When he sees that there is nothing or no one there, he screams in fear. Halloween is a film that continues to follow the typical conventions of the horror genre. Thomas Schatz in his article Film Genre and the Genre Film defines the formula for a genre very simply: “A genre film, like virtually any story, can be examined in terms of its fundamental narrative components: plot, setting, and character. These components have a privileged status for popular audiences, thanks to their existence within a familiar formula that addresses and reaffirms the audience's values ​​and attitudes” (695). With this we can begin to dissect the components of Halloween to identify it as a slasher film. First of all we need to define the slasher genre. Here we can enlist the help of Carol Clover with her essay Her Body, Himself in which she briefly defines the slasher: “At the bottom of the horror pile lies the slasher film: the immensely generative story of a psychokiller who slashes to death a series of mostly female victims, one after the other, until he is subdued or killed…” (21). Here we already have some of the elements of Halloween such as: the psychokiller, a series of female murders (until we explore