This was the first and without doubt the best in the Halloween franchise. Carpenter shows great restraint in pacing the story very slowly and building likable characters; unusual for a horror picture. Even more unusual is the non-existence of blood and gore, and yet it remains the scariest Halloween to date.

This rating can therefore range from 0% to 100%, and there are dozens of films that have a 100% Tomatometer score. Among these, the 100% Tomatometer scoring film with the highest number of reviews is Paddington 2, with 214 reviews.

One of the reasons the film hit so big is that it was one of the first films to transfer horror into the mundanity of suburbia. It tapped into the fears of and about teenagers being free enough to go off and do things on their own, while still young enough to be vulnerable.