Halloween

Ok, Halloween is the movie that every slasher and suspense movie has been trying to live up to since if came out in 1978. Halloween is one of those things that happens when the stars align just right, all the pieces fall perfectly into place and create a amazing movie in film history.
Halloween upon it's initial release was panned, nothing but thumbs down across the board, until one reviewer a smart one(not many of those) saw this movie for what it was, a film that invoked true fear, Halloween was a movie that was set in mid-west suburbia, a place that most of everyone could to identify with, with your average everyday people and problems and throws in an escaped mental patient to the mix and see what events unfold.

Halloween was the movie that got into horror movies, I remember one day that my dad rented it and we watched it together at he time i was 10 I believe, and I remember being completely terrified, and after that every time I seen even just the box to Halloween and seen Michael Meyers face I would be scared the rest of the day, but for some reason it still drew me in.

Now onto the interview, Halloween was release in October of 1978 and since had grossed more than 55 million dollars, Halloween invoked fear through suggestion, it wasn't about blood and guts which is what all of the imitators lost sight of. Carpenter made the viewer use all of their senses to scare, the music brings an eerie tone to the film as does Carpenters camera use in the film, by using POV shots through a lot of the film, he really brings the viewer into the film itself, wherever the characters are in the film he uses the camera as if it were a third person..

Now many who have watched the film since it release and most definitely younger viewers, see it as cliched, but in 1978 nothing in this film was a cliche, it was the pioneer for what would be the slasher genre.

I highly suggest watching this film if you have never seen it and just discard the sequels for this series, they really burned out everything and yes Halloween is mostly predictable, but it still gives you chills up your spine every time you view it and it has subtle psychological terror to it.

P.S. only sequels worth any viewing would be 2, 3, and 4. Halloween 2 continues the night HE came home and Halloween 3: season of the witch has nothing to do with Michael or the Halloween storyline from 1 and 2, it's a standalone film and it was quite good. Halloween 4 is probably the closest any sequel could get to the original, but still falls short.