Halloween (1978 film)

432:, but Laurie dismisses him. Annie later takes Lindsey to the Doyle house for the night so she can pick up her boyfriend. Michael hides in her car and strangles her before slitting her throat. Lynda and her boyfriend Bob arrive at the Wallace house and find it empty. After having sex, Bob goes downstairs to get a beer from the kitchen, where Michael pins him to the wall with a chef's knife. Michael then poses as Bob in a ghost costume and confronts Lynda, who teases him to no effect. Annoyed, she calls Laurie to find out what happened to Annie, but Michael strangles her to death with the phone cord while Laurie listens on the other end. Meanwhile, Loomis discovers the stolen car and searches the streets. 665:" who ultimately triumphs. Strode fights back against Myers and severely wounds him. Had Myers been a normal man, Strode's attacks would have killed him; even Loomis, the male hero of the story, who shoots Michael repeatedly with a revolver, cannot kill him. Aviva Briefel argued that moments such as when Michael's face was temporarily revealed are meant to give pleasure to the male viewer. Briefel further argues that these moments are masochistic in nature and give pleasure to men because they are willingly submitting themselves to the women of the film; they submit themselves temporarily because it will make their return to authority even more powerful. 2120:. None of the main characters in the game were named. Players take on the role of a teenage babysitter who tries to save as many children as possible from an unnamed, knife-wielding killer. In another effort to save money, most versions of the game did not even have a label on the cartridge. It was simply a piece of tape with "Halloween" written in marker. The game contained more gore than the film, however. When the babysitter is killed, her head disappears and is replaced by blood pulsating from the neck as she runs around exaggeratedly. The game's primary similarity to the film is the theme music that plays when the killer appears onscreen. 983:(1973) for Michael Myers. Carpenter's inspiration for the "evil" that Michael embodied came from a visit he had taken during college to a psychiatric institution in Kentucky. There, he visited a ward with his psychology classmates where "the most serious, mentally ill patients" were held. Among those patients was an adolescent boy, who possessed a blank, "schizophrenic stare." Carpenter's experience inspired the characterization that Loomis gave of Michael to Sheriff Brackett in the film. Debra Hill has stated the scene where Michael kills the Wallaces' German Shepherd was done to illustrate how he is "really evil and deadly". 5147: 5121: 5034: 4994: 3941: 2986: 1208: 7038: 7020: 7004: 6988: 6972: 6956: 1286:", remembered Curtis. She had different facial expressions and scream volumes for each level on the meter. Carpenter's direction for Castle in his role as Myers was minimal. For example, when Castle asked what Myers' motivation was for a particular scene, Carpenter replied that his motivation was to walk from one set marker to another and "not act." By Carpenter's account the only direction he gave Castle was during the murder sequence of Bob, in which he told Castle to tilt his head and examine the corpse as if it "were a butterfly collection." 2464: 1004: 2103:, written by Curtis Richards (a pseudonym that was used by author Richard Curtis), was published by Bantam Books in 1979. It was reissued in 1982. it later went out of print. The novelization adds aspects not featured in the film, such as the origins of the curse of Samhain and Michael Myers' life in Smith's Grove Sanatorium, which contradict its source material. For example, the novel's version of Michael speaks during his time at the sanitarium; in the film, Dr. Loomis states, "He hasn't spoken a word in fifteen years." 1015: 706: 1545:

features the original theatrical release with the scenes that were shot for the broadcast TV version edited in at their proper places. In 1999, Anchor Bay issued a two-disc limited edition, which featured both the theatrical and "extended editions," as well as lenticular cover art and lobby cards. In 2003, Anchor Bay released a two-disc "25th Anniversary edition" with improved DiviMax picture and audio, along with an audio commentary by Carpenter, Curtis and Hill, among other features.

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Tommy and Lindsey to a neighbor's house to call the police, Michael rises again. Seeing the children running from the house, Loomis goes to investigate and sees Michael strangling Laurie. She breaks free by pulling his mask off, revealing his face. Loomis shoots him six times, knocking him off the balcony. When Loomis goes to check on the body, he is unsurprised to see that Michael has vanished. He stares off into the distance as Laurie sobs in terror.

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adopt the murderer's assaultive gaze and to hear his heavy breathing and plodding footsteps as he stalked his prey." Film analysts have noted its delayed or withheld representations of violence, characterized as the "false startle" or "the old tap-on-the-shoulder routine" in which the stalkers, murderers, or monsters "lunge into our field of vision or creep up on a person." Critic Susan Stark described the film's opening sequence in her 1978 review:

