Great Film: Halloween

[Rushmore]

I mean, good lord. This is definitive.

I have probably seen Halloween six or seven times. It's not like I rent it over and over or own it or anything...it's just that I cannot NOT watch it if I happen to see that it's on.

Everything about this film is perfect. Name any other film that grabs late seventies teendom better. Maybe Carrie. Maybe Dazed and Confused.

John Carpenter. Excellent. The guy even did the soundtrack.

If you're not sure if you agree that Halloween is an excellent movie (no, not just "horror movie"), watch it from start to finish again.

The scene where the kid first sees the boogeyman (Myers) standing outside the house across the street? Scary.

The next time, when he sees him again, this time carrying Annie's corpse? Scary.

And maybe best of all, after Donald Pleasance shoots Myers and then he disappears, and the movie's over...that scary music is playing and they show ten or so still shots of the interior and exterior of the house, sort of a reminder that evil is everywhere? Brrr.

That last actually sort of reminds me of the very end of Night of the Living Dead, when they slowly scroll through those grainy black and white stills of the posses with the hooks, etc.

Scary.

I'm not old enough to sound like an old man, but...

That was a time when they could really make a scary movie.

Not like all of this blah blah etc etc they have today etc etc ad infinitum.

Anyway...Halloween. Excellent, right?

[g-bebe]

s'good.

[Roy Munson]

Halloween is a masterful film. Carpenter combined extreme suspense with little on screen violence.

[4_2_it]

Definitely a classic. Even William Shatner saw his career revive after they used that mask.