Halloween | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

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96% Critics Consensus: Scary, suspenseful, and viscerally thrilling, Halloween set the standard for modern horror films.

With a Rotten score of 41 percent, Halloween Ends is tied for the fourth-highest Rotten Tomatoes score in the 13 film franchise. Ranking ahead of it are Halloween H20: 20 Years Later with a Rotten 52 percent, Halloween (2018) with Fresh 79 percent, and Halloween (1978) with a Fresh 96 percent.

Violence & Scariness

Constant threat, with lurking figures and jump scares. Though gore is mostly left to viewers' imagination and impact is often off-screen, there are stabbings and strangulation, including one victim left hanging on a door (pinned by knife).

Halloween is famous for lots of reasons. It singlehandedly launched the era of the slasher film. It's John Carpenter's breakout film, a low-budget indie that made an astronomical profit and launched his career. It's got one of the most famous film scores and horror themes in history, written by Carpenter himself.

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, a film has a rating of 100% if each professional review recorded by the website is assessed as positive rather than negative.

Halloween Ends received a poor critical reception and disappointing box office returns, causing it to be seen as a commercial failure. Fans and critics had issues with the film's focus on a new character, Corey Cunningham, and felt that it deviated too much from the iconic mystery of Michael Myers.

Contrary to popular belief, Michael Myers' face has been revealed before Halloween Kills. The slasher villain has been unmasked a couple of times before, and he looks mildly different each time. The first time audiences caught a glimpse of Michael Myers unmasked was none other than John Carpenter's original Halloween.

Halloween (1978) - 6 Kills.

As you can expect from a R-rated slahser film, there is much strong violence/gore throughout the film. But this one . . . this one is bloody intense and even gruesome sometimes to see the killings unfold.

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Halloween has an element of mystery

One of the greatest strengths of the original Halloween is how much goes unexplained. Michael Myers is evil. He is a psychopath. He kills people, and on this night, he sets his sights on an ordinary American town.

The villain's appearance can be incredibly frightening to all audiences and anyone with pediophobia and arachnophobia will easily be frightened since the villain resembles a doll and slowly starts to morph into a spider more and more throughout the climax of the film. One of the scariest animated movies ever made.

Rated R for bloody horror violence and gore, language throughout and some sexual references.