Halloween

Pros: Entertaining scary movie.

Cons: Some annoying characters.

The Bottom Line: Halloween is a well done, entertaining movie that fans of horror movies should check out.

Review: Horror movies have been popular for many years, with certain ones being considered classics.  There are still many of those movies that I haven't seen, but I have started to see some of them in the last several years.  I had heard of ...

Pros: A horror classic in every sense of the word.

Cons: I wish the bitrate had more more room to breath.

The Bottom Line: I cant praise this movie enough. Oh, no - wait. I just *DID*!

Review: *cue catchy jingle* No more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. No more days to Halloween - Silver Shamrocks! Welcome Boys and Ghouls to Month of the Living Dead, my thirteen day (and then some) tribute to that most wonderful of ...

Pros: THX remastered, great sound and look, the story is a classic

Cons: none

Review: Halloween: Compass International Pictures/Anchor Bay Home Video
Rating: USA: R

Today, instead of simply reviewing a film, we're going to take a look at a newly released version of an enduring classic.

Twenty-one years after it...

Pros: Benchmark of its genre, excellent low budget production

Cons: Nothing unless you're watching it through a microscope

The Bottom Line: Essential Viewing: With Halloween John Carpenter created an icon and new standards in horror that would be greatly copied.

Review: Although my tastes have diversified in recent years and started to take in the more subtle and refined moods of the classics and independent drama, my primary movie fixation has always been horror. It’s a taste I developed in my teenage years, some ...

Pros: Donald Pleasence, story, Carpenter's directing, production, music, atmosphere, & lots more

Cons: some amateur acting by Curtis, inferior sequels

The Bottom Line: Carpenter revolutionized the face of horror with the timeless classic of a man with a murderous grudge against babysitters.

Review: Assault on Precinct 13. Escape From New York. The Thing. They Live. The glory days when director John Carpenter was in his prime. And let's not forget the film that scared the living bejesus out of generations of ...

Pros: Scary with class.

Cons: Probably too horrific for some.

The Bottom Line: Halloween is scary both as an entertaining film and as a journey into your own fears. I recommend it if you wish to be scared, for whatever reasons.

Review: I can still remember when I heard it. I must have been very young, five years old maybe. ”Don’t go beyond the neighborhood into the woods there. They say the boogeyman lives there.” The boogeyman? What…or who is that? I soon ...

Pros: It's a Classic, Great Music, Simple

Cons: All the Sequels

The Bottom Line: Halloween Is a Definitive Horror Classic. If you Haven't already checked it out then do so now.

Review: Modern horror cinema definitely has it's problems. Horror movies nowadays seem to rely more on deep plots and underlying tones, but people should look to the past for more inspiration. I love low budget horror, there's just something about gritty picture ...

Pros: THE THEME SONG WILL MAKE YOU CRY TO YOUR MOTHER

Cons: #%$^#*&%%^$

Review: Halloween is one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life. Whenever I see a horror film, regardless of whether it was good or bad, I always wind up thinking "well, it sure wasn't Halloween". The amazing music, the classic plot, everything...

Pros: Curtis & Pleasence, Carpenter's directing, musical score, atmospheric, original plot

Cons: The ungodly sequels

The Bottom Line: Only those with a deathwish should trick-or-treat in Haddonfield.

Review: John Carpenter may not (scratch that, did not) invent the heavily exploited & milked to death slasher genre. For that matter, his 1978 benchmark classic Halloween may not be the grandaddy slasher movie of all time (it's a matter of ...

Pros: Be afraid, be VERY afraid

Cons: None

The Bottom Line: I took my seat for the ultimate fright machine...but I only used the edge of it.

Review: Somewhat tragically, us Brits don’t celebrate Halloween. Believe it or not, it’s actually illegal for me to go out on the night of October 31st dressed in a boiler suit, hiding my features behind a hockey mask and knocking on people’s doors...