Halloween

The night he came home!
( Horror / Thriller )

MPAA Rating:

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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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

1000 Mission Street, South Pasadena, California, USA [Myers’ family home]

1115 Oxley Street, South Pasadena, California, USA [Strode home]

1530 Orange Grove Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA [The Doyle home]

1537 Orange Grove Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA [The Wallace home]

Alhambra, California, USA

North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Pasadena, California, USA

Rosemead, California, USA

Sierra Madre, California, USA

South Pasadena High School, South Pasadena, California, USA

Tech Info:

Budget:: $325,000 (USA)
Color Info:: Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:: 2.35 : 1
Cinematographic Process:: Panavision
Shooting Dates:: Mar 1978

Quotes:

Tommy: Laurie, what's the bogeyman?
Laurie: There's no such thing.
Sheriff Brackett: It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare.
Lynda: I can't believe it! We have three new cheers to learn in the morning, I have to get my dress ready and my hair done in the afternoon, the game is at six, and the dance is at eight! I'll be totally wiped out!
Laurie: [sarcastically] I don't think you have enough to do tomorrow.
Lynda: Totally!
[After Michael falls off the balcony]
Laurie: Was that the bogeyman?
Dr. Loomis: As a matter of fact... it was!
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!

Trivia:

The name of the sheriff is "Leigh Brackett". This was the name of the screenwriter of Howard Hawks' classic Rio Bravo, which was the inspiration for John Carpenter's previous film, Assault on Precinct 13.
Kyle Richards, who plays Lindsey Wallace, is the sister of Kim Richards, who appeared in John Carpenter's previous film, Assault on Precinct 13.
One of the characters is named "Marion Chambers". Marion was the first name of the female protagonist of Psycho, and Chambers was the last name of the sheriff in that movie.
Halloween takes place primarily in fictional Haddonfield, Illinois. Haddonfield, NJ is the home town of screenwriter Debra Hill.
The kids watch the opening of The Thing from Another World on TV. Carpenter would later re-make this film himself in 1982 as The Thing.

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