An Old, but Still Haunting Classic

Rating: 7/10 (19 May 2020)

I've actually never been a massive fan of horror movies. My parents would never allow me to watch them when I was a kid, and I never felt the urge to dive into the genre during my teenage years. As a matter of fact, I think I can count the horror movies that I saw in my life with the fingers of my two hands.
What John Carpenter pulled off with Halloween is incredible : he basically invented a genre, while displaying his great filmmaking talents in a movie that had an incredibly small budget. From a cinephile's point of view, it's an absolute pleasure to watch. The atmosphere of the movie is deeply unsettling, the score is fantastic and Michael Myers' presence proved enough to haunt the nightmares of multiple generations since the film's release in 1978.
However, I can nit-pick some elements of the movie : the death scenes that have not aged all that well, the acting that, while not awful, isn't exactly the best, and the fact that the movie ends in a strange way and with a lot of questions still up in air. Nevertheless, Halloween remains a classic for a reason, and I will definitely rewatch it when Halloween season comes around one of these years.