Feb 27
It's been about 15 years since I watched it, and since my stupid obsessive brain never stops thinking about these movies AND it is a documentary challenge, I revisited this. What's so interesting is to see how different the franchise was at that point. The series is now about twice as old as it was when that "comprehensive" retrospective was at the time. You had interviews with Rob Zombie about his thoughts on the franchise, and this was before he made his two movies.
One part I find particularly hilarious is the case of contest winner Heather Bowen for a walk-on appearance in the next Halloween film. With her involvement in the Halloween convention depicted in this doc, some theorize the contest was rigged. Maybe she sucked someone's dick, because she wasn't shy. She flashes dem titties unprovoked and even someone out of place in an otherwise straight-forward documentary, but whatever. Halloween 9 never happened, but she did have a cameo in Rob Zombie's 2007 movie... in a cut scene.
Danielle Harris was only in her twenties at the time of this doc. She talks about how she doesn't do many of these conventions on account of her stalker, but time sure have changed. As much as I hate RZ's Halloween, it did reignite her B-horror scream queen status, so I thank it for that. And for getting her topless in it. Such a charming and romantic scene it was...
I'm happy to see that the doc portrayed H6 as a failure, because it was. Karen Strode actress Marianne Hagan had harsh words about director Joe Chappelle, and deservedly so. He doesn't care about the franchise and is never interviewed. Don't you just hate when people are like that? H6 is too flashy and the P-cut is much more tonally appropriate.
They mention halloweenmovies.com on there a few times. I used to go to that site all the time, as well as the official halloween message board (just lurking). I used to browse all those hundreds of fan sites back in the day, and all that internet activity is what led to Halloween 8 being web-centric and reality/fandom based.
And for that, I am SO sorry, folks.
One part I find particularly hilarious is the case of contest winner Heather Bowen for a walk-on appearance in the next Halloween film. With her involvement in the Halloween convention depicted in this doc, some theorize the contest was rigged. Maybe she sucked someone's dick, because she wasn't shy. She flashes dem titties unprovoked and even someone out of place in an otherwise straight-forward documentary, but whatever. Halloween 9 never happened, but she did have a cameo in Rob Zombie's 2007 movie... in a cut scene.
Danielle Harris was only in her twenties at the time of this doc. She talks about how she doesn't do many of these conventions on account of her stalker, but time sure have changed. As much as I hate RZ's Halloween, it did reignite her B-horror scream queen status, so I thank it for that. And for getting her topless in it. Such a charming and romantic scene it was...
I'm happy to see that the doc portrayed H6 as a failure, because it was. Karen Strode actress Marianne Hagan had harsh words about director Joe Chappelle, and deservedly so. He doesn't care about the franchise and is never interviewed. Don't you just hate when people are like that? H6 is too flashy and the P-cut is much more tonally appropriate.
They mention halloweenmovies.com on there a few times. I used to go to that site all the time, as well as the official halloween message board (just lurking). I used to browse all those hundreds of fan sites back in the day, and all that internet activity is what led to Halloween 8 being web-centric and reality/fandom based.
And for that, I am SO sorry, folks.
