One of horror's greatest milestones!

Rating: 10/10 (12 October 2008)

In 1963 in the town of Haddonfield, a young boy named Michael Myers brutally murdered his sister. Psychologist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance) helps him through the years, until now in 1978 Michaek gas escaped from the mental institute only to head back to Haddonfield. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) who is your basic high school student has been offered a babysitting job on Halloween, the killer begins to kill her friends one by one as he seeks to find her and now Loomis must try to stop him.
A milestone in horror film history! this movie along with "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Dawn of the Dead" and "The Exorcist" redefined the genre back in the 70's. John Carpenter whom was fresh off doing "Assault on Precinct 13" back in 1976 made a low budget horror movie that would become a phenomenal horror classic among audiences and critics alike as one of the scariest movies ever. Jamie Lee Curtis got her big break into film thanks to this movie with her performance as Laurie Strode and even Donald Pleasance who is flawless as always did a great job playing Michael's doctor. Carpenter whom Co-wrote, directed, produced and even composed the music to this movie along with Debra Hill created one of cinema's greatest terror villains known as Michael Myers whom ranks among with Leatherface,Freddy Krueger, Norman Bates from "Psycho", Hannibal Lector and even Jason Voorhees. The film has been often imitated ("Friday The 13th" is the best of the imitators), spawned sequels and even had a recent remake by Rob Zombie but nothing surely beats this amazing and suspenseful chiller.