Halloween (1978) - Lisa's Review

Halloween is a favourite of an awful lot of people I know.  I wouldn't say it was a favourite of mine, but it is a movie I would recommend any horror fan watch.  It was the first that spawned a lot of similar teen slasher style movies.  I'm thinking Friday the 13th / Nightmare on Elm Street.

The teenagers in these movies can pretty much be taken or left, replaced by the next young hopeful in the queue.  I think a lot of guys may disagree with me here seeing as Jamie Lee Curtis plays our innocent young schoolgirl Laurie in this movie.  The slasher is Michael Myers.  We never see an adult face, only that of his 6 year old self with the murder that started it all.

When Michael was 6 years old he murdered his sister on Halloween night with a very big knife whilst wearing a clown costume.  The murder scene itself in this movie is something that was incredibly weakened for me by the need for the sister to be shown naked after she'd been murdered, ok, so she'd just been shagging her boyfriend, but for me it turned what could have been a creepy, dark scene into something for the boys.  Also the ridiculous flailing about by his sister, the lack of any attempt to get up from her seat to get away or push her 6 year old brother over was a bit of a laugh.  It's sad really as the movies start is very strong, but would have been much stronger had these couple of elements been changed.