The beginning of the movie Halloween is set in 1963 where a young boy by the name of Michael Myers (then aged six) takes a knife from the kitchen and murders his seventeen year old sister while their parents are away. The parents return and find their daughter murdered and their son in a trance-like state. Not know what else to do with him, they send him to a sanitarium where a child psychologist by the dame of Sam Loomis works with him for eight years in an attempt to figure the boy out or help him in some way. By the end of the eight years however, Dr. Loomis is completely convinced that there is no helping the boy because he is clearly pure evil. He tries to ensure that Michael stays locked up but when the time comes for him to be tried as an adult, and they make the move to transfer him to another institution he escapes and returns to his home town (after killing a truck driver and stealing the jumpsuit we see him wear in the film).

Michael Myers

The remainder of the film is what pioneered the way for most other slasher films that would follow in the next two decades. Needless to say, a few teenagers were brutally murdered, and that even after being stabbed two times with household objects, and once in the chest with a knife he was still going strong. It wasn’t until the end of the movie when he was shot six times did it seem like he might stop killing. However, after being shot he fell off of the second story balcony of the house, and by the time the main characters looked outside to see the body, he was gone.

The movie was good enough to warrant seven sequels, and inspire many many other fantastic horror films.

May we reconvene under the blood red moon,
-Black Widow