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DVD Features:
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: August 14, 2007
- Originally Released: 1978
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
- Subtitles -
- Additional Release Material:
- Behind the Scenes
- Featurette: HALLOWEEN UNMASKED (2000)
- Trailers:
- Radio Spots
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spots
- Text/Photo Galleries:
- Still Galleries
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Jamie Lee Curtis & Donald Pleasence | |
| Performer: | P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers, Kyle Richards, Arthur Malet, David Kyle & Nick Castle | |
| Directed by | John Carpenter | |
| Edited by | Tommy Lee Wallace & Charles Bornstein | |
| Screenwriting by | John Carpenter & Debra Hill | |
| Composition by | John Carpenter | |
| Produced by | Debra Hill | |
| Director of Photography: | Dean Cundey | |
| Executive Production by | Irwin Yablans |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Was that the bogeyman'"--Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis), after Michael is shot off a balcony
"As a matter of fact...it was."
"As a matter of fact...it was."
- Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence)
Entertainment Reviews:
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89%
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Four decades on, Halloween remains a tenacious - if messy - exercise in atmospheric thrills.
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Flickering Myth
Rating: A --
Halloween is the ensuing American nightmare. It's the national boogeyman.
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Consequence of Sound
...Rarely have the remoter corners of the Panavision frame been used to such good effect, as shifting volumes of darkness and light reveal the ineluctable presence of a sinister something...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 5/5 --
Well worth another look on the big screen.
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Guardian
Rating: 4/4 --
The beginning of the franchise is a masterpiece of horror which every aspiring filmmaker should see. [Full review in Spanish]
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Cinelipsis
...Carpenter has a good feel for timing the thrills and occasionally adds an offbeat, almost perverse sense of humor, which works...
Variety
Carpenter's 1978 slasher classic has inspired a million imitations as well as sequels, but few that demonstrate so clearly that a disreputable genre movie can also be a pure, rigorous work of art.
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The Age (Australia)
Product Description:
Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, HALLOWEEN is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, HALLOWEEN takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his older sister to death. Locked away for many years in a mental hospital Michael escapes one night and returns to his hometown to continue his killing spree. Jamie Lee Curtis, in her first role, plays the resourceful babysitter who is chased by the killer on Halloween night. Produced for very little money and a tight shooting schedule, HALLOWEEN was a stunning success when it was released. Written by John Carpenter and his longtime producer Debra Hill, the film set their careers on fire, with both of them working together many times over the next 25 years. The film also made a star out of Jamie Lee Curtis and turned the slasher movie into a viable, successful genre. HALLOWEEN has been copied, parodied and even turned into a franchise of its own, but the original is still considered the best of the bunch. HALLOWEEN was John Carpenter's first foray into horror, and remains the standard to which all other modern horror films are measured.
Plot Synopsis:
The film which ushered in the modern age of horror stands well above its many sequels and clones because John Carpenter's taut direction makes it truly scary. Jamie Lee Curtis, in her debut role, plays a babysitter who must protect herself from the deadly Michael Myers, a mental institution escapee who killed his sister on Halloween fifteen years earlier. Called "the most successful independent motion picture of all time," HALLOWEEN is also one of most frightening films ever made.
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Horror Classic
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Essential Cinema
Production Notes:
- Theatrical release: October 25, 1978.
- HALLOWEEN was the film debut for actress Jamie Lee Curtis, daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis.
- HALLOWEEN includes a clip of the Howard Hawks-Christian Nyby classic, THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD. Years later, director John Carpenter would remake that film as THE THING.
- Sam Loomis, the character played by Donald Pleasence, is also the name of Janet Leigh's boyfriend in PSYCHO.
- The film was shot in spring, when the leaves were not in color, so fake leaves were used and, to accommodate the meager budget, reused.
- The mask that Michael Myers wears is a William Shatner mask, only sprayed white to make it look more creepy.
The film's score is credited to "The Bowling Green Philharmonic," which was actually John Carpenter and a group of musician friends. Carpenter would go on to compose the music, usually keyboard-based, for most of his other films.
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