Do you believe in destiny? Do you believe that everything that happened in your life was already planed? Halloween clearly gave us an idea that Laurie, who was the main actor, would be the person who face and fight with the killer because she will be the person who survive. In addition, Halloween was a horror film, which set the rules and standard for the modern horrors and was claimed to be the most successful independent horror film ever made, directed by John Carpenter. It was mainly about a killer who killed his sister since he was very young and was locked up in the hospital, but he came back to the same town again on the Halloween day. The film first opened with the point of view of the killer, which after that we know that he was only a child. The point of view that showed at the beginning introduced the audience that the purpose of the film was that we identify the victim not the killer, and the purpose of the shot was to make the audience become the killer and understand him. Moreover, when we watch the film there will be a question in our mind that why did Michael kill his sister? Why he did not kill everyone, and who was his victim? We can notice the reason why Michael killed his sister because she was no longer innocent because she had sex with her boyfriend, which was a normal rule for horror and sci-fi that having sex is a bad thing, and broke the law of nature and pure. Michael did not kill everyone, which we can see from the scene when he bump into a kid and did not do anything to him, but he killed only the person who was no longer innocent or guilty people, and another thing we can notice is that Michael only killed the person who was similar to his sister but the other victims was only a sideline. Also, we can see the changes of Laurie when through out the film, which was that she became less pure from time to time because of her friends and environment in order to get closer to the killer. We can say that in horror, the least pure character will die first, and the most pure character will survive.
For me, even though I’m not a horror film watcher, Halloween was a great horror film, which was very entertaining, and it introduced us many great story telling techniques and it also influence the modern day horror films in many ways…
