Admirable cinematography, a disappointment of a movie

Rating: 6/10 (31 October 2003)

First of all I have to give praise to the very neat camera movements and a cool theme score which definitely boost the movie to a higher enjoyment level so you never have the feeling you're watching a low-budget horror movie. The first slasher movie to be exact, or so I've read. But there's not much slashing in it, which is the biggest disappointment of them all. On a Halloween night, 25 years after this movie is supposedly taking place, I expected a nice little blood bath but on the area I was most expectant "Halloween" disappoints immensely. There's very little violence (to be honest, an average Jerry Springer episode has more of that-and bear in mind that it's even more phony on his show)and just a hint of the vein filler and the ending is so unexpected and unfulfilling it should be given a slap. On one side, I admire the movie makers for creating a big-budget-ish movie with flying colors and John Carpenter for creating the suspense he did, but on the other side the movie miserably fails the test of time since the level of violence and brutality in the present time is much greater and today's youngsters (me including) don't find it nearly as petrifying as our parents. A funny and interesting look at a young Jamie Lee Curtis, though 6/10