900:... the idea was that you couldn't kill evil, and that was how we came about the story. We went back to the old idea of Samhain, that Halloween was the night where all the souls are let out to wreak havoc on the living, and then came up with the story about the most evil kid who ever lived. And when John came up with this fable of a town with a dark secret of someone who once lived there, and now that evil has come back, that's what made 4267: 1669: 1780:, referring to it as "a visceral experience—we aren't seeing the movie, we're having it happen to us. It's frightening. Maybe you don't like movies that are really scary: Then don't see this one." Ebert also selected it as one of his top 10 films of 1978. Once-dismissive critics became impressed by Carpenter's choice of camera angles and simple music and surprised by the lack of blood and graphic violence. 844:), he asked me if I was ever gonna do a sequel and I said no. I was through with horror, I didn't come into the business to do just horror. He said, 'Well what would you do if you did do a sequel?' I said it would be the next year and the guy would have actually been caught, escape from a mental institution, go back to the house and they would start all over again. And I would call it 755:

on the way upstairs from behind the eye-slits of a Halloween mask, the murder of a half-nude young girl seated at her dressing table, the descent downstairs and whammo! The killer stands speechless on the lawn, holding the bloody knife, a small boy in a satin clown suit with a newly-returned parent on each side shrieking in an attempt to find out what the spectacle means.

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of Haddonfield, Illinois was derived from Haddonfield, New Jersey, where Hill was raised, while several of the street names were taken from Carpenter's hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Laurie Strode was allegedly the name of one of Carpenter's old girlfriends, while Michael Myers was the name of an English producer who had previously entered, with Yablans,

1188:. When Moran went to audition for the role of Michael, he met for an interview with Carpenter and Yablans. He later got a call back and was told he had got the part. Moran was paid $ 250 for his appearance. Will Sandin played the unmasked young Michael in the beginning of the film. Carpenter also provided uncredited voice work as Paul, Annie's boyfriend. 1204:: "Two things made me decide. One, Carpenter told me the story verbally and in a suspenseful way, almost frame for frame. Second, he told me he didn't want to take any fees, and that showed he had confidence in the project". Carpenter received $ 10,000 for directing, writing, and composing the music, retaining rights to 10 percent of the film's profits. 31: 1092:." Curtis was cast in the part, though she initially had reservations as she felt she identified more with the other female characters: "I was very much a smart alec, and was a cheerleader in high school, so felt very concerned that I was being considered for the quiet, repressed young woman when in fact I was very much like the other two girls." 1471:. Luckily, Billy was able to find this material before it was destroyed. The story on how we got the negative is a long one, but we'll save it for when we're able to showcase the materials in some way. Kirkus should be commended for pretty much saving the Holy Grail of horror films". He later claimed: "We just learned from Sean Clark, long time 625:"completely missed the point," adding, "The one girl who is the most sexually uptight just keeps stabbing this guy with a long knife. She's the most sexually frustrated. She's the one that's killed him. Not because she's a virgin but because all that sexually repressed energy starts coming out. She uses all those phallic symbols on the guy." 1373: 1241:. Carpenter recalled how Wallace "widened the eye holes and spray-painted the flesh a bluish white. In the script it said Michael Myers's mask had 'the pale features of a human face' and it truly was spooky looking. I can only imagine the result if they hadn't painted the mask white. Children would be checking their closet for 436:

pursuit. She makes it back to the Doyle house, but realizes she has lost the keys to the front door. Tommy lets her in and she orders him and Lindsey to hide. Laurie calls for help, only to find the phone is dead. Michael sneaks in through the window and attacks her again, but she stabs him in the neck with a knitting needle.

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Finally, a scene was added in which Lynda comes over to Laurie's house to borrow a silk blouse before Laurie leaves to babysit, just as Annie telephones asking to borrow the same blouse. The new scene had Laurie's hair hidden by a towel, since Curtis was by then wearing a much shorter hairstyle than she had worn in 1978.

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government-owned 1978 Ford LTD station wagon rented for two weeks of filming. When filming was complete, the car was returned to the rental company who put it up for auction. Its next owner left it in a barn for decades until selling it to its new owner who has completely restored both its interior and exterior.

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they are killed ... by Michael Myers an asylum escapee who years ago at the age of six murdered his sister for preferring sex to taking care of him." Carpenter has distanced himself from these interpretations, saying "It has been suggested that I was making some kind of moral statement. Believe me, I'm not. In

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as overtly violent or gory, commenting that the film is in fact "one of the most restrained horror films", showing very little onscreen violence. Almost a decade after its premiere, Mick Martin and Marsha Porter critiqued the first-person camera shots that earlier film reviewers had praised and later

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and Dr. Loomis talking to a then-6-year-old Michael at Smith's Grove, telling him, "You've fooled them, haven't you, Michael? But not me." Another extra scene features Dr. Loomis at Smith's Grove examining Michael's abandoned cell after his escape and seeing the word "Sister" scratched into the door.

