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Irwin Yablans
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Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress and author. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in many horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that covers many genres. Her 1998 book, Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day, made the best-seller list in The New York Times. Curtis has appeared in advertisements for Activia since 2007, and is a blogger for The Huffington Post online newspaper. She is married to actor, screenwriter, and director Christopher Guest.
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Jamie Lloyd
Jamie Lloyd is a fictional character and protagonist in ' (1988), ' (1989), and (1995). Jamie Lee Curtis was asked to return as Laurie Strode for the fourth film, but declined for another film project. She asked that the writers include her death from an automobile accident in the plot. Instead, the fourth film introduced Laurie's daughter. As the daughter of Laurie, she is also the niece of infamous serial killer Michael Myers. She was played by Danielle Harris in Halloween 4 and Halloween 5, and by J. C. Brandy in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.
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John Gavin
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John Michael Graham
John Michael Graham is an actor known for his role in the 1978 classic John Carpenter horror movie Halloween as Bob Simms, the boyfriend of P.J. Soles's character. Graham also appeared as an extra in the film Grease and several commercials in the 1970s, including Dr. Pepper. Graham has worked for Disney since 1989.
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Kyle Richards
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Moustapha Akkad
Moustapha Akkad (; July 1, 1930 – November 11, 2005) was a Syrian American film producer and director, best known for producing the series of Halloween films and directing Mohammad, Messenger of God and Lion of the Desert. He was killed along with his daughter Rima Akkad Monla in 2005 in Amman, Jordan by a suicide bomber.
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Nancy Kyes
Nancy Louise Kyes (born December 19, 1949) is an American film and television actress. In most of her film appearances, she is credited under her stage name Nancy Loomis. She is known for her role as the teenage babysitter, Annie Brackett, in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic slasher film Halloween.
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Nick Castle
Nick Castle (born September 21, 1947) is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for his role as Michael Myers in Halloween. He also co-wrote Escape from New York with his friend, John Carpenter.
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P. J. Soles
P. J. Soles (born July 17, 1950) is an American film and television actress, best known for her roles as Lynda van der Klok in Halloween and Norma Watson in Carrie.
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Pauline Kael
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Samuel Loomis
Dr. Samuel James Loomis is a fictional character in the Halloween film series. He is a protagonist in Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), ' (1988), ' (1989) and (1995). Donald Pleasence plays the character of Dr. Loomis in all five films. Throughout the Halloween franchise, he has become somewhat of an arch nemesis to the series' main character, Michael Myers.
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Tommy Lee Wallace
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Val Lewton
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Wes Craven
Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven (born August 2, 1939) is an American film director and writer, perhaps best known as the creator of many horror films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street and ''Wes Craven's New Nightmare featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character, the Scream films alongside The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, The Serpent and the Rainbow, The People Under the Stairs, Vampire in Brooklyn and Red Eye''.
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William Shatner
William Alan Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, recording artist, and author. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise, in the science fiction television series ' from 1966 to 1969, ' from 1973 to 1974, and in seven of the subsequent Star Trek feature films from 1979 to 1994. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek as well as several co-written novels set in the Star Trek universe. He has also authored a series of science fiction novels called TekWar that were adapted for television.
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Halloween: H20 (1998)
"Halloween: H20 (1998)" Actors
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- Adam Arkin
- Ll Cool J
- Jodi Lyn O'keefe
- Adam Hann-byrd
- Janet Leigh
- Joseph Gordon-levitt
- Nancy Stephens
- Brandon Williams
- Beau Billingslea
- Matt Winston
- Larisa Miller
- Emmalee Thompson
- Josh Hartnett
- Michelle Williams
"Halloween: H20 (1998)" Director
- Siouxsie And The Banshees
- Rent Soundtrack
- Ryan Adams
- Ripper
- Michael Kiske
- Ministry
- Meressin
- Misfits
- Kirsty MacColl
- King Diamond
- Green Apple Quick Step
- Gary Numan
- Stephen Lynch
- Ash
- Aqua
- Alkaline Trio
- AFI
- Sonic Youth
- Helloween
- Siouxie and the Banshees
- Diamond King
- Dave Matthews Band
- Dead Kennedys
karaoke
The night is still
and the frost it bites my face
I wear my silence like a mask
and murmur like a ghost
"Trick or Treat"
"Trick or Treat"
The bitter and the sweet
The carefree days
are distant now
I wear my memories like a shroud
I try to speak but words collapse
Echoing
"Trick or Treat"
"Trick or Treat"
The bitter and the sweet
I wander though your sadness
gazing at you with scorpion eyes
Halloween......Halloween
A sweet reminder
in the ice-blue nursery
of a childish murder
of hidden lustre
and she cries
"Trick or Treat"
"Trick or Treat"
The bitter and the sweet
I wander through your sadness
gazing at you with scorpion eyes
Halloween......Halloween
How did we get here?
How the hell..pan left--close on the steeple of the church. How did I get here, how the hell?
Christmas! Christmas eve, last year. I could a night so frozen be so scalding hot? How can a morning
this mild be so raw? Why are entire years strewn on the cutting room floor of memory as single frames
of one magic night forever flicker in close up on the 3-D Imax of my mind. Thats poetic- thats
pathetic. Why did Mimi knock on Roger's door? and Collins choose that phone booth back where Angel
set up his drums. Why did Maureen's equiptment break down? Why am I the witness and when I capture it
on film does it mean that its the end and I'm alone.
Heart stops beating, all the words worth repeating
She is dancing but not singing, is it maybe that she doesn't know the words?
She's dressed up, but don't worry, she's got friends
Snowflake eating, she is mildly self-defeating
And the secrets that she's keeping they are really only dangerous to her
Ships ain't sinking
We are here to help you sing your songs
We are here to help you sing your songs
Because tomorrow comes and no one calls
She stops grinning when the room it starts spinning
She is losing all her winnings, she's angry but it's just the alcohol
She's all fucked right up, it's okay, man, she's got friends
'Cause we are here to help her sing her songs
We are here to help her sing her songs
Because tomorrow's gonna come
Tomorrow's gonna come, and no one's gonna call
This isn't Christmas, this is Chinatown and those are pretty lights
Just use some more and put 'em on your make-up dolls
A painting on the underneath that never smiles on the scene
Is just like Christmas if it was Halloween
Someone taught her it's okay to be a martyr
Like an educated angel, be a rat, you know in all the things you love,
Well okay
Priceless pictures, she's collected iceless fixtures that is freezing from the people
She's chosen out to help her through it all
Whatever
We are here to help you sing your songs
We are here to help you sing your songs
We are here to help you sing your songs
Because tomorrow's gonna come
Tomorrow's gonna come, and no one's gonna call
[Graves]
[1ST VERSE:]
[vocal: Rob Graves]
Night has fallen, the wind begins to blow... Children at play in the streets, the ones you know... Clouds fill the sky, the leaves are falling down... A cauldron of black spills a spell onto your town...
[1ST CHORUS:]
[backing vocal: J.D.Shadowz]
Tonight is halloween, your heart turns to stone... Theres death on halloween, spells of death will be sown... You'll die on halloween, on the sacrificial mound... Tonight is halloween, where remains will be found...
[2ND VERSE:]
Descending down like you knew they would... Bringing death to your neighborhood... Children dance unsuspectingly... Their blood will spill on this sacred eve...
[REPEAT CHORUS:]
[3RD VERSE:]
Slaughtered lambs on the ground, they bleed... Eating flesh is their only need... You want to wake from this dream of hell... This is no dream, you know damn well...
[REPEAT CHORUS:]
[lead solo: Rob Graves]
[REPEAT CHORUS:]
Halloween
Masquerade, masquerade,
Grab your mask and don't be late
Get out get out well disguised
Heat and fever in the air tonight
Meet the others at the store,
Knock on other people's door
Trick or treat they have to choice,
Little ghost's are makin'lotsa noise
But watch out...beware - listen...take care
[Chorus]
In the streets on Halloween
There's something going on
No way to escape the power unknown
In the streets on Halloween
The spirits will arise
Make your choice, it's hell or paradice
Ah - It's Halloween
Ah - It's Halloween...tonight!
Someone's sitting in a field,
Never giving yield
Sittinh there with gleaminf eyes,
Wating for big pumpkin to arise
Bad luck if you get a stone,
Like the good old Charlie Brown
You think Linus could be right
The kids will sy it's just a stupid lie
But watch out...beware - listen...take care
[Chorus]
Listen now - we are calling you...
