Only bettered by Nightmare on Elm Street

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 2014)

You can't help thinking this movie is ridiculously dumb with the most clumsy knife welding killer of all time. However this is one of the appeals of the movie - it doesn't take itself seriously. Of course it also has it's creepy side and for me it contains several of the most terrifying slasher scenes of all time. It has elements of all the slasher movies that went before it but it takes these ideas further or improves on them making it original in it's own right. With it's scooby do script and relentless pace this is a stonewall classic. Keeps me gripped more than the dated Halloween and is almost on par with the classic Nightmare on Elm Street. Has to be 10/10.