Insanely overrated even for its time

Rating: 2/10 (12 March 2017)

Sorry but all of you artsy fartsy posers who think the original was a horror masterpiece need to go take a cold reality shower. The 1st movie was nothing more than a art cliché. Many site the fact that Michael was mysterious as being profound and scary, well guess what cousins, it was done to death and back in books before the movie was ever conceived and the 1st movie was probably one of the few horror movies in the 80s that I was NOT afraid of. Mind you I was about 5 when I saw it. I didn't even know it was considered horror until I was much older. The imagery was stale, the suspense was yawn inducing that even as a child I couldn't watch it most nights out of boredom (it was being shown several times a week on channel 2 back in the day). Frankly, if you were scared of this, then any thriller of the time would have done the same to you.
The bottom line is keeping things 'mysterious' is a cheap cliché in itself and gutless discussion when it comes to movies. It is what a director or writer does when they know that they do not have a good story to tell or when they don't know how to tell a story. No different than a Michael Bay movie today. Don't have a story? Just avoid story and distract the viewer with something else. Some nudity here and there, sex talk, cheesy music (even then it was cheesy, for petes sake some of the best music in history came from that era), and some blood.
If I wanted no story, I would visit an art gallery and use my imagination to fill in the blanks. If I wanted more detail and deeper explanations, I will read a book. But when I go to a movie, I expect the writers and directors to have at least enough skill and guts, to try and tell a good story otherwise there is no point in making a 1.5 hour motion picture. Even if the story stinks, at least they try which is more than I can say about John Carpenters Halloween. Sorry but I am no fan.
For what its worth, back when I was 5 or 6, some movies did scare me. Poltergeist, The Exorcist, The Brood, and even Alien was scary to me. Jaws, and Piranha also got some adrenaline going. Hell even the original Blob from the 50's scared me more than Halloween.