This is the film everybody has heard of, my parents, my friends, even my elderly relatives know Michael Myers and his handiwork.  The first in the series kicks off the saga with a very disturbing scene in which a six year old Myers hacks apart his sister with a butchers knife whilst wearing a clown suit.  A perfectly crafted scene, not very bloody but very sinister and macabre. After the murder the tiny maniac strolls outside and over to his parents, covered in blood and brandishing the weapon of choice.  Eerily he never says a word.

The doctors find him an enigma, totally mad, so they put him in an asylum for the criminally insane.  And there he waits for fifteen years, biding his time for the opportunity to escape, and escape he does.  After ripping the doctors apart he makes his exit.

Michael does however have a killer instinct, so instead of finding a hiding place he sets off back to Haddonfield where wants to hunt down his other relations.  This is where it gets scary, the music drives this movie, and the shadowy figure of Michael with his sinister, featureless mask generates a very spine-tingling effect.

Don't expect a gore shower, it has blood, but not gore on the level of "The Burning".  Don't expect huge special effects, the music is hardly orchestra, and the film contains no explosions.  But if you want shocks, scares, jolts of fear, and cold shivers accompanied by edge-of-your-seat tension, look no further.

Whenever Halloween comes around, be sure to catch this classic on T.V.