Jamie Lee Curtis makes an eye-catching big-screen debut in this shocker, in which a killer back from 15 years in an asylum stalks a trio of teenage girls with heavy breath. Director John Carpenter racks up the suspense to breaking point thanks to ingenious camera shots around the rooms of a house. Seven increasingly daft sequels and countless rip-offs followed but this is the real deal.

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