Article: HALLOWEEN (1978) Director: John Carpenter Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasance Genre: Horror

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Halloween is an obsession for me.  It's not the killings that make it interesting for me.  The most fascinating part of Halloween is watching our two (polar opposite) heroes - LAURIE STRODE and DR. LOOMIS - fight against an unstoppable force of evil...MICHAEL MEYERS.

The film is so simple...and that is where its power lies.  Here is the plot:

-KILLER breaks loose
-DOCTOR warns everyone of unimaginable evil unleashed, hunts the KILLER
-GIRL introduced she lives a carefree life
-KILLER starts to kill people and then all of GIRL'S friends
-KILLER pursues GIRL!
-DOCTOR finds KILLER and scares him off before GIRL is killed
-KILLER is alive, evil lives on...

It is possible to overanalyze a film like HALLOWEEN and I won't do that!  Even John Carpenter explains that Halloween is a simple fight between good and evil...but the evil is truly UNSTOPPABLE and that is what makes it a terrifying nightmare we scream to wake up from.


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