The beginning of an new HORROR era

Rating: 10/10 (17 June 2001)

Almost everything that can be said over this film has been said. Still I want to add a thing or two too it. I rated this one 10 out of 10. Why? Because this was the beginning of a new kind of horror movie. The ultimate evil in the shape of a man. Something that could not be destroyed and was able to scare the living daylights out of Cinema viewers.
After this one there were many other movies with the same idea: Jason from the friday the 13th series, Freddy Krueger from Elm Street and more recent the masked killer from the Scream trilogy (which I hope will stay a trilogy). But none of them can be compared to Michael Meyers.

The scene that I found the most terrifying is after Laurie (J L Curtis) thinks she killed the boogie man, we see a close-up of her face. In the back you can see the body of Michael. When the camera slightly off-focus on Laurie we suddenly notice that the shape is moving. Michael is sitting up!!! This was, for me, the most intense scene of the film. Just look at the way the actor sits up. So perfect in his movement it's almost not human. For me that was the scene I realized that Michael was the Boogie Man, the ultimate evil in a human body.