Siskel And Ebert Halloween Summary

In the video, Siskel & Ebert Halloween (1978) the host is doing a Literary Criticism. Literary criticism is not negative or corrective, it is asking analytical questions about the works one has read or watched. Siskel & Ebert Halloween (1978) is a literary criticism because, the host and co-host are asking why people think that Halloween is such a great film even though it is older than the others people think are horrible to watch. The host comments on how there is a difference between good scary movies and movies that demean half of the human race, movies that are violent and entertaining and that are gruesome and despicable, and there is a difference between a horror movie and a freak show. After showing a scene from the movie where a mother and her children are running from the Boogeyman, the host begins to break down the scene. They are explaining how they were not even worried about the woman’s safety. They say how Halloween does not hate women, it respects women. The …show more content…
He begins his criticism my calling Arendale a “magical-ish, Scandinavian-ish country.” Next, he turns his attention to Elsa, calling her a “manic-depresive princess with a confusing set of powers.” He mentions how Anna had to team up with her sister, a merchant ( the Hotspring merchant), Kristoff (a hot guy), and a snowman (Olaf), to defeat her sister (Elsa), a merchant, Hanz (a hot guy), and a snowman (Elsa’s snowman guard). Lastly he nit-picks the songs calling them, The Exposition Song (Do You Want to Build a Snowman), The song That Sounds Like it was From Wicked (For the First Time in Forever), The Romantic Duet (Love is an Open Door), The Other Romantic Duet (Reindeer Are Better Than People), The Anthropomorphic Sidekick’s Comic Relief Song (In Summer), The One You Skip (The Frozen Heart), The One you Don’t Know the Words To (Fixer Upper), and The YOLO Song (Let it