Halloween was one of the first of the "slasher" films that were made but it was the one that layed the groundwork for films like Friday the 13th to Scream etc etc, and it is still among the best if not the best slasher/Horror films ever made after all these years and is probably John Carpenters best directorial effort, it was made for about $300,000 and became the highest grossing independant film made at that time.
Halloween was one of the first of the "slasher" films that were made but it was the one that layed the groundwork for films like Friday the 13th to Scream etc etc, and it is still among the best if not the best slasher/Horror films ever made after all these years and is probably John Carpenters best directorial effort, it was made for about $300,000 and became the highest grossing independant film made at that time.