Halloween: Autopsis
Taking a cue from the likes of SAW: REBIRTH or THE DEVIL’S REJECTS anthology, the DVD for the excellent new documentary HALLOWEEN: 25 YEARS OF TERROR comes packaged with a bonus comic book, HALLOWEEN: AUTOPSIS, written by the doc’s director, Stefan Hutchinson.
No mere adaptation, AUTOPSIS is an original story based upon some of the franchise characters. It’s told from the point of view of Carter, a photojournalist obsessed with two things: capturing reality on film and capturing photographic proof that serial killer Michael Myers is still very much alive. To that end, he follows around that miserable old coot Dr. Loomis.
Hutchinson’s story is different from what you’d expect and quite well-told, to the point where I forgot Myers should even be making an appearance, and the twist at the end was even nice and sick. But what does it a disservice is the ugly lettering job and the second-rate art of Marcus Smith. Seriously, our hero looks like a Backstreet Boy. As a HALLOWEEN fan myself, I’d like to see more HALLOWEEN comics, only drawn by someone else’s hand. And with a subtitle that the dictionary recognizes as an actual word. –Rod Lott
[...] HALLOWEEN: 25 YEARS OF TERROR – I don’t care who knows it: I love the HALLOWEEN movies. All of them. From the original John Carpenter classic to the Michael Myers-less HALLOWEEN III to even that one with Busta Rhymes. So I was looking forward to this franchise-spanning retrospective documentary with vanilla-mint-toothpaste breath. It did not disappoint. Every movie is covered, just about everyone involved is interviewed, and it proves that HALLOWEEN fanboys (and one breast-flashing fangirl) are just as scary as other movie-series fanboys. Comes with more extras than I will ever have time to watch, plus a comic book (which we reviewed here). And many thanks to Hitch reader Joel for buying this for me as a complete surprise, just because he is super-nice. [...]
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[...] TUESDAY >> 8.8.06 Our boss Rod takes his lettering seriously, and he had a bone or two to pick with Marcus Smith, the artist of HALLOWEEN: AUTOPSIS. While Mr. Lott liked the story in this DVD pack-in comic, the art left him cold as a disemboweled cheerleader. Let’s just meditate on that image for a bit, shall we? [...]