Halloween
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celebration where little kids dress up and get candy, teens dress up, get drunk, and go get candy, and adults dress up, get drunk, and give out candy, funny how things all work out.
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the day that makes the other 364 worth living.
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Its when you dress up in either cheap, store-bought costumes or elaborate, self-made ones, watch Rocky Horror Picture Show, get your friends to do the Time Warp, and go on a severe candy binge. Until someone spoils your fun by reminding you that its April.
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The time of the year when you pass out candy to fat children.
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October 31, celebrated in the United States, Canada, and the British Isles by children going door to door while wearing costumes and begging treats and playing pranks.
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The one day of the year you can beg strangers for food and not get told to fuck off. As long as youre dressed up like a ghost/the devil/transvestite.
Yes we in the West are quite normal,thank you. -
the one day dick cheney doesnt have to wear a costume and can just walk around in his natural state, as the devil
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[The only] day of the year when its [acceptable] for guys to [dress] up as girls in school.
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a kick ass holiday for two reasons:
(1) its the only day of the year you can dress up and [demand] candy from people you dont know
(2) Its [Frank Ieros] [birtday].
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[Pagen] holiday for celebration of nature and spirits/energy that [Catholics] adapted and renamed Eve of All [Saints] Day or Hallowed Eve (becoming Halloween). On this day - October 31st - people are encouraged to dress up and trick ot treat to fool the spirits that roam the earth.
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Classic horror film that was partially responsible for the creation what has been called the slasher genre. Made in 1978, Halloween was written by [John Carpenter] and Debra Hill and directed by Carpenter himself. Originally titled The Babysitter Murders the film was renamed after a suggestion by executive producer Irwin Yablans. No other film had ever been made using the title Halloween and Yablans thought it would make the film stand out.
The films plot revolves around the character Michael Myers. An opening point of view sequence craftily shows how on a dark Halloween night in 1963 [Haddonfield], IL six year old Micheal kills his sixteen year old sister Judith Myers. Clad in a [clown mask] and costume Micheal stabs the half nude Judith with a large [butcher knife] over a dozen times in her bedroom just after she has had sex with her boyfriend. Apprehended by his parents leaving the house, Micheal is deemed insane by the courts and locked away in the Smiths Grove/Warren County sanitarium. And there he sits in a state motionless catatonia for fifteen years.
Events jump to the then present day of 1978. Its October 30, and as Micheal has now reached age 21 he is to be taken before a judge on the anniversary of his crime for final sentencing. But on that rain soaked night when [Micheals] doctor, Sam [Loomis], and nurse arrive for the transfer they find the hospital in utter chaos. The gate security guard is missing and the inmates wander the lawns.
When Loomis gets out of the car to check on the guard Micheal begins to terrorize the nurse inside. Once hes made her flee the car he climbs in and speeds off into the night.
The next day Loomis sets off in pursuit of Myers after chiding his superiors over the facilities lack of security. It seems Loomis had for years known of Micheals potently violent nature and considered him nothing less then pure Evil. He was always rebuffed by his colleagues as being simply a little too obsessed with the enigmatic boy. Like a human [blood hound] Loomis tracks Myers to the one place hes sure hell go. His home town of Haddonfield. Loomis is able to pursued the skeptical sheriff Leigh [Brackett] to aid him in searching for the elusive Myers.
However, Micheal too has been busy. He kills a mechanic to get some clothes. And then robs a closed hardware store in Haddonfield, taking knives, some rope and an odd blank faced white [Halloween mask]. Micheal then quickly focuses his demented homicidal fixations on a trio of babysitters; the meek and bookish Laurie Strode, ( who seems to have a strong but unconscious connection to Myers) and her two friends. The air-headed Linda and the wise-ass sheriffs daughter Annie.
Halloween night settles over Haddonfield and Annie and Laurie settle into their babysitting jobs. And [Micheal Myers] goes trick-or-treating once more...
Halloween is one of the most successful independent movies ever made. It is also highly regarded as a classic horror film, with the likes of such movies Psycho, [The Texas Chainsaw Massacre], Night of the Living Dead and The Exorcist. It made instant careers for John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis and despite its gruesome reputation is far less explicit than most [slasher films] of today. Particularly noteworthy is [Carpenters] use of suspense and tension in the film as well as his use of the nerve wracking piano melody theme music. Carpenter himself composed the infamous Halloween Theme from a drum exercise his father taught him.
The now famous Michael Myers mask has become as synonymous with the holiday of Halloween as jack-o-lanterns, witches and skeletons. The original mask itself was made from a 1975 Don Post Studios Captain Kirk mask.
Fallowed by seven sequels that range from good, (Halloween II),to fair,(Halloween 4, Halloween:H20), to down right God awful, (Halloween-Resurrection, Halloween III:[Season of the Witch]). With [John Carpenters] blessing Rob Zombie has begun to write and direct a prequel/remake that will be released in October,2007. -
- A [celebration] in which little kids dress up and [get stuff].
- A series of movies where anyone who has sex [dies].
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In [the real world], Halloween is when kids dress up in costumes and [beg] for candy. In [Girl World], Halloween is the one day a year when a girl can dress up like a total slut and no other girls can say anything else about it.
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The night of 31 October, the eve of All Saints
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