Trend-setting horror classic

Rating: 10/10 (31 October 1999)

Jamie Lee Curtis, as stalked teen, and Donald Pleasance, as doctor of escaped psycho, are flawless in this trend-setting horror classic. Movie shocks without being too gruesome, at least in tv version. Music adds greatly to the chills. Followed by one of the worst major films ever made, Halloween 2, and scores of inferior wanna-bes. In one of those mysteries of life, almost guaranteed not to be shown by any channel on October 31.