Most people probably know the story, involving Michael Myers, one of a handful of popular serial killers in movies. The movie starts off in 1963. Michael Myers is 6 years old and extraordinarily disturbed and psychotic. It's Halloween night and he stabs his sister to death. Fifteen years go by and he's in a mental hospital under the care of Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence). However, he escapes and he's out to kill again...yep it's Halloween...like the title told you it would be. The three actresses that I mentioned earlier are all babysitting while Michael Meyers is out to kill. Of the three girls in the movie Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is the only one who wasn't incredibly annoying and a whore...so of course she'll be back for sequels.just like Sigourney Weaver in the "Alien" movies, it was meant to be apparently.
Well anyway it was the 1970s so nothing is too graphic or gratuitous. Which is nice and one of the reasons why this original is better than the Rob Zombie remake from a few years ago. Sure in the new one we got a back story to Michael Myers which is fun and all but this modern era of film making seems to think that more graphic violence and other behavior is necessary when it is not and doesn't add to the movie. Ok, back to the original. I love John Carpenter. He really came through...he directed and did the music. The music is great and adds so much to the terror of the movie. Sure the killings aren't that violent or scary but the music makes it feel like they are...like with most movies...it would not have been as successful without the score. Also, the cinematography was great...whoever was operating that camera should be very proud of themselves. The camera work with all the wide shots of actors walking or tracking shots and various points of view were very well done.
Overall, a great horror movie, that I thought has aged pretty well. Not as good as "The Exorcist," which was released 5 years before...but come on it's "The Exorcist." "Halloween," however was way better than "Carrie," which came out 2 years before...the horrible music ruined a movie with potential. So yeah, I really enjoyed it...and the original is always better of pretty much anything. By the way never, ever see the new "Friday the 13th," it is a horrible experience I wish on no one.
-Joseph Sbrilli
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