The Original Halloween and the Slasher Movies

The children who would be massacred by the Android druid plot in this film would generally be at home when the massacring happens, because they have to be wearing their evil Halloween masks and watching TV. This is something that I've often said about the distinction between the original Halloween and a lot of the slasher movies that followed. The original Halloween never really has that sense of vulgar punishment for sin going on in it. Instead, there's something much more frightening and irrational about it. It's just this threat coming in from out of nowhere and for no reason.