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Halloween (1978)

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 32m
  •  (30)
  • 81

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

John Carpenter

Producer:

Debra Hill, Kool Marder, Irwin Yablans

Writer:

John Carpenter, Debra Hill

Release Date:

Oct 25, 1978

Runtime:

1hr 32m

Synopsis

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 to kill again.

Cast

  • Donald Pleasence
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Nancy Kyes
  • P.J. Soles
  • Charles Cyphers
  • Kyle Richards
  • Brian Andrews
  • John Michael Graham
  • Nancy Stephens
  • Arthur Malet

Did You Know?

Trivia

  • Donald Pleasence did all of his scenes in only five days of shooting. The total duration of his scenes is just over 18 minutes.
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Goofs

  • (at around 19 mins) You can clearly see the mountains in the background, when Dr. Loomis is on the phone and sees the Rabbit in Red matchbook. Since this movie takes place in Illinois that would be impossible.
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Quotes

    • [referring to a partially eaten dog]
    • Brackett: A man wouldn't do that.
    • Loomis: This isn't a man.
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Metacritic

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Universal acclaim based on 498 Reviews
100

Halloween is an absolutely merciless thriller, a movie so violent and scary that, yes, I would compare it to “Psycho.”

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
100

From a shock-and-suspense point-of-view, Halloween is the rival of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. With only a few arguable exceptions (such as The Exorcist), there isn't another post-1970 release that comes close to it in terms of scaring the living hell out of a viewer... A modern classic of the most horrific kind.

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Metacritic review by James Berardinelli
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