Donald Pleasance is a delight no matter what he's in, but the films he worked on with John Carpenter, especially this one and Prince of Darkness, are just top-notch examples of the actor and his craft.

I was only a year old when Halloween came out in theaters, but a few years ago a local cinema did a screening of it on Halloween night. My wife and her best friend and I all went and saw it, and we had a blast. It's incredible how well it holds up forty years later. And that soundtrack...it's so unfair that one guy was so damn good at writing, directing, producing, and scoring, and from such a young age! :)