John Carpenter is the master of terror

Rating: Null/10 (24 October 1999)

The movie that started the slasher craze is probably the best of them all. Halloween is what every kind of slasher film should be; suspense, character development, story, etc. I have seen other slasher films (like New Nightmare) but none of them have surpassed this movie in any way. The plot is so realistic. A little boy commits murder and seems so innocent, so no one considers him to be very dangerous, except for Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) who goes after Micheal Myers when he escapes from a sanitarium and goes home. One of the best qualities of this film is how Micheal is always hiding in the shadows, until he goes after someone of course. Also, how there is no gore. When a movie has a lot of gore, you can tell there is no story and the gore is just a distraction. The best horror film ever!