Day: October 26, 2023

Michael Myers: The less than minimum wage serial killer!

MICAHEL MYERS WAS A CHEAP KILLER..

The original Halloween was low budget.

But this low budget!?
Whoa!!

Michael — called “The Shape” — was played by Nick Castle.. As a small boy, Michael Myers was played, in one scene, by an actor named Will Sandin in his first and last role on screen. In POV shots, the hands of young Michael were provided by co-writer and producer Debra Hill, while the unmasked Michael — who appears only briefly at the very end of the movie — was played by Tony Moran. 

There were certainly a lot of Shapes.

The shooting schedule for the original “Halloween,” filmed in Pasadena, was a mere 21 days back in 1978. The film was famously completed for a mere $300,000 to $325,000 … although little of that, it seems, went to Castle. According to a 2018 interview with Vanity Fair, Castle’s pay was $525, in total.

Vanity Fair adjusted Castle’s paycheck for inflation, saying that $525 in 1978 would be about $2,509 in 2018. By 2023, that inflation only equals $2,583.43. According to Rent.com, the average price of a one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles is about $2,853..

In Castle’s own words:

“I was paid $25 per day for ‘Halloween.’ That was a lot at the time! You have to remember: my interest in doing the film was being on set, so I could demystify the experience of filmmaking and directing. I expected to hang around the set for no money. But hey, $25 per day, and all I had to do was wear a rubber mask. It’s a mystery what [John Carpenter] saw in me and the way I moved. I asked John, ‘What is this character going to do?’ And he said, ‘Just walk across the street.’ I knew Michael’s movements weren’t going to be robotic. He was a real guy. He’s not rushing.”

MORE..

Reviews are in: FIVE NIGHTS at FREDDY’S tracking low in the rotten tomatoes count.. but who cares!! See it anyway!!

The reviews are in. Critics hate FIVE NIGHT AT FREDDY’S.
Will you?

…maybe the movie just needed NIC CAGE like Willy’s Wonderland..

After all the build up to FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’s, the reviews are in. Rotten Tomatoes is counting it as as rotten..

At PG-13, will the pre and just teens go see the FNAF film that they played all through their single digits??

At the time this is written, it has a 25% critic score.

But what do they know anyway!?

Just a few snippets:

“Caught between PG and R, as well as lost at the crossroads of inadvertent comedy and horror, the PG-13 Five Nights at Freddy’s has to go down as one of the poorest films in any genre this year.”

“A weird horror concoction, fleetingly clever in the early going before gumming up the gears down the home stretch.”

“One problem is that the title imposes a stop-and-start structure which keeps killing the momentum. One scary night would work better than five with time-outs for daytime plot about the evil auntie or a deep backstory.”

“Expanding the game’s simple, primal premise with a surfeit of character melodrama, it’s a Five Nights at Freddy’s that labors under the bizarre assumption that the loyal fanbase wants a lot of extraneous plot surrounding the fun-center horror.”

But does it matter???

We are getting word of this tonight: Five Nights at Freddy‘s is eyeing a $50 million-plus start and possibly even more. At that level, it would make it the second-best domestic box office opening of the fall behind Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour !!

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Developing this weekend…

The OFFICE Halloween cut scene lives on in infamy

Office fans love their lore. This one comes to us from 2009, when a haunted house scene became so controversy, NBC cut it for good

BIG fans of the OFFICE here at the HORROR REPORT.

After seeing a ‘best of Halloween’ Youtube OFFICE themed video, one particular scene was foreign. That is because it was rarely seen–cut by NBC and not on Netflix when it appeared there or Peacock now in its current home.

The scene was originally featured in the episode, “Koi Pond,” the eighth installment of season 6. You will not find it now.

“Koi Pond” was one of the most memorable episodes from The Office season 6. Jim had a meeting with an important client but it was requested that Michael come along. When the duo returned, Michael was soaking wet and it was revealed that he fell into a koi pond. After a lesson about mocking fellow employees, the office learned that Jim could have stopped Michael from falling into the pond but he purposely stepped aside to let it happen.

The episode is famous in OFFICE lore for the plot. But also famous for what vanished.

The episode aired on October 29, 2009, and opened by showing the employees of Dunder Mifflin Scranton putting together a haunted warehouse for the local kids. Darryl , who Michael referred to as “gangster pumpkin”, pushed the kids around as the rest of the employees put on less than inspired horror scenes.

The cold open-ended with Michael simulating a suicide, horrifying the children while turning it into a life lesson and referencing that Christmas is not the only season with a message and that suicide is not the answer..

It appears NBC had a backlash to the episode. Some thought it was too offensive and inappropriate causing NBC to remove the scene. Michael was dressed as Saturday Night Live‘s character, D*ck in a Box during his hanging.

You an see it here, still, in all its cut and edited glory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_gVDfKSms8&t=185s

Goldie Hawn recalls being touched by an alien and feeling God

The star said the incident happened in her 20s, when she was living in California at a time where there were ‘a lot of UFO sightings.’

Goldie Hawn: ‘An alien touched me and it felt like the finger of God’

That really is a close encounter with the third kind.

The star, now 77, revealed the incident happened in her 20s, when she was living in California at a time where there were ‘a lot of UFO sightings.’

‘I went outside my door, and I sat on the little ledge, and I looked up at the dark sky. And I saw all these stars. And all I could think of was … “Are we the only planet in the whole wide universe that has life on it?”‘

She said she called out to any aliens listening, saying she knows ‘we’re not alone, and I would like to meet you one day.’

And just four months later, she was settling down for a nap in a friend’s car while working as a dancer, and heard a ‘high frequency’ in her ear.

She claims she then saw three ‘triangular-shaped heads’, silver in color with a ‘tiny little nose,’ no ears and ‘a slash for a mouth.’

The aliens ‘were pointing at me … discussing me like I was a subject.’ She says she was unable to move, but that the aliens ‘touched me and it felt like the finger of God.’ ‘It was the most benevolent, loving feeling. This was powerful. It was filled with light.’