This ending was legendary. Loomis' nonchalant reaction to Michael not being there. Laurie's cries as she realizes that Michael is still alive. Michael's breathing as they show us the different locations that were used in the movie thus indicating that Michael could be anywhere. This movie is timeless.
Donald asked John how he wanted him to play it,whether,he wanted him to look surprised that he'd got up and walked away and wasn't there,or,that he kind of knew that he wouldn't be there and although shocked,sensed he wouldn't be there. John told Donald to do it both ways and he'd choose,then he says to us the audience,watching the interview,"can you guess which one that I went with" Skorpiontamer,you probably,most likely have seen the interview,I just wondered your full opinion.I know you say "His face is all you need to know" but I think it's a clever bit of acting,which kind of shows both,it's kind of difficult to read but easy too,kind of,SHOCKED,but at the same time,"I knew it,you know,I knew it!!!! do you get my drift,sorry if I'm being a little confusing.... Also for years alot of folk thought she, Laurie,said "What's the boogie man" when she said "It was the boogie man".Me being one of them 🤣 perhaps she could have said it clearer,but it would take away,that great mystique that is the classic HALLOWEEN....
@@paulanthony5274 she cleary said "WAs the Boogey man" as if she knew who or what attacked her. I don´t know why Loomis said "as a matter of fact it was..." because Laurie wasn´t asking a question.
I remember years ago I fell asleep with the tv on while watching this movie (just a cat nap). I was barely waking up, my eyes hadn’t even fluttered open yet, when suddenly this theme starts playing, and Michael’s breathing is getting louder and louder... I felt as though he was in the room with me. I haven’t been able to replicate that terror since.
I watched this movie when I was younger maybe 3, I had a TV in the room and the scene I saw that instantly incapsulated me was when Michael is wearing the bed sheet over himself, I was so scared but completely memorized, I watched the whole thing through and the ending gave me nightmares
That breathing at the end makes it feel like Michael Myers is everywhere. This movie is damn near perfect and one of the greatest horror movies ever made.
Yeah there was never supposed to b a sequel from what I understand. J carpenter says the ending is to show evil never truly dies. When I watched it I thought it was like, (the shape): "I can b anywhere and nowhere at the same time..." oof
@@mexsaiyanvegeta1882 that's correct. The original plan was for Halloween to be its own anthology horror series with each film being a self contained story. Due to popularity, a sequel was made instead and the ending was to kill Myers off permanently. So Carpenter was able to do this with Halloween 3 and while it is a great horror movie, it wasn't what fans expected or wanted and was a commercial and critical flop. And that's why every Halloween movie since has been about Michael Myers. But yeah, because this was designed as it's own self contained story it makes for one of the best horror films ever made.
@@skar8009 Halloween 1 has three different timelines after the first movie ended. Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20 and Halloween 2018/Halloween Kills. Most fans consider Halloween II to be the real ending, and everything after just the movie producers wanting to milk Michael Myers for all that he's worth.
@Dante Carroll yup, hence why she started crying only after she realized he was gone. She had thought her nightmare over, only to realized it had just begun.
@@Vanic00 you do understand that Laurie had no idea that the guy wasn't dead and was gone...right? When Dr Loomis went outside the balcony, Lori was still inside a shock crying about the deceased people and everything that happened to her. She had absolutely no idea that he was gone. You're an idiot
@@samanthamcbride8285 shit, watch the clip and wrap your brain around it. She was looking right at Loomis, when he was checking to see. The fact that he showed no relief upon looking, quite the contrary, he looked even more concerned, was all the confirmation she needed to realize this horror wasn't over. Due to the limits of filming, this tooking slightly more time to convey. But in the reality of the movie, she could tell instantly what Loomis' reaction meant. Find something else to do with your time/life instead of throwing insults, ya twat
@@Vanic00 doesn't matter if she was looking at Loomis because Loomis never told her anything and there is no way she could have looked down the balcony in the position that she was all the way in the hall next to the bedroom. Glasses will do you a world of good, dipshit. Come back when you actually have facts to debate with...
The last few seconds of the ending will send chills down your spine! The iconic theme song mixed with Michael breathing threw the mask while the camera is showing different places he may be. Chilling!
Yup!.. He could hiding in the dark on the right side at 2:30. He Could In one of those rooms at 2:32. He could be in that closet at 2:35. He Could be Outside at 2:41. He could be in one of those rooms at 2:23. Very spooky.
Donald Pleasence was born for his role as Dr. Loomis. My God what an exceptional actor. His facial expressions when he looks over the balcony and sees Michael is gone are flawless. He makes the movie.
1:30 - When I was 16, I watched this movie in 1978 at the drive-in. When Dr. Loomis looked over the balcony and seen Michael was gone, I remember hearing the people in the 150 or so cars gasp in disbelief followed by the creepy music. I remember that like it happened yesterday.
