A classic horror movie

Rating: 9/10 (24 July 2012)

I cannot even comprehend how this classic has only an overall 7.9 rating on IMDb. This is a disgrace. This movie dawned an onslaught of slasher movies to come, and still few of them are as suspenseful as this nearly 35 year old movie is.
Just the idea of a paranormal being like Michael Myers gives one the chills. And then imagine it chasing you until it kills you, and the mere idea is frightening.
The idea behind this film is that Michael Myers(Tony Moran), was a mentally disturbed child since he murdered his sister in cold blood when wearing a mask on Halloween as a child. He had been institutionalized ever since this incident, until he escaped one night and began terrorizing the population of one of the near small towns.
laurie Stroud(Jamie Lee Curtis) had started getting harassed by Michael when she and her friends had been walking home, and her friend shouts out an insult at michael for driving so slow. In this first suspenseful scene, Micheal simply stops the car. This leaves you wondering, on edge of your seat, what he will do...but he ends up driving off anyways. Eventually, Micheal ends up picking off Laurie's friends one by one. When Laurie goes to check it out.. she finds all the bodies of her friends. Quickly after that, she is acquainted with the killer, whom she runs away from. This is also one of my personal favourite parts. She runs home and wakes up one of the kids sleeping in the house, who takes quite a while to get downstairs and unlock the door for the poor laurie. During this scene, you watch the slow moving Michael walk closer and closer to the house, and by the time the little boy unlocks the door, michael is nearly on the porch. This scene is followed by many which must have petrified the observer. The closet scene, for example was quite a scary clip especially watching it for the first time.
All in all, I must say that if this does not crack the all time greatest horror movies, that i don't know what does. I'ts not the acting or the jump scares that make this movie a classic- it's the way that Michael is portrayed. The way this movie built suspense. It's soundtrack, it's use of lighting, and the way that Michael is there one moment and not the next- THAT is what made this movie. The way that you can never tell what he or it is... even though he appearers to be a mortal, human being.