What we have here is the grandaddy of all slasher horror movies. With no motive other than to ruthlessly kill, Myers is terrifying simply for being a faceless monster that anyone can project their fears onto. He doesn’t have Freddy’s sense of humor, and the fact that he changes locales unlike the stolid Jason means he’s a mobile killing machine.
His hunt for Laurie Strode is shockingly terrifying and brutal, with random innocent (and sex fueled) teenagers getting some steel to the gut for getting in his way. Although the legacy created here hasn’t carried on as well as other series have (seriously, what was Halloween 3 supposed to be?), the original still stands as a perfect example of how to create effective terror and tense scenarios.
Michael Myers will always live on as the Boogeyman, and every Halloween night, I still find myself checking the doors and windows, because you never know when The Shape will make one last appearance.
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