Still can turn heads

Rating: 9/10 (25 January 2000)

The difficulty with waiting 27 years to see a film like this is that you can lose perspective. The original can seem like a copy of the copies, and special effects that were state-of-the art at the time can seem amateurish. That said, I found the film to be much better than I'd expected. It's well acted and genuinely scary. I watched it late on a rainy night in a cold room and when I went to bed, I was a little freaked. More than I can say after catching Halloween 20 years after its release. Weird though, Linda Blair reminded me of the girl in the Pepsi commercials, speaking in deep male voices. I always thought that Pepsi kid needed a good exorcism.