And there is magic in the air
[Solo]
[Kai]
Magic in the air... on Halloween
Black is the night full of fright
You'll be missing the day
What will be here very soon
Changing your way
A knock at your door
It is real or is it a dream
On trembling legs you open the door
And you scream...on Halloween
[Solo]
[Kai/Mike/Kai/Mike]
Darkless
Where am I now
Is there anybody out there
What has happened
Am I in heaven
Or is it hell
I can see a light comin'
It's comin' nearer
It's shining
It's shining so bright
It's shining on me
[Solo]
[Kai/Mike/Rhythm change]
[Mike/Kai/Mike/Kai]
I am the one, doom's in my hands
Now make your choice,
redeemed or enslaved
I'll show you passion and glory
He is the snake
I'll hive you power and abudance
He's the corrupter of man
Save me from the evil one
Give me strenght to carry on
I will fight for all mankind's
deliverance and peace of mind
[Harmony Solo]
[both]
But watch out...beware - listen...take care
[Chorus]
Yeah, it's Halloween
Yeah, it's Halloween...tonight
well i live with snakes and lizards
and other things that go bump in the
night cos to me everyday is halloween
i have given up hiding and started to fight
i have started to fight well any time,
any place, anywhere that i go all the
people seem to stop and stare they say
'why are you dressed like it's halloween?
you look so absurd, you look so obscene'
o, why can't i live a life for me?
why should i take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me it's
the same, it's the same in the whole wide world
well i let their teeny minds think that they're
dealing with someone who is over the brink and
i dress this way just to keep them at bay
cos halloween is everyday it's everyday o,
why can't i live a life for me?
why should i take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me it's
the same, it's the same in the whole wide world
o, why can't i live a life for me? why should i
take the abuse that's served? why can't they see
they're just like me i'm not the one that's so
absurd why hide it?
why fight it? hurt feelings best to stop feeling
hurt from denials, reprisals it's the same it's the
same in the whole wide world
Demon's wind drives souls down with vortices
In the night of Halloween devils rule has no boundaries
Waters turn into blood, bread into stone
Hungry beast looks for new sacrifice
Halloween-celebration of the dead
Halloween-celebration of the dead
Terribly fury of the ghosts-this night is assigned for them
Who not found rest and scorned treasures of paradise
Cross goes down into depths of hell
Devils spit with sulphur turns into ashes
Halloween-celebration of the dead
Demon's howl
Helloween-scorn of the cross
Celebration of the dead
Keep Black Mess cursted priests
Sacrifice is offered to honour name of Evil
Lost meaning here christians word
Halloween's night-it's devil's gift for us
Halloween-celebration of the dead
Demon's howl
Helloween-scorn of the cross
Celebration of the dead
Bonfires burning bright
Pumpkin faces in the night
I remember Halloween
Dead cats hanging from poles
Little dead are out in droves
I remember Halloween
Brown leafed vertigo
Where skeletal life is known
I remember Halloween
This day anything goes
Burning bodies hanging from poles
I remember Halloween
Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween
Candy apples and razor blades
Little dead are soon in graves
I remember Halloween
This day anything goes
Burning bodies hanging from poles
I remember
Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween
Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween
(Kirsty MacColl/Mark E.Nevin)
I must have fallen on my feet
A hundred times or more
I heard the wind blow down the street
The knocking at the door
But there was no one there
Though I looked everywhere
So was it all a dream?
Oh Halloween
The spirits of the past
The costumes and the masks
The shipwrecks and the ghosts
From up and down the coast
They've all come back to see
If we were meant to be
We can't escape our dreams
Oh Halloween
You must have followed me back home
And hid behind my back
No one could find me on their own
I'm off the beaten track
Well I was scared before
But I'm afraid no more
And nothing's as it seems
Halloween
The spirits of the past
The costumes and the masks
To me they don't disguise
The presence in your eyes
They turn their heads to see
If we were meant to be
A nightmare or a dream
Oh Halloween
(music: King Diamond & Michael Denner; lyrics: King Diamond)
Oh It's Halloween
Every Night To Me Is Halloween
Like An Ancient Scene
You Know Just What I Mean
Halloween You Are My Pride
Halloween Not Just A Dream
The Moon Is Full, Another Perfect Day Has Began
Like A Demon's Eye, That Devil's Eye
Will We Ever Die
Solo: Mike
Halloween You Are My Pride
Halloween Not Just A Dream
Solo: Andy
Every Night Will Be Another Evil Scene
Like In Horror Dreams I Want
I Command You To Scream
Halloween You Are My Pride
Halloween Not Just A Dream
Halloween...Halloween...
The yellow grass is growin' and creepy old broken trees. No one ever wants to stop by and see us on halloween. Oh take me with you I'm already there watch me dig a hole in my backyard and bury everyone there. Hey I htink I'm going to ask you all to come in and dine with me, hey I think I'm going better find yourself another cuz everybody knows we have to stay. Have you ever been stuck in a movie, have you ever played roll of your life. You know it isn't all that scary whe the movie ends they turn on the lights. Oh take me with you I'm already there Yeah Yeah Yeah
[Instrumental]
Halloween - Stephen Lynch
Thinking of all the cool creatures that I will meet on this night
Ghosts and goblins and witches roaming the streets in moonlight
Bowls of candy and goodies, delicious and waiting in store
The sound of cute little footsteps as they approach my front door
Letting the children inside to drink beers
Razor blades hidden in three musketeers
Screams from the basement of kids begging to be set free
That's what Halloween means to me
Tightening the clamps that are holding their little heads so tight
Putting my lips to their ears as I whisper please don't fight
I promise I'll let you go home if you swear not to tell a soul
Well I'll just untie these I'm kidding now where is my chainsaw? Let's rock and roll
A pinch of your brother a teaspoon of you
With the head of your sister would make a good stew
I'd give you a taste but you're tongue's in the stew; irony
That's what Halloween means to me
Trick-or-treat, smell my feet
Give me something good to eat
Trick-or-treat, smell my feet
Give me someone good to eat
I moved in that very day
The room was small but I liked it anyway
I watched TV while I dreamed through my mind
And the pregnant girl was busy all the ti-ime-ime
September and october passed me by
I decided to go home for a while
I got a lift with an old friend of mine
I wanted her still, she reminded me on the way
So when I got home I went to see mom and dad
They asked was I ok, was I happy enough
And I smiled and I said that I was
A few days later I decided to leave
I couldn't find anyone who could take me
The only thing I could do was take a bus
So at half six I left to catch the late expre-s-s
I boarded the bus with my clean washing over-night bag
I sat beside a girl all dressed in black
We talked and smiled most of the way
'till her jealous boyfriend angrily led her away
Then when I reached the house there was a party on inside
My friend came to the door of my bachelor pad
And welcomed me in from the night
As I walking through the happy house on halloween night
My friends were all there, my heart was glad
And my life felt actually alright
My friends were all there, my heart was glad
And my life felt actually alright
Hello
Remember me
Who's there
I've got your number
Oh no, no
I'm back to haunt you
No, stay away
Ha ha ha ha ha
It's Friday night
So creepy outside
It's is thundering and lightning
There's nobody home
Cause I'm all alone
It's scary and it's frightening
The sound of shoes
A shadow that moves
Something odd is tic tac ticking
Someone's in here
I'm so full of fear
The telephone is ringing
Now I can see you
Oh no, please no
Now I can touch you
Oh god, please go
I am right here now
Oh please, tell me where
Ha ha ha ha
I'm in a nightmare
You better run
I'm back to haunt you down
Halloween, in the death of the night, hear me scream
I'm coming, I'm coming
Halloween, is the fear that I fight, in my dream
Keep running, keep running
Just keep running - oh, keep on running, yeah
Just keep running
Just keep running - oh, keep on running, yeah
Just keep running
Hell broke out
On this Friday night
Zombies passing deadly
My Candyman, from Bountyland
Is coming here to get me
Now I can see you
Oh no, please no
Now I can touch you
Oh god, please go
I am right here now
Oh please tell me where
Ha ha ha ha
I'm in a nightmare
You better run
I'm back to haunt you down
Halloween, in the death of the night, hear me scream
I'm coming, I'm coming
Halloween, is the fear that I fight, in my dream
Keep running, keep running
Just keep running - oh keep on running, yeah
Just keep running
Just keep running - oh keep on running, yeah
Just keep running
It's squeaking and creaking
I move silent in the night, hahahahaha
Could be the boy from next-door
You'll never guess my disguise
Hahahahaha!
Kids and children fight
Pumpkin and candlelight
You might be the fearsome one at Junior High
Tonight!
Halloween, in the death of the night, hear me scream
I'm coming, I'm coming
Halloween, is the fear that I fight, in my dream
Keep running, keep running
Halloween...
Just keep running - oh, keep on running, yeah
Just keep running
Just keep running - oh, keep on running, yeah
Just keep running
Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!
[Originally by The Misfits]
Bonfires burning bright,
Pumpkin faces in the night,
I remember halloween.
Dead cats hanging from poles,
Little dead are out in droves,
I remember halloween brown leaved vertigo,
Where skeletal life is known,
I remember halloween this day anything goes.
Burning bodies hanging from poles
I remember halloween,
Halloween, halloween, halloween, halloween.
Candy apples and razorblades,
Little dead are soon in graves,
I remember halloween this day anything goes,
Burning bodies hanging from poles,
I remember halloween, halloween, halloween,
halloween halloween, halloween, halloween, halloween.
[The Misfits Cover Song]
Bonfires burning bright
Pumpkin faces in the night
I remember halloween
Dead Cats hanging from poles
Little Dead are out in droves
I remember Halloween
Brown Leafed Vertigo
Where skeletal life is known
I remember Halloween
This day anything goes
Burning bodies hanging from poles
I remember Halloween
Halloweeeeen
Halloweeeeen
Halloweeeeen
Halloween!
