Halloween Page #2

Synopsis: The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that 15 year old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother, Michael. After being institutionalized for 15 years, Myers breaks out on the night before Halloween. No one knows, nor wants to find out, what will happen on October 31st 1978 besides Myers' psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis. He knows Michael is coming back to Haddonfield, but by the time the town realizes it, it'll be too late for many people.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director(s): John Carpenter
Production: Compass International Pictures
  5 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
78
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
R
Year:
1978
91 min
3,294 Views


- Oh, no ...

I told them how dangerous he was!

You wouldn't have enough two roadblocks

and an all-points bulletin wouldn't stop a five-year-old!

But he was your patient, Doctor. If precautions

weren't strong enough, you should have told somebody.

I told everybody!

Nobody listened.

- There's nothing else I can do.

You can get back in there

and get back on the telephone.

Tell them exactly

who walked out of here last night ...

And tell them exactly where he is going.

- Probably going.

I'm wasting my time. - Sam, Haddonfield is

a hundred and fifty miles away from here.

Now, now for God's sake, he can't drive a car!

- He was doing very well last night!

Maybe someone around here gave him lessons.

Doctor Chance, plese come to point C ...

Doctor Chance, point C please.

... and the book ends.

But what Samuels is really talking about here ...

is fate.

You see ...

fate caught up with several lives here.

No matter what course of action Collins took ...

he was destined to his own fate,

his own day of reckoning with himself.

The idea ...

is ...

that destiny ...

is a very real, concrete thing

that every person has to deal with.

How does Samuels' view of fate

differ from that of Costaine's? Laurie?

M'am?

Answer the question.

Costaine wrote that fate--

was somehow related only to religion

or where Samuels felt that ... well, fate was like

a natural element, like earth, air, fire, and water.

That's right, Samuels definitely personified fate.

In Samuels' writing, fate is a moveable like a mountain.

It stands, where man passes a way.

Fate never changes.

You, with pumpkin.

- Leave me alone!

He's gonna get you!

- He's gonna get you, he's gonna get you...

The boogeyman is coming!

- Leave me alone!

He doesn't believe us.

- Don't you know what happens on Halloween?

Yeah, we get candy.

The boogeyman!

- The boogeyman, theboogey man, theboogey ...

He's on his way.

You gotta believe me officer,

he is coming to Haddonfield.

Because I know him.

I'm his doctor. You must be ready for him.

If you don't, it's your funeral.

We're from Haddonfield, couldn't be prouder.

Can't hears now, we yell a little louder.

We're from Haddonfield, couldn't be prouder!

Can't hear now ... continue

- Oh, look at you.

Get off the books you have.

You neeed a shopping cart to get home.

Heeey Haddonfield!

- Yeah, one for me.

You know it's totally insane!

We have three new cheers to learn in the morning,

the game in the afternoon, I have to get my hair

done at five and the dance is at eight.

I'll be totally wiped out!

I don't think get enough to do tommorow.

- Totally!

As usual, I have nothing to do.

- It's your own fault and I don't feel bit sorry for you.

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John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, musician, and composer. Although Carpenter has worked with various film genres, he is associated most commonly with horror, action and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s.Most films of Carpenter's career were initially commercial and critical failures, with the notable exceptions of Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), and Starman (1984). However, many of Carpenter's films from the 1970s and the 1980s have come to be considered as cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. The cult classics that Carpenter has directed include Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988), and In the Mouth of Madness (1995). He returned to the Halloween franchise as both composer and executive producer for the horror sequel Halloween (2018). Carpenter is also notable for having composed or co-composed most of his films' music; some of them are now well-known, with the main theme of Halloween being considered a part of popular culture. He won a Saturn Award for Best Music for the film Vampires (1998). Carpenter has released three studio albums, titled Lost Themes (2015), Lost Themes II (2016), and Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998 (2017). more…

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