20 Greatest Opening Scenes In Horror Movie History

The Movie: The formula, by now, is legendary: Take a group of promiscuous high schoolers, throw in one vestigial virgin and one psychotic killer and watch the horror unfold. John Carpenter's Halloween didn't invent the slasher picture, but it set the bar for all those that would follow in its footsteps.

The Opening Scene: Acting almost as a short film, Halloween's introduction puts the viewer in the POV of a killer. They are forced to follow this unidentified person as they see a teenage couple attempt to have a fun night alone.

The killer enters the back of the house to take a large butcher knife out of the drawer. This person then slowly creeps through the house and ends up in the girl’s bedroom. The girl turns to see the person but is not overly alarmed. The killer then stabs her repeatedly and flees the house. The parents of the home drive up and unmask the killer, to reveal him to be a young, fresh-faced boy. This would be the first of many brutal killings done at the hands of the soon-to-be-infamous Michael Myers.