John Carpenter Interview During Making of “Halloween” + RARE Behind The Scenes Footage (1978)
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- This is a rare behind the scenes interview with John Carpenter and Donald Pleasence during the making of Halloween in 1978. Plus behind the scenes footage of the movie.
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Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut) and Donald Pleasence, with P. J. Soles and Nancy Kyes in supporting roles. The plot centers on a mental patient, Michael Myers, who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his babysitting teenage sister on Halloween night when he was six years old. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his hometown, where he stalks a female babysitter and her friends while under pursuit by his psychiatrist.
Filming took place in Southern California in May 1978. The film premiered in October, whereupon it grossed $70 million, becoming one of the most profitable independent films of all time. Primarily praised for Carpenter's direction and score, many critics credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974). It is considered one of the greatest and most influential horror films ever made. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Halloween spawned a film franchise comprising thirteen films which helped construct an extensive backstory for its antagonist Michael Myers, sometimes narratively diverging entirely from previous installments. A direct sequel of the film was released in 1981. A remake was released in 2007, which was followed by a sequel in 2009. An eleventh installment, which serves as a direct sequel to the original film that retcons all previous sequels, was released in 2018; this was followed by two direct sequels: Halloween Kills (2021) and the upcoming Halloween Ends (2022). Additionally, a novelization, a video game and comic book series have been based on the film.
Cast:
Donald Pleasence as Dr. Sam Loomis
Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode
Nick Castle as Michael Myers / The Shape
P. J. Soles as Lynda Van Der Klok
Nancy Kyes as Annie Brackett
Charles Cyphers as Sheriff Leigh Brackett
Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace
Brian Andrews as Tommy Doyle
John Michael Graham as Bob Simms
Nancy Stephens as Marion Chambers
Arthur Malet as Angus Taylor
Mickey Yablans as Richie Castle
Brent Le Page as Lonnie Elam
Adam Hollander as Keith
Sandy Johnson as Judith Margaret Myers
David Kyle as Danny Hodges
Peter Griffith as Morgan Strode
Robert Phalen as Dr. Terence Wynn
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Donald Pleasance...his voice and his presence automatically make him admirable. Carpenter knows how to pick em and struck gold by hiring him. A match made in heaven. $30,000
Loomis is my favorite character, he really adds to the creepy narrative
I thought It was $25,000? Movie was made for $725,000
The extra $25,000 going to donald pleasance
check out the movie Wake in Fright, he’s great in that film, by the director that went on to do First Blood
@@Njbear7453the movie was made on 250k
John Carpenter is a badass. I own most of his movies on bluray.
Me as well 👍🏻💯 he's brilliant
Also Halloween has stood the test of time. I can watch it every October several times and still enjoy. Donald was also a key component to the movie. 🎃
Halloween 1 and 2 make a great double feature and are basically like one long and almost seamless movie together. Just avoid at all costs the various tv versions of Halloween 2 which have so many bizarre edits and dumb filler material that were correctly edited out of the theatrical version.
its the perfect horror movie
This is the first time I've ever seen "behind the scenes" footage recorded during actual production of the film, I had always thought that there were only photographs but never any actual film behind the scenes. Thank you so much for uploading this, these guys captured lightning in a bottle for this film.
I think John wanted Halloween to be one and done. Then move to the next project. Enjoyed this.
John Carpenter is a brilliant filmmaker who knows how to please an audience. He is incredible.
I have been a diehard fan since I was 12 and this is the first time, in 42 years, I've seen these clips of him directing the very scenes I know by heart and have been watching my whole life. I know the Pasadena neighborhoods, and know exactly where they are for these moments and interviews. Wow this is great!
He definitely speaks his mind. I’ve been collecting his classic movies. What I like about his Halloween movies. 1&2 is not the over done gore. He builds the suspense just enough blood and I like that about the early films.
I honestly strike 2. That ending in 1 is never remotely matched let alone topped. I've noticed with women/girls in particular that John Carpenter's Halloween truly scared, if they refused to watch 2, it is these people who fear Michael, The Boogeyman, The Mask, the breathing, the score all of it, it's these people who are the most scared of Michael Myers. That ending gives them no closure and there is the feeling he did not die and he's out there watching, stalking, hunting. Those who watch the sequels, Michael is deflated from the Boogeyman to a movie character if that makes sense, in 1 he genuinely feels like he is the boogeyman.
Best horror movie ever made no other so called Halloween even comes close
I love Halloween but I must say The Exorcist is a better film. Anyways... Halloween is in my top 5 for sure.
That is so awesome that BBC went to this effort. I would've loved it if they captured more behind the scenes of filming the movie.
I didn't think behind the scenes footage during production had been filmed or ever publicized, this is awesome.
