15 Most Rewatchable Movies Of All Time

The horror genre is far broader and more prone to variation than a lot of critics give it credit for. Even so, for a single horror movie to strike a chord that resonates with wider audiences, it has to play things that bit simple enough, whilst alluding to a great deal more below the surface.

John Carpenter's 1978 classic Halloween does just that. Madman Michael Myers returns to his home town Haddonfield, 15 years after murdering his own sister, and promptly sets about stabbing his way through the new crop of neighbourhood teenagers, until it's just him and the archetypal final girl, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis).

A film doesn't inspire so many rip-offs as Halloween without doing a hell of a lot of things right. That blank white mask, in tune with Carpenter's masterful use of the camera and the sparse, ominous musical score, all combine to a perfect storm of dread.

It's still the film to measure all masked madman slashers by, and still gets the heart thumping after almost 40 years.

Endlessly repeatable quote: "Death has come to your little town, Sheriff."