As good as a slasher can get.

Rating: 8/10 (9 December 2008)

Halloween, is one slasher I never grow tired of. A slasher film is thought of as a film with endless blood and gore and violence and all kinds of slashing. Halloween is however set apart from the group. Yes there is violence and death but it is shown in a much more subtle sense. The acting is shaky in parts and there are death scenes where it was obviously staged but it is all forgotten when your hear John Carpenters ominous music score. The famous theme that has haunted audiences for decades. There are many reasons why Halloween can be considered a "classic", but the main reason is the casting of Donald Pleasance as the half crazed doctor Sam Loomis. Pleasance without a doubt gave a stellar performance as Loomis. He is the perfect man for the part. He is able to seem completely passionate about his work and just did a brilliant job along with his incredibly real co-star Jamie-Lee Curtis. Curtis in this filmed completely escaped into the role of the young Laurie Strode and while watching her on screen, you forget completely you are watching a movie. She is so real, and so normal and has absolutely no real star quality, almost everyone can identify with her. Michael Myers is maybe the scariest slasher in film history, but why? There is nothing there. He isn't a deformed horrifying zombie, with demented features and rotting flesh but that's why it is so scary because there is absolutely nothing there. The Michael Myers mask is so terrifying because it is blank and emotionless, but it still looks like a human face. He is a human without the basic necessities of a human. No sense of right and wrong. He will kill and feel no remorse and it all comes through in the mask that has one emotion and that emotion, is no emotion at all.