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Halloween
Directed by
John Carpenter
R
1978
1h 31m
Horror
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Thriller
7.7
97%
89%
7.6
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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.
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Cast of Halloween
Donald Pleasence
Loomis
Jamie Lee Curtis
Laurie
Nancy Kyes
Annie
P. J. Soles
Lynda
Charles Cyphers
Brackett
Kyle Richards
Lindsey
Brian Andrews
Tommy
John Michael Graham
Bob
Nancy Stephens
Marion
Arthur Malet
Graveyard Keeper
Mickey Yablans
Richie
Brent Le Page
Lonnie
Adam Hollander
Keith
Robert Phalen
Dr. Wynn
Tony Moran
Michael Myers age 23
Will Sandin
Michael Myers age 6
Sandy Johnson
Judith Myers
David Kyle
Boyfriend
Peter Griffith
Laurie's Father
Nick Castle
The Shape
Halloween Ratings & Reviews
Newsday
Joseph Gelmis
"Halloween" offers a familiar yet skillful suspense tale.
Horror Movie Club Podcast
Brian Bisesi
John Carpenter's score and Dean Cundey's cinematography elevate Halloween to a genre-defining classic. Its style and atmosphere are still unrivaled by any of the imitators released in its wake
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Patrick Cavanaugh
A masterclass in tone and tension, with the incredible cast adding an air of authenticity that actually makes you care about their fate. Slashers, and horror in general, don't get any better.
The Times (Shreveport, LA)
Joe Leydon
Cleverly photograph, brilliant edited, and carefully designed so that the frightening peaks are separated by few valleys, "Halloween" is so effective that it never needs blatant gore.
Horror Movie Talk
David Day
If you haven't seen Halloween (1978), you really should. It's just good, old-fashioned, stabbing the way your mom use to serve it up.
Loud and Clear Reviews
Sebastian Zavala Kahn
What differentiates Halloween from its worst copycats, though, is that its narrative decisions were made because they made sense for its characters, and not because they were considered staples of the genre.
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Sarah Vincent
If he is the Boogeyman, the Reaper, Death, she is the counterforce sharing some of his characteristics, but only using them for good. Unlike Michael, who is mad by societal terms, but exhibits no emotion, Laurie is emotional, and violence affects her.
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Sean Axmaker
... a beautifully-made made picture by a director who brings a visual intelligence to a genre that was so often reduced to hack directors and gimmicks in place of storytelling.
CBR
Howard Waldstein
The greatest slasher film of all time.
InSession Film
Brian Rowe
There's nothing like Carpenter's original...
New York Times
Jason Zinoman
In horror, the jack-in-the-box scare... is the quickest way to get a scream, but the still shocks... are the ones that linger with you. "Halloween" has them both, but it specializes in the second.
Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar
What's crucial isn't that Laurie survives because she's the only virgin; it's that she's the only virgin and still almost doesn't survive.
Vox
Aja Romano
Still creepy as hell.
The Hollywood Reporter
Ron Pennington
Carpenter obviously knows the genre well and he builds a properly terrifying atmosphere through his well-paced direction. It's an effective entry for its intended market.
Austin Chronicle
Mike Emery
Who could have predicted that the low-budget pic Halloween would have a profound influence on an industry, not to mention on the concept of Halloween itself?
Variety
Variety Staff
After a promising opening, Halloween becomes just another maniac-on-the-loose suspenser.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
John Carpenter's 1978 tour de force, perhaps the most widely imitated film of the 70s.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Halloween is an absolutely merciless thriller, a movie so violent and scary that, yes, I would compare it to Psycho.
Washington Post
Gary Arnold
Since there is precious little character or plot development to pass the time between stalking sequences, one tends to wish the killer would get on with it.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
They should have broken the mold when they released Halloween, for when it comes to escaped-maniacs-on-the-loose films this one's the real deal.
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