Halloween Critic Reviews

Carpenter's brutally efficient exercise in tension and release.Read the full review

This Myers is more problem child than bogeyman.Read the full review

As usual, Zombie has added an element of camp fun to the proceedings with his clever casting of B-movie icons in small roles, including Dee Wallace, Brad Dourif, Danny Trejo and Sid Haig.Read the full review

This latest unsuccessful stab at Carpenter's masterwork just proves that the original Halloween is as unbeatable as its masked leading man.Read the full review

Filmgoers looking for copious amounts of mindless violence won't be disappointed.Read the full review

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 the full review

The new Halloween has sympathy for the Devil, but not enough.Read the 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 the full review

After a promising opening, Halloween becomes just another maniac-on-the-loose suspenser. However, despite the prosaic plot, director John Carpenter has timed the film's gore so that the 93-minute item is packed with enough thrills.Read the full review