The night HE came home!

Rating: 10/10 (7 January 2012)

More than 30 years from it's release, "Halloween" still remains one of the finest and scariest horror movies of all time, and it deserves it because it's a near-perfect film with great acting, cinematography, and suspense, along with a chilling score and and an extremely claustrophobic and nerve-shattering feel. It's definitely a movie to see in the dark. It's actually one of the only horror movies that freak me out whenever I see it, and I don't really get freaked by horror movies easily. When 6 year old Michael Myers stabs his teenage sister, Judith, to death, he is put in a sanitarium for 15 years, but later on escapes and starts stalking a teenager named Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) on Halloween. Later on, he starts to kill her friends, until, in the heart- stopping climax which had me on the edge of my seat, tries to kill her. In the short 91 minutes of the film, it really packs a punch of terror and unnerve. It's like no other film when it comes to the terror, which borrows a lot from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, which is pretty ironic, since Jamie Lee Curtis is Janet Leigh's daughter. I think Halloween is the best slasher film ever made (if you don't count Psycho as a slasher). It really started the whole "teenagers getting murdered by a killer wearing a mask" thing. Most of the scenes that show Michael Myers's POV are seen through his creepy, emotionless mask, along with his muffled breathing sounds, which really gives a nice touch of suspense. The acting is amazing; especially from Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance. It's amazing what you can do on such a small budget (this film had a budget of only $325,000). "Halloween" is and always will be one of the greatest horror films ever made. It's a must see.