The second movie was good. But that one was more of a heavy slasher film than a suspense one like this movie. The rest can just be forgotten about. And I may be in the minority, but H20 wasn’t that good to me. Didn’t like the scream influence to it tbh. Scream is a fantastic movie, but the influences on other movies, just felt like copy cats.
@@Novistadors oh yeah, I hear you. It's sad how Scream was such a big deal in the 90s that even a classic like Halloween, that very likely inspired it, ended up joining all the other slasher copies that followed it with H20 which, idk I prefer Halloween 2 when I think about a definitive end for Michael.
@TayGi777 Yeah I know the sentence was a kind of callback to earlier in the movie, but if it was SO obvious people here wouldn't be hearing different things.
This still to this day is one of the most bone chilling endings to any movie ever it’s still creepy as hell and leaves you with that sense of ambiguity. I remember when I first saw it in the end happened how spooked I felt as a kid.
When you hear 👂 Michael’s breathing at the end of film, still one of the scariest moments in Halloween 🎃 a horror classic that never goes out of style.
This was literally the perfect ending, they describe Michael as a boogeyman so him getting away again and him being literally anywhere makes the most sense. We did not need any sequels after this
I may be over thinking it, but I noticed the music(The Shape Stalks, I think) stops when Loomis aims and fires his first shot to make you think you don't have to be afraid of Michael anymore and that Loomis has control of the situation. Music jumps back in when you realize you still have to be afraid of Michael and Loomis truly doesn't have control of the situation.
Those haunting images of the household after Michael has escaped as the music plays gives such an ominous shiver down my spine. Especially the shot looking up the stairs as if we expect Michael to slowly creep up.
Also this is something small but I love that the very last shot you see is the Myers house. Here it practically represents Michael Myers and the impending suffering for Haddonfield.
Bruh his breathing is EPIC!! I've been practicing it ever since. No lie, every time I see someone I don't like, I start breathing like him loooooooool.
Christopher lee and peter Cushing were originally asked but turned it down because the money was to low. Lee later told Carpenter he regretted turning it down. Also the budget was originally three hundred thousand dollars but needed a loomis so they asked for another twenty to get an actor for the character so it became three hundred and twenty thousand. This movie was the perfect storm for horror film making.
0:59 I love that Loomis never called out to him, never gave him a warning, never tried to reason with him, (like he does in later movies) he just straight up shoots the motherfucker (6 TIMES!!!) in the hopes that it kills him but Loomis nows just as Tommy did... You Can't Kill The Boogeyman!
I think it’s great seeing that Michael can just get up easily after 6 gunshots, multiple stabs to the chest and a stab to the eye. I think that’s just insane
This is without a doubt the best horror movie ending of all time! If you watch this late at night on Halloween, look out your window as you hear Michael Myers breathing. You’ll swear he’s out there… somewhere.
Greatest finish to a horror film since Psycho The whole movie you watch from the predator’s POV ( Michael ) then at the end you watching from the Prey’s POV ( Laurie ) He gets so close multiple Times and you’re on the edge of your seat. Then at the end they see his body is missing & the music hits ! All of those shots around the house signal that he is still alive, he can’t die & it’s no telling where Michael is ... just the music and him breathing GENIUS
Best horror film ever made. Incredible tension. John Carpenter was a true auteur. To direct a film like this and compose the iconic soundtrack is amazing. Assault On Precinct 13 was great too.
At 2:28 you can see Michaels’ carving knife still on the floor. I thought that this was a goof up since he had it upstairs.Then I remembered Brackett saying that a couple of knives were stolen from the hardware store.
2:48 The final shot of Michael's house shrouded in darkness while his breathing and theme song are heard in the background gives me goosebumps every time, man. 🔪🎃
It is a fantastic ending Some of my favorite end scenes The Birds Psycho Rosemary's Baby Exorcist Mother Sleepaway Camp (yes that One, that ending is Awesome) Black Christmas (the original, which this movie actually lifted ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Descent Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer
Imagine seeing this in the theaters when it came out, chances are you could have lived in a house that looked like the Meyers’ home in a town like Haddonfield, and then imagine the dread driving back home with this ending in in the back of your mind. Fucking brilliant movie, my god.
One of the most greatest, iconic, and memorable twist endings in horror cinema as of today it still gives me chills and goosebumps as I sit in complete shock and silence as I'm trying to comprehend what just happened. It never gets old.😍😎💯👍😏😰😱
@@vinceniederman Facts that's what makes the ending so effective and brilliant as it sends chills and goosebumps 😰😱 down your spine as you sit in complete shock and silence as you are trying to comprehend what just happened.😰😱
This ending is legendary. As a kid my dad recorded this and Halloween 2 on VHS in the 90's, even stopping the recording during commercials. It was the first movie to ever give me the eerie feeling. Honestly, I think its the first time I felt paranoia or real fear. And I think the quality of the picture back in those days made it even creepier. But though this ending is legendary, if this was just a one a done movie, as the writers wanted it to be, it would have been even more legendary. I personally like 2, because I seen it directly after the first Halloween, when I was like 10, so those two would always blend together to me for the longest. But there is a massive drop off from 1 to 2 in retrospect. lol The original, in my opinion, is the best slasher horror movie of all time. For so many reasons.
