Halloween
Published 2025-10-23
Film info
- Title Halloween
- Director John Carpenter
- Year 1978
- Run time 1hr 31m
- Genres Horror, Thriller
- Tagline The night he came!
- Cast Donald Pleasance, Jamie Lee Curtis
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.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 00:36 | I don’t think I realised Donald Pleasance was in this, how is that possible? |
| 12:33 | Love Jamie Lee Curtis. |
| 16:06 | That’s a bossy teacher. “Answer the question,” she snapped. |
| 22:04 | “I hate a guy with a car and no sense of humour.” Weird combination. |
| 37:14 | You know it’s bad when the psychiatrist is scared. |
| 44:00 | No way I’m going outside in just a shirt on Halloween night. |
| 47:23 | “She got stuck in the window, she’s just coming.” Haha. |
| 52:18 | That was not great death acting. |
| 1:20:50 | I see why JLC is called the Scream Queen. |
| 1:23:59 | He got shot several times and fell out of a window, so of course he’s not dead. |
Thoughts
This is such a classic and spawned so much in the horror genre, not only the sequels and adaptations within the Halloween franchise, but also inspiring so many others. It's really good - short, sharp, horrific - but it's not perfect. There are some moments where you just think, what are you doing? She dropped the knife, she stood in the doorway for a breather while he was right there, it's just... frustrating. But some of that comes from knowing so much about horror tropes, of course. The bit at the end, where you look over the balcony, of course I was expecting him to be gone, but how creepy must that have been when this was first released? A really great classic film.
Rating: 4 / 5