The grandaddy of them all!!

Rating: Null/10 (9 January 2002)

Halloween was the 1st of the now popular slasher movies it was and still is a great movie, no other film has made such an impact on a particular genre as this film has. Many has followed in its footsteps including 7 sequels (with the 8th soon to be released)but none quite as effective as this.

What most people don't realise about this film is that it was an independent movie made by Jon Carpenter & Debra Hill while they where still youths, and made them both very well known.
Michael Myres is now one of the most well known characters of the horror genre even by the very few people who haven't seen the film. This shows how effective the film realy is.
The version of Halloween that most people have watched is the TV version which is an extended version of the original. It was extended in order to fit a time slot on the 1st TV broadcast it was given. The extra sequences were shot durring the production of the 2nd Halloween film. It is quite noticable because the person playing Michael Myres in the 2nd film desn't have the same pressence that the person playing him in the 1st does, that is why the TV never realy got a video release until now.
The face of Michael Myres still haunts many people from the 1st time they ever saw the film, hard to believe a distorted William Shatner mask could have such an effect!!