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slasher
Halloween
1978 · R · 1h 31m
The night he came home!
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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Curator Score
Based on 1 curator rating
Built on fear and atmosphere, light on gore.
Jump scares
Halloween has 13 jump scares. Compare counts
7.3Overall
Fear8.4
Gore3.2
Atmosphere8.1
Intensity7.2
Genres
horror
Tags
Subgenre
slasherserial-killer
Tone
slow-burndread
Setting
suburban
Audience
gateway-horrorfoundational
Seasonal
halloween-watch
Content Warnings
child-endangermentpet-deatheye-trauma
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Details
Budget$300,000
Box office$70M
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Starring
Donald Pleasence as Loomis · Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie · Nancy Kyes as Annie · P. J. Soles as Lynda · Charles Cyphers as Brackett · Kyle Richards as Lindsey · Brian Andrews as Tommy · John Michael Graham as Bob
Production
Compass International Pictures, Falcon International Productions, Miracle Films
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