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Halloween
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- 1978
- John Carpenter
- 87 mins
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Summary
Director John Carpenter's ground-breaking horror, starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis. Fifteen years after murdering his sister, Michael Myers escapes from a mental institution and returns to the small town of Haddonfield. Dr Sam Loomis, a psychiatrist who has been treating Michael, races to track him down before he kills again.
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A star rating of 5 out of 5.
Alan Jones
John Carpenter practically patented the slasher genre with this simple but horribly effective low-budget suburban horror, in the process launching Jamie Lee Curtis - daughter of Psycho's Janet Leigh - as a new scream queen. Michael Myers is the six-year-old boy who murders his sister on Halloween and is institutionalised. Fifteen years later he escapes and returns to Haddonfield, Illinois, disguised in a white mask, to cause murderous mayhem, despite the intervention of his equally spooky psychiatrist (Donald Pleasence, in a career-reviving turn). The film is expertly plotted, beginning in broad daylight and building to a series of bloody crescendos as licentious babysitters and boyfriends are picked off. Can dateless Curtis avoid the killer's attentions? This genre classic's power to grip and jolt has never diminished, thanks in part to Carpenter's own pulsating score.
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rolenameDr Sam LoomisDonald PleasenceLaurie StrodeJamie Lee CurtisAnnieNancy LoomisLyndaP J SolesSheriff Leigh BrackettCharles CyphersLindseyKyle RichardsTommyBrian AndrewsBobJohn Michael GrahamMarionNancy StephensGraveyard keeperArthur MaletRichieMickey YablansLonnieBrent Le PageMichael, age 23Tony MoranMichael, age sixWill SandinThe ShapeNick Castle
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rolenameDirectorJohn Carpenter
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Theatrical distributor
Jade Films
Released on
2018-10-10
Languages
English
Guidance
Contains violence, swearing, drug abuse, sex scenes and nudity.
Available on
video, DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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