Halloween Film Analysis

Different Types of Criticism
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert critiques John Carpenter’s movie “Halloween” which is about a psychotic killer who escapes a mental institution and goes one to wreak havoc on anybody. They show a scene of a young woman attacking Michael Meyers when he tries to kill her. Roger Ebert goes on to say that “the movie develops the movie characters as independent, intelligent, spunky, and interesting people. Halloween does not hate women” (Siskel). This sort of critiquing falls under feminist criticism which states that “feminist literary studies soon began, however, to claim the equal but distinctive qualities of writings by women and men” (Mays 2347). The movie Halloween is treating women equally, giving them a better character or representation than most of the
The people from Honest Trailers do not show the viewer anything new but instead points out things that maybe the viewer was not aware of. They break down the video to show some things that makes the film contradictory and to point things out that really do not serve any purpose in the film like the troll rocks. This kind of critiquing falls under Deconstruction which states that , “A deconstructionist might read…in manner somewhat similar to the New Critic’s, but with even more focus on puns and paradoxes and on the poems resistance to organic unity” (Mays 2336). They show a contradiction in the film which the lead character has to “save the day by teaming up with her sister, a merchant, a hot guy, and a snowman to defeat villains like her sister, a merchant, a hot guy, and a snowman”(Honest). The film also shows that “all men are disgusting loners, greedy murders, or lying manipulative power hungry sociopaths” (Honest). This is also a deconstruction of the film to show the meanings that were maybe not obvious to the viewer on the first