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Hill, who had worked as a babysitter during her teenage years, wrote most of the female characters' dialogue, while Carpenter drafted Loomis' speeches on the soullessness of Michael Myers. Many script details were drawn from Carpenter's and Hill's own backgrounds and early careers: The fictional town

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The first scene of the young Michael's voyeurism is followed by the murder of Judith seen through the eye holes of Michael's clown costume mask. According to scholar Nicholas Rogers, Carpenter's "frequent use of the unmounted first-person camera to represent the killer's point of view ... invited to

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as a critique of American social values. She remarks that parental figures are almost entirely absent throughout the film, noting that when Laurie is attacked by Michael while babysitting, "No parents, either of the teenagers or of the children left in their charge, call to check on their children or

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Carpenter worked with the cast to create the desired effect of terror and suspense. According to Curtis, Carpenter created a "fear meter" because the film was shot out-of-sequence and she was not sure what her character's level of terror should be in certain scenes. "Here's about a 7, here's about a

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In devising the backstory for the film's villain, Michael Myers, Carpenter drew on "haunted house" folklore that exists in many small American communities: "Most small towns have a kind of haunted house story of one kind or another," he stated. "At least that's what teenagers believe. There's always

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In a single, wonderfully fluid tracking shot, the camera establishes the quiet character of a suburban street, the sexual hanky-panky going on between a teenage couple in one of the staid-looking homes, the departure of the boyfriend, a hand in the kitchen drawer removing a butcher's knife, the view

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Michael is thought by some to represent evil in the film. This is based on the common belief that evil never dies, nor does evil show remorse. This idea is demonstrated in the film when Dr. Loomis discusses Michael's history with the sheriff. Loomis states, "I spent eight years trying to reach him ,

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has argued that the film, and its genre at large, links sexuality with danger, saying that killers in slasher films are fueled by a "psychosexual fury" and that all the killings are sexual in nature. She reinforces this idea by saying that "guns have no place in slasher films" and when examining the

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premiered on October 24, 1978, in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, at the AMC Empire theatre. Regional distribution in the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan areas was acquired by Aquarius Releasing. It grossed $ 1,270,000 from 198 theatres across the U.S. (including 72 in New York City and

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The ending scene of Michael disappearing after being shot six times and falling off the balcony, was meant to terrify the imagination of the audience. Using a montage of the houses as Michael's breathing is heard, Carpenter tried to keep the audience guessing as to who Michael Myers really is—he is

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was negative, writing "Since there is precious little character or plot development to pass the time between stalking sequences, one tends to wish the killer would get on with it. Presumably, Carpenter imagines he's building up spine-tingling anticipation, but his techniques are so transparent and

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gave the film three and a half stars out of four and called it "a beautifully made thriller" that "works because director Carpenter knows how to shock while making us smile. He repeatedly sets up anticipation of a shock and delays the shock for varying lengths of time. The tension is considerable.

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and the slasher genre according to film scholar Pat Gill, who made a note of this in her essay "The Monstrous Years: Teens, Slasher Films, and the Family". She remarks that Laurie's friends "think of their babysitting jobs as opportunities to share drinks and beds with their boyfriends. One by one

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dismiss her concerns. Loomis arrives in Haddonfield and discovers that Michael has stolen Judith's tombstone from the local cemetery. He meets up with the town sheriff, Annie's father Leigh Brackett, and they begin to search for Michael. While they investigate the old Myers house, Loomis describes

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neighborhood of Hollywood were used for the film's climax, as the street had few palm trees, and thus closely resembled a Midwestern street. Some palm trees, however, are visible in the film's earlier establishing scenes. The crew had difficulty finding pumpkins in the spring, and artificial fall

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had discovered boxes of negatives containing footage cut from the film. One was labeled "1981" suggesting that it was additional footage for the television version of the film. Synapse owner Don May Jr. said, "What we've got is pretty much all the unused original camera negative from Carpenter's

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Thinking Michael is dead, Laurie staggers upstairs to check on the children, where Michael appears again. While Tommy and Lindsey hide in the bathroom, Laurie hides in the bedroom closet. Laurie stabs Michael in the eye with a coat hanger and then in the chest with his own knife. After she sends

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While the review gives no New York City premiere date or specific theater, a display advertisement on page 72 reads: "Held over! 2nd week of horror! At a Flagship Theatre near you". Per the movie listings on pages 82, 84 and 85, respectively, it played at four since-defunct theaters: the Essex,

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on October 28, 1997. To date, that DVD release is the only one to feature the original mono audio track as heard in theaters in 1978 and on most home video releases that preceded it. Anchor Bay re-released the film on DVD in various other editions; among these were an "extended edition," which

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for around $ 100. Wallace described the filming process as uniquely collaborative, with cast members often helping move equipment, cameras, and helping facilitate set-ups. The vehicle stolen by Michael Myers from Dr Loomis and Nurse Marion Chambers at the Smith Grove Sanitarium was an Illinois

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Worried by the phone call, Laurie goes to the Wallace house and finds her friends' bodies and Judith's tombstone in the upstairs bedroom. She runs to the hallway where Michael slashes her arm, causing her to fall over the banister. Dazed and injured, she manages to escape the house with him in

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and Falcon International Productions. The film was released by Compass International and Aquarius Releasing in October and grossed $ 70 million on a budget of $ 300,000–325,000, becoming one of the most profitable independent films of all time. Primarily praised for Carpenter's direction and

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productions" and musing that "Maybe when a horror film is stripped of everything but dumb scariness—when it isn't ashamed to revive the stalest device of the genre (the escaped lunatic)—it satisfies part of the audience in a more basic, childish way than sophisticated horror pictures do."

