Halloween (1978)
Sun Oct 31, 8:30 PM - Sun Oct 31, 11:59 PM

The script for the original 1978 Halloween was written in 10 days, which… yeah, actually seems like plenty of time, come to think of it. It’s a pretty terse movie: silent killer menaces teens, travels with unsettling quickness but only when off camera, murders many, can’t be stopped. How many pages do you need?
But that simplicity is a virtue; Halloween’s premise is simple but contains everything necessary. It takes the tension and psychological terror of a Hitchcock movie, strips out everything but the bare plot, and renders the audience complicit and uncomfortable by forcing the perspective of the monster – the infamously masked Michael Myers – on them. It’s so powerful a filmic gut-punch that it ushered in a new Golden Age of slasher film and permanently influenced the direction of a whole genre of movies for decades to come.
1h 31m / R / Thriller