Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
- Starring : Jamie Lee Curtis
- Genre : Horror / Thriller
- Country : United States
- Language : English
- Director : John Carpenter
- Production : Compass International Pictures / Falcon International Pictures / Falcon International Productions
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Halloween movie
Halloween release date
- October 25, 1978 : USA (limited)
- October 27, 1978 : USA
- October 31, 1978 : USA (San Diego Film Festival)
- November 5, 1978 : USA (Chicago International Film Festival)
- January 1, 1979 : Canada
- January 1, 1979 : France (Avoriaz Film Festival)
- January 25, 1979 : UK
- March 14, 1979 : France
- June 1, 1979 : Australia
- August 6, 1979 : Sweden
- August 11, 1979 : Japan
- September 17, 1979 : Spain (Barcelona)
- October 26, 1979 : USA (re-release)
- October 28, 1979 : Spain
- December 10, 1979 : India
- January 13, 1980 : Singapore
- March 7, 1980 : Ireland
- October 21, 1980 : Philippines (Davao)
- October 31, 1980 : USA (re-release)
- January 1, 1999 : France (Travelling Festival de Cinema de Rennes)
- October 27, 1999 : France (re-release)
- October 25, 2012 : USA (re-release) (limited)
- October 26, 2012 : UK (re-release)
- August 30, 2013 : Spain (re-release) (Madrid – Artistic Metropol) (subtitled version)
- October 28, 2013 : Spain (re-release) (limited) (subtitled version)
- October 31, 2014 : USA (Indie Memphis Film Fest)
- October 24, 2018 : France (re-release) (restored version)
Halloween cast
- Donald Pleasence as Loomis
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie
- Nancy Kyes as Annie (as Nancy Loomis)
- P.J. Soles as Lynda
- Charles Cyphers as Brackett
- Kyle Richards as Lindsey
- Brian Andrews as Tommy
- John Michael Graham as Bob
- Nancy Stephens as Marion
- Arthur Malet as Graveyard Keeper
- Mickey Yablans as Richie
- Brent Le Page as Lonnie
- Adam Hollander as Keith
- Robert Phalen as Dr. Wynn
- Tony Moran as Michael Myers (age 23)
Halloween (titled onscreen as John Carpenter’s Halloween) is a 1978 American slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. The plot tells about a mental patient who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween night when he was six years old. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his hometown, where he stalks a female babysitter and her friends, while under pursuit by his psychiatrist.
Filming took place in Southern California in May 1978, before premiering in October, where it grossed $70 million, becoming one of the most profitable independent films. Primarily praised for Carpenter’s direction and score, many credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) and Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974). Some critics have suggested that Halloween may encourage sadism and misogyny by audiences identifying with its villain. Others have suggested that the film is a social critique of the immorality of youth and teenagers in 1970s America, with many of Myers’ victims being sexually promiscuous substance abusers, and the lone heroine is depicted as innocent and pure, hence her survival.
Halloween spawned a film franchise comprising eleven films which helped construct an extensive backstory for its antagonist Michael Myers, sometimes narratively diverging entirely from previous installments. A remake was released in 2007, which was followed by a sequel in 2009. An eleventh installment, which serves as a direct sequel to the original film that retcons all previous sequels, was released in 2018. Two sequels to that installment, titled Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, are scheduled for release on October 15, 2021 and 14th October 2022, respectively. Additionally, a novelization, a video game and comic book series have been based on the film. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
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