Candy apples and razor blades
Little dead are soon in graves
I remember Halloween
This day anything goes
Burning bodies hanging from poles
I remember Halloween
[Kim]
There's something shifting in the distance
don't know what it is
day's as dead as nights [?]
except for the feeling that's
crawling up inside of me as you
sing your song as you
swing along and you're
it's your, your song
it's the devil in me
makes me stare at you as you
twist up along you
sing your song and you
slipping up to me and you're
so close i just a
wanna touch you and i
sing your song and you
dont know what's going on but you
wanna me to come along as you
sing your song and you're
fucking with me as you
slither up to me
your lips there
slipping twisting at my
insides and singing on
you're just a
swinging man, it's not your
swinging song and now i
don't know what you want but
you're looking at me and you're
falling to the ground and you're
twisting around fucking with my
my mind and i don't know what
's going onswinging in your song
twisting me on as you
slither up to me and it's gotta be
and i don't know what you wanna do
and you're looking at me with your big dark eyes
and you're rubbing your body
twisting
Masquerade, masquerade,
Grab your mask and don't be late
Get out get out well disguised
Heat and fever in Ihe air tonight
Meet the others at the store,
Knock on other people's door
Trick or treat they have the choice
little ghost's are makin'lotsa noise
But watch out . . beware -
listen . . .take care
In the streets on Halloween
There's something going on
No way to escape the power unknown
In the streets on Halloween
The spirits will arise
Make your choice, it's hell or pardise
Ah - it's Halloween
Ah - it's Halloween..tonight!
Someone's sitting in a field,
Never giving yield
Sltting there with gleaming eyes
Waiting for big punpkin to arise
Bad luck if you get a stone
Like the good oId Charlie Brown
You think Linus could be right
The kids will say it's just a stupid lie
But watch out...beware -
listen...take care
In the streets on Halloween
There's something going on
No way to escape the power unknown
In the streets on Halloween
The spirits will arise
Make your choice, it's hell or pardise
Ah - it's Halloween
Ah - it's Halloween..tonight!
Listen now- we are calling you...
And there's maglc in the air
Magic in the air... on Halloween
Black is the night full of fright
You'II be missing the day
What will be here very soon
Changing your way
A knock at your door
Is it real or is it a dream
On trembling legs you open the door
And you scream. . . . .on Halloween
Darkness
Where am I now
Is there anybody out there
What has happened
Am I in heaven
Or is it hell
I can see a Light comin'
It's comin' nearer
It's shining
It's shining so bright
It's shining on me
I am the one, doom 's in my hands
Now make your choice,
redeemed or enslaved
I'll show you passion ang glory
He Is the snake
I'll give you power and abundance
He's the corrupter of man
Save me from the evil one
Give me strength to carry on
I will fight for all mankind's
deliverance and peace of mind
But watch out...beware -
listen...take care
In the streets on Halloween
There's something going on
No way to escape the power unknown
In the streets on Halloween
The spirits will arise
Make your choice, it's hell or pardise
Ah - it's Halloween
Ah - it's Halloween..tonight!
Yeah, It's Halloween
Yeah, it's Halloween. . .tonight
The night is still
and the frost it bites my face
I wear my silence like a mask
and murmur like a ghost
";Trick or Treat";
";Trick or Treat";
The bitter and the sweet
The carefree days
are distant now
I wear my memories like a shroud
I try to speak but words collapse
Echoing
";Trick or Treat";
";Trick or Treat";
The bitter and the sweet
I wander though your sadness
gazing at you with scorpion eyes
Halloween......Halloween A sweet reminder
in the ice-blue nursery
of a childish murder
of hidden lustre
and she cries
";Trick or Treat";
";Trick or Treat";
The bitter and the sweet
I wander through your sadness
gazing at you with scorpion eyes
Halloween......Halloween
Hey You, you lost your only friend
You can't believe you're broken heart will ever mend
But every mountain has its faces that'd make you want to stop
On this so unwelcome journey from the bottom to the top.
Move along
I believe there's Something Beautiful to see
Move along
I believe there's Something Beautiful
Just waiting for you and me
I know you'll never count the tears you've cried
Though you've asked a million questions
No one could tell you why
A single soul is chosen to be the one put to the test
But there will be some consolation for a heart that never rests
The years will make us older
The winters make us colder
And there's one more thing I've come to know for sure
There's no bitterness that smolders, no chip on any shoulder
That a random act of kindness couldn't cure
Hey You, you lost your only friend
You can't believe you're broken heart will ever mend
But every mountain has its faces that'd make you want to stop
On this so neverending journey from the bottom to the top.
Hey little dreamer's eyes open and staring up at me
Oh little lonely eyes open and radiant
Wait until I come and I will steal you
Wait until I come I'll take your soul
Wait until I come and I will steal you
Wait until I come and I won't go
Darlin' dreamin in the night
Shadows on the windows
Lead oh and everyone go
Well leave me on the night
I will give you lightning
I will not relinquish light
Oh little dreamer eyes open and raving here
Wait until I come and see you little girl
When we come I'll leave with you too
When we come I'll let you come low
Hey we'll leave it all behind
Oh and then the nightmares
I'll fill them in good time
Oh they will seat your mind
When the light hits
And you maybe'll ask me
Why do you run around here
Why do you come inside of me
Why does it rip me out in dream
Why then why then watch this little fuck
Going away
Why this lonely
Why this lonely
Why this lonely love
Why this lonely
Why this lonely
Why this lonely love
Halloween
Carry on
Bury all
Bury all
Bury all
Bury all
Bury all
And in this dream
Tell us are you satisfied with fucking
Don't walk away
Don't walk away
Don't walk away
I'm talking to you
Love is hell
Love is hell
Love is hell
Love this I'll tame you
Love
Love
Love
Love this not me here
Love
Love
Love
Love him up to you
So it's Halloween
And you feel like dancin'
And you feel like shinin'
And you feel like letting loose
Whatcha gonna be
Babe, you better know
And you better plan
Better plan all day
Better plan all week
Better plan all month
Better plan all year
You're dressed up like a clown
Putting on your act
It's the only time all year
You'll ever admit that
I can see your eyes
I can see your brain
Baby, nothing's changed
[repeat]
You're still hiding in a mask
You take your fun seriously
No, don't blow this year's chance
Tomorrow your mold goes back on
After Halloween
You go to work today
You'll go to work tomorrow
Shitfaced tonight
You'll brag about it for months
Remember what I did
Remember what I was
Back on Halloween
But what's in between
Where are your ideas
You sit around and dream
For next Halloween
Why not everyday
Are you so afraid
What will people say
[repeat]
After Halloween
Because your role is planned for you
There's nothing you can do
But stop and think it through
But what will the boss say to you
And what will your girlfriend say to you
And the people out on the street they might glare at you
And whadya know you're pretty self-conscious too
So you run back and stuff yourselves in rigid business costumes
Only at night to score is your leather uniform exhumed
Why don't you take your social regulations
And shove 'em up your ass
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- I Am...
- Wake Up Screaming
- Halloween Night
- The Crush
- Exist
- Candles
- The Seer
- The End and the Beginning
- Nobody's Home
- Rage
- Ways of Man
- Head Against a Wall
- Coming to Life
- Sin
- Go to Hell
- Fire Still Burns
- The Battle
- Fighting Words
- H.F.B.D.T.Y.
- Intro
- Welcome
- Victims of the Night
- No Place
- Rest in Peace
- Candy Caine
- Nightmares
- Angel
- Love 'em and Loose 'em
- Children of the Witches
- Revelations 23:1 (The Dream)
- Halloween Night
- No One Gets Out
- If I Die, You Die
- Crawl to the Altar
- 7 Years
- The Death of Love
- Kings
- Sanity In Danger
- Miss Eerie's Child
- The Thing That Creeps!
- Halloween
- Detroit Rock City
- A.B.F.S.
- I Confess
- Vicious Lies
- Evil Nation
- Agony
- Black Skies
- Conseil des démons
- Le procès
- Waltz
- Arthur contre Morgane
- Iron Mickey
- House With No Door
- Beginning
- Yule
- What's In
- March
- La mort de Morgane
- Le conseil des démons
- Le procès
- Après la bataille
- Le sacre
- Table ronde
- Morgane
- Arthur contre Morgane
- Viviane
- Dragon rouge, dragon blanc
- Dernière bataille
- La mort de Morgane
- Forêt
- Outsider
- What's In?
