Still has its fair quota of shocks

Rating: 8/10 (9 December 1999)

I wasn't alive when Halloween came out back in 1978 and when it was on TV a few weeks ago, that was the first time I saw it. There has virtually no plot, just a series of attacks in semi darkness accompanied by a haunting score it has more than its fair share of shocks, even on the small screen. At the time Roger Ebert compared it to "Psycho". I wouldn't go as far as that because it isn't as thoughtful Hitchcock's classic, but it does what it says it will do: provide plenty of scares and shocks which really do make in a masterstroke in B movie ingenuity. It's certainly scarier than "The Blair Witch Project". 8/10