A rock-solid, entertaining, fun, funny, sometimes clever sort of slasher film/voyeur drama.

Rating: 9/10 (10 February 2020)

Carpenter's usual creative but not showboating style and sort of now timeless score make for a chortle-along look back at horrors-passed and the progenitor for so many variants on the genre. Carpenter is the real star here, his work is still superb, amidst the slow pace, the silly scares and the gratuitous nudity and almost comically tame killings compared to what we're used to, Halloween is still quite obviously still the king, and it somehow also manages to be classy and deliciously low-budget.