Halloween

Pros: Benchmark of its genre, excellent low budget production
Cons: Nothing unless you're watching it through a microscope

Although my tastes have diversified in recent years and started to take in the more subtle and refined moods of the classics and independent drama, my primary movie fixation has always been horror. It’s a taste I developed in my teenage years, some ...

Pros: Entertaining scary movie.
Cons: Some annoying characters.

Horror movies have been popular for many years, with certain ones being considered classics.  There are still many of those movies that I haven't seen, but I have started to see some of them in the last several years.  I had heard of ...

Pros: A horror classic in every sense of the word.
Cons: I wish the bitrate had more more room to breath.

*cue catchy jingle* No more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. No more days to Halloween - Silver Shamrocks! Welcome Boys and Ghouls to Month of the Living Dead, my thirteen day (and then some) tribute to that most wonderful of ...

Pros: THX remastered, great sound and look, the story is a classic
Cons: none

Halloween: Compass International Pictures/Anchor Bay Home Video
Rating: USA: R

Today, instead of simply reviewing a film, we're going to take a look at a newly released version of an enduring classic.

Twenty-one years after it...

Pros: Donald Pleasence, story, Carpenter's directing, production, music, atmosphere, & lots more
Cons: some amateur acting by Curtis, inferior sequels

Assault on Precinct 13. Escape From New York. The Thing. They Live. The glory days when director John Carpenter was in his prime. And let's not forget the film that scared the living bejesus out of generations of ...

Pros: Perfect for Halloween; scary [that goes without saying]
Cons: Refer to IMDB Halloween/ Fun Stuff/ goofs section

I have to admit that horror movies never scared me. I’m saying that without any pride, more like admitting pathology. I always thought that after horror movie I should have nightmares or something. A friend of mine said it might be a Russian thing, but...

Pros: Scary with class.
Cons: Probably too horrific for some.

I can still remember when I heard it. I must have been very young, five years old maybe. ”Don’t go beyond the neighborhood into the woods there. They say the boogeyman lives there.” The boogeyman? What…or who is that? I soon ...

Pros: It's a Classic, Great Music, Simple
Cons: All the Sequels

Modern horror cinema definitely has it's problems. Horror movies nowadays seem to rely more on deep plots and underlying tones, but people should look to the past for more inspiration. I love low budget horror, there's just something about gritty picture ...

Pros: THE THEME SONG WILL MAKE YOU CRY TO YOUR MOTHER
Cons: #%$^#*&%%^$

Halloween is one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life. Whenever I see a horror film, regardless of whether it was good or bad, I always wind up thinking "well, it sure wasn't Halloween". The amazing music, the classic plot, everything...

Pros: Lead acting. Novelty. Direction.
Cons: Non-lead acting.

It's very likely that John Carpenter's Halloween will terrify you at the age of 20. It's even more likely that you'll be scared out of your pants at 9-----the age at which many Americans had their first experience. You remember being some ...

Pros: Well done from a technical point of view. Not as gory as I feared.
Cons: It does not improve on the original. Profanity, and white trash.

Halloween (2007) Directed by Rob Zombie. ”The darkest souls are not those which choose to exist within the hell of the abyss, but those which choose to move silently among us.” Dr. Samuel Loomis. Way back in 1978 John Carpenter made a ...

Pros: Curtis & Pleasence, Carpenter's directing, musical score, atmospheric, original plot
Cons: The ungodly sequels

John Carpenter may not (scratch that, did not) invent the heavily exploited & milked to death slasher genre. For that matter, his 1978 benchmark classic Halloween may not be the grandaddy slasher movie of all time (it's a matter of ...

Pros: Great acting, the music sets the tension, scary as hell
Cons: none

Introduction In the midst of so many horror movies at the time that plagued cinema screens ...

Pros: Be afraid, be VERY afraid
Cons: None

Somewhat tragically, us Brits don’t celebrate Halloween. Believe it or not, it’s actually illegal for me to go out on the night of October 31st dressed in a boiler suit, hiding my features behind a hockey mask and knocking on people’s doors...

Pros: Fluid direction, eerie cinematography, Carpenter's score
Cons: Overage actors

It's that time of year again. With the coming of Halloween, I've decided to write some reviews of horror films. I decided to start off by writing a review on, appropriately enough, "Halloween". John Carpenter's 1978 classic has rightfully taken its...