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remarks, "It's easy to create violence on the screen, but it's hard to do it well. Carpenter is uncannily skilled, for example, at the use of foregrounds in his compositions, and everyone who likes thrillers knows that foregrounds are crucial . ... " The opening title, featuring a

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was approached for the role; he too turned it down, although the actor later told Carpenter and Hill that declining the role was the biggest mistake he made during his career. Yablans then suggested Pleasence, who agreed to star because his daughter Lucy, a guitarist, had enjoyed

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That night, Michael follows Annie and Laurie to their babysitting jobs. Laurie watches Tommy Doyle, while Annie stays with Lindsey Wallace across the street. Michael spies on Annie and kills the Wallace family dog. Tommy spots Michael from the windows and thinks he is the

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says that this scene "clearly announces that primary concern will be with the way in which we see ourselves and others and the consequences that often attend our usual manner of perception." Carpenter's first-person point-of-view compositions were employed with

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Some non-score songs can be heard in the film, one an untitled song performed by Carpenter and a group of his friends in a band called The Coupe De Villes. The song can be heard as Laurie steps into Annie's car on her way to babysit Tommy Doyle. Another song,

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and slasher films, generally, represent the underside of suburbia to Gill. Myers was raised in a suburban household and after he escapes the mental hospital he returns to his hometown to kill again; Myers is a product of the suburban environment, writes Gill.

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placed against a black backdrop, sets the mood for the entire film. The camera slowly moves toward the jack-o'-lantern's left eye as the main title theme plays. After the camera fully closes in, the jack-o'-lantern's light dims and goes out. Film historian

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The soundtrack was first released in the United States in October 1983, by Varèse Sarabande/MCA. It was subsequently released on CD in 1985, re-released in 1990, and reissued again in 2000. On the film's 40th anniversary, coinciding with the release of

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after Tommy got through with it." Hill adds that the "idea was to make him almost humorless, faceless—this sort of pale visage that could resemble a human or not." Many of the actors wore their own clothes, and Curtis' wardrobe was purchased at

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gone, and everywhere at the same time; he is more than human; he may be supernatural, and no one knows how he got that way. To Carpenter, keeping the audience guessing was better than explaining away the character with "he's cursed by some..."

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praised the film in his November 1978 review, noting it as sociologically irrelevant but praising its Hitchcock-like technique as effective and "the most honest way to make a good schlock film". Allen pointed out the stylistic similarities to

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where Michael is incarcerated to escort him to a court hearing. After Loomis exits their car to unlock the main gate, Michael jumps on the roof and attacks Marion. She runs from the vehicle, allowing Michael to steal the car and drive away.

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comprising 13 films which helped construct an extensive backstory for Michael Myers, sometimes narratively diverging entirely from previous installments; a novelization, video game, and comic book series have also been based on the film.

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It took approximately 10 days to write the screenplay. Yablans and Akkad ceded most of the creative control to writers Carpenter and Hill (whom Carpenter wanted as producer), but Yablans did offer several suggestions. According to a

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and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply ... evil." Loomis also refers to Michael as "evil" when he steals his car at the sanitarium.

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state that female characters such as Laurie Strode survive not because of "any good planning" or their own resourcefulness, but sheer luck. Although she manages to repel the killer several times, in the end, Strode is rescued in

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98 in Southern California) in its opening week. The film grossed $ 47 million in the United States and an additional $ 23 million internationally, making the theatrical total $ 70 million, making it one of the most successful

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interview with Hill, "Yablans wanted the script written like a radio show, with 'boos' every 10 minutes." By Hill's recollection, the script took three weeks to write, and much of the inspiration behind the plot came from

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In an interview, Carpenter admits that "Jamie Lee wasn't the first choice for Laurie. I had no idea who she was. She was 19 and in a TV show at the time, but I didn't watch TV." He originally wanted to cast

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as: "True crass exploitation. I decided to make a film I would love to have seen as a kid, full of cheap tricks like a haunted house at a fair where you walk down the corridor and things jump out at you."

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to play Lynda Van Der Klok, another loquacious friend of Laurie's, best remembered in the film for dialogue peppered with the word "totally." Soles was an actress known for her supporting role in

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I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes; the devil's eyes ... I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply ... evil.

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As stated, the film was first released on VHS in 1979 and again in 1981 by Media Home Entertainment. The synopsis on the back misspelled Myers as Meyers. The film was also released on

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horror films, women are depicted as helpless victims and are not safe until they are rescued by a strong masculine hero. Despite the fact that Loomis saves Strode, Clover asserts that

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she notes that "a hands-on killing answers a hands-on rape in a way that a shooting, even a shooting preceded by a humiliation, does not." Equating sex with violence is important in

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referred to it as "tediously familiar" and whose only notable element is "Jamie Lee Curtis, whose performance as the intended fourth victim, is well above the rest of the film."

