"The Night HE Came Home."

Rating: 10/10 (27 June 2010)

The film is one of cinema's most perfectly engineered devices for saying Boo! In a small Illinois town, the psychopathic killer Michael Myers escapes from an asylum, and stalks teenager Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her friends.
Halloween is a simple-minded shocker with virtually no plot, just a succession of bloody, slashing attacks in semi-darkness. It's efficiently scary, and so skillfully conceived that it reinvigorated the entire horror genre in late 1970s America. Several of the film's techniques and plot elements have become a standard slasher movie trope.