Movie · Prime Video · 1978
Halloween
46Or leave it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.
The fear is about a duty: she is in charge of the house. The sequels turned it into a sport. This one is still the duty. Not a treat.
The glance
Household, Piety, Temperance, Stewardship are the thin ones.
This phone
Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
After the credits
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
John Carpenter made a film about a suburb that stopped watching its own street, and a girl who was left in charge. That is a serious idea. He also made a shape you were meant to want to see again, and the culture took the invitation for forty years. Prime's horror row is that invitation, still open, on a Sunday morning.
Not for thirteen as a classic to get through. If the house is older and watches the first one only, talk about the babysitting, not the mask. Stop before the series teaches you the mask is the hero.
Folio
Keep Halloween in the record.
The date, your number, and one sentence.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
5/10
Babysitting is a job. Laurie does it while the film punishes everyone who didn't.
Household
4/10
Other people's children, asleep. That is the stake, and the film knows it at the start.
Piety
2/10
All Hallows as a hunt. No older meaning survives.
Courage
8/10
She goes back into the house.
Republic
5/10
A street where the neighbors do not look out. That failure is part of the horror.
Temperance
3/10
The knife is the camera's interest. One film was already enough.
Truth
6/10
The Shape is not given a sad speech. He is a ruin walking.
Stewardship
4/10
What Laurie is protecting is not herself alone. The sequels forgot the children.
Live historicallyKnow who is watching the children on your street tonight, including you.