A superb essay in Hitchcockian suspense, which puts all its sleazy Friday the 13th imitators to shame with its dazzling skills and mocking wit. Rarely have the

R • 1 hour 33 min • 1978

A Sacred Cow review of the John Carpenter classic and thoughts on the new Carpenter-approved sequel directed by David Gordon Green.

On Oct. 25, 1978, writer-director John Carpenter unleashed 'Halloween' in theaters.

There’s no more appropriate movie for Halloween night than this John Carpenter original. They should have broken the mold when they released Halloween

Halloween is most compelling as a metaphorical manifestation of Laurie Strode’s sexual fears.

Read the Empire Movie review of EMPIRE ESSAY: Halloween. Regardless of the limp comedies that followed, Halloween remains about as distilled, raw an...

Read the Empire Movie review of Halloween. Regardless of how silly you think it all is, this will have you scared witless by the time the end...

Hitchcock’s Psycho is faintly visible in the background of the still-terrifying slasher with the lumbering unstoppable killer

Michael Myers has stalked suburbia in 10 of the series’ 11 movies.

"I enjoy playing the audience like a piano." — Alfred Hitchcock