This short begins with innocent little Michael Myers and his older sister Judith returning home after an evening of trick-or-treating on Halloween Night and after a little gentle teasing between the two, she leaves him alone to go and be with her boyfriend, and then soon after he encounters something mysterious, dark, and evil that whispers to him to kill... The visual style and music of this gives it a very nice quasi retro feel that easily allows one to buy that it's actually set in the same world of the original movie, I think it even would have fitted right in as a little prologue, because it feels like it fills in some of the mystery that shrouds why Michael Myers the boogeymen came to be while still keeping it vague, to me it's really that impressive. Chris R. Notarile is one of the most talented short film directors you're ever likely to come across, he's so good at making something out of nothing and creating a short that gets its point across in a limited amount of time, and I've never seen one of his films that I'd consider a bad one, and it's a damn shame the guy hasn't been able to play around with a full length feature by this point. The shorts are a heck of a lot of fun though, particularly the numerous ones he's done that are about famous iconic horror characters from slasher movies, oh you know the big three! This one to me is a bit on the sad side though, poor Michael was just a regular little boy until he met the dark force that consumed his innocence and made him into a soulless monster. What happens in this is a kind of surreal premonition I suppose, he may have always been destined to become the Shape that he symbolically 'killed'. I love that idea and I love this excellent horror short that is one of the director's real gems, so good! X