Halloween 4 & 5 - No schedule to release at this time

[FendersRule]

How about you email whoever is in-charge of the F13 movies, and get to release part 4!!! After part 4, it gets kinda crappy with F13!

Halloween 4 and 5 is ....ugh......

Tell them to release Halloween 2 first off!

[csdot]

anchor bay doesnt have 2 just 4 and 5. and theres dozens of anchor bay titles id rather have before any of the halloween sequels anyway.

[bboisvert]

I can't pretend to understand Anchor Bay's blu philosophy, but it would surprise me if H4 + 5 didn't see the light of day sooner rather than later. I would actually be a bit surprised if October came and went without them hitting blu.

That would just leave 2+3 as the blu gaps... and I suspect it'll take Universal a loooong time to get to those.

[F13BluRay]

Originally Posted by FendersRule

How about you email whoever is in-charge of the F13 movies, and get to release part 4!!! After part 4, it gets kinda crappy with F13!Halloween 4 and 5 is ....ugh......

Tell them to release Halloween 2 first off!

BLASPHEMY! They are all GREAT!!!!!!!!! (Except Part 5, 8, and 9. Those are just OK lol)

[Ator the Invincible]

Originally Posted by FendersRule

How about you email whoever is in-charge of the F13 movies, and get to release part 4!!! After part 4, it gets kinda crappy with F13!

Halloween 4 and 5 is ....ugh......

Tell them to release Halloween 2 first off!

I agree with Halloween 2 needing a proper special edition release on blu (and DVD too I guess). I'm surprised they haven't done this yet. Halloween 4 is great though. Part 5... not so much. But I actually like part 4 better than part 2.

As for Friday the 13th, I can't agree. Parts 6 and 7 are my favorites of the whole series (with parts 1 and 4 up there as well). They need to release them all!

[mpstjohn]

Originally Posted by Ator the Invincible

I agree with Halloween 2 needing a proper special edition release on blu (and DVD too I guess). I'm surprised they haven't done this yet. Halloween 4 is great though. Part 5... not so much. But I actually like part 4 better than part 2.

As for Friday the 13th, I can't agree. Parts 6 and 7 are my favorites of the whole series (with parts 1 and 4 up there as well). They need to release them all!

Laurie Strode is ultimately what makes Halloween 2 feel inferior to H4. Too much of that movie was her drugged and dazed, stumbling around the hospital.

F13 Part 7 deserves the HD treatment if only to see the amazing makeup effects they'd done on Jason. That scene of him stepping out of the lake with this shirt torn and his spine and ribs showing through was creepy. It was also the best he's ever looked without his mask on. Also, like FVSJ, the opening revisits the kills from the earlier movies and gives you a sense of how good parts 4 thru 6 will look when they debut on blu.

[FendersRule]

Originally Posted by mpstjohn

Laurie Strode is ultimately what makes Halloween 2 feel inferior to H4. Too much of that movie was her drugged and dazed, stumbling around the hospital.

That's true. However, Donald Pleasance is in the spotlight WAY more, as he kinda becomes the centralized charactor, and that makes up for it. He's way over the top, and has that high pitch squeel when he speaks. Love it!

Then again, her being drugged and dazed really adds to the horror factor in that she cannot move very well, and that she's stuck where she's at.

[FendersRule]

I need to watch parts 4 and 5 again as it's been way too long. I can guaranee you that the consensus is that 2 is the best Halloween sequel, and from what I can remember, i'd have to agree with this.

[mpstjohn]

Originally Posted by FendersRule

I need to watch parts 4 and 5 again as it's been way too long. I can guaranee you that the consensus is that 2 is the best Halloween sequel, and from what I can remember, i'd have to agree with this.

From all the interviews with Carpenter about H2 I've heard his heart wasn't really in it when he wrote it. Despite the last film having an open ending he couldn't find any real place to take the premise to pad out a second film (he conceived the Laurie being Michael's sister idea at the last minute). Sadly I think Carpenter's lack of enthusiasm shows in the finished film, even if he wasn't the one directing it.

By comparison, H4 seemed closer in recreating the ambiance of Carpenter' first film than even H2 did. Also I like what Donald Pleasance was able to do with Loomis this time around, look at the scene where's he's hitchhiking and picked up by the preacher. It was nice to see him actually expand a little on his character, which he didn't have the opportunity to do in Halloween 2.

[mayorofsmpleton]

Originally Posted by mpstjohn

From all the interviews with Carpenter about H2 I've heard his heart wasn't really in it when he wrote it. Despite the last film having an open ending he couldn't find any real place to take the premise to pad out a second film (he conceived the Laurie being Michael's sister idea at the last minute). Sadly I think Carpenter's lack of enthusiasm shows in the finished film, even if he wasn't the one directing it.

By comparison, H4 seemed closer in recreating the ambiance of Carpenter' first film than even H2 did. Also I like what Donald Pleasance was able to do with Loomis this time around, look at the scene where's he's hitchhiking and picked up by the preacher. It was nice to see him actually expand a little on his character, which he didn't have the opportunity to do in Halloween 2.

Well said. H4 is very under-rated and feels much stronger as a sequel to the first film. 2 feels like a retread with none of the subtle elements. H4 gives us a strong heroine, a babysitter storyline and a much more interesting Dr. Loomis. Is it a great film? No. It's much stronger than 2, 5, 6, 8...

I'd say the most "respected" of the sequels was H20. It got the most mainstream success and critics seemed to respond to it. Halloween 2 was hailed as "stronger" when we just had 1-6 but I think it was just due to having the same "visual" look of the first time (thank Dean Cundey for that) despite lacking in any of the creative storytelling or narrative structure that made the first film work so well. Halloween is a classy horror film comparable to Hitchcock's greatest. Halloween 2 has more in common with Friday the 13th...