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Advantages: Terrifying, intelligent, masterful.
Disadvantages: None. Unless we consider the sequels. Or the remake. Which we won't.

Halloween is one of my favourite times of the year, mostly on account of a lifelong love of horror cinema. Each year, I'll go out of my way to amass a selection of films about me, some of which I'll have seen - for one must be sure of being scared somewhere along the line, and that certainty is not always there with new acquisitions - and some of which will be new to me. In this spirit, I'm going to be posting a series of reviews of pictures you ...
...First up, the ultimate Halloween picture - John Carpenter's 1978 Halloween. Halloween's plot, basically, boils down to this - Man escapes from mental hospital, picks up a blank, white face-mask (a William Shatner mask turned inside-out, as it happens), returns to the town where he was raised and sets about slaughtering various teenagers who, with their sex and their drinking and their carrying-on, remind him, one assumes, of his own sister, whom ... Read review

Advantages: Good stoyline
Disadvantages: Slightly confusing at the beginning

...this film watch the first Halloween (also starring Jamie Lee Curtis) because it would fill in the gaps for you. I love horrors and this film did do something for me. It is amazing film scary, jumpy and i would reccommend it to people that are like me and cant find a horror that is actually scary. The only thing i would critize is that the begining is completely confusing espiecally if you have never seen the first one. ... Read review

Advantages: Jamie Lee Curtis...
Disadvantages: Acting, Story, Not Scary...

♥ iNTRODUCTIOn ♥ Halloween is one of the most loved and possibly the most famous horror series of all time. It all began with Halloween, directed by John Carpenter which was released in 1978, almost thirty years ago now. It was only intended to be a small film for drive-in movies but word of mouth spread and it went on to be released worldwide, making millions. It is still ranked as one of the greatest horror movies or just movies ...
...which are just laughable now, Halloween is still terrifying to people who have never seen it. It starred Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, a teenage babysitter who is for some reason being stalked by this masked maniac. It all comes to a soaring finale where Michael Myers (the masked maniac) is shot 6 times but still manages to get up and walk away... It was only a matter of time before a sequel was called for after the originals success and Halloween ... Read review

Advantages: Original, Groundbreaking, Chilling
Disadvantages: None

Halloween is an American Independent horror film which was made in 1978. The film centres around events occuring in the fictional midwestern town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night. The film is directed by John Carpenter, and also co-written by him along with Debra Hill. At the beginning of the film it is Halloween night in 1963 and a six year old Michael Myers butchers his seventeen year old sister ,Judith, to death with a carving knife. ...
...major problem is that on Halloween night in 1978, exactly fifteen years on from his previous murder, Michael escapes from the vicinity because of lax supervision. Michael heads for Haddonfield with murderous carnage in mind. Loomis is well aware of what kind of things that Myers will be looking to do and exactly where he is wanting to go, and therefore sets about pursuing him. Predictably enough Loomis heads straight for Haddonfield to alert the ... Read review

Advantages: gripping storyline and an all round suspence filled horror
Disadvantages: may not be able to sleep with the light off ever again!!

halloween one of the most influential horrors of the 20th century. A film about a serial killer who causes a blood bath in the little town of Haddensfeild on halloween night. Micheal myers a 6 year old boy murders his older sister and is sent to a mental instatution, but 15 years on micheal escapes from the mental institution and theres only one place hes heading. Back to haddensfeild to seek more bloody revenge. If you like horror this is the one ...
...to and a film that unlike many others has stood the test of time.This film has you in suspence from start to finish with brilliant performances from a young jamie lee curtis who plays laurie stroder a student caught up in the evil that is MICHEAL MYERS. Another well thought out performance is by Donald Pleasance who plays DR loumis Micheals phycologist since he was a boy, the only man who knows what micheal myers is really capable of. ... Read review