halloween

Rating: Null/10 (26 October 2007)

Surely one of my favorite horror movies of all times. It's so simple and strightforward. Stylisation. Pure and simple. We' ve got a ghoulish figure with a butcher knife (can anyone find more simple weapon than that? It's used for slaughtering pigs. We've got an average man, not some musclebound 300 pounder. His mask is white painted (we can call it blank either - no emotions, no nothing, just work. A machine). No psychological profile, no torturing in his childhood years which brought him to this psychotic state, no hopes, no dreams, no higher purpose in his acts. Pure evil. That kind of purity is the signature for all of Carpenter's work. Look at the Assault on the precinct 13 or Prince of the darkness, or The Fog.