Halloween (1978)
A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood escapes on a mindless rampage while his doctor chases him through the streets.
- Director:John Carpenter
- Genre:Horror / Thriller
- Runtime:91 minutes
Cast
Donald Pleasence: Dr. Sam Loomis
Jamie Lee Curtis: Laurie Strode
Nancy Kyes : Annie Brackett (as Nancy Loomis)
P.J. Soles : Lynda van der Klok
Charles Cyphers : Sheriff Leigh Brackett
Official Site:-
On Halloween night 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers (Will Sandin) murders his seventeen-year-old sister Judith (Sandy Johnson) with a large butcher knife at their home in Haddonfield, Illinois. Almost immediately after, his parents, Peter Thomas Myers and Margaret Myers (Debra Hill) arrive home and find him in a trance-like state. He is then sent to Smith’s Grove Warren County Sanitarium and he is placed under the care of child psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence). Eight years of treatment leads Loomis to believe that Myers is nothing less than pure evil. An additional seven years of trying to keep Myers locked up ends upon his attempted transfer to be prosecuted as an adult. As Loomis and his assistant Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens) go to Smiths Grove to take the 21-year-old Myers (Tony Moran) to court, Myers steals their car, nearly kills Marion and escapes. Loomis then attempts to find Myers at all costs.
In Haddonfield, Myers stalks teenager Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and some of her friends. At various points throughout the day Laurie sees a man in a white mask (Nick Castle) (from her classroom window, behind a bush while she walks home and in the clothesline from her bedroom window). Later in the evening, Laurie meets her friend Annie Brackett (Nancy Kyes) who is babysitting Lindsey Wallace (Kyle Richards) across the street from where Laurie is babysitting Tommy Doyle (Brian Andrews).
After arranging to pick up her boyfriend, Annie sends Lindsey to stay with Laurie at the Doyle house. As she gets into the car, however, Myers pops up from the backseat and strangles her and cuts her throat. Tommy sees Myers carrying Annie’s body into the Wallace house and thinks he is the Boogeyman. Laurie dismisses the boy’s terror and sends Tommy and Lindsey to bed. Lynda Van Der Klok (P.J. Soles), another friend of Laurie’s arrives at the Wallace house with her boyfriend Bob Simms. After the couple has sex, Bob is choked and pinned to a wall by Myers and Lynda is strangled with the phone cord when attempting to call Laurie. Read more
