John Carpenter's Halloween: Personal Narrative

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John carpenter's 1978 Halloween is not only a horror movie classic but a personal favorite of my own. As a horror movie enthusiast myself, you can't go wrong with starting with the very first Halloween to kick off a good night of screams and sleeping with the lights on. Halloween starts off in 1963 Halloween night when a teenager Judith Myers is at home supposed to be watching her six-year-old brother Michael Myers but ignores him in favor for her boyfriend to spend a romantic night with him. After her boyfriend leaves Michael proceeds to walk into Judith's bedroom still in his clown Halloween costume and mask with a butcher knife from the kitchen and repeatedly stabs her. She falls to her bedroom floor where she dies. Michael moves on without …show more content…

She actually saw Halloween right when it was released and said “I saw original release it was one of the first of its time of an edge of your seat early days of slasher. That later became a slasher classic movie.” And I must agree. It is a classic horror movie that carries with a heavy fan base. The signature music when Michael is terrorizing people is not only haunting but unforgettable. His mask that kids wear every Halloween is terrifying by itself. But the history behind the aesthetics is truly scary and will keep you up at …show more content…

Even though the three girls in the movie are babysitters I think the title fits much more with the story. Either way Halloween being rated R is a perfect film for new or old horror movie enthusiast. As Rodger Ebert says who wrote a review in 1979 on the film “We see movies for a lot of reasons. Sometimes we want to be amused. Sometimes we want to escape. Sometimes we want to laugh, or cry, or see sunsets. And sometimes we want to be scared. I'd like to be clear about this. If you don't want to have a really terrifying experience, don't see “Halloween.” I honestly couldn’t put it better

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