Michael Myers is a Killer of Pure Cinema
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In today’s video, I talk about optical POV shots, acousmêtre, and just how distracting sex is. Halloween started out as a low-budget exploitation flick, but John Carpenter and Debra Hill created a purely cinematic villain, by maximizing thrills and terror not with gore or effects, but rather unadulterated film techniques.
Michael Myers could only exist in the movies.
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