After watching John Carpenter's The Thing the other night, I guess it was inevitable that we'd end up watchin his 1978 classic Halloween a couple nights later. Somehow Janet (who I always accuse of growing up in a nunnery) had never seen Halloween. It is definitely on the short list for greatest independent films of all time (Carpenter made it for $300,000 and in its initial run it made $70,000,000). It also inspired an entire genre of movies, most of which, sadly, were terrible (including his own Halloween II). I've always thought that it was much more like a Hitchcock film than a Romero gore fest, with most of the shocks being based on timing and suspense. Movie fans will love the kids watching the beginning of The Thing From Another World on TV, a film that Carpenter would himself remake four years later (and certainly could not have dreamt of the budget for that film when he was making Halloween. Required viewing.
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