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Halloween By Robert Horton
Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small
town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a
Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac
goes after the town's hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter
takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony
of horrors. It's a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous
camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually
minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie's freaky music sets the
tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references
to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is
played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim
Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is
named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin's character in Psycho. In the
end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily
frightening experience--it's one of those movies that had audiences
literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen.
("No! Don't drop that knife!") Produced on a low budget, the
picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which
approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more installments:
1981's dismal Halloween
II, which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate
events, and 1998's occasionally gripping Halloween H20, which
proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years.
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"I was 8 years old when I first went to the movies to see Grease. My friend Ginger and I were crazy about the movie and absolutely thrilled when her grandmother bought her the album soundtrack. My mom and dad bought me a Grease t-shirt which I wore proudly even in my 3rd grade class picture. 24 years later, it is still my favorite movie that I still watch over and over." --Anonymous |
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|  | Director: John Carpenter
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| | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Loomis
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| | Released: October 25, 1978
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