Halloween (25th Anniversary Edition) > Reviews

Advantages: An absolute classic of the horror genre!!!
Disadvantages: John Carpenter just makes crap films these days!!!

...here as the version of Halloween I own on DVD has been superseded by at least one more version since I bought it - so my DVD review would not reflect everything available out there on the market at the moment!!! Anyway... Here goes!!! -------------------------------------------------- Back in the Spring of 1978, John Carpenter filmed a horror movie in a remarkable 21 days and on a shoe-string budget that would change horror films forever... This ... Read review

Advantages: Original, Groundbreaking, Chilling
Disadvantages: None

Halloween is an American Independent horror film which was made in 1978. The film centres around events occuring in the fictional midwestern town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night. The film is directed by John Carpenter, and also co-written by him along with Debra Hill. At the beginning of the film it is Halloween night in 1963 and a six year old Michael Myers butchers his seventeen year old sister ,Judith, to death with a carving knife. ... Read review

Advantages: Teen-slasher classic
Disadvantages: none

Halloween is THE teen-slasher movie, and until 'Blair Witch Project', it was the highest grossing independent movie of all time. The story goes: after being imprisoned for fifteen years in a mental hospital for the murder of his sister, Michael Myers has escaped to wreck havoc in the town where he first began his killings. Directed by horror legend John Carpenter, and starring 'scream queen' Jamie Lee Curtis and veteran actor Donald Pleasance, this ... Read review

Advantages: Gripping, white knuckle film
Disadvantages: poor picture due to the date and budget

Halloween actually came from "Assault on Precinct 13" another one of John Carpenter films. But Assault on precinct 13 wasn't to be John Carpenters greatest hit. (We all know what his greatest film was wink wink). Halloween was shot in only 21 days back in 1978, with one of the smallest movie budgets ever $300.000 but one also with the greatest profit. This horror tail of Halloween has for me one of the greatest storylines, and set the trend for all ... Read review