A modern classical.

Rating: 10/10 (6 October 2003)

This horror film is one of the most important of his genre of the last 30 years. John Carpenter built a masterpiece of thrilling and terror, partially inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Everything in this movie is memorable: the claustrophobic and frightening filming, the music (composed by Carpenter and influenced by Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells), the performances of Jamie Lee Curtis (how sexy!) and Donald Pleasance (excellent), the character of Michael Myers (impressive, a modern myth)... etc. Much better than Friday the 13th, A Nigthmare on Elm Street and Scream.