Halloween
Halloween is below average at 46% across 532 head-to-head matchups, but it's not out of the conversation. The gap to 50% is closable. John Carpenter proved that restraint is scarier than excess, and that thesis still holds. Michael Myers is terrifying precisely because there's nothing to understand, which makes this a pick voters can defend on pure craft. It ranks behind the other John Carpenter film tracked here.
Synopsis
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
51%, 35%, 48%. Not all bad — the opening at 51% are above average, which gives Halloween something to build on even if the overall record hasn't caught up.
A Nightmare on Elm Street at 51% is as close to a dead heat as the platform produces. Every vote matters in this one. Halloween dominates Rosemary's Baby at 88%. The Thing at 0% is the one matchup where that confidence disappears.
John Carpenter has 2 films on BingeBracket — Halloween trails The Thing (73%) in their head-to-head filmography comparison.
Featured in All Time Horror Classics.
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