Halloween

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“Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.”

When you think of horror movies, there are specific ones that stand out. And this one is usually towards the top of the list.

The actual fright for me is that there is no real explanation for what Michael Myers does. Yes, later sequels and remakes try to flush him out more but in this classic, he first kills his sister then returns to the town to kill again in the same home, never once showing any form of emotion or even uttering a single syllable.

In the original screenplay, he was actually just referred to as “the Shape.” Which means that from the beginning, all humanity was stripped from this killing machine. He simply existed as a form of pure evil incarnate.

Another great thing is that we are introduced to the scream queen herself: Jamie Lee Curtis And of course we know why she’s the final girl right off the bat. She’s the good girl who keeps her nose clean.

Halloween was another movie solidifying that the only way to make it out alive is to be pure and chaste. And although Laurie makes it out in the end, can you ever really escape the boogyman?