Halloween R

The night he came home!
Halloween
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 14, 2007
  • Originally Released: 1978
  • Label: Starz / Anchor Bay

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Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh96%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 302,536
On the one hand, the script needs work. On the other, the great technical achievements manage to give the story consistency and to repeatedly scare viewers. The end result is one of those attractive American B-movies. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review
El Pais (Spain)
Aug 7, 2019
After a promising opening, Halloween becomes just another maniac-on-the-loose suspenser. Full Review
Variety
Aug 27, 2007
Rating: 5/5 -- The quintessential popcorn horror film, a thrill ride with few equals. Full Review
Parade Magazine
Aug 30, 2019
Rating: 4/4 -- Not just the gold standard for American horror, but one of the greatest achievements in cinematic history. Full Review
From the Front Row
Jun 3, 2019
Rating: 3.5/5 -- Four decades on, Halloween remains a tenacious - if messy - exercise in atmospheric thrills. Full Review
Flickering Myth
Oct 21, 2018
...Carpenter has a good feel for timing the thrills and occasionally adds an offbeat, almost perverse sense of humor, which works...
Variety
Oct 25, 1978
...A seminal slasher that gets better with age....Terrifying...
Total Film
Dec 1, 2003

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 121,478
  • UPC: 013131542899
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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