I was eight when this came out and what scared me the most was when he was stalking her as she came home from school with her friend and would see him then he would vanish.
It’s weird watching this movie now, by itself Seeing everything that’s come since and what came before I can see why the movie was so iconic, truly a deserved classic
Even though I was allowed to see slasher films early enough in my teens, I was surprisingly late in getting round to Halloween. But I’m glad that I finally did. It’s timeless and both Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance are outstanding. 🎃
While i love halloween 2, i wouldnt mind it if this was the ending since i do love the idea how they had it left it for the viewer if he's supernatural or not since he survived the gunshots, fall, and he was able to leave very quickly.
The ending that started it all. Jason, Freddy, Chucky, etc would not have started unless this movie did it and it paid off! I love slasher films but this slasher is the greatest. Michael Myers is king of this genre of horror! Halloween one of the greatest horror films of all time! Also the slasher himself is one of the greatest if not the greatest killer in film. He is the embodiment of evil and carnage. He is the BOOGEYMAN!
@@haripratapsinghparmar1443 everyone has their opinion. I’m saying Myers is because he was the first slasher before Jason and the rest of the 80’s slashers
Fun fact. Christopher Lee was offered the Dr Loomis role. He turned it down due to the low pay of 20000. He since said that was his biggest career mistake. Also Lindsay is aunt to Paris and Nicky Hilton.
Actually, it was Lee's agent that denied Carpenter the role of Dr. Loomis. And when Lee saw Pleasence's performance as Loomis, he was SO angry at his agent, he fired him for denying him the role.
@@kryptonianpowers Interesting....I know Christopher Walken did that as well to his agent for not showing him the script and role offer from Tarantino for Reservoir Dogs.
I like how the first, original ending of Halloween as a matter of fact never truly was supernatural. For all we know Michael could've just been wearing a bullet proof vest.
I notice little things in films. Does anyone notice how Loomis’ revolver sounds different at the beginning of Halloween II than it does in the ending of Halloween I? For the second film they overdubbed different gunshot sound effects. They did this for a lot of films. If you notice in the Dirty Harry films, they overdubbed Clint’s 44 magnum with a more modern sound as well.
The look of Loomis is terrifying me since i was a kid. Looking at the spot where Michael fell off, then the town into the night. He was the only one who have a little bit of a chance to stop him and he failed. Michael disapeared, again. And of course the breath, the music, the mask... Everything is perfect. This movie purchase my nightmare for more than 20 years and i still love him, thought.
Just watched this film for the first time yesterday, and I will definitely say that it is an epic film that deserves the love it has received. Now, even though I've heard many of the sequels aren't very good, I'm going to watch them all in preparation for Halloween Kills. Funny enough, what started this was the fact that I had a dream three days ago (September twenty-second, for anyone who reads this a year or more from now) where I was chatting in a convenience store to people I'd never met when Michael walked in. He tried to attack me, but I punched him, and he ran away. Then I resumed chatting like nothing happened. It stayed with me, so I decided to watch the film. Now I am glad that dream occurred. Love the film and the score.
Nick Castle nailed the walking perfectly. I like Dick Warlock and a couple of the other guys who “played” Myers in the sequels but none of them could recreate what Castle did in this movie. Myers’ movements are almost non-human. He moves like he’s possessed by something other worldly.
So happy I met Nick Castle last year. He was suprised though a bit when the first thing I praised him for was making The Last Starfighter. That was part of my childhood before I ever saw Halloween
No movie killer will ever come close to Michael Myers. Most slasher movies are about a masked killer hunting victims, then at the end it’s true identity is revealed as some crazy lunatic, who is then shot or killed, and peace is finally restored. Halloween takes a much different path. At first Michael seems like a crazy psychopath, but as the movie progresses, you notice there is something otherworldly about him. Even at the very end, when we think the horror is finally over, we noticed that Michael has disappeared, having survived what couldn’t be survived. He’s no longer just a crazed killer. He’s some kind of demonic entity that could appear anywhere at any moment.
Do you know why original Halloween is scary? You know from the begining that Micheal is just an ordinary human with mental illness, but the direction, music and shadow playing in many scenes made him look like a monster from closet and in the end you breath with relief knowing that Micheal is dead. Really, how can he survive 6 bullets and falling down from second floor? But when you see that he is gone and hear his breath somewhere as if he is everywhere and close to you, you ask yourself "Is he really human?". This is the point. This is the real fear what original Halloween brings.
