B07J3GTYC1

191329081815

1978

1978-10-27

91

1h 31min

Awards, 7 wins & 3 nominations

John Carpenter

John Carpenter, Debra Hill

Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran

Moustapha Akkad, John Carpenter, Debra Hill, Kool Marder, Irwin Yablans

John Carpenter

Dean Cundey

Charles Bornstein, Tommy Lee Wallace

Tommy Lee Wallace

Craig Stearns

Erica Ueland

Don Behrns

Jack De Wolf, Rick Wallace

Dick Girod, Randy Moore, Craig Stearns, Robert Englund

Joseph F. Brennan, Thomas Causey, William L. Stevenson, Tex Rudloff, Lee Strosnider

Conrad Rothmann

James Winburn

Reid Freeman, Kim Gottlieb, Walt Hill, Steve Mathis, Joshua Miller, Krishna Rao, Dylan Shephard, Raymond Stella, Fred Vickter, Mark Walthour, Douglas Olivares

Beth Rodgers, Joan Joseff

Peter Bergren, Bob Walters, Dan Wyman

Louise Jaffe

Moustapha Akkad, Barry Bernardi, Paul Fox

Horror, Thriller

Compass International Pictures, Falcon International Pictures, Falcon International Productions

USA

English

R

7.7

270696

87

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut) and Donald Pleasence, with P. J. Soles and Nancy Kyes appearing in supporting roles. The plot centers around a mental patient, Michael Myers, who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his babysitting teenage sister on Halloween night when he was six years old. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his hometown, where he stalks a female babysitter and her friends, while under pursuit by his psychiatrist.

Filming took place in Southern California in May 1978; the work premiered in October, whereupon it grossed $70 million, becoming one of the most profitable independent films of all time. Primarily praised for Carpenter s direction and score, many critics credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock s Psycho (1960), and Bob Clark s Black Christmas (1974). It is considered one of the greatest and most influential horror films ever made. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant .

Halloween spawned a film franchise comprising thirteen films which helped construct an extensive backstory for its antagonist Michael Myers, sometimes narratively diverging entirely from previous installments. A direct sequel of the film was released in 1981. A remake was released in 2007, which was followed by a sequel in 2009. An eleventh installment, which serves as a direct sequel to the original film that retcons all previous sequels, was released in 2018; this was followed by two direct sequels: Halloween Kills (2021) and the upcoming Halloween Ends (2022). Additionally, a novelization, a video game and comic book series have been based on the film.

$325,000 (estimated)

$47,160,000

$47,160,000

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