The Night He Came Home

Rating: 10/10 (26 December 2002)

After killing his sister when he was 6 years old, Michael Myers escapes from the mental institution that he's been at for fifteen years and returns to his hometown to take out some baby sitters. Though this film is general format for horror now, in 1978, it was the first of its kind and paved the way for films such as Friday the 13th(1980), A Nightmare on Elm Street(1986), and even its own sequels. Carpenters use of the 2:35.1 AR is absolutely splendid and he makes sure he uses all those little dark corners that are on the edge of the viewers vision. The lighting and music are brilliantly timed and Carpenter knows exactly what he wants to do in this film and he does it perfectly, that is, to scare the hell out of anyone who watches it. And, as with quite a few of the horror masterpieces, there is a serious lack of blood in this film, but this is remedied when Rick Rosenthal makes a complete hash of the first sequel.