This ending was legendary. Loomis' nonchalant reaction to Michael not being there. Laurie's cries as she realizes that Michael is still alive. Michael's breathing as they show us the different locations that were used in the movie thus indicating that Michael could be anywhere. This movie is timeless.
I think his breathing means that no one in Haddonfield is safe from the Shape
I love it its my favorite horror film and im not into horror really but i love 1/2/4 thats it
@@italiangoodfellas8962 H20 was pretty decent because it felt like it should have been the official ending
The breathing is that evil will always exist.
Nonchalant? He was shocked as shit.
Loomis's face says all you need to know as he stares down at the empty ground
Donald asked John how he wanted him to play it,whether,he wanted him to look surprised that he'd got up and walked away and wasn't there,or,that he kind of knew that he wouldn't be there and although shocked,sensed he wouldn't be there.
John told Donald to do it both ways and he'd choose,then he says to us the audience,watching the interview,"can you guess which one that I went with" Skorpiontamer,you probably,most likely have seen the interview,I just wondered your full opinion.I know you say "His face is all you need to know" but I think it's a clever bit of acting,which kind of shows both,it's kind of difficult to read but easy too,kind of,SHOCKED,but at the same time,"I knew it,you know,I knew it!!!! do you get my drift,sorry if I'm being a little confusing....
Also for years alot of folk thought she, Laurie,said "What's the boogie man" when she said "It was the boogie man".Me being one of them 🤣 perhaps she could have said it clearer,but it would take away,that great mystique that is the classic HALLOWEEN....
He's thinking 'FUCK.'
@@SarahnatorX hes thingking everyones fucked not human
@@paulanthony5274 she cleary said "WAs the Boogey man" as if she knew who or what attacked her. I don´t know why Loomis said "as a matter of fact it was..." because Laurie wasn´t asking a question.
“I knew this was gonna happen.”
I remember years ago I fell asleep with the tv on while watching this movie (just a cat nap). I was barely waking up, my eyes hadn’t even fluttered open yet, when suddenly this theme starts playing, and Michael’s breathing is getting louder and louder... I felt as though he was in the room with me. I haven’t been able to replicate that terror since.
Wow I can feel that fear in you
Why in the blue hell would you wanna "replicate" that same terror?
@After Asteroid Survivor what do you mean love
@After Asteroid Survivor I meant I've never been scared watching a movie again. I'd never compare real world concerns to fiction.
I watched this movie when I was younger maybe 3, I had a TV in the room and the scene I saw that instantly incapsulated me was when Michael is wearing the bed sheet over himself, I was so scared but completely memorized, I watched the whole thing through and the ending gave me nightmares
Breathing in every camera shot. Symbolizing that no matter where you are, evil cannot ever die. evil will always be lurking.
69 likes I leave it there
"Evil never dies. It changes form"
Laurie’s cry after Loomis realizes Myers ran away is ICONIC
She's crying because she's suffering from the trauma of Michael's attacking of her.
“Oh, COME ON.”😭😭😭
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@@kryptonianpowers but isn’t it that with the knowledge he’s loose again ? That was my impression... only she (and the writers ) truly know .,,
That breathing at the end makes it feel like Michael Myers is everywhere. This movie is damn near perfect and one of the greatest horror movies ever made.
Today it would just end in a jumpscare.
Yeah there was never supposed to b a sequel from what I understand. J carpenter says the ending is to show evil never truly dies. When I watched it I thought it was like, (the shape):
"I can b anywhere and nowhere at the same time..." oof
@@mexsaiyanvegeta1882 that's correct. The original plan was for Halloween to be its own anthology horror series with each film being a self contained story. Due to popularity, a sequel was made instead and the ending was to kill Myers off permanently. So Carpenter was able to do this with Halloween 3 and while it is a great horror movie, it wasn't what fans expected or wanted and was a commercial and critical flop. And that's why every Halloween movie since has been about Michael Myers.
But yeah, because this was designed as it's own self contained story it makes for one of the best horror films ever made.
I think you mean feel like he is anywhere because Michael Myers is evil incarnate.
@@kryptonianpowers isn't that what I said though?
Michael literally got up from all those gun shots like “Fuck this shit I’m going home” according to Halloween Kills 😂
Dude is literally too ANGRY TO DIE!
“Screw you guys, I’m going home”
Isn't what he did in Halloween 2?
@@skar8009 Halloween 1 has three different timelines after the first movie ended. Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20 and Halloween 2018/Halloween Kills. Most fans consider Halloween II to be the real ending, and everything after just the movie producers wanting to milk Michael Myers for all that he's worth.
@@drlight6677 well said
Laurie realizing that he's still out there and that her nightmare isn't over. That always got me, her just trapped in this game of cat and mouse....
