You have to be logged in to comment! If you don't have an account register now for free! Your account allows you to post comments and reviews, upload videos and images, access or our forums, write personal blogs, and maintain your profile.
Posted By: thedescent08 at 3:16pm, August 26, 2008
if you don't give this 5/5 you need to stick with comedy, not horror.
The best horror movie ever and the second best in the series(i know semeone is gonna kick my ass for this but the remake was a little BIT better)anyway it haves suspense,a little gore, sex and it scared the shit outta me.
"The story is primitive, but is all the more effective for it: A six year old boy named Michael Myers murders his sister. He spends the next 15 years locked away. In that time, his doctor, Sam Loomis, comes to the conclusion that this seemingly catatonic child is evil in it's purest. To Dr. Lommis, he's "waiting" but doesn't know what for. Sure enough, a now 21 year old Myers escapes only to return to the town he once called home.
Film critic Roger Ebert once wrote that Director John Carpenter played his audience like a piano with this film. That is probably the best description by a film critic yet. The music score in unforgettable and there has never been a movie made that has relied so beautifully on the art of suspense rather than the simple cliché of straight bloodletting, as we saw with so many knock offs after Halloween's release.
For a movie that was filmed on a shoe string budget to be this effective should be a lesson to Hollywood (and film schools) that some of the best ideas are completed with heart and realistic dedication, not just with dollars, slick sets, and big name actors.
My only regret concerning this film was that it it inspired sequel after clunker sequel, which took away some luster to the average film-goer. This was the kind of film that should have been left alone as a classic to itself: The story of Halloween, a Boogeyman and viewers with questions at the end which they should have had to answer for themselves." --Mike Cini, imdb.com
Nice Little family film about a misunderstood young man MICHAEL MYERS! Nice performance by Donald Pleasence,who tries to just get everyone to Just get along!
If you want to watch a movie that will give you the Halloween chill this is IT! One of the best horror movies ever made and defenitly the best movie ever by John Carpenter!
Straight up this is one of the best horror movies ever captured on film. It completely took the nation by storm with it's classic creepy theme, played by John Carpenter on piano, and it's great and horrifying plot. My favorite movie of all time. Michael Audrey Myers will always rank above all horror movie maniacs, psycho, psychopaths, and killers.
I tell you this right now everybody that feels this is the best horror film ever made has real class and apprecitates good Horror! I only disagree with calling it a slasher films because it's far from it it's straight up horror it doesn't give you a vishule on everything and it's not a gore flick a slasher film is friday the 13th. I don't feel that The remake in underated either I've herd more people put it over than I have bash it, I only know a few of my best friends that feel the same way I do about the remake everybody else put's it on a pedistool because it's Rob Zombie and that is just being biosed I watched the remake a few times trying not to look at it as a Halloween movie but, that was impossible the only thing I could appreciate was Malcome Mcdowells portral as Dr. Loomis he did and excellent job even with the terrible diologue. The orginal hands down slays the remake and will always be superior to Rob Zombies Bastard child on the series.
A very suspenseful and scary horror film... but I don't agree with giving it five stars. It's wonderful, yes, but it's not perfect. The dialog between the girls is ear-piercingly terrible, and some of the acting is sub-par. However, it's miles better than the remake (which I actually liked) and is indeed tied with 'Black Christmas' as the best horror movie ever.
I don't know what is going on with : leatherfacekillserinfan1 but Friday the 13th doesn't even compare to Halloween. Halloween owns Friday. The very 1st slasher not counting Black Christmas. One of the best horror films of all time.
my least favorite halloween. mainlu b/c jamie lee is ugly as hell. i was lopoking forward to watching this. it wasn't thst bad. it was a good slasher. i think there are better slashers such as friday the 13th and stuff. this movie wasn't scary but at least it would keep u watching it. the on;y movie i like from 1970's right now is the 1973 texas chainsaw massacre.
In my opinion, this is the greatest horror movie EVER! It is, to this day, my all-time favorite movie! I love it because of the storyline, the characters, the music, the atmosphere of the setting, etc. I've always loved the beginning when they play the theme song and show the creepy pumpkin and I love the awesome ending!
One my all time favorites. 30 yrs later it's still one of the most influential, suspensful, original and scariest slasher flicks ever to be made. truly a genre defining classic in every sense of the word.
John Carpenter's Halloween is the greatest horror movie of all time and of course it will always be my favourite. It has been copied over and over again. One of the most imporstant parts of the movie is the music without the music it will just be 3 teenage girls and a psycopath in a white mask. And of course great acting by all the cast members especially by Jamie Lee Curitis and Donald Pleasence.
The film starts off when Michael is 6 years old and stabs his sister Judith to death. Then another very scary scene of the movie is when Michael escapes and stealing Dr. Loomis' and Marion Chambers' car. We are then introduced to Laurie we get to know the character and she is a very nice person unlike her promocious friends (Annie and Lynda) Laurie babysits but still is a virgin and never goes out (Annie and Lynda tease her for that). Annie is planing on droping off Lindsey (the girl she babysits) to Laurie and Tommy (the boy Laurie babysits) so Annie and her boyfriend Paul and Lynda and her boyfriend Bob can have a night of sex and goofing off. But right as Annie goes to pick up her boyfriend Paul she is killed by Michael in her car. Bob and Lynda go to the Wallaces not knowing where Paul and Annie are, Bob and Lynda have sex. After Lynda tells Bob to go get her a beer Bob is pinned against a wall with a knife then Lynda is strangled with phone cord. After Laurie hears the weird phone call thinking it was Annie but is was really Lynda being strangled to death. Laurie suspects something is going on and discovers the dead corpses of Annie, Bob, and Lynda. Then after Laurie is stalked by Michael across the street to the Doyles Laurie thinks she has killed Michael by stabbing him with a needle in the neck. Meanwhile Dr. Loomis and Sherrif Bracket have been searching the streets looking for Michael. Laurie is still fighting for her life after Michael breaks down a closet Laurie is able to hit Michael In the eye with a close hanger then stab him. She sends Tommy and Lindsey to run for help to the next door neighbours. Loomis hears Tommy and Linsey screaming for help Loomis enters the Doyles to find Michael strangling Laurie Loomis shoots Michael 6 times causing him to fall of the front balcony, and kill him. Or so they thought. When Laurie asks one of the most famous lines of the movie Whats the Boogeyman? As a matter of fact that just was when Loomis looks back knowone is there and Michael is gone.
Well I just explained the most of the film but you already know that. Halloween is the greatest horror movie ever. It will always bhe my favourite it has spawned 8 sequels and a remake. And oh ya Michael Myers is the king of horror.
THE HORROR HYPE METER Excited to see this movie? Rate it here!
