He's gonna get you!

Rating: 8/10 (29 July 2008)

Rare movies create sub-genres and this is one of them.
John Carpenter's Halloween created a new sub-genre of horror, later named slasher movies and regardless of the fact that dozens of films can today be cataloged under this genre, the original slasher is still the best. The sequels and imitators are mainly studio movies intended to extract as much money as possible from the formula for which this movie serves as model.
Carpenter's second best direction effort(the best being "The Thing") is an amazing horror movie from 1978 that will scare even the youngest audiences that have gone through many of the new slasher trends. The way many of the scenes are shot make the audience feel like a voyeur standing beside Meyers and alternates to the victims when they're about to be killed, trying to make the viewer as uncomfortable and out of balance as possible.
The acting is not brilliant, but competent; Jamie Lee Curtis begins her career in this movie and played Laurie Strode.
Halloween is one of the best horror movies of all time and remains groundbreaking despite the repetitive use of many parts of it's plot by other less good industry products.
I give this an 8/10 and second in my all time favorite horror list.