Not scary

Rating: Null/10 (7 November 1999)

I'm getting quite desperate here. I love being scared, but the last few years I haven't seen a single movie that has actually scared me. Sure, some films really make me feel uneasy, e.g. "The Exorcist", "The Shining", "Seven", and "The Hills Have Eyes", but they do not scare me. At least not anymore. "Halloween" also fails to scare me. Sure, it has some shocking surprise scenes, but as I remember it there are only two or maybe three of those. And the whole film really doesn't get interesting until after an hour, so only the last 30 minutes or so are really intense. "Halloween" is of course much better than most of the horror films that were made in the late 70s and early 80s. It is better than "Terror Train" for instance, and it is better than the only other sequel to "Halloween" that I have seen; "Halloween H20". But unfortunately, that does not say much. The music to "Halloween" is brilliant, though. Absolutely brilliant.