It's Halloween night, about a month before JFK went to Dallas, and a small child named Michael brutally butchers his older sister. He's sent to the asylum, and he's supposed to stay locked up forever. However, 15 years later he escapes, and guess where he goes? Yup, back to the scene of the crime. This time, Michael has his eye on a trio of teenage girls. Why is he paying such close special attention to a very young Jamie Lee Curtis? Who taught him to drive? Why does his mask look like James T Kirk met a can of spray paint? John Carpenter's Halloween is pure horror. It proves you don't need tons of blood, kills, or a big budget,…

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The holiday of Halloween is more than just a night of candy and harmless pranks. As consumerist tendencies grow and expand financially, Halloween has become not only a celebratory day of the internal desire to change and shift, but a gigantic season in and of itself. Costume stores open as early as late July and decorations are everywhere, appearing in Grocery stores and gas stations just as much as the local retail shop. As a result, the mood of autumn and the spooky turn into the Halloween season comes as early as late-August. I’m not complaining. Halloween allows for a specific and almost indescribable aura to enter the air, floating and observing as it alters neighborhoods and triggers something…

When exposed, he only pauses.

It's nothing new to note that the horror in many slashers--especially this one--are women's horrors. Stalking, sexual violence, threats to children, threatening phone calls, these are products of patriarchy that women--whether we like it or not--are saddled with facing. In better societies, reproductive labor is shared, but here, under capitalist patriarchy, women (or even just those classified as women) are coerced into these roles. And so we are subject to men's obsessions, men's brutality, men's lust, men's need to control. Again, whether men like it or not, capitalist patriarchy coerces them into those roles. They aren't "natural." They aren't innate. They aren't unavoidable. But they are there, in our media, in our culture, in our…

One of the essentials for the Halloween season! The masterpiece from John Carpenter. He made it for $325,000 and looks much more expensive! I love this movie and when younger I watched it every Halloween. To be honest I would love to like it less due to John Carpenter hates horror movies. Friends of him have said it, an ex girlfriend and even himself has said it in interviews. Even though I try to find faults in this movie but I love this movie in-spite of my opinion of John Carpenter. He has made several great horror movies! If you are one of the few that haven’t seen it check it out! If you haven’t seen it yet again for…

I found the plot quite simple but somehow illustrative of something that can happen in the real world.
Michael Myers escapes from a mental institution and arrives in the small town of Haddonfield killing anyone who crosses his path. His motivations? We don't know.
His life as a child or anything that might lead us to know this character? We don't know anything...

Maybe that's what made this movie so scary in the 1970s, yes, back then, because the movie I saw didn't scare me at all.
But I imagine it would have been scarier back then, when we started finding out about the most popular serial killers that are still talked about today.

As for the more technical aspects…