Halloween Movie Review 1978

25 1978 writer director john carpenter unleashed halloween in theaters spawning decades of imitations and sequels of the iconic horror title.

Scary movie 2 ending. On halloween night in 1963 6 year old michael myers stabbed his sister to death. When halloween was released in october 1978 the new york times didnt review it. Evil has come to your little corner of youtube.

The first flick in the trilogy from director john carpenter halloween almost single handedly invented the 1980s slasher genre. After being in a mental hospital for 15 years myers escapes and returns to ha. But it wasnt out of snobbery.

Escaped lunatic michael myers no not the austin powers actor goes on a murderous baby sitter slaying rampage on halloween. Curtis capable interpretation of the gawky awkward laurie is frequently overlooked in analyses of the movie and its genre but she effectively conveys. Each halloween night i remember back to 1978 when halloween came out.

I think of the young scared child that i was and how good the first halloweenmovie really was. Indeed theres a legend that black christmas sequel was going to be about billy. Halloween was the film that earned jamie lee curtis the infamous title of scream queen she plays laurie strode the virginal protagonist.

Halloween 1978 the insomniac 09192013 film reviews. But on october 30 1978 while being. Kicking off my undertaking of the entire halloween franchise we start with the timeless classicthe one th.

Thats what halloween did for me. He was sentenced and locked away for 15 years. The plot tells about a mental patient who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his teenage sister on halloween night when he was six years old.

Halloween 1978 is one of those rare movies that can literally be considered a candidate for the greatest horror movie ever made it isnt necessarily the first slasher movie theres black christmas 1974 and the texas chainsaw massacre 1974 that took place four years before halloween. In my opinion a movie should stay with you long after the movie is over. Printing press workers were on strike and nothing was being published.

She plays laurie strode the virginal protagonist. Fifteen years later he escapes and returns to his. On a cold halloween night in 1963 six year old michael myers brutally murdered his 17 year old sister judith.