Why is Halloween one of the best horror films ever made

Rating: 10/10 (4 November 2018)

In a word, it's SYNTHESIS. Jamie Lee Curtis ups the scream queen factor made infamous by the shower scene in 1960's "Psycho," starring her mother, Janet Leigh.
Tension grows from the beginning scene of six-year old, Michael Myers murdering his nude sister with a butcher knife in a POV shot borrowed heavily from the 1974 film "Black Christmas." The music also created by the filmmakers, John Carpenter and Debra Hill, increases the fear factor and tension as remarkably as Bernard Hermann's score for "Psycho" had.
While a few other 60s and 70s, horror and suspense films are more original than "Halloween," none synthesized or perfected those elements as masterfully as "Halloween" has. The girls are real, rounded out characters, who are smart and funny. It hurts to see them in peril. In a way this film is an antifemist film with a pro-feminist bias.
If you have not seen it, you are missing out on something uniquely scary and foreboding. There is a reason "Halloween" is to horror movies what Nirvana was to Seattle grunge music.
Go see it again and again and preferably on a giant widescreen in the 2018 digitally remastered version. It will frighten it's way into your heart. I love "Halloween."