Halloween: Directed by John Carpenter. With Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles. 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.

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. The plot tells about a mental patient Michael Myers who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his babysitting teenage sister on Halloween night when he was six years old.

The 1978 version of Halloween is a classic in every sense of the word. Michael Myers is the perfect horror character as portrayed by Carpenter. He is not well known and he is driven by pure evil. I want to also add that the movie has just a great overall feel from the soundtrack, to the way it was filmed. 5 out of 5 stars, no question.

Anthony Lund. — October 25, 2021. John Carpenter's Halloween is a movie that is often cited as the birth of the slasher movie, but if you step back and break down the classic 1978 psychological ...