John is brilliant 👍🏻💯 one of my favourite directors/writers. Im an artist/illustrator so if im doing comics or just a piece on canvas I think of John or watch his films to get ideas and and inspiration.
this is wonderful!!! wish they would release all the unseen footage and photos from this film..
John is such an honest guy. I identify a lot with him, always have, he was the 1st filmmaker i recognized by name and double special he was a Kentucky boy, as i am. The Thing to me is the most horrifying fictional situation put to film, any other movie I'd rather do that then Antarctica with that Thing.
Excellent interview. Thanks for sharing.
his intelligence and insight and also his laid back attitude make a reall good combination... love his interviews as much as i love his movies (all of them.)
he is so down to earth and relatable, not at all like the psychos that work in the film business
I love John. I'm from 70 miles north of Smith's Grove KY, which is the town north of his hometown Bowling Green KY, which yes I'm sure you know was where John went on a 1st year of WKU to a mental hospital on Smith's Grove where he saw a child give him the blank schizophrenic stare that inspired little Michael Myers. That person may still be here, that would've been the mid or late 1960s.
Lol i love the phrase "flogging around in the swamps". First time Ive heard it and im gonna use it when i watch a movie thats completely off the rails and out of its element.
The original Halloween will forever be my favorite film 🎃
He sure is intelligent at such a young age. I don't really like the interviewer attempting to lead John with some of his questions/statements, but John answers honestly and much to my delight, those answers do not parallel the leading questions by the interviewer.
Thank you Mr Carpenter I'm a really big fan of Halloween and also Nightmare on Elm Street I just wanted to say one one day at the store they had a mechanical Michael Myers and I loved it I want to say to you thank you and God bless you 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Legendary
Theater of the mind and suspense my favorite, not a fan gore , Carpenter hit the nail on the head with Halloween 🎃 lol
Back then…there was nothing like a master exposing other so called ‘masters’
Halloween, christine , they live , the fog & the thing are his best films
Christine is so underappreciated. Great film.
Agruably one of the most horror films of all time!!
The interviewer was confrontational but got some great answers out of JC.
“Sets about…reducing the population” 😅
Is not John Carpenter a man of the 1970s?
Look at his hair and moustaches from the video and compare how he looks nowadays.
People who were alive in the 70s (like me) look different from the way they did 40 years ago. Yep, after 40 some years, one looks a bit different.
@@paulascott5701The point is that John is NOT looking different in his style, which was cemented in the 1970s.
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿😅😅😅
Pleasance is pleasant. 😁
The horror Master
I too am not a fan of Close Encounters Of The 3rd Kind. Never have, always found it pretentious. For Spielberg, Jaws and JP are his golden standard.
See, now we are desensitive to torture porn horror. I miss the basic structure of what makes a great scary pic: a slowly built up atmosphere, a killer score, and keeping the characters and storyline bleak.
Well, it depends on the movie I think. Let's imagine a horror movie released today, and it has all those components you mentioned. But it builds up so much that you end up seeing a gory death, maybe the final death... The contrast in the same movie is so powerful, it would make that scene completely shocking and terrifying.
Now put that scene without the build up in a straight gory movie... Ends up being just another scene.
It's like an action movie without explosions. Put a car exploding at the end and with relevance to the story and oh boy, you found gold right there.
I like the French New Extremity... Calvaire is pretty good. Haute Tension is absurd but plays really well and entertaining, exactly what Carpenter is talking about. Maybe he doesn't like them... I don't know.
It's all about crafting the narrative in such a way that works for the audience. That's all. And it's not easy.
My respects to Carpenter. The Thing and Halloween are part of the top horror films in cinema history.
Nonetheless, I agree with you. I think it's my favorite kind of horror too: Just like the late William Friedkin's The Exorcist. Great film. Great director. R.I.P.
Altman does suck
Mash is the one good movie that Altman ever made.
McCabe and Mrs Miller is decent
Woke Hollywood should watch this interview and learn from a master.
Overly political Hollywood should watch this interview and learn from a master.
Eh, he goes on to make THEY LIVE 10 years later, so...yeah.
With all due respect to Halloween, but Big Trouble in Little China is his best film
Halloween is my all time favorite and Big trouble is okay but too over the top.
The Thing
The Thing is clearly his best film... Big Trouble is arguably my favorite though.
Escape from New York and The Fog
They live is awesome as well
Jason is better
For me to poop on
I am not a homosexual
Halejula
Me neither.
🤣
At one time, Carpenter hated films with a message and then he made They Live, which only existed to ridicule Ronald Reagan and anybody who voted for him. I hope Carpenter has matured enough to see what the left actually is.
tbh i always thought that's something he told the funders of the movie, it's so clear the movie isn't about Reagan... at least in my opinion. i know he's said he's a leftist but leftists usually don't make movies like he does.
carpenter is wrong about close encounters, and he's biased and clueless, very arrogant too