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Ending make me laugh

posted 8 years ago by bigcat20
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Neighbor turns on outside lights and looks outside window to see what screaming women is making such fuss about then shuts them off to go back to bed.

[–] recklesscow 8 years ago

He made the right choice. Michael would have been in HIS house otherwise. Bitch shouldn't bring that down on anyone else! Imagine sleeping and then some screaming woman wants to take refuge in your casa and bring whatever's stalking her down on you. She was so inconsiderate.

[–] bigcat20 8 years ago

Ha, that particular Haddonfield neighborhood is in bed and checked out by the time it gets dark apparently.

[–] dave626 8 years ago

It's Illinois, in Oct. of 1978 after 9. So it's conceivable that they were in bed and tired after a long day. As for turning the lights out...no murders have occurred since 1963, none of note, anyway, quiet town and a teen maybe pulling some Halloween prank. What would your reaction be? Remember, 1978, not 2016 when killings are more common and pranks less so.

So it wasn't far fetched that they ignored her.

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[–] joe_538 8 years ago

Small thing, but killings are less common. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-16/fbi-us-homicide-rate-51-year-low

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[–] northernlad 8 years ago

He made the right choice. Michael would have been in HIS house otherwise. Bitch shouldn't bring that down on anyone else! Imagine sleeping and then some screaming woman wants to take refuge in your casa and bring whatever's stalking her down on you. She was so inconsiderate.

Oh this really made me laugh. I enjoyed it.

As for letting her in...I can't say that I would let her in my house either. Not on Halloween...not these days. BUT I would at least call the police to come check things out.

In college, we talked about this kind of stuff in my psychology class. There have actually been psychological studies conducted on such circumstances and it's terrifying that most people have the mentality that someone else will help so therefore...no one ever gets help.

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[–] LadyDi4476 8 years ago

I don't know how funny it is, but if some chick was screaming on my porch about letting her in I think I'd have to keep my door closed, too. That being said I would at least call the cops with all that ruckus going on.

-Di

[–] bigcat20 8 years ago

Also, no way in hell Tommy is sleeping up stairs. The idea that he's seen Myers at least twice and knows someone is out there but he's still just going to clonk out for the night in his bed because his babysitter told him to is laughable.

[–] dave626 8 years ago

Laurie was pretty convincing. She did say that there's no such thing as the boogeyman. She also said that she was there and she wasn't about to let anything happen to them. Also, when you're a kid, if it's late enough, done enough and he seemed to have a full day (walk to school, school itself, trick or treating since he had the costume on and not just for a night at home, then the course of the night, movies, popcorn, comics, even Lindsay) I'd say he'd be exhausted at some point. Plus with Lindsay there and her going to bed, you can't have one up and one asleep. Kids don't work that way. Finally, with all babysitters/authority figures/adults you listen and do what they tell you at that age. Maybe there was a fight, but we never saw it. So to bed he went.

Besides, if he hadn't fallen asleep we wouldn't have had the tense scene of Laurie locked out of the house while Michael crosses the street, which is iconic. If he was up watching the movie, it'd be a quick unlock and then Michael breaks in. Not as scary. It worked as it was meant to.

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[–] cjh8504 8 years ago

People like bashing this movie, I've noticed. Lol. I thought I was hard on it, sometimes.

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[–] LadyDi4476 8 years ago

Yeah if I were Tommy I wouldn't have trouble falling asleep knowing Lindsey was near by and Laurie was down stairs protecting him.

Of course after that night he might be traumatized for life.

-Di

[–] dave626 8 years ago

Didn't act like it in his brief cameo in Halloween 4 with Wade and Brady, but he certainly was messed up over it in Halloween 6. Personally, I like 6's Tommy better.

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[–] Gbolling1984 8 years ago

that moment makes me laugh but i also always thought since it was halloween, maybe the neighbor thought it was someone screwing around on halloween night and didn't take it seriously

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[–] cjh8504 8 years ago

She was a pretty convincing screamer though.

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[–] cjh8504 8 years ago

I guess so.

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