Tonight on Moviedrome the kind of film which should make everybody happy. A movie which was both a popular hit and a critical succès de scandale. Halloween. Halloween was directed in 1978 by John Carpenter. It’s one of the earliest and most imitated of that over-worked and seemingly endlessly popular genre: the serial killer/maniac stalker on the loose in pursuit of hapless teenagers movie. The kind of film where you know beforehand exactly what’s going to happen. Of course the teenagers are going to split up and explore the madhouse in total darkness in their underwear. What else would they do?