Oh, Puh-leeze...

Rating: 1/10 (26 October 2000)

I remember seeing this movie when it first came out in '79. My friends and I went to the theater, expecting to see 'THE SCARIEST MOVIE EVER MADE'. Now, mind you, I had been sneaking into movies like "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Suspiria" and "The Exorcist" (et al) since I was a little kid, but "Halloween" was the first time I went to see an 'R' rated horror film legitimately. My friends, however, were not exactly died in the wool horror fans like myself and were duly frightened by the proceedings. I, on the other hand, was kept awake only by the sporadic yelps and squeals from all of the other neophytes in the audience. I was, like--"what?" I did not see then, nor do I see now, why this movie made such a big impression on everybody. Its just not that scary folks. Unless by scary you mean highly derivative, unimaginative and dull.