ERIC HIERS: The movie that started it all and remains after twenty-four years still the best. It has had a lasting mark on pop culture and audiences alike. Director John Carpenter�s horror masterpiece opens on Halloween 1963, with an unseen figure stalking through a big white, slowly making its way to the upstairs bedroom when a teenaged girl sits combing her hair. The figure kills the girl and walks outside and is stopped by a man and a woman. The man pulls off the figure�s mask, a clown mask, and the killer is revealed to us. It is a six-year-old boy named Michael Myers. Myers spends the next fifteen years in a sanitarium in a catatonic state. Then on Halloween Eve, he escapes and returns to his hometown. He stalks three teenaged girls, most notably, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, in her first movie role). Hot on his trail is his psychiatrist, Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance). As the movie progresses, Michael stalks his prey and the scares begin and do not stop until the climatic ending that has not yet matched or topped.
***** RANK: 1 out of 8
DEREK SHARP: The opening chapter and no doubt one of the best horror films in history, which created the foreground
for the modern teenage slasher film. Jamie Lee Curtis
makes her first and most well known appearence as
Laurie Strode and sets the standard for the female
survivors of many horror films to come. But the most
memorial thing about the movie is introduces Sam
Loomis, undoubtly the hero of HALLOWEEN and one of
the major players in the story, that follows.
This is my favorite of the series and remains the most
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