The golden age of horror

Rating: 10/10 (4 January 2012)

As the title says,This masterpiece was made during the horror golden age.Proof that bucket loads of blood and gore does not make a horror film scary.What makes a horror movie scary is atmosphere and a slow buildup of tension and a chilling music score and great acting.Halloween has all these things.We start by seeing a six year old Michael Myers stab his sister to death on Halloween 1963,After 15 years in a mental institution Michael escapes and returns to Haddonfield,Illinois to resume his killing ways.He is chased by his doctor,Doctor Samuel Loomis played perfectly by the late great Donald Pleasence.Jamie lee Curtis stars as Laurie Strode who becomes Michaels target and she has to find her inner strength and bravery to fight back.The slow buildup leads us to believe that Michael could actually be pure evil and even after being shot 6 times he remains unharmed.As written earlier there is no blood or gore but a scary mood and atmosphere which is helped the iconic theme.John Carpenter is truly gifted director who had such great visions and made many of my favourite films,Halloween is definitely his best closely followed by The Thing.I would recommend this to anyone and if you have not seen this already where have you been.