Halloween (1978)
Plot Synopsis: Fifteen years after murdering his sister, Michael Myers escapes from a mental institution, and returns to his hometown on Halloween night, where he sets his sights on a teenage girl named Laurie Strode. Meanwhile, Michael’s therapist, Dr. Sam Loomis is hot on his trail. Positives: I think the best thing this movie has going for it is its simplicity. For example, the characters are fairly simple. Michael, Laurie, and Loomis are still beloved characters almost fifty years later. Now, I personally will have more to say about Laurie specifically in a different section of my review. The opening scene is one of the absolute best opening scenes in a horror movie ever (perhaps rivaled only by Scream and Jaws ). Something I appreciate far more as an adult than I did when I first watched the movie as a teenager is the movie’s pacing. It’s actually fairly slow paced a good chunk of the runtime, but I think that actually works. It feels more like it’s ratcheting up the tension. The ...