Halloween Review, this movie inspired many sequels and is one of the best slasher movies ever made.
Director John Carpenter
Writers John Carpenter - Debra Hill
Cast
Jamie Lee Curtis - Laurie Strode
Donald Pleasence - Dr. Sam Loomis
Nancy Loomis - Annie Brackett
P.J. Soles - Lynda Van Der Klok
Brian Andrews - Tommy Doyle
Charles Cyphers - Sheriff Leigh Brackett
Sandy Johnson - Judith Myers
Tony Moran - Michael Myers
Kyle Richards - Lindsey Wallace
John Michael Graham - Bob Simms
Trancas International Films, Running Time 91 Minutes.
Michael Myers killed his sister when he was just 6 years old, since then he was held in an insane asylum for 15 years until he escaped. After escaping he begins to stalk a girl and her friends before going on a killing spree. he is a man without remorse or regret, simply put he is pure evil.
Halloween is a great example of how to make a horror movie on a small budget, simple but well told story and a simple but very effective score.
The pacing of the film is perfect, the cast is good with good dialog. Unlike many other slasher films the killings are realistic and believable.
Halloween was the first of the modern day slasher type horror films, which had many sequels and remakes in 2007 and 2009, none of them matched up to the original.
Slasher films are not my favorite type of scary movie, normally I find them quite irritating because of all the stupid decisions the victims make which ruins my enjoyment. However the original Halloween is one of the few exceptions.
8 out of 10
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