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Run Chicagoland tsnyt3y Movie Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune 1 R03er Chicago Sun-Times 'Halloween': Some tricks, a lot of treats TRIBUNE MINI-REVIEW A horror classic 7i "HALLOWEEN" Directed by John Carpenter; ecraenpley by Carpenter ana Dafcre Hill: photographed by Dean Cundey; edttad by Tommy Wallace; mualo by Carpenter; produced by HiH; Compete International release at tha Chicago and outlying theatera. Rated R. THE CAST Dr. Loomra Wiaeanna Laurie Lee CurMe Lynda P. J.

Soto Annie Nancy Loomta Bracket! Cypere Undaey Rlcharda ing left alone, of babysitters being forced to turn to children as allies in moments of stress, of other people doubting what you are certain you saw in the shadows of the night. Director Carpenter wisely keeps his killer hidden from direct sight. The killer is wearing hospital bandages over his face; he is photographed mostly in shadows. It's one thing to make an effective thriller out of night scenes, but it's a considerably more difficult achievement to scare the daylights out of us with daylight action. To my mind, the best sequence in "Halloween" is a dodge-'em game the killer plays behind some shrubbery as the school girls walk home in the afternoon.

To state the obvious, "Halloween" is not a film for youngsters. It is properly R-rated for its ever-present threat of violence. By Gene Siskel Movie critic PONT SEE "Halloween" In an empty theater on a weekday afternoon. See it on a weekend night in a packed house. "Halloween" is a film to be enjoyed with a boisterous crowd; it's an "audience picture," a film designed to get specific reactions from an audience at specific moments.

With "Halloween," the most often desired reaction Is screaming. It is a beautifully made thriller more shocking than bloody that will have you screaming with regularity. "Halloween" was directed 1 by John Carpenter, 30, a natural filmmaker and a name worth remembering. Eight years ago as a film student Carpenter worked on the Academy Award-winning short, "The Resurrection of Bronco Billy." "Halloween" begins with a magnificent four-minute tracking shot of what turns out to be an 8-year-old boy murdering his sister after he discovers her having sexual relations with her boyfriend. The film is set on Halloween night, 1963, in a sleepy small town in nois.

The tracking shot begins as the boy is outside his home. Along with him we watch the young couple leave the living room, walk upstairs, and go to bed. The young boy then dons a Halloween mask, and director Carpenter, maintaining the correct point-of-view, has his camera and us peer through the mask as the young boy walks into his sister's bedroom. He is holding a long knife in his hand. AFTER THE STABBING, the film Jumps forward to Halloween night, 1978.

The young killer is about to break out of the sanitarium where he has been held for the last 15 years. He will return to his hometown, and he will terrorize three teen-age girls. Donald Pleasance plays a psychologist on the killer's trail. Right about now some people may be thinking, "What can be so good about a film involving a young may attacking young women?" All that can be said in the film's defense is, with the exception MOTION PICTURES MOTION PICTURES MOTION PICTURES 1st. Run Chicagoland 1 si.

Run Chicagoland 1 it. Run Chicagoland L--i JL w- 1 It 4 4t-afWA'k of two demure shots of the girls undressing, "Halloween" does not pander to the violence-prone. This film is meant only to thrill. Rich Corliss, the excellent film critic of the late New Times magazine, offers an even better justification of the violence in "Hallowween." Corliss says that horror films such as "Halloween" are ferociously Old Testament; they punish "both the heroine-exhibitionist and the viewer-voyeur." In other words, the girls in "Halloween" are punished for fooling around with sex, and we the viewers are "punished" (with thrills) for watching the girls. A JOHN G.

AVILDSEN FILM C1NG "SLOW DANCING IN THE BIG CITY" PAULSORVINO ANNE DITCHBURN WRITTEN BY BARRA GRANT DIRECTED BY JOHN G. AVILDSEN MUSIC BY BILL CONTI PRODUCED BY MICHAEL LEVEE JOHN G. AVILDSEN A CIP FEATURE I I II DOLBY STEREO I NOW A PAPERBACK FROM WARNER BOOKS I PC rmurn uma iuaiiiii -ol United AftlStS a-aBJI I 7 ArnnmcoTOn TV! Mt 03 IN SELECTED IHfAI HS CwgNCWt rpiExclusive Midwest Premiere 835 North Michigan Avenue 2nd Level 649-5790 SO MUCH for theory. "Halloween" works because director Carpenter knows how to shock while making us smile. He repeatedly sets up anticipation of a shock and delays the shock for varying lengths of time.

The tension is considerable. More than once during the movie I looked around just to make sure that no one weird was sitting behind me. It's that kind of movie. "Halloween" plays on ancient fears of children be- Wednesday, Thursday at 1 0:25 am, 12:25, 2f25, 4:30, 6:35, 8:40, 10:45 pm Directed by Andrew Davis Produced by Tamar Hoffs And Andrew Davis Give hanks with Richard Davis Edward stoney HODinson ueorge Lngiuna Gene Barge And The Stony Island Band a Score By David Matthews MOTION PICTURES SPECIAL SHOWING MOTION PICTURES SPECIAL SHOWING ISg A World Northal Release eTfi funniest film John Travolta Olivia Newton-John Woods Starts Friday CHICAGO TRIBUNE Downtown 332-3752 Midnight Show Nightly SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER JSL SACRAMENTO UNION SOHO WEEKLY NEWS DAYTON JOURNAL HERALD HydePark 3 Penny Western Heights Wilmette Wilmatte Chicago South Chicago North Chicago Heijhtl 251-7411 667-3939 Ztswiuu -uouu "If you're in high school. 2f XNi if you re In college, if you're out of college, if you've ever heard Suburban Theatres 4 f5 of college, a National Lampoon fan, a Saturday NORTHWEST Night Live fan, or you're just ready for some wild college humor you will have a laughing good time at "Frenetically a ftARRINQTON CATLOW "GREASE" raucous remembrance of isT auiirl.li -OE5 PLAINES- things past and passionate.

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