Greatest Slasher film of all-time!

Rating: 10/10 (30 January 2002)

I cannot believe I have waited this long to comment on my favorite horror movie of all-time!
This is a cult classic amongst horror followers! In my opinion, it supersedes the "Friday the 13th" series and the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series. In contrast to these other two, Michael Myers is the only one of the super-star villains who has not actually "died" and "come back to life", making him more "real" and believable. It is a classic in its own time!
The acting is mostly believable, aside from a few scenes [after you've seen the movie for the 84th time, you start to pick things apart]. Of course, one must acknowledge a command performance by the distinguished, late Donald Pleasance! Newcomer Jamie Lee Curtis was superb, but she had a great act to follow: her mother Janet Leigh was a fine actress in her own right!
There are, of course, the usual blunders and errors that one notices after looking closely at the film, such as going into the Wallace house; the door is at the far right corner of the front of the house, yet when a person enters the front door they can turn to the right?!?!
But all in all, it is still a super fantastic horror chiller and spine-tingler! It's sequel "Halloween II" is a fairly close second-best, but the rest of the sequels are not even worth acknowledging!!!!