taste be a subjective thing . two people can watch the same movie with one of them love it and the other one hat it . a it concern halloween representthe curse of michael myers i fall into the latter category . i be of the opinion that john carpenter and in 1978 and make one of that decade fine fright film and which despite it flaw and still hold up well into the 21st century . it reuse many of the old horror film device but utilize them in original and effective way . it have no pretension that it be anything other than a movie about an escaped mental patient stalk babysitter on halloween night . and yet there be idea in the film but they be subtly introduce and not hammer into your skull . it juxtapose the myth of the macabre festival with the reality of what be take place in the story and it do this with a wonderful ambiguity . the filmmaker of this film probably wouldn not even understand that previous paragraph . that why be saddle u with this miserable and inept piece of disposable celluloid . direction and script and act be of the low stratum imaginable . this be the type of film that be so mind numbingly dull and nausea inducing a to make you want to crawl back into the womb and die . it be also truly and truly sad to see veteran british actor donald pleasence waste his act ability with this saliva puddle of a movie . he seem drain of all his energy and resign to the fact that this may be his last film . maybe that what kill him .