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would be re-released starting October 25, 2013, in celebration of the film's 35th anniversary in 2013. A new documentary was screened before the film at all locations, titled

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Michael makes his way back to Haddonfield, killing a mechanic and stealing his coveralls before stealing a white mask from a local hardware store. He begins stalking teenager

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Judith Myers and her boyfriend, as viewed from the point-of-view of young Michael Myers; this voyeuristic perspective is a distinguishing feature of the film's opening scene

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is a widely influential film within the horror genre; it was largely responsible for the popularization of slasher films in the 1980s and helped develop the slasher genre.

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appeared on television for the first time in October 1981. To fill the two-hour time slot, Carpenter filmed twelve minutes of additional material during the production of

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suggesting that "Carpenter doesn't seem to have had any life outside the movies: one can trace almost every idea on the screen to directors such as Hitchcock and

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and writing in the lead sentence that the film "bids fair to become the cult discovery of 1978. Audiences have been heard screaming at its horrifying climaxes".

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a house down the lane that somebody was killed in, or that somebody went crazy in." Carpenter also took inspiration from the character of The Gunslinger from

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magazine, Yablans stated: "I was thinking what would make sense in the horror genre, and what I wanted to do was make a picture that had the same impact as

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s music is one of its strongest assets". Carpenter once stated in an interview, "I can play just about any keyboard, but I can't read or write a note." In

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Home Entertainment. The following year, a "30th Anniversary Commemorative Set" was issued, containing DVD and Blu-ray versions of the film, the sequels

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as production designer, art director, location scout and co-editor. Wallace created the trademark mask worn by Michael Myers throughout the film from a

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and may have been influenced by it, but in no way did John Carpenter copy the idea. Fifteen other people at that time had thought to do a movie called

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essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010

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genius, that the footage found is just that: footage. There is no sound in any of the reels so far, since none of it was used in the final edit".

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of all time; the film sold approximately 20,153,846 tickets during its initial theatrical release, and remains the most successful release of any

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Akkad agreed to put up $ 300,000 ($ 1.4 million in 2022) for the film's budget, which was considered low at the time (Carpenter's previous film,

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Because of the low budget, wardrobe and props were often crafted from items on hand or that could be purchased inexpensively. Carpenter hired

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ends and was intended to finish the story of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. Carpenter did not direct any of the subsequent films in the

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performed well with little advertising, relying mostly on word-of-mouth, but many critics seemed uninterested or dismissive of the film.

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teamed with Anchor Bay Entertainment to release the film as part of a Blu-ray boxed set featuring every film in the series (up to 2009's

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plays the unmasked Michael at the end of the film. Moran was a struggling actor before he got the role. At the time, he had a job on

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s end credits, Carpenter bills himself as the "Bowling Green Philharmonic Orchestra", but he also received assistance from composer

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leaves had to be reused for multiple scenes. Local families dressed their children in Halloween costumes for trick-or-treat scenes.

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a burgeoning cult film at the time of its release, describing it as "moody in the extreme" and praising its direction and music.

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is another major theme that runs throughout the film and the slasher genre at large: Gill states that slasher films "seem to mock

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was filmed in 20 days over a four-week period in May 1978. Much of the filming was completed using a Panaglide, a clone of the

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More than once during the movie I looked around just to make sure that no one weird was sitting behind me." Gary Arnold of

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suggested in an interview released in 2005 that Carpenter had asked him for his own ideas for a sequel to his 1974 film

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sought out Carpenter to direct a film for them about a psychotic killer that stalked babysitters. In an interview with

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night during his childhood; he escapes 15 years later and returns to Haddonfield, where he stalks teenage babysitter

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series (pictured), making various modifications such as painting it white, widening its eyes, and altering its hair.

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only when Dr. Loomis arrives to shoot Myers. However, Clover has argued that despite the violence against women,

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Williams, Tony (1996a). "Trying to Survive on the Darker Side: 1980s Family Horror". In Grant, Barry K. (ed.).

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Briefel, Aviva (Spring 2005). "Monster Pains: Masochism, Menstruation, and Identification in the Horror Film".

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actress Janet Leigh: "I knew casting Jamie Lee would be great publicity for the film because her mother was in

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Telotte, J.P. (1992). "Through a Pumpkin's Eye: The Reflexive Nature of Horror". In Waller, Gregory (ed.).

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Baird, Robert (Spring 2000). "The Startle Effect: Implications for Spectator Cognition and Media Theory".

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The role of "The Shape"—as the masked Michael Myers character was billed in the end credits—was played by

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Historian Nicholas Rogers notes that film critics contend that Carpenter's direction and camera work made

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but Yablans has since debunked this stating that it was always intended to be called (and take place on)

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was released in 2018, as a direct sequel to the original film, disregarding the previous sequels, and

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as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." In 2008, the film was selected by

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as Michael Myers – age 21 (mistakenly 23 in credits) (Michael Myers unmasked at the end of the film)

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America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry

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issues, which some sources attribute to the different writers and directors involved in each film.

