Halloween (1978) has a perfect credits sequence for a film centered around that holiday.
It also has a chilling first scene, as the jack-o’-lantern segues into a first-person perspective of someone spying on Judith Myers and her boyfriend on Halloween night.
Film students eager for a lesson in suspense need look no further.
The length of this voyeuristic shot is almost unbearable.
Each reveal – the child’s costumed hand, the knife, the mask over the “eyes” of the camera, and the fact that the person about to kill Judith is her own little brother – amps up the anticipation of the terror to come.
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