The best slasher movies of all time according to Rotten Tomatoes – Looper

So we arrive at Rotten Tomatoes' number one pick for best slasher movie of all time: John Carpenter's incomparable 1978 film,Halloween. Featuring a young Jamie Lee Curtis in her first leading role as Laurie Strode, Carpenter's Halloween has every single moving part in perfect alignment: a creepy score, stunning performances, and a campaign of terror that resonates to this day.

Halloween's suburb of Haddonfield is a perfect small town with a dark history: Michael Meyers, then six-years-old, viciously murdered his older sister in 1963 and immediately went mute. Years later he escapes from the institution he's been held all this time and begins stalking Laurie, bent, for obscure, evil reasons, on destroying her.

It's not just Carpenter's masterful direction that makes this movie one of the best slashers ever made, it's also the ambiguity of the story. Jamie Lee Curtis beautifully captures Laurie's entire arc as the greatest-ever final girl, from her naive start to her relentless fight for survival against a foe double her size and exponentially more enigmatic. It's number one for a reason, and won't be budged from its place any time soon.

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