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Halloween (1978)
 Country
of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1978
Running Times: 91m
Length:
Format: 35mm/Panavision (anamorphic)
Colour Format: Metrocolor
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono/Dolby (re-release)
DIRECTION
Directed by: John Carpenter
CREW
PRODUCTION
Copyright: © MCMLXXVIII by Falcon International Production
Presenter Moustapha Akkad
Executive Producer: Irwin Yablans
Produced by: Debra Hill, John Carpenter
(uncredited)
Associate Producer: Kool Lusby
Production Manager: Don Behrns
SCRIPT
Screenplay by: John Carpenter
and Debra Hill
DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Rick Wallace
2nd Assistant Director: Jack De Wolf
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Dean Cundey
Camera Operator: Ray Stella
Panaglide: Ray Stella
Assistant Cameraman: Fred Victar
2nd Assistant Cameraman: Krishna Rao
Gaffer: Mark Walthour
Best Boy: Josh Miller
Key Grip: Dylan Shephard
Best Boy: Josh Miller
Grip: Walt Hill
Stills: Kim Gottlieb
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editors: Charles Bornstein, Tommy Wallace
MUSIC
Music by: John Halloween
Music Performed by: The Bowling Green Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestrations: Dan Wyman
Music Coordinator: Bob Walters
Music Recording: Sound Arts
Music Recordist and Mixer: Peter Bergren
MUSIC AND ADDITIONAL MUSIC
"Don't Fear the Reaper"
Blue Oyster Cult
courtesy CBS Records
SOUND
Sound Mixer: Tommy Causey
Boom Operator: Joe Brennan
Supervising Sound Editor: William Stevenson
Re-Recording: Samuel Goldwyn Studios
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Makeup: Erica Ulland
Wardrobe: Beth Rodgers
VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles and Opticals: MGM
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Tommy Wallace
Assistant Art Director: Randy Moore
Set Decorator / Property Master: Craig Stearns
Set Painter: Richard Girod
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Louise Jaffe
Production Assistants: Barry Bernardi, Paul Fox
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
"The Thing" courtesy RKO General; "Forbidden Planet"
courtesy MGM
LOCATIONS
Locations: North Hollywood, California, USA; Pasadena, California, USA;
Rosemead, California, USA; South Pasadena High School, South Pasadena,
California, USA; South Pasadena, California, USA
STUNTS
Stunts: Jim Windburn
CAST
Donald Pleasence (Dr Sam Loomis)
Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode)
Nancy Loomis (real name: Nancy Kyes) (Annie Brackett)
P.J. Soles (Lynda)
Charles Cyphers (Sheriff Leigh Brackett)
Kyle Richards (Lindsey Wallace)
Brian Andrews (Tommy Doyle)
John Michael Graham (Bob)
Nancy Stephens (Marion Chambers)
Arthur Malet (graveyard keeper)
Mickey Yablans (Richie)
Brent Le Page (Lonnie Elamb)
Adam Hollander (Keith)
Robert Phalen (Dr Wynn)
Tony Moran (Michael Myers aged 21)
Will Sandin (Michael aged 6)
Sandy Johnson (Judith Myers)
David Kyle (Judith's boyfriend)
Peter Griffith (Laurie's father)
Nick Castle (The Shape)
UNCREDITED CAST
John Carpenter
(voice of boyfriend on phone)
George O'Hanlon
PLOT SUMMARY
As a young boy, Michael Myers stabs his older sister to death. Years
later, he escapes from his psychiatric hospital and, pursued by a doctor,
makes his way back to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois. On Halloween
night, he start picking off babysitters until only Laurie Strode is
left to face the apparently unstoppable killer.
CAPSULE REVIEW
The classic slasher movie and an almost perfect example of just how
to make a horror movie. Everything about the film works and, if it sometimes
seems a little mechanical and contrived, none of that matters one jot
while you're being terrified by it. It made Carpenter a horror superstar
and created a whole new genre of horror movies heavily indebted to the
Italian gialli of the 70s. (Full
Review)
AVAILABILITY
Finland
Theatrical Distributor: Future Film
Netherlands
Theatrical Distributor: Indies Film Distribution
UK
Laserdisc Distributor: Odyssey (ODL101)
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Compass International Pictures
Video Distributors: Anchor Bay Entertainment; Media Home Entertainment
DVD Distributor: Anchor Bay (DV10324); (DV10896); (DV10929)
Laserdisc Distributors: Criterion (CC1462L); (CC1399L); Image Entertainment
(I5033)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Argentina
Rating: 18
Australia
Rating: R
Finland
Rating: K-18
France
Rating: -16; -12 (1999 re-release)
Netherlands
Rating: 16
Norway
Rating: 18; 15 (1999 re-release)
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: 18
USA
Rating: R (MPAA no.25373)
West Germany
Rating: 16
AWARDS
1979
Academy of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Films, USA
Saturn Award: Best Horror Film - winner
TIMELINE
1978
March
Day Unknown: USA - filming begins
October
25: USA - theatrical release
March
14: France - theatrical release
July
13: Finland - theatrical release
August
6: Sweden - theatrical release
1980
January
22: Norway - theatrical release
1994
October
26: USA - laserdisc release (Criterion (CC1399L))
