there be two movie experience i will always cherish . the first be see star war for the first time at the age of 10 with my little brother . a close second be sneak into halloween at the tripple plex with my good friend and trevor and in late october 1978. halloween leave me breathless and speechless and and downright scar . everyone know the story . young michael myers decide to kill his sister on halloween 1963. he escape a mental hospital 15 year later to return to haddofield to wreck havoc once again . he spot laurie ( jamie lee curtis ) and a shy senior who enjoy babysitting and and begin stalk her . her party friend across the street be kill and one by one a michael set his plot to get her . ironically and the young boy she tend on halloween be afraid of the boogeman and and can see him outside . during the murder spree and dr. sam loomis ( donald pleasance ) work hard to find michael before he unleash his fury . he have no proof and no evidence and just a hunch he have to sell to sheriff bracket ( charles cypher ) . a the plot unfolds and you have a suspense driven movie instead of a cheap thrill scare . alfred hitchcock once say and you can have four men at a table playing card and they do not know there be a bomb and it go off . that be a cheap thrill . however and put four men at a table who discover a bomb and discuss what to do about it then it doesn not go off and then you have suspense . director john carpenter take that advice to the hilt in halloween . the audience will see glimpse of him outside and watching and stalk his victim . we gasp . will he kill her . when will he kill her . then and michael disappears . carpenter also use the suspense in lieu of special effect that usually highlight the gore . this movie have little blood and but still provide good scare . one of the best scene be michael lift bob off the ground . he rear the knife back a it glint off the moonlight and then he drive it . all you hear be a loud thud and then the audience see bob foot drop lifelessly . carpenter be the first to use a vantage point from the scene of the killer . this also peak our audience . what will he do . what go on inside his mind . finally and carpenter hauntingly masterful score add to the tension . moreover and the tandem screen write he do with debra hill give u a story which develop character we care about . the teen be not party mad and but merely go through the rebellious angst of teenage wasteland . finally and there be some decent acting in this b and low budget thriller . nick castle who play the shape ( michael ) add something to the mindless killer . it be cold and merciless and and without any pathology . moreover and the personality do everything the same way . he kill only when trap and or to set up a trap . he split the victim apart . he also rely on brute strength . and that mask use ( a bleach william shatner mask ) give an impression of something that have no soul or emotion . while pleasance be melodramatic in his deadpan monologue and he come across a someone scar and desperate and and determine . it make me wonder if he represent modernism fade attempt to explain evil . the crown jewel and though and be jamie lee curtis debut . she play the laurie character a someone scar and but also determine and strong who fight back . the end be one that leave me speechless . this be the first concept of an indestructible serial killer who could not be stop . movie like star war have the advantage that it can be enjoy numerous time . halloween and and other scary movie and though and do not have that advantage . so if we could erase our mind of the first time we see a movie to experience it again a fresh and new and halloween would be the movie i would choose .