- Beginning
- Never Die
- Heartbeat
- The Passage
- Jester's Dance
- Halloween
- Jester's Dance (live)
- Outsider (live)
- Busted
- Scared to Death
- Justice for All
- Trick or Treat
- The Wicked Witch
- Don't Metal With Evil
- What a Nice Place
- Haunted
- She's a Teazer
- Tales From the Crypt
- To Fight the Beast
- Mary Bu
- Raportagem
- Gangs de Lisboa
- Bang-Bang
- Ciclo da vida
- S.O.S. Mundo
- Fly Nigga
- No Love
- Krika Kriminals
- O Bom Jogador
- Bitch Nigga
- Varias Vidas
- Dia de um Dread de 16 anos
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Halloween (1978) Trailer
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:33
- Published: 08 Nov 2009
- Updated: 26 Aug 2012
Halloween (1978) Trailer
http://wn.com/Halloween_1978_Trailer
Halloween (1978) Deleted Scenes
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:42
- Published: 23 Oct 2008
- Updated: 27 Aug 2012
aka. Michael Myers Is Way Cooler in 'Halloween's' Deleted Scenes -This never-before-seen footage shows an entirely different direction from the original movie. fatawesome.com
http://wn.com/Halloween_1978_Deleted_Scenes
Halloween (1978) Original Theme Song [HD]
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- Duration: 2:55
- Published: 03 Jul 2011
- Updated: 27 Aug 2012
this is the original theme song for the 1978 film halloween.
http://wn.com/Halloween_1978_Original_Theme_Song_HD_
Halloween 1978
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 91:08
- Published: 28 May 2012
- Updated: 27 Aug 2012
Hallowen,
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Halloween Original Red-Ban Trailer
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:44
- Published: 03 Feb 2009
- Updated: 06 Apr 2012
this is the original halloween red ban trailer so please enjoy!
http://wn.com/Halloween_Original_Red-Ban_Trailer
Laurie's Theme-Halloween 1978
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:51
- Published: 28 Jan 2009
- Updated: 25 Aug 2012
In the film "Psycho"(1960) .... Marion Crane's boyfriend's name is "Sam Loomis." In the Haloween films, Michael Myer's psychiatrist name is Dr. Samuel Loomis (Sam Loomis). It's cool how John Carpenter, Debra Hill & Moustapha Akkad showed their respect & homage to the late Alfred Hitchcock by naming one of the main characters in their film "Haloween" after a character in "Psycho."
http://wn.com/Laurie's_Theme-Halloween_1978
Halloween (1978) - The Closet Scene
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- Duration: 3:21
- Published: 05 Dec 2010
- Updated: 21 Aug 2012
One of the most frightening scenes from the original Halloween, directed by John Carpenter.
http://wn.com/Halloween_1978_The_Closet_Scene
Halloween 1978 Theme
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- Duration: 1:59
- Published: 16 Feb 2011
- Updated: 26 Aug 2012
The Theme Song and Introduction to Halloween 1978
http://wn.com/Halloween_1978_Theme
Halloween theme song
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:29
- Published: 25 May 2008
- Updated: 27 Aug 2012
Michael Myers
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Halloween 1978 Trailer
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:53
- Published: 20 Jun 2009
- Updated: 20 Aug 2012
Fifteen years ago, Michael Myers brutally massacred his sister. Now, after escaping from a mental hospital, he's back to relive his grisly crime again, and again. . . and again.
http://wn.com/Halloween_1978_Trailer
Halloween 1978 Part 1
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- Duration: 10:00
- Published: 10 Jul 2011
- Updated: 27 Aug 2012
first 10 minuets of HALLOWEEN
http://wn.com/Halloween_1978_Part_1
Halloween 1978 Deleted Scenes
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:16
- Published: 27 Oct 2008
- Updated: 25 Aug 2012
fatawesome.com These guys are hilarious! As featured on Cracked.com
http://wn.com/Halloween_1978_Deleted_Scenes
Halloween Haunt 2009 (Halloween 1978 Michael Myers Theme) Part 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:50
- Published: 03 Nov 2009
- Updated: 27 May 2012
Two months of work invested by one crazy dude who likes Halloween a little too much. You probably think I'm insane, but I love Halloween, the holiday, and I love Halloween, the 1978 original. This is my second year taking on a serious Haunt for the Trick-or-Treaters. It was organized, arranged, and built entirely by myself. After a crucial falling out for recording the display hours before the Haunt started, the only thing lying around was a Kodak Zi6 and a good friend up for the job. Unfortunately, this is the only footage he was able to capture, but for having hardly any camera experience and stepping up to the plate last-minute, I was pretty impressed. Traffic was [very] low, some kids didn't bother wearing a costume, not everything went according to plan, sensors were malfunctioning, but the weather was decent, my friends were there, and I let my passion loose for my favorite holiday. I had definitely organized way too much work for a solo project, resulting in a lot of stress, but it all came together, 'bout 90% complete, and it was awesome! A special personal THANK YOU to each of the following: Steph, Mom & Dad, Ben, Josh, Mark, Carin, Matt, Jeff, Jen, Brooke, Rob, Jacen Solo, prop guru JC (James), mask mastermind David @ BoogeymanMasks, LifeSizeDesigns, Travis @ FrightIdeas, Gorey Corey @ MinionsWeb, OpenTrackRacer and all the other crazy Haunters @ HalloweenForum, and of course John Carpenter for revolutionizing horror as we know it, visually and aurally, with an <b>...</b>
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Halloween 1978 Trailer 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:33
- Published: 19 May 2009
- Updated: 19 Aug 2012
HQ Trailer 1
http://wn.com/Halloween_1978_Trailer_1
![11 - The Shape Stalks - Halloween (1978) [Original Soundtrack] (HQ)](http://web.archive.org./web/20120907085328im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZAIxTnk0HtQ/0.jpg "11 - The Shape Stalks - Halloween (1978) [Original Soundtrack] (HQ)")
11 - The Shape Stalks - Halloween (1978) [Original Soundtrack] (HQ)
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- Duration: 3:09
- Published: 25 Sep 2011
- Updated: 26 Aug 2012
Composed by John Carpenter Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Nick Castle, Tony Moran
http://wn.com/11_The_Shape_Stalks_Halloween_1978_Original_Soundtrack_HQ
Halloween 1978 - Michael Myers' Theme Song
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:23
- Published: 27 Sep 2009
- Updated: 27 Aug 2012
***READ THIS*** This is a cover of me doing the Michael Myers' theme song from Halloween 1978. This is my first piano cover and I am hoping to make more. I will try to post as much as possible. If you have requests for me to play something, post the request in the comments below. But please try to tell me your request as early as possible as I need practice in learning the song. Please rate, comment, and if you liked it, subsribe! :P I do not own the Halloween 1978 Micheal Myer's theme song and that this recording is only being made for enternaintment. This was only made for entertainment for viewers and to display/advertise the skills of the performer.
http://wn.com/Halloween_1978_Michael_Myers'_Theme_Song
Halloween 1978 Theme song
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:27
- Published: 01 Nov 2009
- Updated: 11 Aug 2012
Here's the Halloween Theme song from the movie "Halloween" The music is catchy and I hope you enjoy it!! FORM: the 1978 VERSION!
http://wn.com/Halloween_1978_Theme_song
Laurie's Theme aka Halloween 1978
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:07
- Published: 18 Sep 2006
- Updated: 21 Aug 2012
More music...
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HALLOWEEN 1978 The Night He Came Home Neca Diorama Set
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- Duration: 4:52
- Published: 06 Jul 2010
- Updated: 11 Aug 2012
Halloween Diorama Set by Neca Had this for a while and thought it was time to dust it off and get it on video as it is a nice set. Halloween The Night He Came Home. 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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Visiting Film Locations for "Halloween" (1978)
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- Published: 22 May 2012
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I'm so excited to bring you all this video! Here I visit a few filming locations for the classic original "Halloween." Twitter: @HorrorCGuy
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![02 - Laurie's Theme - Halloween (1978) [Original Soundtrack] (HQ)](http://web.archive.org./web/20120907085328im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/X0lyT-XaZPE/0.jpg "02 - Laurie's Theme - Halloween (1978) [Original Soundtrack] (HQ)")
02 - Laurie's Theme - Halloween (1978) [Original Soundtrack] (HQ)
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Composed by John Carpenter Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Nick Castle, Tony Moran
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Halloween (1978) Movie Review
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- Published: 30 Sep 2011
- Updated: 09 Aug 2012
The start of my reviews on the Halloween franchise, from the 1978 classic to the abysmal remakes. Hope you enjoy. Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film directed, produced, and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut and the first installment in the Halloween franchise. The film is set in the fictional midwestern town of Haddonfield, Illinois. On Halloween, six year old Michael Myers murders his older sister by stabbing her with a kitchen knife. Fifteen years later, he escapes from a psychiatric hospital, returns home, and stalks teenager Laurie Strode and her friends. Michael's psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis suspects Michael's intentions, and follows him to Haddonfield to try to prevent him from killing. Halloween was produced on a budget of $325000 and grossed $47 million at the box office in the United States, and $60 million worldwide, equivalent to over $203 million as of 2010, becoming one of the most profitable independent films. Many critics credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Halloween had many imitators and originated several clichés found in low-budget horror films of the 1980s and 1990s. Unlike many of its imitators, Halloween contains little graphic violence and gore. In 2006, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being <b>...</b>
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Best scene from Halloween(1978) - HD (1080p)
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| Halloween | |
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| File:Halloween cover.jpg Theatrical release poster |
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| Directed by | John Carpenter |
| Produced by | Debra Hill John Carpenter Kool Lusby Irwin Yablans Moustapha Akkad |
| Written by | John Carpenter Debra Hill |
| Starring | Donald Pleasence Jamie Lee Curtis P.J. Soles Nancy Loomis |
| Music by | John Carpenter |
| Cinematography | Dean Cundey |
| Editing by | Charles Bornstein Tommy Lee Wallace |
| Distributed by | Compass International Pictures |
| Release date(s) |
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| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $320,000[1] |
| Box office | $70,000,000[2] |
Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film directed, produced, and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut and the first installment in the Halloween franchise. The film is set in the fictional midwestern town of Haddonfield, Illinois. On Halloween 1963, six year old Michael Myers murders his older sister by stabbing her with a kitchen knife. Fifteen years later, he escapes from a psychiatric hospital, returns home, and stalks teenager Laurie Strode and her friends. Michael's psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis suspects Michael's intentions, and follows him to Haddonfield to try to prevent him from killing.
