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Serial Killer Slasher Doctors and Patients Teenage Life Psychopath Crimes Deadly Youth more...
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Horror
Time/Period:
20th Century 70s
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Small Town
Audience:
Teens
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Award Winner Classic Critically Acclaimed Groundbreaking
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Halloween, 1978

Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis

Directed by: John Carpenter

Written by: John Carpenter

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 91 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.9

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Profile of Halloween

The mood of Halloween is scary, rough, and suspenseful. The plot centers around doctors and patients, a slasher, and a psychopath. It is a horror movie. In approach, Halloween is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a small town. It happens in the 20th century. Halloween is known for being groundbreaking, a classic, and an award winner. It is especially suggested for teens. Note that it includes violent content.

Summary of Halloween

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 hometown 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 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 measured.

Details

Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	October 1978
Runtime:	91 min

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Donald Pleasence

as Dr. Sam Loomis

Jamie Lee Curtis

as Laurie Strode

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Variety

After a promising opening, Halloween becomes just another maniac-on-the-loose suspenser. However, despite the prosaic plot, director John Carpenter has timed the film's gore so that the 93-minute item is packed with enough thrills. Full Review

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by: Staff (Not Credited)

Entertainment Weekly

Carpenter's brutally efficient exercise in tension and release. Full Review

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by: Bruce Fretts

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27 years later this flick is still one of the scariest I've ever seen. Who cares if the acting is sub-par and the 'teenagers' all look like they're in their early thirties...this movie is nightmare-inducing! Read and rate it

28.September.2010
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by: hartzo
hartzo rated this movie10/10Must See

For its time, Halloween is simply amazing. As it stands now, it still holds up as a brilliant slasher film that actually has somewhat of a story. Michael Myers is just a troubled boy in need of psychiatric help, but when he grows up and breaks out... Read and rate it

22.March.2009
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by: Matthew
Matthew rated this movie10/10Must See

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