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Some feminist critics, according to historian Nicholas Rogers, "have seen the slasher movies since

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is responsible for the new wave of horror that emerged during the 1980s. Due to its popularity,

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were sold to NBC for approximately $ 3 million. After a debate among Carpenter, Hill and NBC's

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On September 7, 2012, the official Halloween Movies Facebook page announced that the original

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released a new 4K Ultra HD Dolby Vision scan of the film, as well as its first four sequels.

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John Carpenter, Debra Hill, Nick Castle, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Tommy Lee Wallace (2003).

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also became common in the slasher films it inspired. Film scholar Pat Gill notes that in

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popularized many tropes that have become completely synonymous with the slasher genre.

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is a terrifying movie—if you are the right age and the right mood." Susan Stark of the

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Gill, Pat (Winter 2002). "The Monstrous Years: Teens, Slasher Films, and the Family".

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Clarke, Frederick S., ed. (August 1998). "John Carpenter Discusses "Halloween: H20"".

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deemed the film a "well-made but empty and morbid thriller", while Bill von Maurer of

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On October 2, 2007, the film was released for the first time on Blu-ray by Anchor Bay/

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dressed up as Frankenstein. Moran had the same agent as his sister, Erin, who played

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as debasing women in as decisive a manner as hard-core pornography." Critics such as

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spawned nine sequels, an unrelated spin-off film and two films in a remake series.

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feature the parents becoming directly responsible for the creation of the killer.

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Carpenter did the score as he was told that the film "wasn't scary" after doing a

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with two characters' names: Tommy Doyle is named after Lt. Det. Thomas J. Doyle (

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is his movie and besides, the script came to him already titled anyway. He liked

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A Cut Above the Rest (Halloween: 25th Anniversary Edition DVD Special Features)

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franchise, acting as executive producer of every sequel until his death in the

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of 8.8/10. The consensus reads: "Scary, suspenseful, and viscerally thrilling,

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Clover, Carol (Autumn 1987). "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film".

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selected the film as one of The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time. In 2017,

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calls the score "relatively simple and unsophisticated", but admits that "

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is considered by many critics as one of the best films of 1978. On the

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Johnson, Kenneth (1993). "The Point of View of the Wandering Camera".

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s premiere, it has been released in several home video formats. Early

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earned $ 25 a day. The role of Dr. Loomis was originally intended for

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the ending of the first film. It was followed by two direct sequels:

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became a blueprint for success that many other horror films, such as

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slasher-film directors used for their own films (for example, 1980's

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s art director Tommy Lee Wallace when filming began. Carpenter chose

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film and the third most successful film in the slasher genre behind

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Musique Fantastique: A Survey of Film Music in the Fantastic Cinema

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Many compared the film with the work of Alfred Hitchcock, although

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as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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felt it was "surprisingly good", noting: "Taken on its own level,

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magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. In 2010,

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holds a 96% approval rating based on 84 critic reviews, with an

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and other slasher films turned women into heroines. In many pre-

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David Kyle Foster as Judith's boyfriend (credited as David Kyle)

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laborious that the result is attenuation rather than tension."

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Roger Ebert, an often vocal critic of slasher films, praised

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Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film

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American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film

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Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

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was written by Carpenter and Hill. It begins exactly where

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6, and the scene we're going to shoot tonight is about a 9

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Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play

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the greatest and most influential horror films ever made

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was ranked the greatest slasher villain of all time by

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the best slasher film of all time. The following year,

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gave the film similar praise in his 1979 review in the

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Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film

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Frost, Benjamin J.; Volk-Weiss, Brian (October 2021).

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Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

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in various European film festivals. Homage is paid to

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The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror

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The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror

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Audio commentary by John Carpenter and Debra Hill in

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made use of seeing events through the killer's eyes.

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town of Haddonfield, the film follows mental patient

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The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film

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You Can't Kill the Boogeyman: 35 Years of Halloween

