Month: April 2020

Hookland 4/8/20 5:58:36

@pauljessup @rodgerkibble @CeeChampion While I am one of the biggest possible fans of Kneale, I suspect every version of the script for Halloween III was a flawed, hot mess built on ridiculous premises.

Hookland 4/8/20 6:03:26

@pauljessup @rodgerkibble @CeeChampion No. Stonehenge fragments in masks, a fundamentally flawed portrayal of paganism et al – even his best version would‰Ûªve been glorious trash his heart clearly wasn‰Ûªt in. The core ideas lack his ambiguity, nuance and fierce logic. Everyone is allowed one inferior work in the canon.

Hookland 4/8/20 6:09:59

@pauljessup @rodgerkibble @CeeChampion And Halloween III is a fun thing. A nice thriller with scares in the right places, yet it isn‰Ûªt up to the quality of Beasts or the unmade remake of the Creature of the Black Lagoon. Better with De Laurentis – absolutely, but even early versions are out of whack.

Hookland 4/8/20 6:26:56

@pauljessup @rodgerkibble @CeeChampion Atmosphere, a lack of the pornography of violence are both my prerequisites for a good horror movie. However, I also want logic, for the spell of the movie not to be broken by ‘Uh, how does that work?’ moments. Even a pure Kneale Halloween III would be slippery on that.

Hookland 4/8/20 6:33:17

@pauljessup @rodgerkibble @CeeChampion Compare/contrast coherent logic of The Stone Tape – which is so strong its title becomes attached to paradigm haunting theory – and ‘chips made from Stonehenge’ and androids replacing people and other-things-on-top malarkey of Kneale’s Halloween III. It’s not the Kneale I love.

Hookland 4/8/20 6:43:31

Along those old tracks that have always marked deep borders, spirits of the county’s ancient dead still sometimes wear fox-heads or crow-faces as they march across time. – #CLNolan https://t.co/cEOfVVEhm0