What I LOVED about John Carpenter and the late Debra Hill's work on the FIRST Halloween and The Fog was.....ATMOSPHERE! Both were done SO well with VEEEEEERY small budgets, especially The Fog. In both of those movies, there was a sense of feeling isolated. Even the music... Aside from the film track, loved how in the Fog, the KAB (Lighthouse radio station) played simple Jazz Swing like music. I though even that added to the atmosphere.
THESE DAYS????? We have the SAAAAAAAAAAAME ol "Jump" scenes with the loud SCREETCH "music". Soundtracks with annoying Teeny Bop music. And like EVERY other movie in Hollywood......CGI up to our ears!!
The last really good Ghost Story movie I saw was "The Others" with Nicole Kidman.
