The pinnacle of classic horror! today's horror generation will find the movie a little stale, but this is the one that started it all, many a director have tried to recreate a classic like this in the modern-age but few have succeeded. Sure the movie has a one or two visible mistakes, but those who know there Horror well, will name this movie in their top 5.

Great Movie, Jamie lee Curtis is definitely the Queen of horror. The success movie is what started the Friday the 13ths and nightmare on elm street series. The acting was great and Michael myers really scared the hell out of me when i was a kid. Definitely 5/5 stars All time great film.

John Carpenter and Debra Hill's masterpiece in all it's terrifying glory. Done on a $320,000 budget, it was Jamie Lee's first movie, and although not the first slasher flick, it was the beginning of a wave that kicked the 80's ass. I could go on and on and on about this movie, trust me but why don't i sum up by saying YOU REALLY MUST SEE THIS MOVIE, oh and GO BACK TO MAKING MUSIC ROB ZOMBIE AND STOP MESSING UP AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS, ok i'm done

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The story of an escaped mental patient who returns to the home where he had killed his sister fifteen years earlier. Halloween night fifteen years ago Michael Myers killed his sister now this coming Halloween he returns home to go after his other sister Laurie Strode. A great Halloween film and Jamie Lee Curtis did great in this one for her debut.

Over a decade after the six-year-old Michael Myers (Moran) murdered his sister on Halloween night, he escapes from the asylum in which he has spent his subsequent life and returns to his home town of Haddonfield.

John Carpenter's wildly creative Halloween is now well-established as one of the genre's greatest treasures as well as the film that created the slasher movie, a sub-genre that may yet have as many lives as its most prolific psychopaths.

The story is simple; bad guy wants to kill teenagers (ideally promiscuous ones). But the plot is not what makes Halloween so scary. Michael Myers comes across as so remorselessly evil and detached that his back-story is effectively superseded by the hugely successful realization of the character. You don't need to know that he's an escaped lunatic who killed his sister, it's enough just to see him brazenly stalking Laurie (Lee Curtis) in the middle of the day. His lack of discretion convinces us it's all about that one night and damn the consequences. His blank face (actually a William Shatner mask painted white) gives away nothing, and it's all the more effective for being presented in the sunny suburbia of leafy Haddonfield (although Autumn, there's always plenty of foliage for Myers to step in and out of).

But Myers wouldn't exist without Carpenter (or co-writer Debra Hill). The five-minute, one take opening sequence, all seen through Myers' eyes, is bravura filmmaking that places us immediately and uncompromisingly in the shoes of a murderer. When we return to Haddonfield, Carpenter has the camera move through the quiet streets like an invisible voyeur selecting a target. The decision to set the last half entirely in two houses and the road between is highly effective, making the audience feel trapped even in what should be a comforting setting - it's almost as if Carpenter was challenging himself to avoid shortcuts like isolated farmhouses.

In short, Halloween is simply the most important horror film of the last forty years, and absolutely essential viewing.

On Halloween, 6 year old Michael Myers stabs his older sister to death with a kitchen knife. Years later he escapes from a psychiatric hospital and returns to the house where it all happened. He chases baby sitter Laurie and her friends, trying to murder them aswell.

Halloween is an excellent, classic horror film. This movie is far superior to it's 2007 remake. An excellent, horrifying movie.