1995
February
21: UK - planned television broadcast on BBC1 is cancelled (see Production
Notes for details)
1996
September
7: UK - laserdisc release (Odyssey (ODL101))
11: USA - laserdisc release (Criterion (CC1462L))
1997
December
10: USA - DVD release (Anchor Bay (DV10324))
1999
September
14: USA - DVD release (Anchor Bay (DV10929))
28: USA - DVD release (Anchor Bay (DV10896))
October
27: France - theatrical re-release
2000
May
3: Netherlands - theatrical re-release
2001
October
29: UK - television broadcast (on BBC One)
December
31: UK - television broadcast (on BBC Choice)
2002
December
24: UK - television broadcast (on BBC Choice)
2003
May
20: UK - television broadcast (on FilmFour)
June
22: UK - television broadcast (on FilmFour)
November
1: UK - television broadcast (on BBC 3)
2004
December
20: UK - television broadcast (on BBC One)
2005
February
1: UK - shown at the National Film Theatre, London (in NFT3)
3: UK - shown at the National Film Theatre, London (in NFT2)
5: UK - shown at the National Film Theatre, London (in NFT3)
8: UK - shown at the National Film Theatre, London (in NFT3)
October
31: UK - television broadcast (on Sci-Fi)
November
1: UK - television broadcast (on Sci-Fi)
December
26: UK - television broadcast (on Sci-Fi)
2006
October
31: UK - television broadcast (on BBC One (England))
November
1: UK - television broadcast (on BBC One (Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland))
December
20: UK - television broadcast (on Sci-Fi)
25: UK - television broadcast (on Sci-Fi)
2007
January
20: UK - television broadcast (on Sci-Fi)
22: UK - television broadcast (on Sci-Fi)
25: UK - television broadcast (on Sci-Fi)
June
30: UK - television broadcast (on Bravo)
July
28: UK - television broadcast (on Bravo)
August
11: UK - television broadcast (on Living)
October
31: UK - television broadcast (on BBC One (England and Wales))
November
1: UK - television broadcast (on BBC One (Scotland))
December
8: UK - television broadcast (on Sci-Fi)
2008
June
30: UK - television broadcast (on Sci-Fi)
July
4: UK - television broadcast (on Sci-Fi)
October
26: UK - television broadcast (on BBC One)
POSTER TAGS
The Night HE Came Home
HE came home for HALLOWEEN.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Alla helgons blodiga natt - Swedish title
Babysitter Murders, The - working title
Halloween - A Noite do Terror - Brazilian title
Halloween - Die Nacht des Grauens - West German title
Halloween - naamioiden yö - Finnish title
Halloween, la nuit des masques - French video title
Halloween: la notte delle streghe - Italisn title
Maskernes nat - Danish video title
Nacht van de griezels, De - Flemish Belgian title
Noc vestica - Serbian title
Noche de Halloween, La - Spanish title
Noites de Halloween, As - Portuguese title
Nuit des masques, La - French/French Belgian/French
Canadian title
Nyhta me tis maskes, I - Greek title
Regresso do Mal, O - Portuguese title
Yabanci - Turkish title
LINKS
SEQUELS
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
(1982)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
(1988)
Halloween 5 (1989)
Halloween: The Curse
of Michael Myers (1995)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
(1998)
Halloween: Resurrection
(2002)
SEE ALSO
Black Christmas
(1974)
Blood Simple (1984)
Bride of Chucky (1998)
The Burning (1981)
The Collector (1965)
The Dead Hate the Living (1999)
Deliria (1987)
Ecologia del delitto
(1971)
Freak (1998)
Frenzy (1972)
Friday the 13th
(1980)
Fright (1971)
The Funhouse (1981)
He Knows You're Alone (1980)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Loaded (1994)
Mørkeræd (1998)
New Year's Evil (1981)
Offerings (1989)
Prom Night (1980)
Psycho (1960)
Scary Movie (2000)
Scream (1996)
Scream 2 (1997)
Student Bodies (1981)
Wacko (1981)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Psycho (1960)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
100 Years of
Horror (1996)
The American
Nightmare (2000)
Heartstoppers:
Horror at the Movies (1992)
Masters of Horror
(2002)
Terror in the Aisles
(1984)
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
The Dark Side no.55 p.52 (UK)
credits, review
The Dark Side no.60 pp.17-18 (UK)
illustrated review
Killing Moon no.4 p.17 (UK)
review
Mad Movies no.52 p.43 (France)
review
Shivers no.36 p.15 (UK)
review
Strange Adventures Summer Special 1989 pp.6-7
(UK)
review
The Daily Mail 1 May 1990 p.4 (UK)
illustrated article (Horror film 'took over the mind of a killer'
by Margaret Henfield)
The Daily Mail 2 May 1990 p.22 (UK)
illustrated article (Clerk accused of gun spree 'too ill for trial'
by Roger Scott)
The Guardian 24 February 1995 (UK)
article (Prime cuts by Farrah Anwar)
The Guardian Section 2 24 April - 1 May
1998 p.17 (UK)
review (by John Pierson)
The Times Magazine 10 June 1995 p.57
(UK)
review
The Western Mail 19 May 1979 (UK)
illustrated review (Welcome, Son of Psycho by David Hughes)
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
serial killers, closets, strangulation, masks, stalk and slash, teenagers,
babysitters, knives, halloween
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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