He can still watch.....

Rating: 8/10 (21 February 2015)

In 1963, Mike Myers stabbed his 15 year-old sister to death. He was institutionalised and according to his doctor, Sam Loomis, is the personification of evil.
On the day before Halloween 15 years later, Myers manages to escape and heads for his home town.
On Halloween night, he goes on a rampage while Loomis and the local sheriff search Myers' neighbourhood for him.
Meanwhile Laurie Strode, a serious student who rarely goes out on dates, is babysitting a neighbour's child. Little does she know the danger she is in.
It's the film that changed the face of horror movies for almost twenty years, and created the stalk and slash sub-genre. But take away all its legacy, and it's basically one of the most simples premises imaginable.
And this is why it works so well, it's simple, yet brilliantly inventive. The opening POV shot is amazing, and truly sets the films eerie feel, yet it's the build up to the killings that really makes the film groundbreaking.
Seeing patients in the middle of the night in the pouring rain, and then, once we are back in Haddonfiled, for almost an hour, we get treated to some of the most haunting shots in cinema.
It's the fact that Myers makes no qualms about being seen, outside the school staring at Laurie, isn't just scary, it's downright unnerving, and this does a great job of not preparing you for the final act.
Although by today's standards, the final act is tame, because film makers today think that more gore equals more scares, it detracts you away from the tension of the narrative, and the stalking through the house is tense, no matter how many times you've seen it.
And I feel this is due to the simple fact that he's wearing an emotionless mask, making the audience wonder what exactly is going on behind the mask.
But again, the more times you see this film, you realise just how bad the script can be at times. Pleasence is a wonderful screen presence, but he's here for Basil Exposition, and some of his monologues are a little laughable now.
But it's a groundbreaking movie, bad script or not, the sequels are not worth bothering with, but this would be worth watching with Zombies remake, just to see how horror changed in thirty years.