Halloween was produced on a budget of $320,000 and grossed $47 million at the box office in the United States,[1] and $70 million worldwide,[2] equivalent to over $234 million as of 2012, becoming one of the most profitable independent films.[1] Many critics credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Halloween had many imitators and originated several clichés found in low-budget horror films of the 1980s and 1990s. Unlike many of its imitators, Halloween contains little graphic violence and gore.[3][4] In 2006, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[5]
Some critics have suggested that Halloween may encourage sadism and misogyny by identifying audiences with its villain.[6] Other critics have suggested the film is a social critique of the immorality of youth and teenagers in 1970s America, with many of Myers's victims being sexually promiscuous substance abusers,[7] while the lone heroine is depicted as chaste and innocent hence her survival (however, the lone survivor is seen smoking marijuana in one scene). Carpenter dismisses such analyses.[8][9] Several of Halloween's techniques and plot elements, although not founded in this film, have nonetheless become standard slasher movie tropes.
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Plot[link]
The story begins on October 31, 1963, in fictional Haddonfield, Illinois, when Michael Myers (Will Sandin) looks through a window as his older teenaged sister, Judith Myers (Sandy Johnson), and her boyfriend make out in the family living room. The boyfriend pulls away from Judith and asks if they are alone, Judith quickly glances around musing that Michael is no doubt somewhere. The two teenagers decide to go upstairs. When Michael sees the light go off in Judith's bedroom window, he enters the kitchen and removes a butcher knife from a drawer. After the boyfriend goes home, Michael enters Judith's bedroom and then stabs her repeatedly until she falls down dead. He walks downstairs and out the front door with the knife in hand. Once outside, a car pulls up and the occupants are soon revealed to be his parents. His father says, "Michael?" and pulls off the mask to reveal a six-year-old boy, and the camera slowly pans out as both parents stare at him in horror.
Following the murder, Michael is sent to Smith's Grove Sanitarium where he is placed under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis (Donald Pleasence). Michael enters a state of catatonia and remains that way for fifteen years. Loomis arrives at the sanitarium on October 30, 1978 to bring Michael to a court hearing, but Michael escapes, stealing Loomis' car and makes his way back to Haddonfield, killing a tow truck driver for his clothes in the process. Loomis follows him there, attempting to prevent Michael from murdering anyone again.
The following day — Halloween — high school student Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) continually sees Michael, now wearing dark blue coveralls and a white mask at various locations — first at her school, and then on the street. Laurie's friends, Annie Brackett (Nancy Kyes) and Lynda Van Der Klok (P. J. Soles), dismiss Laurie's concerns. Then, later at her house, Laurie sees Michael outside in the yard staring into her room. Laurie is startled but then dismisses it thinking it was a neighbour. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis goes to the local cemetery and is guided by the grounds keeper to the grave plot of Judith Myers. The grounds keeper becomes angry when he discovers a missing headstone and looks down at his papers. He then looks up at Dr. Loomis and tells him that the missing headstone belongs to Judith Myers. Upon hearing that news, Dr. Loomis mutters under his breath, "He came home." Later on, Annie's father, Sheriff Leigh Brackett (Charles Cyphers) is approached by Loomis, and the two quietly look for Michael.
That night, Laurie babysits a boy named Tommy Doyle (Brian Andrews), while Annie babysits a girl named Lindsey Wallace (Kyle Richards) across the street from the Doyle house. Michael methodically stalks Annie and kills Lindsey's dog. When Annie gets a call from her boyfriend Paul to pick him up, she takes Lindsey to the Doyle house. Annie gets in her car to pick up Paul but she is killed by Michael who strangles and stabs her. Meanwhile at the Doyle House, Tommy spots Michael carrying Annie's body back into the house. He thinks it is the bogeyman and tries to tell Laurie, who dismisses his claims. Later, Lynda and her boyfriend Bob enter the house unaware that Michael is inside. Michael impales Bob into the wall with a kitchen knife, then strangles Lynda with a telephone cord as she talks on the phone with Laurie. The disturbing disruption to the phone call concerns Laurie even further.
Feeling unsettled, Laurie enters the Wallace house after the murders. She sees the dead bodies of her friends that Michael had killed and hid. Michael had placed his sister Judith's headstone behind Annie's body. Suddenly, Laurie is attacked by Michael and falls backwards down the staircase. She runs out of the house and tries to get someone to help her only to be ignored. Eventually, she flees back to the Doyle house, but the door is locked, so she has to tell Tommy to open the door quickly as Michael slowly walks toward the house. Luckily, Tommy opens the door in time and lets Laurie inside. Laurie then instructs the children to hide and is then attacked by Michael in the living room. Laurie grabs a knitting needle and stabs Michael in the neck with it.
Laurie makes her way to an upstairs bedroom and locks herself in a closet, but Michael breaks a hole in the door. Laurie attacks by stabbing Michael in the chest with his own knife. Michael collapses and Laurie exits the closet. Meanwhile, outside, Dr. Loomis sees Tommy and Lindsey running away from the house and suspects that Michael could be in the house. Michael gets up and tries to strangle Laurie, but she is saved by Dr. Loomis, who shoots Michael six times. Michael falls from the second-story window onto the lawn below.
However, when Dr. Loomis looks over the balcony, Michael's body is missing. Laurie begins to sob as a clearly worried Loomis looks off into the night. Michael's masked breathing is heard as previous locations of the movie are shown.
Cast[link]
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode
- Donald Pleasence as Dr. Sam Loomis
- Nancy Loomis as Annie Brackett
- P.J. Soles as Lynda Van Der Klok
- Brian Andrews as Tommy Doyle
- Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace
- John Michael Graham as Bob Simms
- Charles Cyphers as Sheriff Leigh Brackett
- Sandy Johnson as Judith Myers
- Tony Moran as 21-year old Michael Myers
- Will Sandin as 6-year old Michael Myers
- Nick Castle as the Shape
Production[link]
After viewing Carpenter's film Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) at the Milan Film Festival, independent film producer Irwin Yablans and financier Moustapha Akkad sought out Carpenter to direct a film for them about a psychotic killer that stalked babysitters.[10] In an interview with Fangoria magazine, Yablans stated, "I was thinking what would make sense in the horror genre, and what I wanted to do was make a picture that had the same impact as The Exorcist."[11] Carpenter and his then-girlfriend Debra Hill began drafting a story originally titled The Babysitter Murders, but, as Carpenter told Entertainment Weekly, Yablans suggested setting the movie on Halloween night and naming it Halloween instead.[12]
Akkad fronted the $320,000 for the film's budget, considered low at the time (Carpenter's previous film, Assault on Precinct 13, had an estimated budget of $100,000).[10][13] Akkad worried over the tight, four-week schedule, low budget, and Carpenter's limited experience as a filmmaker, but told Fangoria, "Two things made me decide. One, Carpenter told me the story verbally and in a suspenseful way, almost frame for frame. Second, he told me he didn't want to take any fees, and that showed he had confidence in the project". Carpenter received $10,000 for directing, writing, and composing the music, retaining rights to 10 percent of the film's profits.[14]
Because of the low budget, wardrobe and props were often crafted from items on hand or that could be purchased inexpensively. Carpenter hired Tommy Lee Wallace as production designer, art director, location scout and co-editor. Wallace created the trademark mask worn by Michael Myers throughout the film from a Captain Kirk mask purchased for $1.98.[10] Carpenter recalled how Wallace "widened the eye holes and spray-painted the flesh a bluish white. In the script it said Michael Myers's mask had 'the pale features of a human face' and it truly was spooky looking. I can only imagine the result if they hadn't painted the mask white. Children would be checking their closet for William Shatner after Tommy got through with it."[12] Hill adds that the "idea was to make him almost humorless, faceless — this sort of pale visage that could resemble a human or not."[15] Many of the actors wore their own clothes, and Curtis' wardrobe was purchased at J. C. Penney for around a hundred dollars.[10]
The limited budget also dictated the filming location and time schedule. Halloween was filmed in 21 days in the spring of 1978 in South Pasadena, California and the cemetery at Sierra Madre, California. An abandoned house owned by a church stood in as the Myers house. Two homes on Orange Grove Avenue (near Sunset Boulevard) in Hollywood were used for the film's climax.[16] The crew had difficulty finding pumpkins in the spring, and artificial fall leaves had to be reused for multiple scenes. Local families dressed their children in Halloween costumes for trick-or-treat scenes.[10]
