HALLOWEEN, a horror classic that started the cliches

Rating: Null/10 (1 September 2003)

Halloween (1978) Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers, Kyle Richards, D: John Carpenter.

Low budget slasher thriller went on to become one of the highest grossing independent films about a masked murderer that killed his sister as a young boy, escaping the asylum and returning home to his Illinois town fifteen years later to start up another killing on teenage babysitters. Some real scares and suspense. Michael Myers's mask is actually William Shatner's face sprayed white. Film debut for Curtis, which here dubbed her as a `scream queen'. Followed by a handful of sequels in two decades, as well as clones.

Running Time: 90 minutes and rated R for violence, nudity, and brief sexuality.
RATING: *** Â½ (out of ****)