HALLOWEEN (1978) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: John Carpenter
Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasance, P. J. Soles
On Halloween in 1963, a six-year-old boy stabs his sister to death with a butcher knife. Exactly 15 years later, he escapes from the loony bin and comes back for more. A perfect little bare-bones horror movie that pretty much wrote the formula for an unending cycle of inferior sequels and imitations. You can find lots of cracks and holes in it if you're looking for them, but you can find those things in a nightmare, too, and this is some nightmare. You do believe in the bogeyman, don't you?
