The beginning of the slasher film era.

Rating: Null/10 (13 April 2003)

A beautifully done horror movie by John Carpenter. When I was six this movie scared me to death and I remember sleeping with my parents for months. Till they bought me a night light. I believe this is the first true horror movie I've seen. A maniac is on the loose and taking out innocent teenagers in the neighborhood. The one thing I notice about this movie was Micheal Myers didn't necessarily go after children but after the adults and teenagers. Then came two years later Friday the 13th (1980) with another maniac killing off another batch of teens. But this time the movie takes place at a camp site. Throughout the 80s Halloween,Friday the 13th,and A nightmare on elm street became popular to movie goers because of its sequels. There were also numerous type of other slasher films like Silent Night Deadly Night (1984),Sleepaway Camp (1983) and variously other low-budget horror movies that wasn't really a box-office smash. By the early 90s slasher films started to fade away due to it's tiring predictable scenes. Then revived in the mid 90s with "Scream" and "I know what you did last summer." But still these movie couldn't top the earlier classics with that eerie low-budget quality.