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(2003). 6052:from the original on June 12, 2018 5714:from the original on July 12, 2019 5604:s 500 Greatest Movies of All Time" 5361:from the original on June 17, 2018 5231:California Institute of Technology 5162:"Those Wild and Crazy Cult Movies" 5094:Cedrone, Lou (November 28, 1978). 5071:"'Halloween': A Trickle of Treats" 5069:Arnold, Gary (November 24, 1978). 4355:Turek, Ryan (September 13, 2012). 4304:from the original on April 6, 2015 4219:Kreps, Daniel (October 13, 2017). 3747:from the original on March 2, 2014 3389:Portner, Dave (February 2, 2015). 3114: 2961:"'Halloween': A cult film is born" 2690: 2560:from the original on March 5, 2016 2381: 2346: 2235:List of films set around Halloween 2155:Halloween III: Season of the Witch 1637: 1440:over censoring of certain scenes, 1432:In 1980, the television rights to 1103:). Kyes had previously starred in 676:According to Gill, the dangers of 391:brutally stabs his teenage sister 387:town of Haddonfield, six-year-old 14: 8326: 7819:Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998 7646:The Resurrection of Broncho Billy 6900: 6376:(2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. 6038:Mendelson, Scott (June 7, 2018). 5747:from the original on July 3, 2019 5733:Byrnes, Chad (October 22, 2018). 5667:Barone, Matt (October 23, 2017). 5543:from the original on June 4, 2015 5533:"Chicago Critics' Scariest Films" 5461:"AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Thrills" 5279:"The Best Movies of 1978 by Rank" 4928:– via Scraps From the Loft. 4701:. August 14, 2003. Archived from 4477:. August 29, 2006. Archived from 4455:. August 29, 2006. Archived from 4254:"The Sleeper That's Here to Stay" 4038:Coney, Brian (October 25, 2018). 3743:. salemnews.com. March 23, 2009. 3463:(DVD (Region 2)). United States: 2969:. 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Netflix. 3140: 2817: 2572: 2322:"Film Releases...Print Results" 2256:Cinema Treasures: Essex Theatre 1950:AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Thrills 1045:, who had recently appeared as 769:After viewing Carpenter's film 583:Peter Griffith as Morgan Strode 556:Mickey Yablans as Richie Castle 8235:Films scored by John Carpenter 8190:American horror thriller films 8185:American films about Halloween 6909:essay by Murray Leeder on the 6794:Schneider, Steven Jay (2004). 6611:. New York: Ballantine Books. 6162: 6071:Hale, Mike (August 28, 2009). 5017:. Miami, Florida. p. 6B. 4286:. November 8, 1978. p. 7. 3544:, event occurs at 18:18—19:30. 3420:, event occurs at 29:28–30:10. 3274:, event occurs at 29:09–30:10. 3121:Fox, Jordan R. (Summer 1980). 2542: 2279: 2264:Treasures:Times Square Theater 2140:Of the subsequent films, only 1884:The 100 Scariest Movie Moments 1766:, citing Allen's appraisal of 329:Compass International Pictures 296:. 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Similarly, the 1869:American Film Institute 1788:Years after its debut, 1438:Standards and Practices 1385:Theatrical distribution 1342:" by classic rock band 1340:(Don't Fear) The Reaper 1066:for Carpenter's score. 1029:included veteran actor 465:Dr. Samuel "Sam" Loomis 443: 374: 272:directed and scored by 8300:Films about psychiatry 8205:American slasher films 8140:1978 independent films 8033:Assault on Precinct 13 7676:Better Late Than Never 7437:Someone's Watching Me! 7417:Assault on Precinct 13 6911:National Film Registry 6756:Rockoff, Adam (2011). 6609:Video Movie Guide 1987 6523:King, Stephen (1981). 6497:Karney, Robin (2000). 6332:Clover, Carol (1993). 6189:Badley, Linda (1995). 5567:National Film Registry 4481:on September 27, 2007. 4332:. September 13, 2012. 4300:. Houseofhorrors.com. 3852:The Hollywood Reporter 2394:British Film Institute 2179:With the exception of 1897:National Film Registry 1877:. 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5600: 5592: 5576: 5572: 5568: 5564: 5558: 5542: 5538: 5534: 5528: 5512: 5508: 5504: 5502: 5494: 5475: 5471: 5470: 5462: 5456: 5449: 5443: 5437:, p. 57. 