The origin of mad slasher movies.

Rating: 10/10 (6 July 1999)

If Halloween never existed, you could also forget about Friday the 13th, Scream, Nightmare on Elm Street, and all the rest of the mad slasher movies and their sequels. Halloween created them all, because Halloween originated that type of movie. It is probably the most classic horror film out of all the classic horror films. It is also a classic which you can still be scared of. Watching Halloween gives me chills every time I see Michael. Michael Myers is by far the best masked killer out of all the rest. His mask is so freaky. The way he walks like a robot is bone-chilling. Everything about him is pure terror. He IS horror. The movie itself has a low budget, but that doesn't effect the movie at all. Because it uses classic terror to frighten the audience, not blood and gore like today's horror movies. All the classics; Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Psycho. They all had almost no blood and gore, but they are all still terrifying because of the psychological horror. John Carpenter does an excellent job at doing that. Halloween gets half the credit it should get today. Today the most popular horror icons are Freddy and Jason. We all have to remember,though, that those movies couldn't have existed without John Carpenter's classic tale, Halloween.