In August 2006, Fangoria reported that Synapse Films had discovered boxes of negatives containing footage cut from the film. One was labeled "1981" suggesting that it was additional footage for the television version of the film. Synapse owner Don May, Jr. said, "What we've got is pretty much all the unused original camera negative from Carpenter's original Halloween. Luckily, Billy [Kirkus] was able to find this material before it was destroyed. The story on how we got the negative is a long one, but we'll save it for when we're able to showcase the materials in some way. Kirkus should be commended for pretty much saving the Holy Grail of horror films."[17] It was later reported, "We just learned from Sean Clark, long time Halloween genius, that the footage found is just that: footage. There is no sound in any of the reels so far, since none of it was used in the final edit."[18]
Writing[link]
Yablans and Akkad ceded most of the creative control to writers Carpenter and Hill (whom Carpenter wanted as producer), but Yablans did offer several suggestions. According to a Fangoria interview with Hill, "Yablans wanted the script written like a radio show, with 'boos' every 10 minutes."[15] Hill explained that the script took three weeks to write and much of the inspiration behind the plot came from Celtic traditions of Halloween such as the festival of Samhain. Although Samhain is not mentioned in the plot of the first film, Hill asserts that:
| “ | ...the idea was that you couldn't kill evil, and that was how we came about the story. We went back to the old idea of Samhain, that Halloween was the night where all the souls are let out to wreak havoc on the living, and then came up with the story about the most evil kid who ever lived. And when John came up with this fable of a town with a dark secret of someone who once lived there, and now that evil has come back, that's what made Halloween work.[15] | ” |
Hill wrote most of the female characters' dialogue,[8] while Carpenter drafted Loomis' speeches on the evilness of Michael Myers. Many script details were drawn from Carpenter's and Hill's adolescence and early careers. The fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois was derived from Haddonfield, New Jersey, where Hill grew up, and most of the street names were taken from Carpenter's hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Laurie Strode was the name of one of Carpenter's old girlfriends and Michael Myers was the name of an English producer who had previously entered, with Yablans, Assault on Precinct 13 in various European film festivals.[10] In Halloween, Carpenter pays homage to Alfred Hitchcock with two characters' names; Tommy Doyle is named after Lt. Det. Thomas J. Doyle (Wendell Corey) of Rear Window (1954), and Dr. Loomis' name was taken from Sam Loomis (John Gavin) of Psycho, the boyfriend of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh, who is the real-life mother of Jamie Lee Curtis). Sheriff Leigh Brackett shared the name of a film screenwriter.
Casting[link]
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Jamie Lee Curtis, in her feature film debut, plays Laurie Strode, the heroine of the film.
The cast of Halloween included veteran actor Donald Pleasence and then-unknown actress Jamie Lee Curtis. The low budget limited the number of big names that Carpenter could attract, and most of the actors received very little compensation for their roles. Pleasence was paid the highest amount at $20,000, Curtis received $8,000, and Nick Castle earned $25 a day.[10] The role of Dr. Sam Loomis was offered to Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee; both declined the part due to the low pay (though Lee would later tell Carpenter that declining the role was his biggest career mistake).[8] English actor Pleasence — Carpenter's third choice — agreed to star. Pleasence has been called "John Carpenter's big landing." Americans were already acquainted with Pleasence as the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967).[19]
In an interview, Carpenter admits that "Jamie Lee wasn't the first choice for Laurie. I had no idea who she was. She was 19 and in a TV show at the time, but I didn't watch TV." He originally wanted to cast Anne Lockhart, the daughter of June Lockhart from Lassie, as Laurie Strode. However, Lockhart had commitments to several other film and television projects.[12] Hill says of learning that Jamie Lee was the daughter of Psycho actress Janet Leigh, "I knew casting Jamie Lee would be great publicity for the film because her mother was in Psycho."[15] Halloween was Curtis' feature film debut and launched her career as a "scream queen" horror star. Another relatively unknown actress, Nancy Kyes (credited in the film as Nancy Loomis) was cast as Laurie's friend Annie Brackett, daughter of Haddonfield sheriff Leigh Brackett (Charles Cyphers). Kyes had previously starred in Assault on Precinct 13 (as had Cyphers) and happened to be dating Halloween's art director Tommy Lee Wallace when filming began.[20] Carpenter chose P. J. Soles to play Lynda Van Der Klok, another friend of Laurie's, best remembered in the film for dialogue peppered with the word "totally." Soles was an actress known for her supporting role in Carrie (1976) and her minor part in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976). According to one source, "Carpenter realized she had captured the aura of a happy go lucky teenage girl in the 70s."[21]
The role of "The Shape" — as the masked Michael Myers character was billed in the end credits — was played by Nick Castle, who befriended Carpenter while they attended the University of Southern California. After Halloween, Castle became a director, taking the helm of films such as The Last Starfighter (1984), The Boy Who Could Fly (1986), Dennis the Menace (1993) and Major Payne (1995).[22]
Direction[link]
Historian Nicholas Rogers notes that film critics contend that Carpenter's direction and camera work made Halloween a "resounding success".[23] Roger Ebert remarks, "It's easy to create violence on the screen, but it's hard to do it well. Carpenter is uncannily skilled, for example, at the use of foregrounds in his compositions, and everyone who likes thrillers knows that foregrounds are crucial ...."[24]
File:HalloweenTitle.jpg
Opening title of Halloween
The opening title, featuring a jack-o'-lantern placed against a black backdrop, sets the mood for the entire movie. The camera slowly moves toward the jack-o'-lantern's left eye as the main title theme plays. After the camera fully closes in, the jack-o'-lantern's light dims and goes out. Film historian J.P. Telotte says that this scene "clearly announces that [the film's] primary concern will be with the way in which we see ourselves and others and the consequences that often attend our usual manner of perception".[25] During the conception of the plot, Yablans instructed "that the audience shouldn't see anything. It should be what they thought they saw that frightens them".[15] Carpenter seemingly took Yablans' advice literally, filming many of the scenes from Michael Myers's point-of-view that allowed audience participation. Carpenter is not the first director to employ this method or use of a steadicam; for instance, the first scene of Psycho offers a voyeuristic look at lovers in a seedy hotel. Telotte argues, "As a result of this shift in perspective from a disembodied, narrative camera to an actual character's eye ... we are forced into a deeper sense of participation in the ensuing action".[26] Along with the 1974 Canadian horror film Black Christmas, Halloween made use of seeing events through the killer's eyes.
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This scene features Michael (right), who pins Bob (left) to the door and observes his dying motions. Remaining relatively un-graphic, this scene displays the use of lighting to create its atmosphere rather than graphic blood and violence.
The first scene of the young Michael's voyeurism is followed by the murder of Judith Myers seen through the eye holes of Michael's clown costume mask. According to one commentator, Carpenter's "frequent use of the unmounted first-person camera to represent the killer's point of view ... invited [viewers] to adopt the murderer's assaultive gaze and to hear his heavy breathing and plodding footsteps as he stalked his prey".[27] Another technique that Carpenter adapted from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) was suspense with minimal blood and gore. Hill comments, "We didn't want it to be gory. We wanted it to be like a jack-in-the box."[15] Film analysts refer to this as the "false startle" or "the old tap-on-the-shoulder routine" in which the stalkers, murderers, or monsters "lunge into our field of vision or creep up on a person."[28] Carpenter worked with the cast to create the desired effect of terror and suspense. According to Curtis, Carpenter created a "fear meter" because the film was shot out-of-sequence and she was not sure what her character's level of terror should be in certain scenes. "Here's about a 7, here's about a 6, and the scene we're going to shoot tonight is about a 9½", remembered Curtis. She had different facial expressions and scream volumes for each level on the meter.[29]
Carpenter's direction for Nick Castle in his role as Myers was minimal. For example, when Castle asked what Myers' motivation was for a particular scene, Carpenter replied that his motivation was to walk from one set marker to another.[8] The documentary titled Halloween Un-masked, featured in the 22nd anniversary DVD of Halloween, John Carpenter states he also instructed Castle to tilt his head a couple of times as if he was observing the corpse, particularly in the scene when Myers impaled one of his victims against a wall.[8] It was also said that the lighting of that scene (as well as all the scenes shot inside a house) was all inspired from the lighting from the movie Chinatown (1974).
