essential to any slasher collector, or film collector for that matter

Rating: 10/10 (31 January 2010)

Halloween kicks ass into eternity the characters are realistic, the score is creepy, the actors are pretty good, considering the budget, The Shape is brilliant as ever, at his best, nudity isn't over the top and in your face like Friday the 13th, the profanity isn't that heavy, two death scenes contain blood, and this, the film which kick-started the slasher genre, has a total body count of 5, one is unclear because of being shown through a mask, one is off screen, one is shown mostly through a fogged up windscreen, one is shown shrouded in darkness, and the last is a bloodless strangulation! Charles cyphers is great, so is Donald Pleasance, Jamie lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis, PJ soles etc. do their part well, the atmosphere is just really creepy, which makes this the one and only slasher film! overall, buy it now or damn you!