Halloween (1978)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Director:

John Carpenter

Escritores:

John Carpenter (screenplay) and
Debra Hill (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 octubre 1978 (USA)

Género:

Horror | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

The trick was to stay alive.

Plot:

A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood escapes on a mindless rampage while his doctor chases him through the streets.

Plot Keywords:

Halloween | Escape | Night | Six Year Old | Michael Myers

Premios:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

"Halloween" is a horror genre MUST-SEE.

Reparto

Donald Pleasence	...	Dr. Sam Loomis
Jamie Lee Curtis	...	Laurie Strode
Nancy Kyes	...	Annie Brackett (as Nancy Loomis)
P.J. Soles	...	Lynda van der Klok
Charles Cyphers	...	Sheriff Leigh Brackett
Kyle Richards	...	Lindsey Wallace
Brian Andrews	...	Tommy Doyle
John Michael Graham	...	Bob Simms
Nancy Stephens	...	Marion Chambers
Arthur Malet	...	Graveyard Keeper
Mickey Yablans	...	Richie
Brent Le Page	...	Lonnie Elamb
Adam Hollander	...	Keith
Robert Phalen	...	Dr. Terence Wynn
Tony Moran	...	Michael Myers (age 23)

También conocida como:

John Carpenter's Halloween (USA) (complete title)
The Babysitter Murders (USA) (working title)
Halloween (Argentina) [es]
La noche de Halloween (Spain) [es]

Duración:

91 min | USA:101 min (extended version)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (original release)

Clasificación:

Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:AA (Ontario) (video rating) (1982) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) (original rating) | Canada:R (Manitoba) (re-rating) (2003) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | UK:18 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Iceland:16 | Brazil:16 | New Zealand:R16 | Singapore:NC-16 (re-rating) | Singapore:PG (cut) | Germany:16 (re-rating) | West Germany:18 (original rating) | Canada:R | Finland:K-15 (DVD rating) (2001) | South Korea:18 | Chile:14 (DVD rating) | Argentina:13 (re-rating) | Australia:R | Chile:18 | Denmark:15 (DVD rating) | Finland:K-18 | France:-12 (re-release: 1999) | France:-16 | Italy:VM14 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 (re-release: 1999) | Norway:18 | Peru:18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | Portugal:M/16 (re-rating) | Portugal:M/18 (original rating)

Locaciones de Filmación:

1000 Mission Street, South Pasadena, California, USA

Compañía:

Compass International Pictures

Trivialidades:

Morgan Strode's black Fleetwood (seen in the driveway when he is talking to Laurie early in the movie) belonged to director John Carpenter, while the Phelps Garage truck was owned by the company that catered for the film.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: When Laurie is trapped in the kitchen, you can clearly see which pane of glass in the door is fake glass.

Citas:

Marion Chambers: [arriving at Smith's Grove and seeing patients walk the grounds] Since when do they let them just wander around?

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Gilmore Girls: I'm OK, You're OK (#6.17)" (2006)

Banda de Sonido:

Don't Fear The Reaper

"Halloween" is a horror genre MUST-SEE.

Brutal, emotionless Michael Myers stabs his sister to death at age six on Halloween night in 1963; on October 30, 1978, he escapes from a mental institution and institutes a new reign of terror in his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois. He is pursued the whole time by a psychiatrist (Donald Pleasence) who knows just how evil this young man is.

It opens with a bang, and sets up a genuinely suspenseful and atmospheric chiller that is actually superior to the many slasher pictures it helped to inspire. It's subtle compared to the nasty bloodbaths many of those subsequent movies were; subtle, and scary. It retains the ability to make me jump even after repeated viewings. How many movies are there, really, that can continue to be frightening even after one has seen them before? Not very many.

Pleasence is great in what was probably the definitive role of his career; Jamie Lee Curtis, in her motion picture debut, became a bona fide scream queen after acting in "Halloween" as well as a few subsequent slasher pictures, and she is an intended victim worth rooting for.

Co-writer / director John Carpenter knows what works in this movie, making excellent use of shadows and dark skies; notice how most of the movie is set after nightfall. With this picture, he and his former collaborator Debra Hill created a franchise that has spawned seven sequels, many imitators, and an upcoming "re-imagining".

It's very quotable - who could ever forget Dr. Loomis' (Pleasence) speech in which he describes Michael Myers to the sheriff (Charles Cyphers, a reliable repertory player in several of Carpenter's earlier works)?

It's fantastic, and worth seeking out. This is my favorite John Carpenter movie of all time.

It's not totally infallible - there are script holes, after all - but overall it makes a solid impact.

9/10