20 Most Rewatchable Horror Movies Of All Time

Over forty years on and Halloween remains the quintessential horror movie. It has everything you’d want from such a movie title, right from the simply setting to the haunting theme music. This is the film that began all the clichés, that set down the basic groundwork for all future pictures of the same genre and essentially became one of the most influential pieces of all time.

John Carpenter took a small budget of just $300,000 and made sure every little detail was utilised to the fullest. Within the opening of the film, we are immediately set up with the backstory for the villain, Mike Myers, as well as the slasher categorization. Every single scene is married beautifully with the underscore to create an on-going atmosphere of mysteriousness and tension.

The dialogue is surprisingly clever in how it teases the upcoming events of the movie (one example is when Laurie innocently sings "I wish I had you all alone" to herself). The plot is perfectly paced as it builds up nicely to Mike Myers’ return to kill again in Haddonfield. Jamie Lee Curtis gives a sensational performance as the smart, sensible Laurie which is why we especially want her to survive the massacre of the deranged murderer.

It’s a near perfect slasher movie and very few have been able to match up to it ever since.