Halloween

Rating: 9/10 (17 January 2014)

Halloween. The movie takes place in the fictional town of Haddonfeild Illinois this is a very convincing middle American town that almost becomes a character of its own. The movie is strong is so many aspects the big two being the music and the suspense. First the music is just plain creepy and haunting that is one of my favorite movie musical scores ever (but not as good as Dawn of the Dead's) and there's the suspense; it's built the whole movie everything you see is suspenseful, this is mostly due to the music and the fact that you can see know were the killer is but the characters don't, creating truly gripping tension. Now the characters/actors themselves; I'm going to be 100% honest on this, most of the acting sucks but there are two performances that really hold the movie together, the first being our protagonist Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode she gave a very convincible as a middle American teenager. And the other performances is Donald Pleasence as Dr. Loomis he delivers as brilliant performance of a doctor relentlessly searching for an escaped patient. The big draw for most people to this move is the movie's killer, Michael Myers. He's a personification of the boogeyman and is downright terrifying and it's easy to see how he became an icon of horror. A few other things I'd like to touch up on is the great directing from Director John Carpenter and also the movies last 15 minutes, the last 15 minutes are exhilarating. Halloween (1978) gets a 9 out of 10.