Highly Recommended The power of a John Carpenter film is its twisted sense of objectivity. In Halloween, there's nothing about the way the characters are shot or the action is filmed that gives you any hint about what Carpenter himself thinks or feels about the events he's showcasing. It's so impersonal (in a good way) that the film plays like a hidden-camera documentary, standing back from the action and just watching. Even when some of Carpenter's work lets in a bit of dark humor, it reaches the audience through the characters and their outlook on the situation. Carpenter was in his prime in the late 70's and early 80's, directing a veritable string of classics that include assault on precinct 13, the aforementioned Halloween and Escape From New York. It's a shame that it's been nearly a decade since the man's made a feature film, and that his last one, 2001's Ghosts of Mars, was a...Read the entire review