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Halloween makes the list because like Psycho and Jaws the score enhances the fear experienced by the audience. The creepy music blares whenever Michael Myers is near. Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) helps add to the aura of fear surrounding Myers by describing how truly evil Myers is. Great acting by Jamie Lee Curtis and Pleasence as well great directing by John Carpenter make Halloween a horror classic. While Halloween is scary and a great example of film making, it launched many horror cliches that hurt the genre today. By making Myers invincible, takes away of the realism that makes the film frightening. This launched Jason's 80 returns. The final horrific image in Halloween is when Loomis looks down from the balcony, he just shot Myers off of and sees no body. This has lead to the stereotypical horror movie ending that leaves room for a sequel. It was effective in Halloween but now it has been run into the ground by every crappy horror movie that has done it since.
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