Mother - slasher

Rating: 8/10 (5 January 2020)

Great film that proves that for making a horror film, doesn't have to have a big budget, or in this case to not even afford fake blood, because this film, literally had no blood.
This film is about Michael Myers, a mentally unstable young man, stalking Laurie Strode, a young student and babysitter, for a reason that we don't learn until the sequel, and also he kills everyone in his way.
The music that Carpenter wrote make you chill even in todays standards. It's a classic music that some years ago if you would listen at it, you would find it very familiar but you wouldn't know where is it from, but now it think that almost everyone know its roots, so this fact makes me really happy.
Although it's not the first slasher film, I do consider it as the mother of the slashers, because it literally did rocked the subgenre. Without Halloween, we wouldn't have had all the rest slashers of the 80s and 90s, so I'm very grateful for this.
Carpenter was very influenced by gialli films and this is very obvious for a person that have watched many gialli. So definitely it's not the most authentic thing in the world (but what's authentic anyways?).
So as I've said. This film is not gory at all. It has nothing of blood. Although everything is onscreen, blood and gore are not visible.
The music and the general vibes are creepy though. You hear constantly of Michael's breath, which is really disturbing and you also have some first point of view scenes.
I didn't liked that much Jaimie Lee Curtis' acting. I didn't found her convincing enough. Nor the other characters except Pleasence, who was very professional and great at doing eccentric roles. I'm not saying that Curtis is a bad actress. She was kind of convincing in the screaming parts, but in the "relaxed" parts, not so much. Fair enough that she is the ultimate "Scream Queen".
It's kind of slow paced, but I think that it builds tension.
In general, nice idea, nice directing, not so good performances, but realistic enough. Creepy vibes and a classic slasher film that it influenced by gialli films, but it was influence and landmark for later ones horrors.