I am old enough to have seen the original Halloween when it first came on TV. This was the late 70s, when VCRs were highly uncommon and movies would sometimes appear on television just a couple of weeks or months after their theatre run as their only post-theatre afterlife--it would be a special "movie of the week" on one of the three channels we had then.
It absolutely terrified my young self and I loved it. It was also one of the few Halloween-themed movies ever made. I loved the non-holiday of Halloween as a child and I still do today--there were always Christmas movies and cartoons and tv shows out the ass from November to January but very little to nothing for Haloween. I became a bit obsessed with the movie for a while--when my family finally acquired a VCR I watched Halloween (1978) probably 50 times. In hindsight, I probably could have made better use of this time, but what the fuck--it made me happy.
I've seen all the sequels and they have gradually pissed me off more and more with each successive one, and yet I see them all, like a moth to a flame. Rob Zombie sure fucked it up, and I always dug the guy-- he really should have remade Friday the 13th instead of Halloween-- all the brutal murders and the mother fixation, etc. would have better suited Jason Voorhees than Michael Myers, but the most egregious thing was trying to provide Myers a back story. Myers isn't some abused kid from a trailer park trash background--that idea destroyed the entire concept. Myers was purely and simply... evil.
That's my rant, folks. Happy Halloween!