Halloween (1978)
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- Synopsis
- It was "The Night HE Came Home," warned the posters for John Carpenter's career-making horror smash. In Haddonfield, Ilinois, on Halloween night 1963, 6-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably slaughters his teenage sister. His psychiatrist Dr....
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- Director(s)
- John Carpenter
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 91 min.
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Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
Halloween is an absolutely merciless thriller...I would compare it to "Psycho."Read the full review
ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites
From a shock-and-suspense point-of-view, Halloween is the rival of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." With only a few arguable exceptions (such as "The Exorcist"), there isn't another post-1970 release that comes close to it in terms of scaring the living hell out of a viewer... A modern classic of the most horrific kind.Read the full review
Entertainment Weekly | Bruce FrettsAdd Critic to Favorites
Carpenter's brutally efficient exercise in tension and release.Read the full review
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