Halloween (1978)

John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) plays FREE on the big screen at the Robinson Grand Performing Arts Center in Clarksburg, sponsored by The Twisted Spoke and L&L Auvil Insurance Agency. It is a film built for a dark room full of people-- the patient stalking shots, the figure behind the hedge and that synthesizer theme all building tension while a whole theater holds its breath together. Carpenter wrote and played the score himself because the budget had no room for a composer, and the result is the original film widely credited with setting the template the slasher followed.