SCARETOBER 2018: Halloween (1978)
John Carpenter proves that an amazing filmmaker can take something mediocre and turn it into a masterpiece.
This isn’t a perfect movie. In fact it’s sometimes pretty hokey. Most of the cast is fairly unremarkable and unbelievable as teens and the premise is basic at best. Yet Carpenter’s deliberate visual style, ratcheting of tension and unstoppably evil horror villian elevate this movie from B-movie dreck to instant horror classic. And it also helps that Jamie Lee Curtis is nearly perfect in her first movie role, and Donald Pleasance is unique among expository heroes. Enjoy our review of the 1978 original horror classic, Halloween.
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from “Halloween Theme - Main Title” composed by John Carpenter for the film Halloween (1978). ℗© 2010 Halloween. Find the album on Amazon or iTunes.
Excerpt taken from A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). © 1984 New Line Cinema.
