Halloween Does NOT Suck

Rating: Null/10 (13 July 2005)

I saw this movie again last night on TV. I had forgotten how good it was. I saw a comment on the movie site from a younger viewer. This person said it wasn't scary, did not live up to the history "hype", etc.
What I see in the movie is that it showed a good female role model in the "Laurie" (Jamie Lee Curtis) character. In movies previous, and since, usually the female victim of the mindless killer just screams and lies there, waiting to be killed. Laurie did not. She ran. She poked the Myers character in the neck with a knitting needle. She poked him in the eye with the hanger (especially good "thinking on your feet" action). I.E., she DIDN'T GIVE UP! Yes, I did see it in the movie theater, so that ages the comment. Still the music is good. And, as a male, a 19 year old Jamie Lee looked pretty good.