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Mood:
- RoughSuspensefulScary
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Plot:
- Serial KillerSlasherDoctors and PatientsTeenage LifePsychopathCrimesDeadlyYouth more...
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Genres:
- Horror
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century70s
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Place:
- Small Town
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Audience:
- Teens
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Praise:
- Award WinnerBlockbusterClassicCritically AcclaimedGroundbreaking
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Flag:
- Violent Content
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Halloween, 1978
English
USA
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 a blockbuster. 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: | 25 October 1978 |
| Runtime: | 101 min |
Cast and Crew
as Dr. Sam Loomis
as Laurie Strode
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Critics Reviews
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.
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- by: Staff (Not Credited)
Entertainment Weekly
Carpenter's brutally efficient exercise in tension and release.
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- by: Bruce Fretts
Users Reviews
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...
- 22.March.2009
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- by: Matthew
- Matthew rated this movie
10/10Must See
