Michael Myers: Absolute Evil

Saw this on youtube and was going to watch it but unfortunately the people who made this video wasn't thoughtful about the deaf and hard of hearing people who needs to see it in closed captions or subtitle in order to know what is being said and so on. This was an easy fixed, all they had to do was enable the captions to generate it but they turn that feature off purposely. So I could only give 1 star for this since I was unable to watch it or understand it.

In this modern age nowadays there is no excuses for movie producers to not to provide captions for the deaf and hard of hearing.

I first watched this a year or so back and was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting shoddy work but the writer has obviously done his homework (disregard the new trilogy, it follows the original franchise). The "actors" were adequate and it's kinda cool how the bring in a good few of the characters from the original who tell us their own personal opinion and point-of-view on the night that unfolded on 31st of October 1978. I honestly don't understand one reviewer who has given it a 3 because they were led to believe that this was an actual documentary 🙄 I mean REALLY? Yeah, so Michael Myers is real and these are real people who've went to hell and back, but they'll talk to a documentarian?! Geezo!

Anyway, go into this blind and don't have too high expectations, it's fan made, and you might enjoy it.

Michael Myers: Absolute Evil (2016)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Impressive film from director Rick Gawel acts like a television special that you'd see on Dateline. The film is a documentary on the events told in HALLOWEEN as if they were a real story. We get interviews with people who survived that night and then we have experts talking about who Michael Myers is and the various other crimes that would be committed over the next couple decades.

For a fan film this is quite impressive and if you're a fan of the HALLOWEEN series then you'll certainly find it to be entertaining. With that said, I did have a few issues with it, which I will get out of the way right now. For starters, I thought the "story" of Myers being told wasn't nearly as focused as it needed to be. I thought the film really started to drag around the one hour mark as we got off the subject and into different territories.

Outside of that the film is well-made and there's no question that it does a nice job connecting itself to the series. I honestly didn't feel that the movie came across as one of those television special but it was certainly good enough for what it was. One of the best moments deals with the events seen in the first two pictures as we get to known some of the victims or at least more than what the pictures showed. The finale of this picture goes into a ghost hunter episode where the hospital from part two is used for them to try and contact Myers and yes he shows up.

I was misinformed, I was told this was a documentary about the Halloween movie franchise but it's something altogether different.

This faux documentary behaves as though the events that happened in the movies were real, interviewing various people from "Haddonfield" & "Experts".

It shows photos of the actors involved in the movies and makes them out to be their actual characters. It's such a weird thing to see, a documentary discussing Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode.

I see what they were trying to do here and it's certainly highly original but does it work? Not on this occasion and I doubt it ever could.

Mixed in with all these interviews is a short segment showing found footage of a group who ran afoul of Myers. This offers the most entertainment but Myers looks so bad it kills the entire thing.

Points for originality, but this may not appeal to even the most die-hard of franchise fans.

The Good:

Original concept

The Bad:

Struggled to take it seriously

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

This faux documentary thing in this format simply doesn't work