Halloween (1978) - Review

What John Carpenter created here with Halloween back in 1978 is nothing less than spectacular. It's kind of astounding looking back at this film to see how revolutionary it was. There's so many things that this film innovated and pioneered with that cascades onto film today, and it created a whole subgenre of slasher movies, and this film does it better than any others. It's so slow. It's so tension filled. Michael Myers is always in the background and you always feel like he's just behind you. The fact that you never see his eyes, that there's this just black emptiness of where his eyes would be, is just so creepy and the way he moves, the way he just appears out of darkness. UHEE it's still creepy.

Another thing that this film pioneered is the Steadicam. There's a lot of great moments where we're following characters running across streets, where there's these great long takes, especially in the beginning. And this film pioneered that technique a lot. And the other thing this film does so well is just the direction. I just love the suspense and the vibe that John Carpenter builds here and the balls on this man to have the TV be playing the thing, the original thing, years before John Carpenter would eventually remake that movie is just amazing. This film wholly deserves the reputation it has as one of the best horror movies ever made.