Saturday, 06 November 2021

Halloween (1978 film)

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. The film was the first installment in what has become the Halloween franchise. The plot is set in the fictional Midwestern town of Haddonfield, Illinois. On Halloween night in 1963, a six-year-old Michael Myers dressed in a clown costume murders his older sister by stabbing her with a kitchen knife. Fifteen years later, Michael Myers, age 21, escapes from a psychiatric hospital, returns home, and stalks 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 $300,000 and grossed $47 million at the box office in the United States, and $70 million worldwide, equivalent to $250 million as of 2014, 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. It was one of the first horror films to introduce the concept of the killer dying and coming back to life again within the same film. 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". The famous mask of Michael Myers was in fact created from a store-bought Captain Kirk mask from Star Trek.

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Throwback Thursday: 2021 brings Halloweekend back from the dead

Daily Bruin 06 Nov 2021

Halloween is back, and based on what past celebrations have looked like, it is safe to say this holiday is here to stay at UCLA. In a 2005 Daily Bruin article, writer Derek Lipkin wrote about the various events that UCLA students could attend to celebrate Halloween ... Off-campus, the Halloween festivities were even more lively.

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Chills and thrills in the darkest corners of freaky music

Irish Independent 06 Nov 2021

Halloween, as heard on The Home Show (Newstalk, Sun 8am), is descended in large part from the Celtic festival of Samhain. Clodagh Doyle, keeper of the Irish Folklife Collection at the National Museum of Ireland, told Sinead Ryan that the Christian festival Halloween (a contraction of “All Hallow’s Eve”) followed on from Samhain.

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TOWIE EXCLUSIVE: 'It's very clever what she's done': Chloe Brockett says Frankie Sims DELETED texts ...

The Daily Mail 06 Nov 2021

They had a heated feud on Halloween after getting caught in a complicated love triangle with Jack Fincham ... 'What happened on Halloween, I feel like you just disappeared?' ... Amber sits down with Chloe to discuss what happened between Chloe and Frankie on Halloween as the pair went head-to-head in a heated feud.

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Cheer Infinity Athletics holds successful Trunk or Treat event despite chilly weather

Moosejaw Today 06 Nov 2021

Despite the chilly, windy day, 12 local businesses and organizations came out to Moose Jaw Alliance Parking lot, decorated their vehicles and prepared for an afternoon of Halloween Celebrations!! ... their Halloween celebrations with costumes on and trick or treating bags in hand!!.

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Stacey Solomon reveals she's ALREADY begun decorating her cottage for Christmas as she shares a ...

The Daily Mail 06 Nov 2021

Stacey has been in a festive mood of late, sharing a picture of herself with her family as they sported Monsters Inc inspired costumes for Halloween last week ... 'Happy Halloween lots of love from me and my little monsters ... 'Joe and Leighton were in charge of Halloween this year and they tried so hard bless em.

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Area credit union holds Halloween Blood Drive

Observer-Reporter 06 Nov 2021

CHROME Federal Credit Union held a Halloween Blood Drive at its branch on Racetrack Road ... CHROME employees dressed in Halloween costumes to make the day more festive and the branch was ...

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Carcar execs close ‘Paseo’ for holding Halloween Party

Sun Star 06 Nov 2021

CARCAR City officials have issued a temporary suspension order against a private establishment in Barangay Poblacion after its operators allowed the holding of a Halloween Party there without following health protocols ... The Halloween event also went beyond 10 o’clock in the evening, ” Apura said, in her order.

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Murder, Mayhem & Madness tour draws crowds

Greenville Daily News 06 Nov 2021

GREENVILLE — Cloudy weather and some misting rain didn’t deter attendees at this year’s annual Murder, Mayhem & Madness tour hosted by Friends of Forest Home Cemetery over the Halloween weekend ... & Madness tour hosted by Friends of Forest Home Cemetery over the Halloween weekend.

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Unannounced Halloween visits by law enforcement to Arkansas sex offenders find 113 violations

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 06 Nov 2021

Corrections officers visited 1,224 homes over two days, resulting in 113 violations, including Halloween decoration violations, failure to display a sign warning children not to trick-or-treat at these homes and other violations, according to a news release.

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Pete and Chasten Buttigieg's Baby Son Is Out of the Hospital

NBCBayArea 06 Nov 2021

In an Instagram post last week, Chasten Buttgieg revealed that he and his 39-year-old husband Pete, the first openly gay member of a presidential Cabinet to be confirmed by the Senate, spent Halloween in the hospital after baby Gus had fallen ill with an unspecified condition.

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He’s made music with Johnny Cash, X and Rob Zombie. Now Jesse Dayton’s telling tales

Press Telegram 06 Nov 2021

At the time of our interview, Dayton was getting ready to catch a flight to Los Angeles from his home in Austin to play a Halloween show with Glenn Danzig ... In Zombie’s 2009 “Halloween II,” Dayton plays Captain Clegg, the leader of a fictional band called Captain ...

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Kearney Hub 06 Nov 2021

I understand why many people love Halloween, but it’s a “yeah, but” for me ... I was not happy while visiting an abandoned farmhouse decorated for Halloween by older members of my Happy Farmerettes 4-H Club in the late 1960s.

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Recycle and reuse Halloween pumpkins

The Paducah Sun 06 Nov 2021

Halloween is over and now it’s time to plan for Thanksgiving. Don’t throw out the Halloween pumpkins, not even the Jack-o-Lanterns and the funny painted ones. Re-use the plain ones by rearranging them and eliminating obvious Halloween ornaments from decorated ones ... Technically, they are a fruit or specialized berry known as a pepo ... Cut back herbs ... Nov ... .

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Shanna Moakler says she's 'super happy' for ex-husband Travis Barker and his fiancée Kourtney Kardashian... ...

The Daily Mail 06 Nov 2021

One of those possible redo moments came around Halloween, when Travis and Kourtney chose the leads from the film True Romance as their costume, despite the film holding a special meaning from Travis and Shanna's relationship ... Shanna, pictured above on her Instagram, couldn't believe her ex had chosen the movie as a Halloween costume.