Oldies Movie Review - Halloween

Director: John Carpenter
Genre: Horror/ Thriller
Runtime: 93 minutes
Year: 1978
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers, Kyle Richards, Brian Andrews, John Michael Graham, Nancy Stephens, Arthur Malet, Mickey Yablans, Brent Le Page, Adam Hollander, Robert Phalen, Tony Moran

Description: On Halloween night of 1963, 6-year old Michael Myers stabbed his sister to death. After sitting in a mental hospital for 15 years, Myers escapes and returns to Haddonfield to kill.

Review: With “Halloween”, Jamie Lee Curtis followed in her mother’s footsteps. Mom Janet Leigh is known for the Hitchcock film “Psycho” and that famous shower scene. After “Halloween” Curtis got the nickname ‘scream queen’. It was her first movie role and her big break in Hollywood.
Many sequels were made after “Halloween”. But the first will always be the best and is an absolute horror classic. “Halloween” didn’t have a big budget and was filmed in only three weeks. “Halloween” had a big influence on the horror genre.
Off course the effects aren’t of today’s quality, but the suspense and scares are much bigger than today’s horror films. Partly because of the music, which is composed by director John Carpenter. The creepy melody is very well known now. With that the camera shows us the perspective of the killer sometimes, which has been copied many times after this. The movie doesn’t have a lot of blood and gore, but is still very scary. That’s what’s so good about “Halloween”.
Killer Michael Myers has become a famous horror character. He is pure evil, with the dead eyes and his stoic attitude.
“Halloween” is a masterpiece and one of my all-time favorite horror movies.

Rating: 5/ 5