5436: 5431: 5425:, p. 60. 5424: 5419: 5417: 5400: 5396: 5395: 5390: 5388: 5382: 5376: 5360: 5356: 5352: 5351: 5346: 5340: 5324: 5320: 5316: 5315: 5310: 5304: 5288: 5284: 5280: 5274: 5258: 5254: 5250: 5246: 5240: 5232: 5220: 5216: 5210: 5194: 5190: 5186: 5180: 5178: 5169: 5168: 5163: 5156: 5148: 5141: 5140:Village Voice 5137: 5130: 5122: 5107: 5103: 5102: 5097: 5090: 5082: 5078: 5077: 5072: 5065: 5057: 5053: 5049: 5043: 5035: 5020: 5016: 5015: 5010: 5003: 4995: 4980: 4976: 4972: 4966: 4950: 4946: 4942: 4935: 4927: 4923: 4919: 4918: 4913: 4909: 4908:Kael, Pauline 4903: 4888: 4881: 4865: 4861: 4857: 4850: 4834: 4830: 4829:Saturn Awards 4826: 4820: 4804: 4800: 4799: 4798:Dread Central 4794: 4787: 4771: 4767: 4766: 4761: 4757: 4751: 4735: 4731: 4727: 4720: 4704: 4700: 4696: 4690: 4682: 4678: 4674: 4668: 4652: 4648: 4647: 4642: 4635: 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3762: 3746: 3742: 3738:Will Broaddus 3735: 3719: 3715: 3708: 3692: 3688: 3682: 3675: 3669: 3662: 3657: 3650: 3645: 3638: 3633: 3626: 3621: 3614: 3609: 3602: 3597: 3590: 3585: 3578: 3573: 3565: 3561: 3557: 3550: 3543: 3538: 3530: 3524: 3517: 3512: 3505: 3500: 3484: 3480: 3474: 3466: 3462: 3455: 3453: 3437: 3433: 3426: 3419: 3414: 3412: 3396: 3392: 3385: 3378: 3373: 3367:, p. 14. 3366: 3361: 3345: 3341: 3335: 3329:, p. 17. 3328: 3323: 3317:, p. 28. 3316: 3311: 3305:, p. 53. 3304: 3299: 3297: 3295: 3293: 3285: 3280: 3273: 3268: 3266: 3264: 3247: 3243: 3239: 3232: 3225: 3220: 3204: 3200: 3194: 3192: 3175: 3171: 3165: 3163: 3154: 3150: 3143: 3128: 3124: 3117: 3110: 3105: 3099:, p. 13. 3098: 3093: 3091: 3089: 3081: 3076: 3069: 3064: 3057: 3052: 3036: 3032: 3028: 3022: 3020: 3018: 3016: 3014: 3012: 3010: 3008: 3006: 3004: 3002: 3000: 2998: 2996: 2987: 2972: 2968: 2967: 2962: 2955: 2953: 2946:, p. 61. 2945: 2940: 2933: 2928: 2921: 2916: 2909: 2904: 2888: 2884: 2883: 2878: 2874: 2868: 2866: 2858: 2853: 2851: 2834: 2830: 2826: 2820: 2813: 2808: 2802:, p. 16. 2801: 2796: 2794: 2786: 2781: 2774: 2769: 2762: 2757: 2751:, p. 46. 2750: 2745: 2738: 2733: 2726: 2721: 2719: 2702: 2698: 2694: 2691:Hosney, Jim. 2687: 2680: 2675: 2659: 2655: 2649: 2647: 2640:, p. 22. 2639: 2634: 2632: 2630: 2622: 2617: 2610: 2605: 2589: 2585: 2581: 2575: 2559: 2555: 2551: 2545: 2529: 2525: 2524: 2519: 2513: 2511: 2494: 2490: 2489: 2484: 2478: 2476: 2474: 2465: 2450: 2446: 2445: 2440: 2434: 2432: 2425:, p. 15. 2424: 2419: 2417: 2400: 2396: 2395: 2390: 2384: 2368: 2364: 2363: 2358: 2352: 2350: 2333: 2329: 2328: 2323: 2317: 2315: 2298: 2294: 2293: 2288: 2282: 2278: 2265: 2261: 2257: 2250: 2246: 2236: 2233: 2232: 2226: 2224: 2223: 2218: 2217: 2212: 2208: 2203: 2201: 2197: 2192: 2190: 2186: 2182: 2181:Halloween III 2177: 2175: 2171: 2167: 2166: 2161: 2157: 2156: 2151: 2147: 2143: 2138: 2136: 2131: 2121: 2119: 2115: 2111: 2110: 2104: 2102: 2099:novelization 2098: 2086:Related works 2083: 2081: 2077: 2073: 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1521: 1516: 1512: 1507: 1505: 1501: 1497: 1493: 1486: 1476: 1474: 1470: 1465: 1464:Synapse Films 1461: 1456: 1453: 1452:Michael Myers 1449: 1448: 1443: 1439: 1435: 1425: 1423: 1419: 1414: 1412: 1411: 1406: 1405: 1400: 1396: 1391: 1379: 1374: 1365: 1363: 1359: 1355: 1354: 1347: 1345: 1341: 1335: 1333: 1326: 1319: 1315: 1311: 1307: 1303: 1297: 1290:Musical score 1287: 1267: 1264: 1260: 1256: 1252: 1249: 1244: 1240: 1236: 1232: 1224: 1223: 1218: 1214: 1209: 1205: 1203: 1199: 1189: 1187: 1183: 1179: 1175: 1171: 1170: 1165: 1164: 1159: 1158: 1153: 1152: 1147: 1143: 1138: 1136: 1132: 1131: 1126: 1125: 1120: 1119: 1114: 1110: 1106: 1102: 1098: 1093: 1091: 1087: 1083: 1082: 1077: 1076:June Lockhart 1073: 1072:Anne Lockhart 1067: 1065: 1064: 1058: 1054: 1053: 1048: 1044: 1043:Peter Cushing 1040: 1036: 1032: 1028: 1020: 1016: 1009: 1005: 996: 993: 988: 984: 982: 981: 974: 972: 968: 964: 960: 956: 952: 951: 946: 942: 938: 937: 932: 931:Wendell Corey 928: 924: 917: 911: 905: 903: 897: 895: 891: 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