Doesn't deserve an R rating...

Rating: 8/10 (15 May 2019)

Like "The Fog" released two years after, "Halloween" is very tame for the Restricted rating. It has some really good scares and a few jump moments, but violence and gore are very limited for a horror film. There are more graphic movies released during the same era that are passed with PG ratings ("Jaws", anyone?), so it makes no sense for this film (not to mention "The Fog") to be stamped with an R rating. Why can't these two R rated movies be rated PG with the disclaimer: "May be too INTENSE for children"? That's the disclaimer "Jaws" had and, as I said, it was more graphic than either "Halloween" and "The Fog".