Halloween is THE movie that sent you home with fear.

Rating: 10/10 (25 October 2004)

Halloween is the movie that sent you home with fear. John Carpenter's use of suspense, pacing, lighting, and musical score places this film in league with Hitchcock. The acting is top notch and Michael Myers is the embodiment of pure evil. His smooth, graceful motion and penchant for "trick or treating" is of legend. Dr. Loomis shows sign of fright of what this night has in store. "Death has come to your little town sheriff, you can either ignore it or help me to stop it", is one of the best lines by Pleasence knowing full well what Michael is capable of. This film made you believe in the "boogeyman" long before Jason or Freddy ever came to screen. First rate acting by Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles and Nancy Loomis with expert camera work by Dean Cundey. Suspense is built when Michael appears in and out of the shadows and plays with his victims like a cat with a mouse, making his own macabre Halloween "pranks". The ending is perfect with the expression on Loomis' face as he looks on the grass and Michael is gone. The Friday The 13th and Nightmare On Elm Street movies are great horror flicks but this film moves into cinematic masterpiece. It is too bad Carpenter couldn't do the sequels this film so richly deserves.