IMDB Summary: 15 years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96%
Halloween night, 1963.
Two teenagers are making out on the couch inside a fairly dilapidated house. By the way the camera moves you can tell you’re watching them through the eyes of a person, a young Michael Myers, who is spying on them through a window. The girl, Michael’s sister Judith, is supposed to be watching him but decides it would be way more fun to take her boyfriend upstairs to have sex. Michael then makes his way to the kitchen, grabs a butcher knife and walks toward the stairs through the most depressing looking house in the world. Not to judge, though. Our summer house growing up had the exact same living room rug.
After literally a minute and a half of sex, the boyfriend comes down the stairs and takes off. I imagine Michael is glad to see him go because he’s about to murder his sister and it’ll probably easier without the boyfriend around. Slowly, he makes his way up to her room and puts on a clown mask he finds at the top of the stairs. Through the cutout eyes of the mask, he sees Judith brushing her hair in the mirror with no shirt on (as we all do). Michael then, for no identifiable reason, starts crazily stabbing her until she dies.
Kill count: 1.
I have to hand it to John Carpenter. You don’t usually see little kids in movies violently killing people. The only thing I can think of is the Twilight Zone episode where Billy Mumy wishes people who don’t suck up to him into the cornfield to die and turns someone into a human Jack-in-the-box. “It’s… good what you’ve done to Dan. It’s real good.” Frightening.