You're not a TRUE horror fan until you've seen Halloween...

Rating: 10/10 (31 October 2006)

OK, some people say it's just another teenage slasher flick...but let's think. Wasn't this the FIRST teenage slasher flick? No matter how plain-Jane you may say that this movie is, you know you wouldn't have any Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, or any of our other beloved horror movie series without it. This is what started the whole horror explosion of the 80's, people. This is THE classic slasher movie, and if you're into that sub-genre, you will be SO into this movie.
This was one of the first real horror movies I ever saw, I was excited about watching it because I had watched the original Texas chainsaw Massacre just the night before. In my opinion, Halloween was creepier and had more mystique about it than the Massacre. Of course, when I watched TCSM I was sleep deprived and slap-happy and thought the whole thing was a chuckle-fest. But the point I'm trying to get to here is that the raw simplicity of the movie is what makes it so creepy. All you know about Michael Myers is that he's an escaped psycho who killed his sister when he was young. You don't know if he has a house where he stores his victim's bones. You don't know if he's a cannibal. You don't know much about his family. you don't even know if he comprehends the English language. All you know is that he is a COLD. BLOODED. KILLER.
Myers has to be my favorite horror villain. Why, you ask? It's because he GETS UP. Laurie Strode stabs him with a knitting needle, and you think she killed the killer and the movie is over, but he SITS UP and STARTS STALKING HER AGAIN. She stabs him with a coat hanger, right in the eye, and then stabs him with his own knife and HE GETS UP AGAIN. He gets shot six times and falls off a balcony and GUESS WHAT! He SUVIVES, GETS UP, and DISSAPPEARS!
I also love the way he moves, stiff, purposeful, and intimidating. He never moves more than is absolutely necessary. He never flails or flinches. He never runs. How does he ALWAYS catch up to his running, screaming victims without running himself? I have no clue on that one.
Anyway, You get the idea. Halloween is just a GREAT movie. It is the total epiphany of Slasher movies, in my humble opinion. Just see it goodness' sake!