Everything has already been said about this classic n ther seems to be lil left to say but as a fan of horror films, lemme contribute by praising how good this film is.

Rating: 10/10 (3 November 2019)

I first saw this in the mid 80s on a vhs. It did scared me then. The mask, the music, the knife, the empty suburban area, the absence of parents, found all these things truly terrifying.
Saw it again in the mid 2000 on a dvd which i own.
Revisited it few days back (Oct 2019).
On Halloween night a six year old kid stabs his older sister to death. Was it cos she did fornication or the kid possessed or the kid simply a psychopath?
New generation fellas watching this film in today's time may find it difficult to digest that how can a six year old stab a grown up. Pure evil may be.
After spending fifteen years inside a sanitarium, without talking to anybody for fifteen years, the now grown up insane fella escapes by stealing a car. Even his psychiatrist (Donald Pleasance) thinks maybe the doctors must have taught him to drive. Pure evil maybe.
Our psycho returns to his hometown to buy a mask, a knife n to desecrate his sister's grave. He visits his now abandoned home. He carries his sister's tombstone so that he can place it next to a victim's body.
He starts killing promiscuous girls n boys n goes on a rampage with his unique mask n knife, until he comes face to face with a sexually repressed girl (Jamie Lee Curtis) who unleashes her energy.
This film is without a doubt a very influential film within the horror genre and shud be seen by lovers of horror films.
The music by Carpenter is a character itself in this classic horror film.
The greenery in the suburbs is so soothing man.