@Dante Carroll yup, hence why she started crying only after she realized he was gone. She had thought her nightmare over, only to realized it had just begun.
that´s the tag line for Halloween II "The Nightmare isn´t over"
@@Vanic00 you do understand that Laurie had no idea that the guy wasn't dead and was gone...right? When Dr Loomis went outside the balcony, Lori was still inside a shock crying about the deceased people and everything that happened to her. She had absolutely no idea that he was gone. You're an idiot
@@samanthamcbride8285 shit, watch the clip and wrap your brain around it. She was looking right at Loomis, when he was checking to see. The fact that he showed no relief upon looking, quite the contrary, he looked even more concerned, was all the confirmation she needed to realize this horror wasn't over. Due to the limits of filming, this tooking slightly more time to convey. But in the reality of the movie, she could tell instantly what Loomis' reaction meant. Find something else to do with your time/life instead of throwing insults, ya twat
@@Vanic00 doesn't matter if she was looking at Loomis because Loomis never told her anything and there is no way she could have looked down the balcony in the position that she was all the way in the hall next to the bedroom. Glasses will do you a world of good, dipshit. Come back when you actually have facts to debate with...
by far one if not the greatest horror movie ending.
Perfect example of making the killer survive in a way that doesn't piss you off.
Tom Ffrench It didn't ruin it. Halloween II's ending was pretty awesome, too.
Alvixers Gongway The Shining's ending is fine. I like the ending in the book way more.
Black Christmas 1974 is a big contender for me
Demegor, you're exactly correct.
The last few seconds of the ending will send chills down your spine! The iconic theme song mixed with Michael breathing threw the mask while the camera is showing different places he may be. Chilling!
Yup!..
He could hiding in the dark on the right side at 2:30.
He Could In one of those rooms at 2:32.
He could be in that closet at 2:35.
He Could be Outside at 2:41.
He could be in one of those rooms at 2:23.
Very spooky.
Michael Myers and Darth Vader two of the most heavy breathing mass killers ever to exist.
Kinda hard to compare Michael to Vader. Michael killed what, 10 people? Vader killed Thousands if not millions...
@Bad Boys Council #InOrOut We're not talking about that tho.
lilmoris1 it isn’t but he is right. “Pure Evil”
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@@lilmoris1 you hella trippin Michael Myers killed like 100+ people in all the movies total
Donald Pleasence was born for his role as Dr. Loomis. My God what an exceptional actor. His facial expressions when he looks over the balcony and sees Michael is gone are flawless. He makes the movie.
1:30 - When I was 16, I watched this movie in 1978 at the drive-in. When Dr. Loomis looked over the balcony and seen Michael was gone, I remember hearing the people in the 150 or so cars gasp in disbelief followed by the creepy music. I remember that like it happened yesterday.
I love how the credits can be places where he is hiding.
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I’d dare to say this is one of the best endings in cinema history
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Love how Loomis clicks one off after he’s already fallen off the balcony. Classic.
he was scared of him.
The more I rewatch Halloween, the more I realize how good it is as an one-off horror movie, without all the huge mess that the sequels brought.
Exactly….none of the sequels recaptured the magic that the original had…this was the perfect ending if you ask me
As much as I love the film and character, it would have been epic if they left it alone...as if you never know what's going to happen next.
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I heard Halloween was supposed to be a anthology series.
The second movie was good. But that one was more of a heavy slasher film than a suspense one like this movie. The rest can just be forgotten about. And I may be in the minority, but H20 wasn’t that good to me. Didn’t like the scream influence to it tbh. Scream is a fantastic movie, but the influences on other movies, just felt like copy cats.
@@Novistadors oh yeah, I hear you. It's sad how Scream was such a big deal in the 90s that even a classic like Halloween, that very likely inspired it, ended up joining all the other slasher copies that followed it with H20 which, idk I prefer Halloween 2 when I think about a definitive end for Michael.
It’s always goosebumps inducing when the theme plays during the ending
天Scourge Michael is not a human being
Same here!
1:33 - Laurie: “It WAS the boogeyman.”
Loomis: “As a matter of fact...it was!”
😉
Then along came John Wick to take that title.
I thought she said "Was that the boogeyman?"
@TayGi777 Yeah I know the sentence was a kind of callback to earlier in the movie, but if it was SO obvious people here wouldn't be hearing different things.
@TayGi777 It's all cool.
This still to this day is one of the most bone chilling endings to any movie ever it’s still creepy as hell and leaves you with that sense of ambiguity. I remember when I first saw it in the end happened how spooked I felt as a kid.
Ever since the one & only Dr. Loomis passed away, Halloween hasn’t been the same since. Rest in peace Donald Pleasence🙏🏻
Fun fact: Those final few shots that are accompanied by the heavy breathing were leftover establishing shots Carpenter ended up never using.
Without a doubt, this movie revolutionized horror films.
I can’t imagine what the audiences in the theaters were thinking as this was going on.
Before Halloween 1978, there wasn’t an ending like this so it was shocking at it’s time
for a $300,000 budget movie, it was awesome.
it made 60 million
When you hear 👂 Michael’s breathing at the end of film, still one of the scariest moments in Halloween 🎃 a horror classic that never goes out of style.
