Halloween

Review: 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...

The Bottom Line: Essential Viewing: With Halloween John Carpenter created an icon and new standards in horror that would be greatly copied.

Review: 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...

The Bottom Line: Carpenter revolutionized the face of horror with the timeless classic of a man with a murderous grudge against babysitters.

Review: 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 viewers (especially babysitters):...

The Bottom Line: He's not human, he's evil, he's got mask, and he's come home. Run for you life!

Review: 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,...

The Bottom Line: Halloween is a well done, entertaining movie that fans of horror movies should check out.

Review: 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 Halloween and...

The Bottom Line: Halloween is scary both as an entertaining film and as a journey into your own fears. I recommend it if you wish to be scared, for whatever reasons.

Review: 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...

Review: Credited with being the first true slasher movie, Halloween has certainly flexed its influence over the past two decades. Though today it may look too insipid and predictable, it's only because every splatter film in the last 20 years has borrowed...

Review: Directed by John Carpenter, ("Vampires", "Village Of The Damned" and "Christine") in 1978, with the help of Debra Hill, writer turned producer, the movie was made with a low budget of $300,000 in 21 days in California.

Starring Donald...

The Bottom Line: Halloween Is a Definitive Horror Classic. If you Haven't already checked it out then do so now.

Review: 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...

Review: Picture this. It?s a cold, dark night in October. The moon is full, but you can only see glimpses of it through the clouds. My parents are going out for the evening, so I?m all alone in the house. I?m thirteen years old. And Halloween is on HBO...