1. Responsible for jump-starting Jamie Lee Curtis's career, this one so thoroughly and thoughtfully exploited American angst that it's no wonder we had to sit through a slew of derivative slasher flicks for the better part of the next decade.
2. Considered by many to be a modern horror classic, Halloween succeeds through simplicity.
3. Halloween (1978) is a genuinely scary, stylistic and tasteful, extremely well-crafted slasher/horror classic from young film director John Carpenter
4. Perfect entertainment for the night of October 31st in any year.
5. flawless for what it is: a completely immersive, visceral dynamo of stylistic belly-jiggling and spine-shivering.
6. Halloween remains untouched -- a modern classic of the most horrific kind.
7. One of the first and the flat-out best of that ghetto of the horror film genre, the slasher movie.
8. It's hard to get behind a main character who's so unexciting. But maybe Michael Myers is the real main character. In which case, mission accomplished: I'm freaked out.
9. One of the scariest movies ever made.
10. Halloween is an absolutely merciless thriller, a movie so violent and scary that, yes, I would compare it to Psycho.
What is the consensus?
Scary, suspenseful, and viscerally thrilling, Halloween set the standard for modern horror films.