Summary

Halloween takes place in the small Illinois town of Haddonfield. It starts on Halloween of 1963 when young Michael Myers kills his older sister Judith. Michael is sent to Illinois State Hospital. Fifteen years later Michael escapes from the hospital and returns to Haddonfield. Michael's psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis follows him knowing that Michael is pure evil. Meanwhile Lorie, Annie, and Lynda are making plans for the night. Lorie will be babysitting eight-year old Tommy Doyle. Annie is babysitting Lindsey Wallace a few houses down while Lynda plans to drop by the Wallaces house with her boyfriend Bob.

A lot of strange things begin to happen at the arrival of Michael Myers and one by one, the babysitters get murdered. That's why the movie nearly got the title "The Babysitter Murders." Well I personally prefer the title "Halloween". Anyways, I wont give away the ending, but let's just say that if Michael Myers was killed he wouldn't be here for the five other films ( Halloween III does not count peoples)

My Review

Halloween is one of my absolute favorite horror movies. Halloween started the whole slasher genre with movies such as Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street following it. It is very simple, not that many special effects, no big budget. Yet it still provides the right effect. If you haven't seen this movie yet, go get it! It is a great movie!

Other Reviews --Robert Horton --

Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It's a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie's freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho . The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin's character in Psycho . In the end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience--it's one of those movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen. ("No! Don't drop that knife!") Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more installments: 1981's dismal Halloween II , which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate events, and 1998's occasionally gripping Halloween H2O , which proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years.

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