Monotonous, but not in the least bit boring, Halloween excellently utilises its leads Curtis and Castle in an frenzy of unsubtlety, as we follow a withdrawn babysitter, and her stalker; the malevolent mute Michael Myers, through All Hallows’ Eve.

A first half of low-intensity life-living, sprinkled with haunting glimpses of a masked mentalist is powerfully contrasted by the inked backdrop of cold October darkness and the brutal butchery of the adolescents of Haddonfield. 

We are presented with this symbiotic existence of dark and light, beautifully reflected in the raw fear in Laurie’s eyes as the evening drags on.

Chillingly atmospheric synthesisers ring with each visual jolt, which fluently threads the opposing halves of Halloween together into this blunt, ragged slasher.