A fine example of what a real horror should be lik. An a good lesson for modern horror movie makers. John Carpenter does an amazing job with the directing. There are some realy stunning scenes. The directing is smart, the horror is based on the...
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A fine example of what a real horror should be lik. An a good lesson for modern horror movie makers. John Carpenter does an amazing job with the directing. There are some realy stunning scenes. The directing is smart, the horror is based on the scary and not the gore, and you barely get to see Myers. The acting performances are good but not great. The script is pretty good. But the main reason that makes Halloween sutch a wonderful horror is as mensioned the directing, suspense like no other, some realyscary and brilliant scenes. Halloween should be ranked as one of the best horror movies ever made.

Classic it may be, I personally hated Halloween. I watched it at a friends house at a party, laughing the whole way through. I thought some of the acting was overly dramatic, some was not dramatic enough, and I found many slip-ups and pointed some...
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Classic it may be, I personally hated Halloween. I watched it at a friends house at a party, laughing the whole way through. I thought some of the acting was overly dramatic, some was not dramatic enough, and I found many slip-ups and pointed some of the badly written dialouge. The films saving grace was the very spooky score (kudos to the composer), but the fact that the same piece was played over and over made me want to throw a rock at my friends two thousand dollar television. The film did have a suspenseful part or two, such as when the main character was hiding in the closet towards the end of the movie, but that was about the only part. The director seemed to try to use nudity artisticly, but one of the scenes just seemed like something that would be on HBO around midnight. There were also things that didn't make sense. Micheal Meyers would appear across the street, or out the window or whatever, a character would be looking straight at him, the camera would cut to the main character, cut back to the place where the killer was standing (but not anymore), and the character would wonder where he went. Even though the character was staring at him. Meyers is either a VERY brisk walker, or has some sort of supernatural ability. And then there were the times where our supernatural killer seemed to be at two places at once. Overall, I think Halloween is a fairly bad film, that is not scary and hardly suspenseful, but I guess that is just my opinion.

I love this film so much. It's in my horror movie collection at the very top! Alright, so here's the simple plot: baby sitter is stalked by masked man. Too vague? Whiner. Okay then: On Halloween, 17 year old Laurie Strode sees a masked person...
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I love this film so much. It's in my horror movie collection at the very top! Alright, so here's the simple plot: baby sitter is stalked by masked man. Too vague? Whiner. Okay then: On Halloween, 17 year old Laurie Strode sees a masked person following her around, from seeing the person outside of the window at school, to seeing the person in her backyard hiding behind a clothesline. Little does she know it's Michael Myers, an escaped mental patient, who killed his sister back in 1963. At night, things go awry as she's in for the most horrifying experience in all of her life. There, that's the plot. I think the reason this movie was so scary is because of the brilliant musical score. It just makes you feel... very uncomfortable. The acting is superb and the layout is fantastic. There are a number of scenes in this movie which caused me many sleepless nights. Halloween directed by John Carpenter fits up there with Psycho, Nightmare On Elm Street, and Black Christmas. Definitely deserves a 5.

Halloween- what a classic.

This films just shows what a filmmaking genius that John Carpenter is. What is really great about Halloween is that it does not use the obvious: blood, gore or visual killings to give us the thirlls, oh...
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Halloween- what a classic.

This films just shows what a filmmaking genius that John Carpenter is. What is really great about Halloween is that it does not use the obvious: blood, gore or visual killings to give us the thirlls, oh no, it does much more than that.

The creepy camera perspective from Micheal Myers, and the noises that come from the camera, and the subtle emotion of this baby killer make this movie so classic. Also, who can cannot love the haunting theme music that genius Carpenter also did. Both a deep and scary tune, and really portrays the whole movie's mood really well.