This was literally the perfect ending, they describe Michael as a boogeyman so him getting away again and him being literally anywhere makes the most sense. We did not need any sequels after this
Made me so scared when I was a kid. Just motionless, dark face outlined only in what is a mask. Breathing heavy. Chills. 1:05
Imagine coming home from the cinema, after the ending showing Michael is still out there. You’d feel just as vulnerable as the teens in the movie.
This is my favorite film ever! Best ending in cinema history!
100% agree immense cinema
nothing has matched this since
a proper goosebump ending brilliant
planet of the apes is.
I may be over thinking it, but I noticed the music(The Shape Stalks, I think) stops when Loomis aims and fires his first shot to make you think you don't have to be afraid of Michael anymore and that Loomis has control of the situation. Music jumps back in when you realize you still have to be afraid of Michael and Loomis truly doesn't have control of the situation.
The look of Dr. Loomis's face at the end is priceless & epic. One of the most underrated movies of all time.
Your wrong.
@@Vanic00 I'm right
Wats underrated about this?
@@MrFosthesensei Didn't get enough credit...duuuuh
This movie isn't underrated at all.
It's a masterpiece, but it isn't underrated
Those chords on the piano - wow! Perfect to create tension.
Those haunting images of the household after Michael has escaped as the music plays gives such an ominous shiver down my spine. Especially the shot looking up the stairs as if we expect Michael to slowly creep up.
Also this is something small but I love that the very last shot you see is the Myers house. Here it practically represents Michael Myers and the impending suffering for Haddonfield.
Well said 💯🔥🥶
Breathing at the end is so epic. So so epic. The 70s rock.
It can not be overstated just how great this music is. Unbelievable.
Michael is so dramatic when he’s getting shot I love it
Bruh his breathing is EPIC!! I've been practicing it ever since. No lie, every time I see someone I don't like, I start breathing like him loooooooool.
When hes not on the ground anymore i get chills and will always
Leaves the audience to imagine if ran or just got up and walked away.. Still my favorite horror film
If only Donald Pleasance was around for Halloween 2018.
Christopher lee and peter Cushing were originally asked but turned it down because the money was to low. Lee later told Carpenter he regretted turning it down. Also the budget was originally three hundred thousand dollars but needed a loomis so they asked for another twenty to get an actor for the character so it became three hundred and twenty thousand. This movie was the perfect storm for horror film making.
Ian Meadows It goes to show you don't need a spectacular budget as long as you have a good story.
But you can't imagine anyone else to play loomis
@@petermain8062 Malcolm McDowell was great as Loomis in Rob Zombie’s films.
Donald Pleasence was a really good actor in Halloween 1978 1981 1988 1989 & 1995 he's a iconic living legend in all the Halloween movies timelines
0:59 I love that Loomis never called out to him, never gave him a warning, never tried to reason with him, (like he does in later movies) he just straight up shoots the motherfucker (6 TIMES!!!) in the hopes that it kills him but Loomis nows just as Tommy did... You Can't Kill The Boogeyman!
I think it’s great seeing that Michael can just get up easily after 6 gunshots, multiple stabs to the chest and a stab to the eye. I think that’s just insane
Still gives me chills after all these years. Carpenter always has banger endings to his films
This is without a doubt the best horror movie ending of all time! If you watch this late at night on Halloween, look out your window as you hear Michael Myers breathing. You’ll swear he’s out there… somewhere.
The movie is a masterpiece and the soundtrack too.
The sound of his breathing means that the town of Haddonfield, Illinois is not safe from THE SHAPE.
Agreed and The Face by Loomis Tells a Different Story!
The shape... it is nothing but pure evil in the shape of a man
that final battle is so iconic and i love how at the end you can still hear him breathing knowing he’s still out there lurking.
Greatest finish to a horror film since Psycho
The whole movie you watch from the predator’s POV ( Michael ) then at the end you watching from the Prey’s POV ( Laurie )
He gets so close multiple Times and you’re on the edge of your seat. Then at the end they see his body is missing & the music hits ! All of those shots around the house signal that he is still alive, he can’t die & it’s no telling where Michael is ... just the music and him breathing
GENIUS
Best horror film ever made. Incredible tension. John Carpenter was a true auteur. To direct a film like this and compose the iconic soundtrack is amazing. Assault On Precinct 13 was great too.
I basically got to tell him that. :)
*camera pans over five feet to the right*
"Oh wait, nevermind, he crawled a couple feet before bleeding out. WHEW!"
At 2:28 you can see Michaels’ carving knife still on the floor. I thought that this was a goof up since he had it upstairs.Then I remembered Brackett saying that a couple of knives were stolen from the hardware store.
