Hallowen

Hallowen

Anytime a film is watched its viewers criticize it. Whether they are positive or negative comments depend on the writer's opinion. Timothy Corrigan mentions six approaches to writing about film, in his book titled A short Guide to writing about film. In this essay I will discuss how the movie Halloween, directed by John Carpenter in 1978, can be related to five out of the six approaches by Timothy Corrigan.  

When a writer uses an approach that organizes and investigates films according to their place within a historical context and in light of historical developments; this is known as Film History. As time progresses so does technology. When a person watches a film from the 1950's he/she would be able to tell from what time period was from. Black and white films and few special affects represented movies from the 1950's. Perry   in the 19 nineties most films are in color and are filled with great special affects. The movie Halloween was made in 1978. It was made to represent the present time period. This was done so the viewers would think it might be possible for these actions to happened to that. If it was a horor movie that took place 50 years in the future, the audience wouldn't have the fear because they weren't living through that specific time period. by viewing Halloween and nothing on how it was bound, one would be able to tell that it was made in the 1970's. the scenes that were supposed to be so glory and harmful were really not discussing or graphic at all. When Michael Meyers was stabbing his sister with the knife all the audience saw was the night frustrating back and forth. We rarely ever saw the weapons enter the body up close. I feel this is because Halloween was the first of a slew of slasher films, besides Psycho which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock overt 20 years before Halloween was filmed. Maybe John Carpenter didn't know how graphic he could get in his movies. When the kids were getting murdered it seemed as though their cry for help...