One of the true original slasher flicks!

Rating: 9/10 (19 March 2018)

I only wish I could have been born in the early 60's so I could have enjoyed this movie in my teens when it came out in all it's terrifying glory.
Michael Myers, a kid who is described by his doctor as having the devils eyes, murders his sister in cold blood on Halloween night. Fifteen years later, he breaks out of the mental asylum he's kept in to go after his sister, Laurie Strode (Jamie-Lee Curtis).
The bulk of the movie focuses on Laurie and her two best friends, Annie and Linda. They all share their plans for Halloween night as their walking home in the afternoon. Annie and Linda are planning on spending it with their boyfriends and getting laid, and our bookworm Laurie is stuck babysitting as she seems to every year. The film does a great job in showing what enjoying the spooks of Halloween would have been like back in the 70's, kids watching popcorn and getting scared, dressing up in their cute costumes and stereotypical teenagers getting high and drunk.
The bulk of the film is set at night time which helps build its atmosphere and theme terrifically. The setting is great, Haddonfield, Illinois (which was actually filmed in california), with the big traditional style houses and big looming trees over the streets is perfect for a serial killer and the The musical score is the other thing for me that makes this film so amazing. the simple but very intimidating piano themes at the beginning of the main titles and throughout the film gets stuck in your head very easily and it repeats on your mind deliberately as your watching it. It's a perfect mysterious and frightening tone that tells you this is indeed not a movie with a nice subject matter.
The movie is literally 40 years old so there's really no point complaining about the quality of acting or the gore effects (if you think there even is any to begin with), but Jamie-lee Curtis in her debut role and Donald Pleasance are very memorable characters who we can't help but appreciate for what they bring to this film.
Put simply, Halloween is a classic slasher with all the familiar cliches. characters getting killed off one by one, the killer repeatedly getting up after being downed, freakish musical score, dark and memorable setting, it's a classic in it's own right. This movie does have a remake from 2007 that Rob Zombie decided was a good idea, but he didn't realize that sequels suck. which is precisely why i wont be reviewing the remake. Just can't beat the old classics!