Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5239 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-09-25
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 87 minutes

Synopsis
Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, HALLOWEEN is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, HALLOWEEN takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his older sister to death. Locked away for many years in a mental hospital Michael escapes one night and returns to his hometown to continue his killing spree. Jamie Lee Curtis, in her first role, plays the resourceful babysitter who is chased by the killer on Halloween night. Produced for very little money and a tight shooting schedule, HALLOWEEN was a stunning success when it was released. Written by John Carpenter and his long-time producer Debra Hill, the film set their careers on fire, with both of them working together many times over the next 25 years. The film also made a star out of Jamie Lee Curtis and turned the slasher movie into a viable, successful genre. HALLOWEEN has been copied, parodied and even turned into a franchise of its own, but the original is still considered the best of the bunch. HALLOWEEN was John Carpenter's first foray into horror, and remains the standard to which all other modern horror films are measured.

Customer Reviews

perfect horror film...ever
this film is undenialby the best horror film ever, much scarier than nightmare on elm street...there would be friday 13th's if it wer'nt for halloween..this film truely shows the genius that is John Carpenter. The other Halloween films are also good...even the 3rd film...but none will beat the fist one. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes horror films..in fact i recommend it to anyone. I also recommend halloween 4 & 5.
FIVE STARS !!!!!

The Best damn horror film of all time
This may be very cheap looking but very exciting and scary and the best Horror movie i ever saw in my life. I can't really describe this very well but the only word for it is awsum! so if your a horror fan than it will be money worth spent

A start to a great series
A good, suspenceful movie that spawned one of the most popular and long lived slasher series ever.

When he was only six years old, Micheal Myers killed his sister with a large butcher knife. He spent the next fifteen years in a mental institution, where his therapist spent eight years trying to cure him before realiseing that he was "pure evil" and spent the next seven years making sure that he stayed locked away for life. But on October 31st 1978, Micheal Myers escaped, hellbent on a murder spree, climaxing in the one-by-one murders of Lorrie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her friends.

Althought it is not very violent (and not bloody at all) and the death scenes are quite tame by todays standards, Halloween is still a scary movie (made even creepier by the chilling musical score) and one of the first in the slasher genre. Deffinatly worth a watch, the start of a great series.