Genre:
Horror
Directed
by: John Carpenter
Cast:
Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles
Running
time: 91 minutes
On Halloween night of 1963, young Michael
Myers, 6, stabs his older sister to death in the family home. The boy is then
committed to a mental institution, from which he escapes 15 years later. Myers
travels back to his hometown with the goal to kill again. With Dr. Loomis on
his trail, Michael Myers is on the loose, and Laurie Strode, who is babysitting
on Halloween night, seems set to cross his path.
This film has become a classic of the
horror/slasher genre. It is a very effective movie in the sense that it doesn’t
rely in extreme violence and goriness to cause an effect. John Carpenter
concentrates on setting a tone and an atmosphere, with a slow and deliberate
pace and really good eerie music. You know something is coming, you just don’t
know when it will come.
The acting is sometimes a bit hammy and some
of the scenes of violence come off as a tad cartoonish at times, especially
when you look at it almost 40 years later, but, when you see it as a product of
its time, Halloween is a very good horror movie.
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