Halloween (1978)
Staged in the early 60's on one cold Halloween evening, a young boy was sentenced to jailed after murdering his older sister, 15 years after he escapes by chance his quiet hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he looks for his next victims.
6 September 1949, Somerset, Kentucky, USA
2 July 1949, Texas, USA
22 November 1958, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 December 1953, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 January 1969, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 April 1969, USA
24 September 1927, Lee-on-Solent, England, UK
7 July 1954, San Antonio, Texas, USA
23 October 1933, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
21 September 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 July 1951
5 October 1919, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
19 December 1949, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
10 May 1937, San Francisco, California, USA
17 August 1947, Rosiclare, Illinois, USA
28 July 1939, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
14 August 1957, Burbank, California, USA
17 July 1950, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
14 October 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
October 01, 2013
Sets the standard for slasher films and horror in general...
August 27, 2007
After a promising opening, Halloween becomes just another maniac-on-the-loose suspenser.
August 27, 2003
Since there is precious little character or plot development to pass the time between stalking sequences, one tends to wish the killer would get on with it.
September 23, 2013
Halloween still remains the greatest horror film of all time.
November 01, 2016
A movie that laid the foundation for slasher films and also created one of the most legendary film history psychopaths, Michael Myers. [Full review in Spanish]
November 02, 2014
Carpenter obviously knows the genre well and he builds a properly terrifying atmosphere through his well-paced direction. It's an effective entry for its intended market.
August 27, 2007
John Carpenter's 1978 tour de force, perhaps the most widely imitated film of the 70s.
January 08, 2016
Why Halloween works is because even in its minute flaws, there's an inherent charm to the basic effectiveness and fundamental workmanship on display & it's hard to say that about many films who have tried to follow in its footsteps ever since.
October 29, 2012
[A] simple but horribly effective low-budget suburban horror ...
October 23, 2004
Halloween is an absolutely merciless thriller, a movie so violent and scary that, yes, I would compare it to Psycho.
October 31, 2012
Still relevant. Still scary. Make a date on Halloween night to witness cinema's scariest Michael Myers (unless you've seen The Love Guru) causing carnage on the big screen.
June 24, 2006
Perhaps not quite so resonant as Psycho to which it pays due homage, but it breathes the same air.
