Halloween is an absolutely merciless thriller...I would compare it to "Psycho."Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
From a shock-and-suspense point-of-view, Halloween is the rival of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." With only a few arguable exceptions (such as "The Exorcist"), there isn't another post-1970 release that comes close to it in terms of scaring the living hell out of a viewer... A modern classic of the most horrific kind.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Bruce Fretts
Carpenter's brutally efficient exercise in tension and release.Read Full Review »
This is not a good movie but, considering what Halloween has evolved into over the course of seven sequels, it's perhaps better than it has a right to be.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Matt Zoller Seitz
The new Halloween has sympathy for the Devil, but not enough.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Tasha Robinson
It's a more polished, high-fidelity version of a story that's played out on screen many times since 1978, but once Zombie runs out of subtext, he's right back to the same old slasher text: "Blood. Guts. The end."Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Tom Russo
As with Zombie's two previous schlock horror features, "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects," the atmosphere here isn't so much tense and jolting as unnervingly weird and gory, but it's effective.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Richard Harrington
A film that contains dialogue so nasty and stupid, you'd swear (right along with the characters) that the booker for "Jerry Springer" wrote it (Zombie did).Read Full Review »
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