Surprisingly lightweight..

Rating: 7/10 (29 April 2006)

Of course, here we have the original slasher movie, the one where countless imitators started popping up after. The success of Halloween has been documented thousands and thousands of times, and it was actually quite interesting to come back to it, after a good 20 + years of last seeing it. Jamie Lee Curtis is of course, The Girl in Peril who for unknown reason (at least until the later sequels) An Unknown Killer Is After Her. And of course, if her friends get in the way, well, I'm sorry, but they'll just have to go! I was quite surprised at this as the body count is quite low (4) and the violence is quite tame. I guess it's one of those things where your memory suggests that this movie is much more gruesome then it actually is, and I do believe that contributes to it's success. Nowadays (going into my old fogey pose) the horror movies aren't made like this! Sometimes you gotta say, is to keep it simple, stupid. Now, of course, Halloween is not stupid, it's just damn scary.