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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:

  • Sheriff Brackett: It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare.
     
  • [Referring to a partially eaten dog.]
    Sheriff Brackett: A man wouldn't do that.
    Dr. Loomis: This is not a man.
     
  • Tommy: Laurie, what's the bogeyman?
    Laurie: There's no such thing.
     
  • [After yelling a smart remark to Michael Myers]
    Annie: Geez, can't he take a joke?
    Laurie: You know what, Annie? One of these days you're going to get us all into deep trouble.
     
  • Laurie: Lynda, if this is a joke, I'll kill you!
     

Trivia:

  • Kyle Richards, who plays Lindsey Wallace, is the sister of Kim Richards, who appeared in John Carpenter's previous film, Assault on Precinct 13.
     
  • 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.
     
  • 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.
     
  • half of the $300,000 budget was spent on the Panavision cameras so the film would have a 2:35:1 scope.
     
  • Donald Pleasence's role as Sam Loomis is named after a character of the same name in Psycho.
     

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