Halloween Page #4

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
3,301 Views


Hello?

Who is this?!

Hello?

Why did you hang up on me?

Annie?

Was that you?

Of course.

- Why didn't you say anything? You scared me to death.

I had my mouth full. Couldn't you hear me?

I thought it was an obscene phone call.

Now you hear obscene chewing. You're losing it, Laurie.

- I've already lost it.

I Doubt that.

Listen, my mother is letting me use her car.

I'll pick you up. 6:30.

Ok, bye.

-Bye.

Just calm down.

This is ridiculous.

Hi. - Hurry up, hurry up!

- What's going on? - Shut the door. Shut the door!

Some guy is following me.

Are you sure?

- Yeah, I'm sure.

I think it's a guy that passed that street

in that station wagon.

I can't see him very well, but I think it's Steve Todd.

His brother has a station wagon.

Well, he was parked outside the school today.

Right outside the window he was staring at me.

Steve Todd was staring at you?

Somebody was.

A while ago, he was in my back yard.

Well, maybe he just wants a date.

- Oh, shut up!

- What else that who can wanna date?

Little joke.

So, what do you want?

Oh, Laurie. I totally have nothing to wear tonight.

I was kind of hoping that ... that

you'd lend me that silk blouse you got on your birthday.

I didn't wear that yet.

- Laurie, I promise I wouldn't spill anything on.

Tear or rip or do any of those things.

Laurie, stop worrying!

That was Steve Todd.

Well, answer it. It's just a phone.

Hello?

- Who is it?

- Laurie ...

I have to ask a big favor.

I can't find anything to wear.

- It's Annie. She want's to borrow something.

You promised!

- No, I didn't.

Hi.

Lynda's here. She wants to borrow my new blouse.

Lynda's a creep.

Is that guy...

still creeping around your backyard?

He followed Lynda over here.

Well, if you see him.

Just go right out into him and tell him to buzz off.

Or if he's cute ... ask him out.

Annie I gotta go. You can pick me up?

Right after dinner.

Hey how about that skies you got for Christmas?

Bye.

Bye, creep.

See ya.

Yuck.

Where is the blouse?

It's in my closet.

- I'll go, get it.

Promise me, you won't rip it.

I totally promise.

Totally don't believe you.

I wish I had you all alone ...

Just the two of us.

I would hold you close to me ...

So close to me.

Just the two of us.

So close to ... me.

Hurry up.

Hi.

Just have time.

Judith Myers. Myers.

Row 18 ... plot 20.

Hey, you know. You know,

every town has something like this happen.

I remember over in Russellville.

Old Charly Bowles. About fifteen years ago.

One night he, he finished dinner ...

And he excused himself from the table ...

And he went out to the garage ...

He got himself a hack saw ...

And then he went back into the house ...

And he kissed his wife and his two children goodbye ...

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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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