Music[link]
Another major reason for the success of Halloween is the moody musical score, particularly the main theme. Lacking a symphonic soundtrack, the film's score consists of a piano melody played in a 10/8 or "complex 5/4" meter composed and performed by director John Carpenter. Critic James Berardinelli calls the score "relatively simple and unsophisticated", but admits that "Halloween's music is one of its strongest assets".[3] Carpenter stated in an interview, "I can play just about any keyboard, but I can't read or write a note."[12] In the end credits, Carpenter bills himself as the "Bowling Green Philharmonic Orchestra" for performing the film's score, but he did receive assistance from composer Dan Wyman, a music professor at San José State University.[10][30]
Some songs can be heard in the film, one being an untitled song performed by Carpenter and a group of his friends who formed a band called The Coupe DeVilles. The song is heard as Laurie steps into Annie's car on her way to babysit Tommy Doyle.[10] Another song, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by classic rock band Blue Öyster Cult, appears in the film.[31]
The soundtrack was first released in the United States in October 1983, by Varese Sarabande. It was subsequently released on compact disc in 1985, re-released in 1990, and again in 2000.
| Original Tracklist | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Halloween Theme Main Title" | |||||||||
| 2. | "Laurie's Theme" | |||||||||
| 3. | "Shape Escapes" | |||||||||
| 4. | "Myers' House" | |||||||||
| 5. | "Michael Kills Judith" | |||||||||
| 6. | "Loomis And Shape's Car" | |||||||||
| 7. | "The Haunted House" | |||||||||
| 8. | "The Shape Lurks" | |||||||||
| 9. | "Laurie Knows" | |||||||||
| 10. | "Better Check The Kids" | |||||||||
| 11. | "The Shape Stalks" | |||||||||
| 20th Anniversary Edition | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Halloween Theme" | |||||||||
| 2. | "Halloween 1963" | |||||||||
| 3. | "The Evil Is Gone!" | |||||||||
| 4. | "Halloween 1978" | |||||||||
| 5. | "The Boogieman Is Coming" | |||||||||
| 6. | "The Shape" | |||||||||
| 7. | "The Hedge" | |||||||||
| 8. | "He Came Home" | |||||||||
| 9. | "Trick Or Treat" | |||||||||
| 10. | "The Haunted House" | |||||||||
| 11. | "The Devil's Eyes" | |||||||||
| 12. | "The Boogieman Is Outside" | |||||||||
| 13. | "Damn You For Letting Him Go!" | |||||||||
| 14. | "Empty Street" | |||||||||
| 15. | "See Anything You Like?" | |||||||||
| 16. | "Lock the Door" | |||||||||
| 17. | "He's Here?" | |||||||||
| 18. | "Light's Out" | |||||||||
| 19. | "Cut It Out" | |||||||||
| 20. | "Tombstone" | |||||||||
| 21. | "The Shape Stalks Laurie" | |||||||||
| 22. | "Turn Around" | |||||||||
| 23. | "Lock The Door" | |||||||||
| 24. | "The Hanger" | |||||||||
| 25. | "Call The Police" | |||||||||
| 26. | "Last Assault" | |||||||||
| 27. | "Was That The Boogieman?" | |||||||||
| 28. | "End Credits/Halloween Theme (Reprise)" | |||||||||
Release[link]
File:Halloween-Ad-Village-Voice-1978.jpg
Ad, The Village Voice, Nov. 6, 1978: only known, published window for date of film's New York City premiere ("Held over...2nd week")[32]
Theatrical run[link]
Halloween premiered on October 25, 1978 in Kansas City, Missouri (at the AMC Midland/Empire) and sometime afterward in Chicago, Illinois, and in New York City.[32][33] It opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on November 22, 1978.[34]
The film grossed $47 million in the United States[1] and an additional $23 million internationally, making the theatrical total $70 million.[2] While most of the film's success came from American movie-goers, Halloween premiered in several international locations after 1979 with moderate results. The film was shown mostly in the European countries of France, the United Kingdom, West Germany, Italy, Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Yugoslavia, and Iceland. Admissions in West Germany totaled around 750,000 and 118,606 in Sweden, earning SEK 2,298,579 there. The film was also shown at theaters in Canada, Australia, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Peru, the Philippines, Argentina and Chile. Halloween grossed A$900,000 in Australia, which was a large and impressive amount of money for a film to gross at the box office in Australia at the time, and HKD 450,139 in Hong Kong.[13]
Television rights[link]
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In 1980, the television rights to Halloween were sold to NBC for $4 million. After a debate among Carpenter, Hill and NBC's Standards & Practices over censoring of certain scenes, Halloween appeared on television for the first time in October 1981.[15] To fill the two-hour time slot, Carpenter filmed twelve minutes of additional material during the production of Halloween II. The newly filmed scenes include Dr. Loomis at a hospital board review of Michael Myers and Dr. Loomis talking to a then 6-year-old Michael at Smith's Grove, telling him, "You've fooled them, haven't you Michael? But not me." Another extra scene features Dr. Loomis at Smith's Grove examining Michael's abandoned cell after his escape and seeing the word "Sister" scratched into the door. Finally, a scene was added in which Lynda comes over to Laurie's house to borrow a silk blouse before Laurie leaves to babysit, just as Annie telephones asking to borrow the same blouse. The new scene had Laurie's hair hidden by a towel, since Curtis was by then wearing a much shorter hairstyle than she had worn in 1978.
Home video release[link]
Since Halloween's premiere, it has been released on VHS, laserdisc, DVD, UMD and Blu-ray HD format. In its first year of release on VHS, the film earned $18.5 million in the United States from rentals.[13] Early VHS versions were released by Media Home Entertainment and Blockbuster Video issued a commemorative edition in 1995. Anchor Bay Entertainment (succeder in-interest to Media Home Entertainment and Video Treasures) has released several restored editions of Halloween on VHS and DVD, with the most recent being the 2007 single-disc restored version, with improved picture and sound quality.[35]
In 2007, the movie was released on Blu-ray as well, marking the film's first ever Blu-ray release. The Blu-ray features a commentary track by Carpenter, Hill and Curtis and the documentary Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest.[33]
Reception[link]
Critical reception[link]
Critical response to the film was mostly positive. Although Halloween performed well with little advertising — relying mostly on word-of-mouth — many critics seemed uninterested or dismissive of the film. Pauline Kael wrote a scathing review in The New Yorker suggesting that "Carpenter doesn't seem to have had any life outside the movies: one can trace almost every idea on the screen to directors such as Hitchcock and Brian De Palma and to the Val Lewton productions" and claiming that "Maybe when a horror film is stripped of everything but dumb scariness — when it isn't ashamed to revive the stalest device of the genre (the escaped lunatic) — it satisfies part of the audience in a more basic, childish way than sophisticated horror pictures do."[36] The first glowing review by a prominent film critic came from Tom Allen of The Village Voice in November 1978, Allen noted that the film was sociologically irrelevant but applauded Carpenter's camera work as "duplicitous hype" and "the most honest way to make a good schlock film". Allen pointed out the stylistic similarities to Psycho and George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968).[32][37] The following month, Voice lead critic Andrew Sarris wrote a follow-up feature on cult films, citing Allen's appraisal of Halloween and saying in the lead sentence that the film "bids fair to become the cult discovery of 1978. Audiences have been heard screaming at its horrifying climaxes".[38] Renowned American critic Roger Ebert gave the film similar praise in his 1979 review in the Chicago Sun-Times, and selected it as one of his top ten films of 1978.[39] Once-dismissive critics were impressed by Carpenter's choice of camera angles and simple music, and surprised by the lack of blood, gore, and graphic violence.[3] Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reports 93% of critics gave the film positive write-ups based on 42 reviews, with a rating of 8.4 out of 10.[40]
Many compared the film with the work of Alfred Hitchcock, although TV Guide calls comparisons made to Psycho "silly and groundless"[41] and critics in the late 1980s and early 1990s blame the film for spawning the slasher sub genre, which they felt had rapidly descended into sadism and misogyny.[42] Almost a decade after its premiere, Mick Martin and Marsha Porter critiqued the first-person camera shots that earlier film reviewers had praised and later slasher-film directors utilized for their own films (for example, Friday the 13th (1980)). Claiming it encouraged audience identification with the killer, Martin and Porter pointed to the way "the camera moves in on the screaming, pleading, victim, 'looks down' at the knife, and then plunges it into chest, ear, or eyeball. Now that's sick."[6]
More than 30 years after its debut, Halloween enjoys a reputation as a classic[40] and is considered by many as one of the best films of 1978.[39][43][44][45][46][47]
Themes and analysis[link]
Many criticisms of Halloween and other slasher films come from postmodern academia. Some feminist critics, according to historian Nicholas Rogers, "have seen the slasher movies since Halloween as debasing women in as decisive a manner as hard-core pornography."[42] Critics such as John Kenneth Muir point out that female characters such as Laurie Strode survive not because of "any good planning" or their own resourcefulness, but sheer luck. Although she manages to repel the killer several times, in the end, Strode is rescued in Halloween and Halloween II only when Dr. Loomis arrives to shoot Myers.[48]
On the other hand, other feminist scholars such as Carol J. Clover argue that despite the violence against women, slasher films turned women into heroines. In many pre-Halloween horror films, women are depicted as helpless victims and are not safe until they are rescued by a strong masculine hero. Despite the fact that Loomis saves Strode, Clover asserts that Halloween initiates the role of the "final girl" who ultimately triumphs in the end. Strode herself fought back against Myers and severely wounds him. Had Myers been a normal man, Strode's attacks would have killed him; even Loomis, the male hero of the story, who shoots Michael repeatedly at near point blank range with a large caliber handgun, cannot kill him.[49]
Aviva Briefel argued that moments such as when Michael loses his mask are meant to give pleasure to the male viewer. Briefel further argues that these moments are masochistic in nature and give pleasure to men because they are willingly submitting themselves to the women of the film; they submit themselves temporarily because it will make their return to authority even more powerful.[50] Critics, such as Pat Gill, see Halloween as a critique of American social values. She remarks that parental figures are almost entirely absent throughout the film, noting that when Laurie is attacked by Michael while babysitting, “No parents, either of the teenagers or of the children left in their charge, call to check on their children or arrive to keen over them.”[51]
