[BookZombie]

First off all body count is not a measure of how good or bad a movie is, you can have a film with no deaths which is scary, while a movie where someone just run around moving people down left and right can get boring. After the first few horrible deaths your mind sort of expect it and it looses it's shock effect. I would say that a few well done kills in a horror movie is worth a hundred empty characters just moved down. If all you are after is body count then go see a war movie, between machine guns and bombs and what have you those movies usually rack up a much, much higher body count than twenty regular slasher movies combined.

Now off course if what you are after is gore then Halloween is not going to give you that, it is not a very gory film, it is all about the suspense, the horror comes as much from not knowing where Michael Myers is as it from what he actually do. If he just ran around killing dozens of people then that suspense would be lost, the movie might be gory yes, but it would definitely not be scary, then it would just be a man in a mask killing folks with a knife. It is much more scary to wonder is Michael Myers in the kitchen, is he hiding in the closet, is he just waiting to spring on the characters. That coupled with the fact he is played completely emotionless, he do not want revenge or is angry or have any good reason to kill people, he just kills, well that and the fact that he seams to be able to survive about anything, that is what causes suspense.

Now granted I have never been a gorehound, I appreciate gore when it is part of a story, but I much more prefer atmosphere and suspense to gore. I loved the original Halloween, I think it was a very good film.