Aw Jamie lee Curtis is adorable here I still love her to this day she’s absolutely amazing💞
2:48 The final shot of Michael's house shrouded in darkness while his breathing and theme song are heard in the background gives me goosebumps every time, man. 🔪🎃
Same and Still a Spooky Ending To This Classic Horror Movie!
I saw this at the drive-in theater back in the day scared the s*** out of me
One of The Best Horror Movie Endings Without Question And Never Fails To Give Me The Chills in My Spine!
It is a fantastic ending
Some of my favorite end scenes
The Birds
Psycho
Rosemary's Baby
Exorcist
Mother
Sleepaway Camp (yes that One, that ending is Awesome)
Black Christmas (the original, which this movie actually lifted )
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Descent
Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer
@@kdohertygizbur Nice and This Scene Never Fails To Give Me Chills!
Imagine seeing this in the theaters when it came out, chances are you could have lived in a house that looked like the Meyers’ home in a town like Haddonfield, and then imagine the dread driving back home with this ending in in the back of your mind. Fucking brilliant movie, my god.
One of the most greatest, iconic, and memorable twist endings in horror cinema as of today it still gives me chills and goosebumps as I sit in complete shock and silence as I'm trying to comprehend what just happened. It never gets old.😍😎💯👍😏😰😱
Agreed and The Music is Perfection in This Classic Horror Movie!
@@vinceniederman Facts that's what makes the ending so effective and brilliant as it sends chills and goosebumps 😰😱 down your spine as you sit in complete shock and silence as you are trying to comprehend what just happened.😰😱
@@dejaalston8672Yup and Thank God Loomis Was There To Save Laurie From Michael!
1:08 The movement that Michael makes gets me everytime!😂
This ending is SO iconic in the halloween franchise of course the first one, is always masterpiece
Agreed and Good Thing Loomis Was There To Save Laurie!
This ending is legendary. As a kid my dad recorded this and Halloween 2 on VHS in the 90's, even stopping the recording during commercials. It was the first movie to ever give me the eerie feeling. Honestly, I think its the first time I felt paranoia or real fear. And I think the quality of the picture back in those days made it even creepier. But though this ending is legendary, if this was just a one a done movie, as the writers wanted it to be, it would have been even more legendary. I personally like 2, because I seen it directly after the first Halloween, when I was like 10, so those two would always blend together to me for the longest. But there is a massive drop off from 1 to 2 in retrospect. lol The original, in my opinion, is the best slasher horror movie of all time. For so many reasons.
Best cliffhanger in movie history
That ending is basically saying he is still out there which gives me goosebumps to this day
I was eight when this came out and what scared me the most was when he was stalking her as she came home from school with her friend and would see him then he would vanish.
Classic. Never gets old. Still chilling. ❤️
It’s weird watching this movie now, by itself
Seeing everything that’s come since and what came before I can see why the movie was so iconic, truly a deserved classic
Even though I was allowed to see slasher films early enough in my teens, I was surprisingly late in getting round to Halloween. But I’m glad that I finally did. It’s timeless and both Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance are outstanding. 🎃
Love how Loomis says it because he ain't no human
love how she tells the kids to leave the house and get help, and she proceeds to take a seat and wait for Michael to wake up
0:12 when I saw this movie in the theater, I remember a woman behind me saying "It's about time, he did something!"
This scene to this day always scares the shit outta me. I think it's the way he was walking towards her and her not knowing he's coming
While i love halloween 2, i wouldnt mind it if this was the ending since i do love the idea how they had it left it for the viewer if he's supernatural or not since he survived the gunshots, fall, and he was able to leave very quickly.
The ending to this movie is a genuine perfect example of how to end a horror movie
The ending that started it all. Jason, Freddy, Chucky, etc would not have started unless this movie did it and it paid off! I love slasher films but this slasher is the greatest. Michael Myers is king of this genre of horror! Halloween one of the greatest horror films of all time! Also the slasher himself is one of the greatest if not the greatest killer in film. He is the embodiment of evil and carnage. He is the BOOGEYMAN!
Yeah But The First Movie was great but Jason Is The king of slasher Not Myers
@@haripratapsinghparmar1443 everyone has their opinion. I’m saying Myers is because he was the first slasher before Jason and the rest of the 80’s slashers
What about Leatherface? He came before Michael Myers
@@MadBiscuitz I agree with you but Leatherface never really struck me as a slasher. He’s more of a cannibal than anything.
@@backwoodsbadassbuzz4946 well you are right
Notice how Michael's breathing gets louder and louder when the camera cuts to his old house. I think the indication is he returns to his home.
Fun fact. Christopher Lee was offered the Dr Loomis role. He turned it down due to the low pay of 20000. He since said that was his biggest career mistake. Also Lindsay is aunt to Paris and Nicky Hilton.
Actually, it was Lee's agent that denied Carpenter the role of Dr. Loomis. And when Lee saw Pleasence's performance as Loomis, he was SO angry at his agent, he fired him for denying him the role.
