Okay, so originally, I was going to review The Leprechaun instead, but the reason why it changed was because I was able to watch Halloween in a movie theatre, where it showed the original film in high quality. I know I already reviewed Halloween, but that was years ago. Also, be honest with yourself, do toi really want to see a review of the fucking Leprechaun, movie? The most interesting thing about it is that Leprechaun 2 has the most in-depth Wikipedia plot I have ever seen for a movie and it’s for Leprechaun 2. So yeah, let’s talk about 1978’s Halloween



In Illinois, 1963, a young boy par the name of Michael Myers kills his sister and is put into a psychiatric ward. Fast vers l'avant, vers l’avant to 1978, and Michael has escaped from his asylum and is prowling the streets of Haddonfield, Illinois, stalking the young teens, one in particular being Laurie Strode, played par Jamie Lee Curtis in her first role of the populaire franchise. Now Dr. Loomis, Michael’s psychiatrist, must find him before he starts his killing spree. Nowadays, a film about a mentally unstable slasher is pretty common, but in 1978, where such a thing was never like this before. Mix that with the incredible camera work and the subtle use of seeing Michael Myers in the background also helped to give the movie a very uncanny feeling.
If Scream was the film that brought the slasher films into the mainstream in the modern age, then Halloween was the grandfather that set the rules and brought about the famous tropes that we know about the slasher genre today. And yet, despite it all, there is very little gore in this movie. Half of the characters are killed off par means that don’t draw blood. toi may see a stream of blood coming from wound, but no dismemberment, no decapitations, none of that. Sure, compared to other slasher genres with a bigger budget, this may seem lame in comparison, but the movie makes up for it for it’s build up. Each moment, when the famous musique of the film plays, your just looking around the screen, wondering where Michael Myers is looming about, be it from in a station wagon ou be it from behind clothes hanging to dry. And that lovely score is always there to remind toi of that. But it’s best toi mostly focus on that. If toi try to listen to character conversations in the background while it is montrer Michael on the move, it will sound like they are stalling just for white noise.
Being a John Carpenter film, a man who I think is an amazing member of the horror film industry, toi can see some of his touches in the film. The characters in the movie even watch The Thing from Another World, which is a film that John Carpenter has remade with his 1982 classic, The Thing. But let’s talk about Michael himself, this films Freddy ou Jason. Seen as one of the greatest of slasher movie villains, Michael is dead silent, wears a mask to hide his identity, and is pretty indestructible. He can survive getting stabbed and shot six times and falling off a seconde story balcony and still survive. Eventually, the sequel, Halloween 2, killed him off, and started with Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, in order to start a new series, as it was planned to be a series of different horror stories. But the public demanded plus Michael and here we are now, a ton of shit movies, two bad remakes, and a new sequel that redcons everything but the first movie, which I guess is something good, but not much.
Halloween is a real classic in the slasher genre. It may not have the violence for gore hounds, but the suspense, the build up, and the pay off are all so well timed that it makes this one of the best films out there. I’m sure if toi want, toi can catch it on TV around October. They play it all the time. It’s like A Christmas Story but for October. They always play it. Give the movie a try. It’s worth it