The One. The Only. The Classic. Halloween!

Rating: 10/10 (25 November 2010)

A simple but near enough perfect suspense chiller, this film has lasted much longer in the memory than any of its imitators. This low-budget classic is no stepping-stone-to-bigger-things, this is a horror film made by someone with a great deal of love for the genre.
The film works through sheer atmosphere, from the opening chilling sequence, to the slow-building tension, seemingly mundane scenes with the girls chatting turning into Hitchcockian suspense scenes with none of them noticing the silent harbinger of doom always hovering in the background, to a great climax, a great tour de force of 70s terror cinema. All of this is of course aided by a fantastic score from John Carpenter, which has easily become as iconic as both the movie, and its masked villain Michael Myers.