Not for today's Brain Dead Teens

Rating: 10/10 (9 July 2016)

This film has a low body count. It builds on the terror between the kills. The film is almost bloodless but everyone thinks its a blood bath! It is a classic film! It ushered in a new type of horror and movies have never been the same.
John Carpenter and Debra Hill's screen play is a lean mean terror machine! In case you did not know the story in a nutshell
In 1963 a 6 year old boy stabs to death his older sister. 15 years later he breaks out of the mental hospital and returns to his hometown to begin anew!
This film will be "slow and boring" to most teen today because they have the attention span of a fly. They also will not look closely at was is going in the background in this film and that is sad. To me seeing what is going on in the background is what gives this film its iconic status!
This film is a classic. The success of this film ushered in the slasher films of the 1970's and 1980's. If it wasn't for the success of "Halloween" there would of never been a "Friday the 13th" Film or "Nightmare on Elm St".
This film is flat out frighting. What scared me here is the fact most of us at one time felt someone was watching us. This movie plays on that fear. However hardly anybody in the film realizes they are being watched by an escaped mental patient.
The widescreen frame adds scares because John Carpenter will show the killer (the shape aka Michael Myers) in the frame but then he is gone and you don't know where he is.
Now anybody under 30 will find this film slow because there isn't a kill every 5 minutes. What we have is a slow build up of terror and the past 15 minutes of this film will have you screaming for mercy!
Again today's teens have a limited attention span and will find this film a bore. However these are the same teens that named "Twilight" best picture of the year.