Halloween (1978)

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Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher 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 inexplicably murders his sister and is committed. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns home to kill again, all the while eluding his psychiatrist, Dr. Sam Loomis, who suspects Michael’s intentions, following him back to Haddonfield.

On Halloween night of 1963, in Haddonfield, Illinois, six-year-old Michael Myers, dressed in a clown costume and mask, kills his older sister Judith with a kitchen knife in his house. On October 30, 1978, a 21-year-old Michael escapes Smith’s Grove Sanitarium in a car that was to take him to a court hearing, where he was to be sentenced to life imprisonment.

While escaping, Michael (Nick Castle) kills a mechanic and takes his uniform. He drives home to Haddonfield and steals a white mask from a local store. The next day, Halloween, he stalks high school student Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) after she and Tommy Doyle (Brian Andrews) drop off a key at Michael’s former house so her father can sell it. Laurie’s friends Annie Brackett (Nancy Loomis) and Lynda van der Klok (P. J. Soles) dismiss her concerns that she is being followed. Michael’s psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence), anticipating Michael’s return home, meets with Annie’s father Sheriff Leigh Brackett (Charles Cyphers) and watches Michael’s house, believing he will show up there….

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