A truly terrifying movie that haunts us even today

Rating: 9/10 (7 December 2008)

I have recently got hold of the complete box set of Halloween, including the documentary "Halloween: 25 Years of Terror". I am a die-hard fan of the 80s horror movies and I must say that Halloween is The King of this genre, which holds its crown even today, when special effects and gore and blood contenders are walking its kingdom. The movie, as a whole, is a masterpiece, a low-budget masterpiece, a fact that makes it the more great! The shadows, the tension, the anticipation, the seat-grabbing scenes, the teenagers, The Shape, are all part of a skillfully created scenario which makes you glue your eyes to the screen until the very last second, when they are unglued by the last thing you hear, Michael's hard, profound breathing, a sound that, along with the BRILLIANT score will haunt us for the rest of our lives. And what is more terrifying about Halloween, about Michael Myers is that, in the movies, he may "die" a hundred times, but for us, the audience, he will live forever because he is each and everyone of us. He forever will be our deepest, darkest thoughts, our most brutal impulses to kill the neighbor who is always playing the music too loud, to wake up in the middle of the night and go on a killing spree, he is each and every shadow, every sound, every shape lurking in the darkness, he is every branch that moves in the night's wind, he is, most of all, the deepest corner of your psychic, where we know no boundaries and have no boundaries. And for me, that makes this movie a must-see, a number 1 on everybody's list and a 10 out of 10 horror!