How many clichés can you take...?

Rating: 2/10 (2 June 2010)

I remember my first attempt to watch this movie, it was about 5 years ago and ended after about 10 minutes. I remember the impression the opening scene made on me. I thought: "What a cheap, cheesy and bad movie this must be, no thanks." After a while I decided to give it another shot, also based on the 8.0 rating on this website. I rented it again, and I deeply regret it.
I love horror movies, I love to get scared, and I do not need blood, gore, splatter and the liking. I need an intelligent plot, a good, creepy atmosphere and a capable director who can tell the story well. "Halloween" has nothing of that.
"Halloween" has a really poor plot (a madman escapes from prison and kills people), a low-budget set that looks low-budget, an incredibly cheesy screenplay (the doctor about the madman: "I have worked with him for 15 years and he is pure evil" or something like that), a lousy, lousy soundtrack that should win an award for the worst movie score (composed by Carpenter himself btw.) and so on and on.
"Halloween" is a typical teenage low-budget horror cliché, full of bad dialogue and bad story telling. Since the sceneries are so dumb and hence so predictable, the movie is not scary at all. Actually, it is boring. I had a hard time not to close my eyes or do something else.
For my taste, this movie shows how not to make a horror movie. It is not scary, not intelligent and (on top of it) takes itself dead serious. Again, I have to say no thanks.
John Carpenter has become a "no no" to me. As a teenager I was kind of fascinated by "The Thing", but having seen it again as an adult, I'd have to say that it probably was because it was so disgusting. "Assault on Prencict 13" was one of the worst movies I have seen so far, and "Halloween" was not so much better than that. I will never watch a Carpenter movie again.
Anyway, 2 stars for not being as bad as "Assault" and for having Lee Curtis and Pleasance in the cast - the latter though with dialogues that make your mind boggle.