(Closest you can get to spoilers without having spoilers) I have never liked horror all that much but this movie taught me that even my least favorite genre can be great. There are quite a lot of flaws though, and a lot of them are very easy to point out, but it doesn't drag this movie down to a 7 or 8. Some of the flaws are the fact that it has the "Teenage girl falls" trope and the "Girl can't unlock door" trope, but it is not as annoying as this was one of the first movies to have those tropes. You could also argue that it has a pretty generic plot, a murderer trying to kill a teenage girl, but once again, this is one of the first, if not the first movie like that. This movie also has a very low budget, I am pretty sure it is around the 330k mark, but this movie does such a good job at not making that too apparent, it is a little bit cheesy sometimes, but for the time, you would expect something much more cheesy. John Carpenter was smart with the money, and made the plot something that could easily be done without too much money spent on it. Normally I don't really talk about scores for films, as I don't find them really noticeable, (with a few exceptions) but this one was to noticeably amazing for me to not talking about. There are about 2 songs, and although they can get repetitive they fit Michael Myers and the theme of the movie so well. Another thing that fits the movie very well is the camera angles and darkness of the entire thing, for the first third of the movie, you barely even see Michael, and it is very well done. It is also very dark, almost all the scenes outside take place at night and a lot of the scenes inside are very dark, it fits the film so well and I can't recommend it more. 8.7/10 easily.
