Halloween Michael Myers Movie House-Inspired Diorama
He's gonna get you! The Boogeyman is coming! - Halloween (1978)
In my opinion, there are really only two good movies in the entire 13-picture (and counting) Halloween franchise. I can watch them all, but the original John Carpenter's Halloween and Halloween III: Season of the Witch are really the only ones worth watching.
The first Halloween flick is an almost perfect horror movie. It's simple, timeless, drenched in tension and atmosphere, has an unrelenting soundtrack that has defined the entire season, and the unstoppable Michael Myers is downright terrifying whenever he appears. He can just stand there and it's scary. As spooky and sadistic as this classic slasher movie is, it almost feels wholesome and comforting while re-watching it every October... year after year after year. Hmm, it actually pairs nicely with It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown as a double feature. It's that traditional now.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch, the only sequel without Michael Myers, went in a crazy new direction of trying to tell a new Halloween story as a movie every Halloween, but failed at the box office, so we ended up with just more and more Michael Myers movies. The idea of a Halloween mask company, Silver Shamrock, creating death masks that will sacrifice children on Halloween night in a nod to an ancient Celtic ritual to ensure a bountiful harvest is just chilling, especially the hypnotic television commercials for the cool witch, skull, and jack-o'-lantern masks and the insidiously bleak ending... stop it, stop it, stop it... STOP IT!!!
When we started to get new takes on the Halloween movies from directors like Rob Zombie in 2007 or David Gordon Green in 2018, I thought that might be an interesting way to re-tell the original movie as like a campfire tale from a new perspective. Like re-interpreting Shakespeare. First we had John Carpenter's Halloween and then we had Rob Zombie's Halloween and then David Gordon Green's Halloween. Some people love these movies, some don't, but I like the idea that there could be even more takes on it in the future. If I ever got a chance to make The Green Head's Halloween, I would just start over and combine the stories of parts one and three. The clown mask that young Michael wore when he killed his sister and the altered William Shatner mask when he returned to the fictional Haddonfield, Illinois as an adult would be Silver Shamrock masks designed to make whoever wore them on Halloween night start killing everyone around them as part of a pagan ritual mass sacrifice. Michael Myers wouldn't be pure evil, he was just someone who wore the mask. It could be anyone of any age. Of course, these evil masks were just the prototypes as a test and the final ones were sent to Halloween shops all across the country... or something like that. Give me a call producers, you can't do any worse at this point.
Anyways, if you love the first Halloween movie, spooky old decrepit houses, or just making models with an exactness and attention to every conceivable detail, then add a terrifying centerpiece to your indoor Halloween decor, this season of the witch, with this cool new yet quite 1978-inspired Michael Myers Movie House Diorama from MiniFictionTown. This meticulously handcrafted miniature diorama of the Myers house that had fallen into disrepair in the original Halloween movie is 1:36 scale, has the same fallen gutters, Strode Realty sign on the front lawn, door pressed against the second-floor opened window, and even the little red "No Tresspassing" sign next to the front door. At night, the front porch light illuminates the little Michael Myers figure silently standing there holding a bloody butcher knife and the little jack-o'-lantern sitting on the porch railing glows as well. It's also available in a more weathered version and one with a built-in speaker that plays music and has synced internal lighting. Hopefully, they'll make Poltergeist, PSYCHO, and Munsters-inspired houses next... or, just a suggestion, horror movie house-inspired birdhouses! 🎃🔪
