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Halloween
The night he came home!
( Horror / Thriller )


Halloween Poster

MPAA Rating:
R

US Runtime: 91 min

Premiere Date:
Oct 24, 1978   [USA]
 
Production Companys: Compass International Pictures
Falcon Films
 


Plot Summary:

    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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Tech Info:

Budget:
$325,000 (USA)
Color Info:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Panavision
Shooting Dates:
Mar 1978

Quotes:

  • Dr. Loomis: I met him, fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with this blind, pale, emotionless face and, the blackest eyes... the DEVIL'S eyes! I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up for I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... EVIL!
     
  • Sheriff Brackett: It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare.
     
  • Laurie: Lynda, if this is a joke, I'll kill you!
     
  • Nurse Chambers: Don't you think it would be better if you referred to "it" as "him"?
    Dr. Loomis: If you say so.
    Nurse Chambers: Your compassion's overwhelming, doctor.
     
  • [Referring to a partially eaten dog.]
    Sheriff Brackett: A man wouldn't do that.
    Dr. Loomis: This is not a man.
     

Trivia:

  • The character of Michael Myers was named after the European distributor of Carpenter's previous film, Assault on Precinct 13 as a kind of weird "thank you" for the film's overseas success.
     
  • Director John Carpenter was raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In one scene, the subtitle on the screen depicts the location as "Smiths Grove, Illinois." Smiths Grove, Kentucky, is a small town of about 600 people 15 miles from Bowling Green. There are many other references to other local towns and landmarks.
     
  • Inside Laurie's bedroom there is a poster of a painting by James Ensor (1860-1949). Ensor was a Belgian expressionist painter who used to portray human figures wearing grotesque masks.
     
  • According to screenwriter / producer Debra Hill, the character of Laurie Strode was named after John Carpenter's first girlfriend.
     
  • All of the actors wore their own clothes, since there was no money for a costume department. Jamie Lee Curtis went to J.C. Penney for Laurie Strode's wardrobe. She spent less than a hundred dollars for the entire set.
     

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