Written by Mr. Mouseburger 31st Oct 2005
Following Bob Simms' (q.v.) death, Myers moves upstairs to Lynda, who is busy filing her nails. He disguises himself with a bed sheet and puts on Bob’s unfeasibly large glasses (I suppose they were all the fashion in the 70s).
Standing in the doorway, Lynda at first is playfully flirting with Myers, who she thinks is Bob, but as he continues to stand motionless in the doorway she becomes increasingly vexed with him, and decides to call Laurie to find out where the others are.
As she turns her back on him, Myers approaches her and wraps the telephone cord around her neck and begins to strangle her. Laurie answers the phone at this point and thinks that her friend is in the throes of passion, instead of slowly dying.
P.J. Soles is terrible in her death scene as she is quite clearly camping it up and taking the piss - have a look at her as she goes cross eyed and looks like she'd trying not to laugh as the telephone cord strangles her. Rubbish.
Yeah, this death scene has got to be sucked.
I agree that the murder of Lynda sucked because her screeaming is so fake and it doesnt even sound like screaming but then everything about this movie sucked,
Correction - the remake sucked.
The older verison is class!
well... it is a very old film...not that ive ever seen it...
me neither, but i've seen pictures
Commenting on a classic such as Halloween when you have clearly NEVER seen it, or do not appreciate it for the doors that it broke down cinematically speaking is rubbish. Yes, PJ Soles did not deliver what we as an modern audience would consider a "good" death, but you must remember that the only cultural references and archetypes that she had to follow at this point were the exploitation films of the early-mid seventies, or Tippy "I need to scream right now to be effective" Hedrin in Hitchcock's Birds...The truly classic monster movies don't count, because you're comparing fictional stories with something that could possibly occur...Okay, maybe not Michael taking 7 (not 6) shots and still getting up (or returning sequel after sequel) but the idea of mass-murder and what that does to the idyllic American neighboorhood certainly could. Cut PJ some slack...THIS IS THE FOUNDATION TO THE MODERN HORROR MOVIE (Young girl getting killed while friend listens on the phone)...Its the reason, although not wonderfully acted...THAT SITES LIKE THIS EXIST!!!
Actually it was Alfred Hitchcock's Phycho that broke down all the doors
Shut up Chris this movie does not suck this movie is gr8 you suck you moron.