Halloween Page #5

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
3,308 Views


And then he proceeded ...

- Where are we?

It's right over here.

Yeah, Myers, Judith Myers. I remember her.

Couldn't believe this.

Such a young boy.

Well, you lost?

Why do they do it?!

Goddamn kids.

They'll do anything for Halloweens.

It was grave, hers.

- Oh, I know.

18, 19 th ...

Judith Myers.

He came home.

You still spooked?

I wasn't spooked.

Lies.

- I wasn't.

Saw somebody standing in Mr. Riddle's back yard.

- Probably Mr. Riddle.

He was watching me.

- Mr. Riddle was watching you? Laurie, Mr. Riddle is 87.

He can still watch.

- That's probably all he can do.

What's the pumkin for? - I brought it for Tommy. I figured

carving a Jack-O-Lantern would keep him occupied.

I always said you'd make a fabulous girl scout.

- Thanks.

And for that matter,

I might as well be a girl scout myself tonight.

I plan on making popcorn

and watching Doctor Demensia.

Six straight hours of horror movies.

Little Lindsey Wallace won't know what hit her.

My dad!

Get rid of this.

Laurie, stop caughing. What's the matter with you?

Just be natural. There he is. Just be natural, Laurie.

Hi, Annie, Laurie ...

Hi, dad.

What happened?

- What? - What happened?

Somebody broke into the hardware store. Probably kids.

You blame everything on kids.

What all they took was some Halloween masks, a rope

and a couple of knives. Who do you think it was?

It's hard growing up with a cynical father.

Aren't you gonna be late ...

- Huh?

I said aren't you gonna be late.

- He shouts too.

Bye girls.

Bye dad.

- Bye.

Sheriff.

Pardon me, I'm a Loomis. Dr. Sam Loomis.

Lee Brackett.

- I, I'd like to have a word with you if I could.

Ah, maybe a few minutes. I gotta take that ...

- It's just important.

Ten minutes.

- I'll be here.

What's the matter with you?

I think he knew. I'm sure he could smell it.

No, he didn't.

- He did.

See the look on his face?

He always looks like that.

What you gonna wear on dance tommorow night?

I didn't know you thought about things like that, Laurie.

You know you could ask somebody.

- No, I couldn't.

Sure you could.

All you have to do is go up to somebody and say ...

You wanna go to the dance?

You could do that, I couldn't.

Or you could ask Dick Paxter.

He could go out with ya.

I tried to get out Ben Tramor.

Ben Tramor?

I knew it!

See, you do think about things like that, huh, Laurie?

Shut up.

- He is cute.

Ben Tramor.

Ok.

Bye.

Trick or treat, trick or treat-

give me something good to eat.

Trick or treat, trick or treat-

give me something good to eat.

Trick or treat, trick or treat-

give me something good to eat.

Hi. - Hi Annie, come on in.

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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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