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Halloween
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R,1hr 33min
Genres:
Horror,Action
Released:
October 25, 1978
Director:
John Carpenter
Distributor:
Compass International Pictures
Starring:
Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis  ...more
Synopsis: It was "The Night HE Came Home," warned the posters for John Carpenter's career-making horror smash. In Haddonfield, Ilinois, on Halloween night 1963, 6-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably slaughters his teenage sister. His psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) can't penetrate Michael's psyche after years of institutionalization, but he knows that, when Myers escapes before Halloween in 1978, there is going to be hell to pay in Haddonfield. While Loomis heads to Haddonfield to alert police, ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola
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With its almost blood-free frights, gutsy heroine, and peerless score, Halloween became the gold standard for the late 1970s-1980s teen slasher cycle (as Scream cheekily acknowledged in 1996). Taking full advantage of the widescreen frame (and offscreen space), John Carpenter builds tension through the constant suggestion that something terrible lurks just out of Laurie's and the audience's view, whether ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Donald Pleasence
Doctor Loomis
Jamie Lee Curtis
Laurie
Nancy Loomis
Annie
P.J. Soles
Lynda
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