Halloween
[DVD Info]

One Halloween night in 1963, a six year-old boy named Michael Meyers killed his sister Judith (Sandy Johnston) by stabbing her to death. Fifteen years later we find 21-year old (by common sense standards he’s 21…but by movie time he’s 23) Michael (Tony Moran) at a mental hospital in Smith’s Groove, Illinois. During a storm, while Michael’s doctor Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) goes to the hospital, somehow Michael manages to escape and steals his car. Loomis has been studying Michael for fifteen years, and has a pretty good idea where he’s headed. His hometown, Haddenfield, Illinois.

Laurie Strode’s (Jamie Lee Curtis) dad is a real estate agent. He asks her to drop off the key to the old Meyer’s place on her way to school since he’s going to sell it. As she’s leaving the rumored haunted house, she fails to notice a man watching her leave, breathing heavily. On Halloween night Laurie is babysitting a boy named Tommy (Brian Andrews), while three houses down her friend Annie (Nancy Kyes) is also babysitting. All day Laurie keeps seeing a man in a white mask following her. When Loomis follows Michael’s trail to Haddenfield, he finds that Judith Meyers’ grave has been dug up. Coincidence? Probably not. He warns the police about Meyers but tells them not to alert the media.

While babysitting, Annie’s boyfriend Paul (uncredited), calls and Annie drops the little girl she’s babysitting off with Laurie. Before Annie can leave to pick up her boyfriend Michael kills her in her car. An unknowing Laurie goes to check on her friends when they don’t answer their phone and finds her friend’s bodies. She must find a way to escape Michael before she becomes another body to add to his pile.

You can break a car window with a flat palm.
No one looks for a stolen government vehicle.
Skunks eat dogs.
The sound of a phone ringing kills a man's libido.

"Don't you think it would be better if you referred to "it" as "him"?" ~Marion Chambers.

None... ^_^

This was a very well done flick. It was suspenseful and original. It wasn’t very scary though. I had two main problems with it. One…is the inconsistency of some of the facts. Like, Michael kills his sister in 1963 and is sent to a mental institution. He escapes the hospital in 1978. That’s…fifteen years, right? Well…on the credits it says Michael is twenty-three…but if you add fifteen and six together you get twenty-one. Also, I’m a bit confused…I’m sure I’m jumping ahead of the game here but in Halloween 4 Michael Myers is Laurie’s…brother (right? Because Laurie Strode’s daughter, Jamie, is his niece)…is that something they made up for the 4th and 5th Halloween movies or a mere oversight for the first movie. It really doesn’t make sense…because Michael kills his sister in the first movie and didn’t seem to have any other siblings. I guess I’ll just have to watch the other movies. Also…how can a guy be stabbed in the neck with a knitting needle, stabbed in the eye with a hanger, stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife, be shot 4 or 5 times, fall off a balcony and STILL have enough energy to get up and walk away. He's mentally disturbed...not super human. Anyway, the second problem I had with Halloween was Lynda’s character. She said “totally” one too many times and I was happy she died. Oh well. Besides those two (or three) minor oversights this movie is pretty cool. I love the overall feel that the movie projects. I had no idea that it was a low budget indie film. That's awesome. If you have yet to see this pivotal piece of cinema before 80’s slasher films took over…do so! Because of this, the jury gives this flick:

(Impressed)

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