Halloween

Halloween (1978) starring Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis, P.J. Soles. Low-budget horror flick about a maniac who strikes on Halloween at the age of six, returns 15 years later to continue to terrorize his small town. This movie has become iconic and has been much imitated, but none of the copycats has lived up to the original. The film was highly successful at the box office, grossing a total (domestic and international) of $70 million. It was Curtis's movie debut. Interestingly, the film is not really a "slasher film," because Micheal Myers (the villain) doesn't always kill with a knife, but strangles two of his victims. My big problem with this movie on DVD is that it has no subtitles for the hearing-impaired, and no closed captions. Grade: D