10 Horror Movie Scenes Shot In A Single Take

10. Michael’s Spree Begins - Halloween (2018)

Trying to work out the chronology of the Halloween film series requires exceptional patience and at least two degrees.

To simplify things, the 2018 Halloween movie serves as a sequel to the 1978 original while ignoring pretty much everything else in the franchise.

Michael Myers finally escapes from a psychiatric prison 40 years after his first October killing spree and is out for revenge. He returns to the town of Haddonfield on the hunt for new victims, finding plenty among the Halloween revellers.

As Myers begins his rampage, the camera stays with him, following him silently stalking innocent strangers before bringing their lives to a gristly end.

Not only is this a highly effective way of maintaining audience immersion, as the murders essentially play out in real-time, but this technique also harks back to the opening POV from John Carpenter's 1978 classic, the first time the world saw what The Shape was capable of.

The 2018 sequence could have been even longer, were there not a weird cut between Myers picking up a hammer and then walking towards a house.