Another major theme found in the film is the dangers of pre-marital sex. Clover believes that killers in slasher films are fuelled by a “psychosexual fury”[52] and that all the killings are sexual in nature. She reinforces this idea by saying that “guns have no place in slasher films...” and when examining the film I Spit on Your Grave she notes that “a hands-on killing answers a hands-on rape in a way that a shooting, even a shooting preceded by a humiliation, does not.”[53] Equating sex with violence is important in Halloween and the slasher genre. Generally. Pat Gill makes notes of this in her essay “The Monstrous Years: Teens, Slasher Films, and the Famly” when she remarks that Laurie’s friends “think of their babysitting jobs as opportunities to share drinks and beds with their boyfriends. One by one they are killed... by Michael Myers an asylum escapee who years ago at the age of six murdered his sister for preferring sex to taking care of him.”[51]
The danger of suburbia is another major theme that runs throughout the movie and the slasher genre itself, Pat Gill remarks that slasher films “seem to mock white flight to gated communities, in particular the attempts of parents to shield their children from the dangerous influences represented by the city...”[54] Halloween and slasher films, generally, are supposed to represent the underside of suburbia. Michael Myers was raised in a suburban household and after he escapes the mental hospital he returns to his hometown to kill again; Myers is a product of the suburban environment.[54]
Carpenter himself dismisses the notion that Halloween is a morality play, regarding it as merely a horror movie. According to Carpenter, critics "completely missed the point there." He explains, "The one girl who is the most sexually uptight just keeps stabbing this guy with a long knife. She's the most sexually frustrated. She's the one that's killed him. Not because she's a virgin but because all that sexually repressed energy starts coming out. She uses all those phallic symbols on the guy."[8][9]
The usage of Michael Myers' white mask also poses analytical thought on several levels. For one, the mask (actually a debased William Shatner mask) is used as a concealing agent for Michael that helps keep his identity and mystery alive and fearful to others. Furthermore, the white blank austerity of the mask helps personify Michael as an emotionless, sociopathic killer who is incapable of feeling remorse for his actions, and therefore, does not exhibit such on his face. In a way, the lifelessness of the mask (it being a mere object that is devoid of human qualities) mirrors Michael's personality, in that, he too is blank, emotionless and ultimately cold to life or death. Also, the white mask characterizes Michael as a universal character, with anyone's face being transplantable onto it. The mask is merely an open canvas that Carpenter uses to invite viewers to paint their own killer on to make Michael's character more personal, and scarier, to each viewer.
Awards[link]
Halloween was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Horror Film by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films in 1979, but lost to The Wicker Man (1973).[55] In 2001, Halloween ranked #68 on the American Film Institute TV program 100 Years...100 Thrills.[56] The film was #14 on Bravo's The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004).[57] Similarly, the Chicago Film Critics Association named it the 3rd scariest film ever made.[58] In 2006, Halloween was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[59] In 2007, the AOL 31 Days of Horror countdown named Halloween the greatest horror movie.[60] In 2008, the film was selected by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.[61] In 2010, Total Film selected the film as one of The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time.[62]
American Film Institute Lists
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills – #68
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains:
- Michael Myers – Nominated Villain
- AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) – Nominated
Influence[link]
Carpenter’s Halloween is a widely influential film within the horror genre; it was largely responsible for the popularization of slasher films in the 1980s. Halloween popularized many tropes that have become completely synonymous with the slasher genre. Halloween helped to popularize the final girl trope, killing off characters who are substance abusers or sexually promiscuous, as well as the use of a theme song for the killer. Carpenter also shot many scenes from the perspective of the killer in order to build tension. These elements have become so established that many historians argue that Halloween is responsible for the new wave of horror that emerged during the 1980s.[63][64] Due to its popularity, Halloween became a blueprint for success that many other horror films, such as Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street, would follow.
The major themes present in Halloween would also become common in the slasher films it inspired. Film scholar Pat Gill notes that in Halloween, there is a theme of absentee parents[51] but films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th feature the parents becoming directly responsible for the creation of the killer.[65]
There are slasher films that predated Halloween, such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Black Christmas which contained prominent elements of the slasher genre; both involving a group of teenagers being murdered by a stranger as well having the final girl trope. Halloween, however, is seen by historians as being responsible for the new wave of horror films because it not only used these tropes but also pioneered many others.[63][64]
The 1981 horror movie spoof Student Bodies parodied these plot devices; characters are slain when about to engage in sex. Director Wes Craven's Scream (1996) details the "rules" for surviving a horror movie, even using Halloween as the primary example: no sex, no alcohol or illicit drugs, and never say "I'll be right back".
Adaptations[link]
A mass market paperback novelization by Curtis Richards, titled Halloween, was published by Bantam Books in 1979. It was reissued in 1982; it later went out of print. The novel elaborates on aspects not featured in the film such as the origins of the curse of Samhain and Michael Myers's life in Smith's Grove Sanitarium. For example, the opening reads:
The horror started on the eve of Samhain, in a foggy vale in northern Ireland, at the dawn of the Celtic race. And once started, it trod the earth forevermore, wreaking its savagery suddenly, swiftly, and with incredible ferocity.[66]
In 1983, Halloween was adapted as a video game for the Atari 2600 by Wizard Video. None of the main characters in the game were named. Players take on the role of a teenage babysitter who tries to save as many children from an unnamed, knife-wielding killer as possible. The game was not popular with parents or players and the graphics were simple, as was typical in Atari 2600 games. In another effort to save money, most versions of the game did not even have a label on the cartridge. It was simply a piece of tape with "Halloween" written in marker. The game contained more gore than the film, however. When the babysitter is killed, her head disappears and is replaced by blood pulsating from the neck. The game's primary similarity to the film is the theme music that plays when the killer appears onscreen.[67][68]
Sequels and remake[link]
Main article: Halloween (franchise)
Halloween spawned seven sequels, a 2007 remake of the same name and directed by Rob Zombie — and a 2009 sequel to the remake, Halloween II, which is unrelated to the sequel of the original.[69] Of these films, only Halloween II (1981) was written by Carpenter and Hill. Halloween II begins exactly where Halloween ends and was intended to finish the story of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. Halloween II was hugely successful, becoming the highest grossing horror film of 1981. Carpenter did not direct any of the subsequent films in the Halloween series, although he did produce Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), the plot of which is unrelated to the other films in the series.[70] He also composed the music for the second and third films, along with Alan Howarth.
The sequels feature more explicit violence and gore, and are generally dismissed by mainstream film critics. They were filmed on larger budgets than the original: In contrast to Halloween's modest budget of $320,000, Halloween II's budget was around $2.5 million,[71] while the final sequel to the original, Halloween: Resurrection (2002), boasted a budget of $15 million.[72] Financier Moustapha Akkad continued to work closely with the Halloween franchise, acting as executive producer of every sequel until his death in the 2005 Amman bombings.[73]
With the exception of Halloween III, the sequels further develop the character of Michael Myers and the Samhain theme. Even without considering the third film, the Halloween series contains continuity issues, which some sources attribute to the different writers and directors involved in each film.[74] The 10 Halloween films, including the 2007 remake and its sequel, have had eight directors. Only Rick Rosenthal and Rob Zombie directed more than one Halloween film: Rosenthal directed Halloween II and Halloween: Resurrection, while Zombie directed the remake and its sequel.
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- Halloween at Box Office Mojo
- Halloween at FEARnet
- Filming locations and photos by director David Winning
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Halloween 1978 - Michael Myers' Theme Song
PianoCovers1
Halloween 1978 - Michael Myers' Theme Song
***READ THIS*** This is a cover of me doing the Michael Myers' theme song from Halloween 1978. This is my first piano cover and I am hoping to make more. I will try to post as much as possible. If you have requests for me to play something, post the request in the comments below. But please try to tell me your request as early as possible as I need practice in learning the song. Please rate, comment, and if you liked it, subsribe! :P I do not own the Halloween 1978 Micheal Myer's theme song and that this recording is only being made for enternaintment. This was only made for entertainment for viewers and to display/advertise the skills of the performer.
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HALLOWEEN 1978 The Night He Came Home Neca Diorama Set
DJNAMIX
HALLOWEEN 1978 The Night He Came Home Neca Diorama Set
Halloween Diorama Set by Neca Had this for a while and thought it was time to dust it off and get it on video as it is a nice set. Halloween The Night He Came Home. 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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