wake up John Carpenter

So, after writing around 4000 words of notes on one of my favourite horror films, Halloween (1978) I picked up on some things that I never really noticed before that are quite stupid really;

Michael Myers, institutionalised at 6 years of age can drive a car.

The clock chimes out 10 times in the opening scene. When Myers walks past the clock the hands point nowhere near 10.

Linda and Annie openly rag on Laurie for having loads of books yet Annie has almost as many.

Annie doesn't even wonder why, after going to collect her car keys from the house, the car door is no longer locked when she tries it again (without inserting the key).

Myers doesn't even reach back to get leverage when he pins Bob to the door with a carving knife that is clearly not long enough to go through a grown man in his late teens/early 20s AND through a wooden door deep enough pin him about 10 cm off the ground. This guy weighs what, 14 stone or so? Silly.

Those wooden slats on the wardrobe Laurie hides in are definitely not as robust as Michael makes them seem, especially if he can do the above without so much as attempting to get momentum with his stabbing arm.

Some other shit is probably obvious too. Luckily I get to watch it again in a few days, this time to see the ways in which Michael is emasculated. I cannot wait.