"It Was The Boogey Man, Wasn't It????????????????? As A Matter Of Fact, It Was!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                      What else is  one to watch on Halloween, but this 1978 masterwork?

                                        My favorite scene is still when the Myers parents come home, and their son Michael, in clown costume and mask, stands outside, holding a bloody knife. The mask is removed, a baby faced Michael looks catatonic, the father asks, "Michael?," and the ominous music flashes to the Myers what the viewers know--this child has murdered his sister, on Halloween, back in 1963.

                                            Part of me wishes the film had gone on to explore Michael's juvenile psychopathology, as that topic fascinates.  But, then, there wouldn't be the humorous scene where Annie Brackett (Nancy Kyes) is screaming in the car, from the garage, being attacked by Michael.  She screams "Lindsay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!," who is her babysitting charge, Lindsay Wallace, played by Kyle Richards, younger sister of Kim Richards, who played Prudence on "Nanny And The Professor."  Lindsay is so rapt with attention on the 1951 horror classic "The Thing," in front of her,  on TV, she has no other idea what is going on.  The way this scene is shot and edited is how Carpenter often takes the edge off the disturbing quality of the film, making it as humorous as it is grim.

                                                Of course, darlings, you don't have to watch it. Would I tell any of you to do anything????????????  Of course not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                  But, in our house, there is just no better film to celebrate this day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                 "Michael?????????????????????????????????"