room to get Mrs. Alves (Gloria Gifford), the head nurse. Jimmy doesn't notice the red liquid on the floor under Mrs. Alves until he see the needle and hose sticking out of Mrs. Alves's arm. He quickly stands up to leave the room, but slips on what turns out to be blood, and is knocked unconscious.

The second scene I like is when Michael finds Laurie. Laurie runs, as best she can on a fractured ankle, from Michael. She makes her way down a set of stairs into the basement, Michael follows. Laurie gets cornered, but sees a window that leads into another section of the basement and she climbs through just as Michael gets to her. Laurie gets to the elevator and the doors close just as Michael reaches them.

The third scene I liked was when Dr. Loomis and Laurie are pursued into an operating room by Michael. Michael stabs Loomis with a scalpel, but doesn't kill him. Laurie takes the gun that Loomis gave her and shoots Michael, apparently, in both eyes. Loomis opens the compressed tanks, pure oxygen and ether, and uses a lighter to ignite the gas. Fortunately, Laurie has escaped, but witnesses Michael walk out of the surgical room engulfed in flames. He falls to the ground, again, apparently dead.

Some other great scenes are when it is discovered that Michael had been to the elementary school and he stabbed the sister of a drawing of a family. Michael also wrote the word "Samhain" on the chalk board in blood. Dr. Loomis explains that "Samhain" is the Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "dark half" of the year. Samhain is celebrated between sunset on October 31 to sunset on November 1. In Halloween II it is explained that Samhain is also the Druid God of Death.

Or when Annie Brackett (Nancy Kyes), Lynda van der Klok (P.J. Soles) and Bob Simms (John Michael Graham) are taken out of the Wallace house. Annie's father, Sheriff Lee Brackett (Charles Cyphers), pulls back the sheet covering her face. Before going home to tell his wife their daughter is dead, Sheriff Brackett berates Dr. Loomis for letting Michael escape in the first place.

Also in Halloween II we find out that Laurie Strode and Michael Myers are brother and sister. Laurie was born two years before Michael killed his older sister, Judith Myers (portrayed by Sandy Johnson in Halloween). A few years after Michael killed Judith, Laurie's birth parents were killed in a car accident and she was adopted by the Strode family.

I give Halloween II 10 stars out of 10. If they haven't been already, I declare that the first two movies of the Halloween Franchise are classics. They are pure psychological thrillers. John Carpenter and Debra Hill wrote perhaps the two best Horror/Thriller movies of the last 35 years. Carpenter and Hill take what Alfred Hitchcock did during his career and expanded on his psychological genius.

Halloween (1978) - Movie Review

I am a little late in reviewing Halloween, but I'll go ahead and do it anyway.

I love this movie! Halloween is the best horror movie made in the last 35 years. Yes, I said 35 years! If you don't believe me watch it and see for yourself. I have seen this movie at least 20 or 30 times. I won't exaggerate, because there is no need to.

John Carpenter and Debra Hill took a budget of $325,000 and created a franchise that has scared movie goers for 35 years. The franchise estimated budget, according to different sources, is somewhere around $80,325,000; this covers all ten movies, including the two Rob Zombie versions. The total gross income for all ten movies is over $366,000,000.

Over 115,000 IMDB.com users have voted that puts Halloween at 7.9 stars out of 10. I of course believe that this is one of the scariest movies ever made and give it 10 stars. John Carpenter used many different tricks of lighting and shadow in order to create this masterpiece. He used many tricks of psychology in order to feed the movie goers fears of what might happen next. The tricks that Carpenter used are so simple.

As I said before I have seen Halloween many, many times. So yes, I know what happens. But, knowing something is going to happen and the anticipation of it happening is enough to make anybody jump even just a little.

I love Halloween from beginning to end. But I will describe my three favorite scenes from the movie.

The first scene I liked is when Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) and Nurse Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens) are driving up to Smith's Grove Sanitarium. They are talking as they drive up to the hospital and all of a sudden they see several patients wandering around in a storm. Dr. Loomis orders Chambers to drive up to the gate, he gets out of the car to inspect the gate house. As Loomis does this, one of the patients climbs on top of the car and then forces Chambers out. The patient, later determined to be Michael Myers (Tony Moran), drives off.

The second of my favorite scenes is one that has been talked about before on other reviews. It's the scene where Annie Brackett (Nancy Kyes) is going to pick up her boyfriend. She goes out to her car and tries to get in, but the door is locked. She runs back into the house to get her keys and comes back and gets into the car... without using the keys to unlock the door. She goes to put the key in the ignition and notices the windows are fogged up. As she tries to wipe off the condensation she is attacked by Michael Myers, wearing his now famous mask. Michael eventually cuts Annie's throat. Of course, the fact that her throat is cut is not why I like this scene. I like this scene because Annie doesn't even pay attention to what she is doing, but a real movie fan would have picked up on the fact that she couldn't get into the car and then about 30 seconds later she can.

Before I describe my third favorite scene I want to tell you about my favorite line. Dr. Loomis explains "I met him, fifteen years ago; I was told there was nothing left; No reason, no conscience, no understanding; and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil."

The third scene I liked is when Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) goes to the Wallace house to see what is keeping Annie. She walks in and searches the house, but doesn't find anyone until she gets to an upstairs bedroom. When she enters the bedroom she finds her friends Annie, Lynda (P.J. Soles) and Lynda's boyfriend, Bob Sims (John Michael Graham) have been killed. She runs from the Wallace house to the Doyle house, across the street, in an attempt to call the police. Laurie is pursued by Micheal and then the real fun begins. Michael pursues Laurie several times; I say "several times" because Laurie stabs him with knitting needles and a few other items, but he gets up after each. It is only after Dr. Loomis shoots Michael several times that he seems to be stopped.

Yes, I know, I gave away the ending of the movie. There aren't too many ways that someone could have never seen Halloween. Giving away the ending of a movie that is over 30 years old is not a bad thing. Like I said before it is the way the scenes are set up that make the movie anyway. The psychology of fear that John Carpenter used to scare everyone.

I already gave this movie 10 stars out of 10. What did you think?