@@kryptonianpowers Interesting....I know Christopher Walken did that as well to his agent for not showing him the script and role offer from Tarantino for Reservoir Dogs.
Christopher Lee is awesome but Donald Pleasance is Loomis. His performance was perfect for that character.
@@kryptonianpowers I wonder what it would look like.
I like how the first, original ending of Halloween as a matter of fact never truly was supernatural. For all we know Michael could've just been wearing a bullet proof vest.
I’ve seen so many parodies of the ending over the years. Nice to see the original. Music still scary over 40 years later. Happy Halloween 🎃
The best part of the end of the original was the look that Loomis gave knowing that evil is still alive
And The Music Too!
This has to be one of the best climaxes in a horror film. I love loomis so fckn much
I notice little things in films. Does anyone notice how Loomis’ revolver sounds different at the beginning of Halloween II than it does in the ending of Halloween I? For the second film they overdubbed different gunshot sound effects.
They did this for a lot of films. If you notice in the Dirty Harry films, they overdubbed Clint’s 44 magnum with a more modern sound as well.
Absolute classic of a horror movie.
That montage of places at the end is pretty damn scary especially the final house
The look of Loomis is terrifying me since i was a kid. Looking at the spot where Michael fell off, then the town into the night. He was the only one who have a little bit of a chance to stop him and he failed. Michael disapeared, again. And of course the breath, the music, the mask... Everything is perfect. This movie purchase my nightmare for more than 20 years and i still love him, thought.
Everytime I watch this movie it reminds me of how great movies can be
I like this was originally intended to be a cliffhanger as John Carpenter would've moved on from Michael and did season of the witch and so forth
Best movie.... Period
Anmol Yadav Agreed
Best movie ever???? Or best Horror movie?? Bec I disagree with best movie ever made. But imo Halloween 1978 was defo in the top 3 of horror movies.
Just watched this film for the first time yesterday, and I will definitely say that it is an epic film that deserves the love it has received. Now, even though I've heard many of the sequels aren't very good, I'm going to watch them all in preparation for Halloween Kills. Funny enough, what started this was the fact that I had a dream three days ago (September twenty-second, for anyone who reads this a year or more from now) where I was chatting in a convenience store to people I'd never met when Michael walked in. He tried to attack me, but I punched him, and he ran away. Then I resumed chatting like nothing happened. It stayed with me, so I decided to watch the film. Now I am glad that dream occurred. Love the film and the score.
Nick Castle nailed the walking perfectly. I like Dick Warlock and a couple of the other guys who “played” Myers in the sequels but none of them could recreate what Castle did in this movie. Myers’ movements are almost non-human. He moves like he’s possessed by something other worldly.
He moved like a cat
So happy I met Nick Castle last year. He was suprised though a bit when the first thing I praised him for was making The Last Starfighter. That was part of my childhood before I ever saw Halloween
1:14 Just that sound effect makes it hilarious
The cinematography and use of shadows at the end along with the theme is great filmmaking
So simple, but so effective
Loomis’ reaction to Meyers body being gone is priceless
Absolutely
@@the8568 One of His Best Reactions Bar None!
I agree. He didn't need to say a single word. Just that look is enough
Still one of the most chilling endings of a horror movie.
Saw it in the theaters in 1978 with my mom. I was 10. The audience was floored and scared to death by the ending.
John Caprender, the man
No movie killer will ever come close to Michael Myers.
Most slasher movies are about a masked killer hunting victims, then at the end it’s true identity is revealed as some crazy lunatic, who is then shot or killed, and peace is finally restored.
Halloween takes a much different path.
At first Michael seems like a crazy psychopath, but as the movie progresses, you notice there is something otherworldly about him.
Even at the very end, when we think the horror is finally over, we noticed that Michael has disappeared, having survived what couldn’t be survived.
He’s no longer just a crazed killer. He’s some kind of demonic entity that could appear anywhere at any moment.
No matter how many times they try to rehash and remake this movie, this ending will always be chilling
Do you know why original Halloween is scary? You know from the begining that Micheal is just an ordinary human with mental illness, but the direction, music and shadow playing in many scenes made him look like a monster from closet and in the end you breath with relief knowing that Micheal is dead. Really, how can he survive 6 bullets and falling down from second floor? But when you see that he is gone and hear his breath somewhere as if he is everywhere and close to you, you ask yourself "Is he really human?". This is the point. This is the real fear what original Halloween brings.
I love this movie!!!
3:18 they got Michael age wrong
True, he'd be 21. Guess no movie's perfect.
Dude I’ve watched Halloween a million times and I’m just noticing that lol
No Halloween 2 Take's Place On The Same Date On 1978
Yea I noticed it when I first watched it and I was like wait a second something isn’t adding up
Strong 21 year old people forget this is a human being in there universe
One of the greatest horror themes of all time.
And in 2 weeks I will be, like many others, praising John Carpenter for it!