The Best of the Best!

Rating: Null/10 (23 May 2014)

The original Halloween, directed by John Carpenter, produced by Debra Hill, music by John Carpenter, and starring Jamie Lee Curtis and many more is truly the best of the best as far as Halloween horror movies go. It may be the first too, I'm not sure, but there can be no question it is the scariest. It is also the most well done. It is highly stylized right from the opening shot which has Michael Myers killing his sister. The music is so good it's like its own character in the film. And the cinematography is outstanding. You also really feel like it's Halloween in Haddonfield even though they shot the movie in Los Angeles. This was the birth of Michael Myers, the true bogeyman of cinema, and he launched into many more sequels, but this one is still the best. The Rob Zombie remake was not very good. Too violent and not scary enough. But John Carpenter's masterpiece has it all. Watch it late at night with all the lights out, and preferably during October!