Halloween Movie Research Paper

My goal for this month, is to get through all the Halloween movies and review each and every one. So far, I'm failing miserably, as I'm only now getting around to reviewing the first and one of the best in the series, Halloween. Released in 1978 and still scaring audiences to this day, Halloween rates as one of my favorite horror films and features a killer who is pure evil. Read on for the review...

Short nitty-gritty plot description from IMDb is as follows: A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.

Halloween introduced to a killer that wasn't some fantastical beast who was 6 feet fall and a giant monster. (Rob Zombie gets the honor of doing that). Instead, Michael Myers is an average man, who was only 5'10". The moment in the movie when you realize this, is when he is unmasked and you see that he isn't some hideous monster. This is what makes Halloween terrifying. The unexplained evil that drives Myers to kill.

The most oblivious, is the introduction of a yet to be revealed Michael Myers stalking through the house, all the while the camera, or I should say you the audience, see through masked eyes. As you glide through the house and up the stairs, the tension builds and finally we see our first victim, a young girl brushing her hair. The girl screams Michael and before you know it, she is being stabbed. The girl falls bloody and we quickly move down the stairs and out the door, only to have the mask ripped from our face. The camera cuts to the blank and emotionless face of a six year old boy, dressed in a clown outfit, as the parents stand shocked, so do we, the