Alone In The Dark with Dr. Loomis and Jason Voorhees

Alone in the Dark (1982) has a dream team cast. It stars three legendary actors: Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence and Martin Landau. This movie, directed by Jack Sholder, came very close to adding another noteworthy feature. One of its characters, a psychopath called Bleeder, wears a hockey/goalie mask to hide his face. Bleeder murders someone…

Michael Myers Techniques: Two-Hand Head Crush

HalloweeN’s Michael Myers usually prefers to use really long kitchen knives to dispatch his victims. However, the Myers Techniques article series will profile other ways in which Myers has brought death to people. This first entry will look at instances when Myers has attacked someone using his Two-Hand Head Crush method. Michael Myers first used…

The Evolution of Dr. Loomis of HalloweeN (1978-1995)

Dr. Loomis, as played by the great Donald Pleasence, went through several characterizations over the course of five Halloween films. Halloween (1978) presented us with a serious and restrained Dr. Loomis. He gave his take on Michael Myers’ nature with memorable lines and speeches. Hearing Loomis, a man of science, speak of evil and the…