movie backdrop
Halloween

Halloween

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew
  • Recommendations

Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 24, 1978

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Horror, Thriller

User Score

76%

Original Title

Halloween

Production Companies

Compass International Pictures, Falcon International Productions

Director

John Carpenter

Budget

$325,000

Revenue

$70,260,597

Description

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.

Cast

Crew

Trailer

Recommendations

Reviews

Cat Ellington profile picture

Once upon a time, during a long ago (but certainly not forgotten) era, a horror film's radio ...

Read More
Gimly profile picture

Halloween's a classic movie. No doubt about it. One of the seminal films of the slas...

Read More
Wuchak profile picture

The Boogeyman cometh

A soulless killer, Michael Myers, escapes f...

Read More
GenerationofSwine profile picture

It really doesn't look like Illinois does it? Sorry, just had to say that, it's where I&#...

Read More
CinemaSerf profile picture

I really enjoyed seeing this on the big screen again, 40-odd years after John Carpenter introduce...

Read More
Filipe Manuel Neto profile picture

A competent film, with a killer who doesn't seem that ferocious when we read what'...

Read More