0
I hadn't watched this in a very long time because it came on TV so much I just got uninterested. Well I was going through the On Demand movies I came across it on Encore. It being unedited for content I figured I'd give it a watch.
I had forgotten just how good this movie was. Its really good at the creepy factor and showing that Halloween isn't so much about a body count and gore as it is at being creepy and having good atmosphere. Its got one of my favorite opening sequances with the "you don't know what death is" line and the theme song beginning. Its also widely helped by the news bulletins about an escaped mental patient bieng in the area. Then the girl talking about how her friend was driving home and saw him walking in a field. It makes it creepy and fun. I like the paranoia of people knowing that some escaped mental patient had murdered people right down the street.
That "mental patient" stuff is what made The Hook one of my favorite urban legends as a kid. And the kid that had a razorblade stuck in his mouth cuz of halloween candy was just classic. As far as im concerned the halloween series ends with this movie in my book. There should have been no other sequals after this one. Its one of the better horror movie sequals to me made I think. It actually furthering the story instead of just doing the same thing over again.