1979 Recording of Frightened Reaction from HALLOWEEN Audience
One of my favorite things about going to see horror movies is listening to and seeing the reaction of the audience. It takes a lot for me to get scared these days when it comes to horror films, so I feed off the fear of others!
An old 1979 recording has surfaced in which you can hear the sounds of a terrified audience watching John Carpenter's Halloween in a packed theater. The video below comes from JackOSkull via DarkCastle2012 who says,
"This is actual AUDIO (with the appropriate video scenes added -- a little out of sync, sorry) taken inside a Hollywood Boulevard movie theater in October 1979. I lived in Hollywood, California at the time. But failed to see the film in 1978 when it originally came out. The following year, in October 1979, it was re-released and playing at the Vine Theater (on Hollywood and Vine), where it was doubled-featured with The Toolbox Murders (also from 1978). I took an old Radio Shack cassette tape recorder inside the theater with me and sat in the front row to try and capture some of the music audio from both films. The Toolbox Murders' audience was quiet. HALLOWEEN's audience was not."
It's really entertaining listening to the audience reacting to these scenes. It would have been fun to see this movie on the big screen when it was first released. To listen to a 1977 audience reaction to Star Wars, click here.
Via: /film