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Part of the fun of reviewing a good horror movie is getting to understand the director.
John Carpenter made history when he took a good budget, great actors and added them all into one spooky night known as Halloween
This was an independent film starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence.
It scared the crap out of most everyone who watched the horror of Michael Myers unfold from his childhood into his adult years.
The story we don't find out until much later in the sequels, however you start to get the idea real fast that the brother sister days of fighting have turned into something far more wicked.
Jamie Lee plays Laurie Strode, adopted into the home of the Strodes after her parent's death.
She goes along not knowing that she has a brother, Michael Myers, her blood brother, and he is a born killer who is seeking out his long lost sister.
This movie has some great scenes, stars Charles Cyphers as the Sherriff who can't even imagine a killer who just won't die, and Pleasence as the killer's doctor who tracks from the state mental hospital all the way back to his hometown of Haddenfield Illinois.
Halloween was never the same after this movie was released and it never will be again.
The whole storyline is well thought out, well played by each individual actor and actress, and gave way to more horror movies to come along.
Halloween opened the door to what a great horror movie is all about, and then turned right around and spawned a sequl that kicked equal ass to this one.
For anyone who has not seen Halloween, it is one you will want to see again and again once you have seen it.
You may note that after Halloween was shot, Carpenter and Jamie Lee went on to film another ass kicking movie together, "The Fog"
These two made horror movie history in 1978 with this movie, and the legend of Michael Myers lives on even to this day
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Unlike Halloween, this movie is not a slasher flick, but rather a Wes Craven low budget piece of horror from hell.
The story goes like this
A former police chief decides to take his family on vacation to Southern California and ends up going through Nevada.
They break down and get stranded in a very remote desert area which just so happens to be inhabited by in-bred freaks without leashes.
The family must get in touch with their own inner savage to survive being eaten alive or....possibly worse. Whatever that is.
The movie was released in 1978 and wasn't really all that bad when taking into account the little budget Craven had to work with.
It was his last good film until 1984's Nightmare on Elm Street was released.
If you want a so so horror movie that can be pretty good if there is nothing else on, rent this one.
But if there is something better on tv, go for that instead.
