John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN is a seminal low-budget slasher that spawns an ever-growing horror franchise

Rating: 7/10 (29 April 2020)

"The usual trappings of the genre, like gratuitous nudity, misogynist whiff, teenager lust and angst, are all prescribed in right dosage, plus the moral yardstick, Laurie is the final girl mostly because she is not sexed up like her two ill-fated friends, yet amidst the ludicrousness of screaming, panicking and stabbing, it is rather bathetic she doesn't emerge eventually as the savior herself (she has to leave the sharp knife beside a seemingly unconscious Myers not once but twice, turns her back to him and weep instead), it is a man who comes to her rescue in the person of Dr. Sam Loomis (Pleasence), Myers' psychiatrist, ok, baby steps, a heroine's self-making would run through the entire franchise for our scream queen Ms. Curtis, sinking her teeth in her very first movie."
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