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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 1, 1998
• R2: 30 Sep 2002
Budget $325,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 31 minutes
Country USA
Studio Compass International, Falcon International Productions
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Other Titles
• Halloween
• The Babysitter Murders (1978)
• John Carpenter's Halloween (1978)
• Halloween - Die Nacht des Grauens (1978)
• Halloween: la notte delle streghe (1978)
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Genre: Thriller, Horror, Slasher, Psychos, Suspense, Halloween, Teenage, Serial Killer, School / Campus, Cult Classic, Gore, Murder, Disturbing, Doctor, Drugs, Haunted House
Tagline: The Night HE Came Home!
Plot: Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, HALLOWEEN is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, HALLOWEEN takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his older sister to death. Locked away for many years in a mental hospital Michael escapes one night and returns to his home to continue his killing spree. Jamie Lee Curtis, in her first role, plays the resourceful babysitter who is chased by the killer on Halloween night. Produced for very little money and a tight shooting schedule, HALLOWEEN was a stunning success when it was released. Written by John Carpenter and his longtime producer Debra Hill, the film set both their careers on fire, with both of them working together many times over the next 25 years. The film also made a star out of Jamie Lee Curtis and turned the slasher movie into a viable, successful genre. HALLOWEEN has been copied, parodied and even turned into a franchise of its own, but the original is still considered the best of the bunch. HALLOWEEN was John Carpenter's first foray into horror, and remains the standard to which all other modern horror films are
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 There is no denying that the little-independent –film-that-could represented a milestone in the horror genre. ... Halloween was a turning point for horror movies in that they would now be taken seriously, occasionally as an artform.--Cortney Fusco (Diabolical-Dominion.com)
This horror classic was the highest grossing independent film of all time until The Blair Witch Project took the title twenty years later. Along with Friday The 13th this was reponsible for the slasher movie glut of the early 80s yet none of them was able to capture the magic of this.  -- (TheVideoGraveYard.com)
If Psycho is the grandfather of the slasher genre, then this sure as hell is the daddy. ... A remarkable achievement that has never been matched. 95/100--Jack Witzig (ColdSpot)
As we all know, it's a masterpiece that's been imitated by everything from the Friday the 13th series to the Nightmare on Elm Street series to the Scream series to a zillion other slasher films made over the past two decades.-- (eSplatter.com)
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John Carpenter
The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York |
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John Carpenter
Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, The Fog |
| Debra Hill
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Halloween: Resurrection, Halloween II |
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The Fog, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Assault on Precinct 13 | | | | Brian Andrews
The Great Santini, 'Halloween' Unmasked 2000, Halloween: 25 Years of Terror | |
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John Carpenter
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween, The Thing |
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It is simply the greatest slasher movie ever devised and can be considered in the same league as The Exorcist, Rosemary’s Baby, Psycho and Jaws. HIGHLY recommended.  --Jason Chisari (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
The slasher film that started it all. Inspired by the works of the late-great Alfred Hitchcock, John Carpenter manages to scare the audience without the overuse of gore or pop-up scares. No, he scares the audience by simply using a scary character, whom we barely see, and show just how evil he really is. One of the best horror films ever made. It's hard to not see this movie,... but if for some reason you haven't seen this yet... *slap*... See it now! 9/10--FrighT MasteR (UHM)
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