The 1970's were a wacky time, man. Adults trusted teenagers with watching their kids? That's the worst decision I've ever heard. Also, there's a killer named Michael Myers on the loose. When he was just 5 years old, he stabbed his older sister on Halloween night while in a clown costume. This put him in a mental facility, but after 15 years pass, he escapes by scaring a girl and taking her car. We then learn about a group of teenagers who don't even care that Halloween is a holiday, and a group of frightened kids. One of the teenagers (Jamie Lee Curtis, yeah, the one from Freaky Friday. Good touch, 1970's) is babysitting a little boy while her friends is babysitting a little girl in another house. They exchange phone calls throughout the night. This ends abruptly when Michael hops in the back of Annie's car and strangles her. Blonde girl then goes to the house that Annie was at to check on her, while Annie's friends go to the house blonde girl was at. This, of course, inhabits Michael, who murders the two teenagers while they're "getting it on". Blonde girl ventures to the house with all of the corpses and finds all of them laying in a sadistic manner planned out by Michael. This is followed by blonde girl thinking she kills Michael and then not really doing it, but the job is finished when Michael's old doctor comes and shoots him to death...
...or so they thought. Ok, this movie was outstanding. Literally everything I could ask from a horror movie. Just to give some context, over the month of October, I've watched both ITs, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street. They were all good, but nothing like this one. It had the character building from Friday the 13th, the slasher factor from Nightmare on Elm Street, and the eeriness from IT. Michael Myers is the perfect killer, hands-down. He doesn't just murder everything like Freddy, he actually plans his kills out so much. I watched this movie with my parents, and everytime we said that something would happen, it didn't. It was frustrating at the time, but it really goes to show that Halloween isn't predictable and always throws in a twist. Also, the fact that Michael appears and disappears out of nowhere was a really nice concept that I loved from the start. I can go on for hours, least favorite part was the lack of killing at the beginning, but in retrospect the first scene made up for it, and favorite part was every single time Michael crept up behind them and they didn't notice. Loved that. This movie is a 10/10 for a horror film. It may not be the most technical, or the deepest, but it sure gives the audience something to get caught up in and solidifies itself as a masterpiece.
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