Halloween

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Summary: the absolute best
Review: this is scary intence and my personal favirote this is a MUST see for movie fans ecpecailly horror movie fans.

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Summary: Don't fear the Reaper...
Review: One day young Michael Myers decided that his sister shouldn't live anymore. She must have been in her late teens. He was six. He stabbed her to death. It was Halloween.

15 years later Michael escapes from the mental asylum. He returns to his hometown, Haddonfield, persued by his psychiatrist, Dr Loomis.

In Haddonfield people are preparing to celebrate the holiday. We follow three girlfriends who are going to meet with their boyfriends, and babysit. The great thing about having things taking place on Halloween is that this holiday means many things. It means party, which means opportunity to work (babysit), and it means horror. Of course you can mix these quite naturally.

Leaves are falling from the trees. The girlfriends are still in the classroom... being asked about fate in literature class. There are children in the schoolyard scaring each other, saying that the "Boogeyman" is coming on Halloween. And Michael Myers appearing everywhere, just watching or driving his (stolen) car. John Carpenter knows how to set the mood. And his music in this film is gold.

There are scarier movies out there, but it's hard to top the mood of this one.

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Summary: If it's not broke, don't fix it.
Review: Ok, I have to give this a 3 based on the original film alone. I bought it(though not from amazon), as well as the previous DVD release of Halloween. However, this version of it loses points because of the travesty that has befallen this excitingly frightening film. In an attempt to "improve" the video quality, they have simultaneously drained the film of it's mistique. No longer does Michael Myers seem to materilize out of the darkness, now he simply steps out from behind the corner. Essentially, this version of the film falls prey to the idea that every nighttime scene should have a blue hint. The Shape (as Myers is also known) is no longer that, he is now just a guy in a blue-lit room. I recommend you buy the previous version, if you can still find it.

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Summary: This is not a treat but a trick
Review: why do people like this trash it isn't scary nor interesting and the movie is slow paced that it looks like director John Carpenter shot this while walking slowly and the movie is low budget there is hardly any blood or good special effects instead fans like it for its so-called suspense and laughable scares. The main plot is a boy who murdered his sister and returns years later to kill babysitters in his hometown. Halloween is no treat but a trick. Fans of horror films should rent something better. The only good part is when Jamie Lee Curtis is laying on the ground and in the background Michael Myers sits up slowly looking at her.

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Summary: This is the Best Horror movie ever!!!
Review: If you take an audience that never seen either Psycho or Halloween and had them watch both films, let's see how many screams per each film there are. Halloween like Psycho has a believible storyline where both characters could really exist. It wasn't until after the first film where Michael gets shot about a hundred times and still lives that the character isn't plauseable anymore. But, the pure terror that is given off by this faceless killer relentlessly stalking his victim is chilling, that when you leave the theater and get in your car to go home, you have to check the back seat to make sure Michael isn't there. Now that's what I call scary!

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Summary: If you want the all star movie, go for this one
Review: "Halloween", created by John Carpenter, is the earlier of the three transformed horror series (Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street are the other two). It features Donald Pleasance, a British actor who did quite a bit of stage work, and even spent a year in a German prison camp when he was in the Royal Air Corps during WW2. He plays the mad doctor/hero, Sam Loomis, who dedicates 15 years to try to get inside the head of a child who brutally murdered his sister when he was six. His shocking quotes were, "I met this 6-year old boy with the blackest eyes...the devil's eyes." and, "I spend 8 years trying to reach him and another 7 trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply...evil."

Also featured is Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, Michael's (the killer's) sister, who is stalked by Michael himself. But Loomis is hot on the trail, and tracks down Michael, only to see his unmasked face with Laurie. He shoots Michael six times, once in the heart, and then the most climactic horror events ever begin.

So see this movie if you are interested in a more realistic, classic series and you like the idea of a Halloween killer. It's just great!

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Summary: Great
Review: I saw the original movie about 2 years ago. This one is much better.