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Halloween
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 14, 2007
- Originally Released: 1978
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jamie Lee Curtis & Donald Pleasence | |
Performer: | P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers, Kyle Richards, Arthur Malet, David Kyle & Nick Castle | |
Directed by | John Carpenter | |
Edited by | Tommy Lee Wallace & Charles Bornstein | |
Screenwriting by | John Carpenter & Debra Hill | |
Composition by | John Carpenter | |
Produced by | Debra Hill | |
Director of Photography: | Dean Cundey | |
Executive Production by | Irwin Yablans |
Entertainment Reviews:
On the one hand, the script needs work. On the other, the great technical achievements manage to give the story consistency and to repeatedly scare viewers. The end result is one of those attractive American B-movies. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
After a promising opening, Halloween becomes just another maniac-on-the-loose suspenser.
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Variety
Rating: 5/5 --
The quintessential popcorn horror film, a thrill ride with few equals.
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Parade Magazine
Rating: 4/4 --
Not just the gold standard for American horror, but one of the greatest achievements in cinematic history.
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From the Front Row
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Four decades on, Halloween remains a tenacious - if messy - exercise in atmospheric thrills.
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Flickering Myth
...Carpenter has a good feel for timing the thrills and occasionally adds an offbeat, almost perverse sense of humor, which works...
Variety
...A seminal slasher that gets better with age....Terrifying...
Total Film
Product Description:
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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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 121,192
- UPC: 013131542899
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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