🎃💀Hooptober 2020: Film 10/67🎃💀

It’s impossible to watch this film now and be able to fully separate it from its own influence. The weight of its own significance within the genre over the past forty years has somehow diluted the intended visceral experience and that’s okay - because what Halloween might be lacking in terror amongst the current horror landscape is more than made up for by the tremendous amount of respect one has while watching this film for its legacy and John Carpenter as a filmmaker.

The characters aren’t especially memorable, the kills are fairly boring, and not really a whole lot happens. If I’m being honest, I never really loved Halloween as a film. But as a legacy, I have so much goddamn appreciation for it and it genuinely makes me happy knowing that it exists and has inspired countless horror filmmakers working today.