Michael's legendary debut

Rating: Null/10 (22 July 2002)

John Carpenter's 1978 slasher classic, is the dawning of one of today's most infamous movie monsters. Michael Myers and his presence fills horror buffs like myself, with excitement everytime he shows up. Carpenter's original is still a staple of the genre ofcourse, with it's atmosphere, death scenes and excellent dialogue, coming most memorably from Donald Pleasence as Dr. Sam Loomis.
At the beginning, Michael Myers is a young kid of 6, working his way into his house and stabbing his sister several times with the infamous butcher knife. After that, the movie takes place several years later, where Michael escapes his asylum in Smith's Grove, and heads back to Haddonfield, where Loomis begins the hunt that would never stop until Halloween : The Curse of Michael Myers. Michael is after his sister, of course this isn't known to film-goers until the sequel. One-by-one he hacks up Laurie Strode's friends until the great chase for her life begins and doesn't let up.
Carpenter did excellent in what would be his first horror film. He knew his stuff very well. He uses the night scenes in this movie incredibly. We never know what's out there, or when it's there. That along with the pacing, atmosphere and blowing winds all add up to a great hypnotic experience that entrances us all the way through, until the shocking ending, which ofcourse continued in the great sequel Halloween II. This is a great basic horror film, that will live on with the best of them.