Halloween

Compass International Pictures | Release Date: October 25, 1978

8.6	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 702 Ratings

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beeanadouOct 30, 2018

Definitely over-rated but not so bad considering when it was filmed. Creepy and intense background music is way more intimidating than the weak story cause everything is just too predictable.

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Nclr_ChcknFeb 26, 2019

Terrible acting and non-existent gore.
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JasDean89Nov 30, 2015

in every halloween movie it always appears for michael to chase after his sister using the name of laurie. iit causes the movie to be boring and uninteresting because he uses the same character and its name throughout the whole movie!!!!!

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axelkochNov 1, 2012

Excessively overrated crap. How can I decently scare me when I know so little of the story? Why does Michael Myers kill? Why this girl? And why couldn't you integrate some additional stories, Mr. Carpenter? A good horror movie offers moreExcessively overrated crap. How can I decently scare me when I know so little of the story? Why does Michael Myers kill? Why this girl? And why couldn't you integrate some additional stories, Mr. Carpenter? A good horror movie offers more than apparently purportless killings. Not scary, not intelligent, not good. At least I thought the Michael Myers characters was good. His mask and his groaning are pretty scary, you could've made a good film out of this.… Expand

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queenstephanieApr 26, 2020

overrated. not scary, no interesting characters, not a smart plot. none of the companies called this scary without the music, and the music is more entertaining than scary

2 of 17 users found this helpful215

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ArendelleawesomNov 8, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I am a very easily scared person my sister has told me about scary movies and its scared me just so you get an idea of how easily frightened I am and quite frankly this movie was not scary I was only startled at two of the jump scares and it wasn't the big ones because I predicted where all of the other ones would be if i watch a horror movie and go home and walk into my house then go straight to my bedroom without turning any lights on i dont think a horror movie did its job and on top of the fact that this movie doesn't really have any good actors besides the professor who wasn't even that talented at that this movie was one of the worst movies I've ever seen and that's not an exaggeration… Expand

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ShiningLionOct 25, 2021

I somehow made it to 2021 not having seen this film. Don't get me wrong, I love a good horror movie but most are tripe to me and I think the bar for good horror was definitely lowered somewhere around the release of this film and TexasI somehow made it to 2021 not having seen this film. Don't get me wrong, I love a good horror movie but most are tripe to me and I think the bar for good horror was definitely lowered somewhere around the release of this film and Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the 70s. At that point they realized they could throw off all the Hitchcockian pretentions of character development and plot because your average schmuck will froth at the mouth over an hour and a half of braindead silence with intermittent kills. Ones that don't even make sense, like pinning a guy to a wall with a knife hardly long enough to make it through the other side of him (yet in the shot this is show most of the blade didn't enter him so it magically grew to 2 feet in length). I can forgive liking this film if you grew up with it or like to think like everyone else, but if you have any more of a quality filter than that it's not a great time, even in October... It's so long, plodding, and boring. Hardly any Halloween atmosphere at all.

The music gets old reaaaaal fast. If it wasn't so overused it may have worked better, but it became almost comedic how any time a car moved with Michael in it or any time he would move even off screen the music would start again. He's like a human ice cream truck I guess.

The final 10 minutes of the film are the only actually suspenseful or eerie part, unless being set in the 70s automatically makes a film feel eerie to you. The entire thing could've been distilled into a pretty good 30 minute spooky story, but in no way shape or form deserves the praise it has garnered and the endless spinoff of cookie cutter sequels. I'm all for mindless fun but this film is just mindless and no fun, and just seems like the start of the era of puritanical propaganda where the teens who drink, smoke, and have sex die while the good girls survive. Meh. Go ahead and downvote me to hell. I don't care. I'll get back up again. >:D… Expand

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