John Carpenter's 1978 is indisputably one of the best horror movies ever made, and these are its scariest moments.
Year after year, sequel after inferior sequel, esteem for John Carpenter's original 1978 Halloween only grows, for bloody good reason. The Halloween franchise is currently among the most popular horror series in the world, and it all starts here. In fact, it's easy to argue the modern age of horror starts here.
9 Opening titles Carpenter has made it clear in interviews that he feels he was more influenced by Howard Hawks than anyone in making Halloween, but the influence of Alfred Hitchcock is stamped all over the picture, perhaps nowhere more than the iconic opening titles, a tone-setter reminiscent of Hitchcock's collaborations with composer Bernard Hermann.Halloween was made for a tiny budget, and Carpenter had to score the film himself.
The big reveal? Judith's brutal killer is her little brother, a six-year-old with a glazed-over, detached expression. Shocking stuff, especially in '78. 5 Michael escapes from Smith's Grove Sanitarium A decade and a half after Judith gets sliced and diced, we meet 21-year-old Michael's concerned doctor, and the fan-favorite chain-smoking nurse who thinks Loomis too harsh with his patient.Michael escapes, tries to kill Marion , and probably alters her opinion about Loomis' steely demeanor. With lighting that borders on expressionistic, this sequence is beautifully executed.
3 Climax: the chase, the closet, the corpse rises for one last scare As beloved horror expert James A. Janisse noted in his "Kill Count" review of Halloween, part of the unsung genius of Carpenter's film is the layout he reveals to us gradually. By the film's finale, set mostly in two houses that face each other on the same suburban street, we have a pretty concrete idea of where Laurie can hide and escape from the relentless Shape. And where she can't.
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