Light the pumpkin

Rating: 6/10 (28 October 2018)

John Carpenter directed this low budget classic horror film.
Carpenter also provides an irritating slasher style soundtrack that is louder than the dialogue.
The film opens with a young boy called Michael killing his sister in Halloween. It then goes forward 15 years when Michael has escaped his mental hospital.
Hot on his heels is the psychiatrist, Doctor Loomis (Donald Pleasance) convinced that Michael will kill again.
Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) is the young babysitter who along with her friends are being stalked by Michael.
Carpenter builds tension slowly along with some gratuitous topless scenes of teenage girls. He creates a creepy atmosphere with the Halloween paraphernalia.
The television is showing the movie The Thing from Another World, a movie Carpenter would go on to remake. More importantly he has a genuine heroine in peril in Jamie Lee Curtis.
The killings are horrific but less bloodthirsty than modern movies. In Michael Myers he also has an indestructible killer, The Boogeyman who never stays dead. Handy for all future sequels.