Sinister2012
Overall8.2
Fear9.5
Atmos9.5
Gore4.0
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psychological
Halloween
1978 · R · 1h 31m
The night HE came home.
The original blueprint for fear — still unmatched after 45 years.
On Halloween night 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers murders his sister. Fifteen years later he escapes from a psychiatric facility and returns to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
horror
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atmospherichalloween-watchpsychologicalslow-burnslasherserial-killercult-classic
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7.3
Overall
Fear8.4
Gore3.2
Atmosphere8.1
LanguageEnglish
RatingR
Running time1h 31m
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Michael Myers is institutionalized at age six after stabbing his teenage sister to death on Halloween. Psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis spends fifteen years trying to understand the boy's absolute evil. On the night before Halloween, Myers escapes and returns to Haddonfield, stalking babysitter Laurie Strode and her friends — while Loomis races to stop him.
