Excellent Halloween Fright

Rating: Null/10 (2 November 2004)

I rent this movie on Halloween every couple years and it never disappoints. Your attention is hooked from the opening scene to the last frame of the movie. The entire cast is well chosen. Jamie Lee Curtis is fantastic as studious babysitter Laurie Strode. Her ability to fend off psycho Michael Myers is believable. Also, I can't imagine anybody else but Donald Pleasance in the role of Dr. Sam Loomis. Pleasance's delivery of his lines sends chills up your spine. Truly, director John Carpenter understands what it takes to develop a scary story. There isn't one scene in the movie that I would delete. The actors who are Laurie's girl friends in the movie also act very well in the movie (Nancy Kyes and PJ Soles). They deliver their lines so naturally they remind you of your own high school classmates. I like the little boy in the film also, actor Brian Andrews, who plays Tommy Doyle. I enjoyed his sweet and shy character and he and Jamie Lee Curtis interact great. Lastly, I like that John Carpenter doesn't fill up the film with gore. He briefly shows Mike Myers stabbing his victims and quickly moves to the next scene. Carpenter lets us imagine the worst by not showing everything.
Overall, this movie is a classic film worth watching.