No Treat

Rating: 4/10 (3 April 2009)

An unstable boy who killed his sister on Halloween grows up into an unstable superhuman who escapes from an asylum so he can resume his hobby of killing people on Halloween. How he turned into a superhuman (he simply shakes off stabs and gunshots) while in captivity is never explained. This cliché-ridden thriller is praised (blamed) for spawning the slasher films of the 1980s - a dubious distinction. Of course the teens all behave stupidly, making themselves vulnerable to the killer. Carpenter gets the blame for not only the direction but also for the terrible script and the score that he swiped from "The Exorcist." Curtis is pretty good in her film debut.