Halloween Film • 1978 • Horror, Thriller Watch trailer 67% 77% 75.2% 84% 89%Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.Where to watch Streaming information by Cast & CrewJohn CarpenterDirector & ScreenplayDebra HillScreenplayDonald PleasenceLoomisJamie Lee CurtisLaurieNancy KyesAnnieP. J. SolesLyndaCharles CyphersBrackettKyle RichardsLindseyBrian AndrewsTommyJohn Michael GrahamBobNancy StephensMarionArthur MaletGraveyard KeeperSee all cast & crew on IMDbDetailsStatusReleasedReleaseOctober 24, 1978OriginsUnited States of AmericaGenresHorrorThrillerTagsbabysitterescaped killerevilfamilyhalloweenkilling spreemaniacmarijuanamaskpolicepsychoticserial killerstalkingExternal linksLinks AllMovie American Film Institute Apple TV Britannica Comic Vine FilmAffinity Google Knowledge Graph Horror Archive IMDb Letterboxd MUBI Metacritic Movie Review Query Engine Netflix Official site Plex Rotten Tomatoes TCM TMDB The Numbers Trakt Wikidata Wikipedia iTunes Reviews Halloween: A complete guide to horror’s quirkiest, most erratic franchise Aja Romano • vox.com Top five films: best of the big screen Jake Wilson • theage.com.au ‘Halloween’: THR’s 1978 Review Ron Pennington • hollywoodreporter.com Film Chronicle Staff • austinchronicle.com Halloween Empire • empireonline.com Everyone’s entitled to one good scare: Halloween reviewed in 1979 BFI • bfi.org.uk
