Good but not the best or the first.

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2004)

Don't get me wrong, Halloween is a classic horror film and stands up very well to repeated viewings. But it still annoys me when people describe it as the original 'slasher' film. It was preceded by a few years by the TRUE classic and original 'Black Christmas'. Bob Clarke's masterpiece of suspense and tension laid down the groundwork for nearly every stalk and slash picture that followed... including Halloween. The original premise of Halloween wasn't even John Carpenter's idea, it was the premise that Bob Clarke had for a potential sequel to Black Christmas that never got used. John Carpenter just asked if he could use it. Halloween is still a classic in it's own right, and a very scary film but I do feel that it should be more well known that it wasn't the first and that a lot more credit should be given to Bob Clarke and his intensely creepy classic.