Halloween Analysis

Halloween is a 1978 slasher film directed by John Carpenter. The film is set in 1963 on Halloween an a small town. The film begins with a very short equilibrium (Todorov) of a girl and her boyfriend messing around in the living room. We, as the audience see this through the POV shot of someone watch in. Eventually the couple go upstairs to obviously have sex. The the person we are watching this through, stars to head into the house and starts to go upstairs after them. By the time they get up there the girl is sitting naked at her dressing table combing her hair. She then turns and realises what's happening too late and the person raises their arm with knife in hand and repeatedly stabs the girl to death. After this scene we are quick to learn that the murderer was the girls 6 year old brother Michael Myers who is then sent to a insane asylum.
15 years have passed and Michaels doctor is on the way to the asylum when he sees that lots of patients have escaped, Michael was among the ones to escape and has headed back to his home town. This is where we meet our soon to be Final Girl ( theory on women's portrayal in horror) Laurie who is trying to sell the house as she lives near it and no one has lived there since the murder. Michael sees her go to the house. He then stalks her for the majority of the film and eventually catches up to her. In the mean time Michaels doctor has also come back to the town in search of him as he will try his best to contain the matter. When Laurie and her friend are babysitting her friend goes off with her boyfriend to have sex. This is when Michael finds them and kills them, Laurie is obviously concerned but doesn't want to leave the kids to go searching for her ill fated friend. So she calls her, and there's no answer so she waits. Eventually Michael comes to attack Laurie and one of the most important features of this film is that she fights back and resists death. Eventually the cops get involved and Michael gets killed, until right at the end of the film we see that where his body should be, there is nobody. Obviously this is leading on to the next film of which there were many.
This film supports Todorov's theory, as the is an equilibrium at the start of the film, but at the end there is a new one but also at the same time there isn't as Michael has escaped meaning that he is still at large and not to be tested. This film started a whole new genre of horror which birthed films such as Scream and Friday the 13th that would bring a whole new genre and multiple sub genres to the table.