Halloween

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R,1hr 33min

Genres:

Horror,Action

Released:

October 25, 1978

Director:

John Carpenter

Distributor:

Compass International Pictures

Starring:

Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis ... More

Synopsis: It was "The Night HE Came Home," warned the posters for John Carpenter's career-making horror smash. In Haddonfield, IL, on Halloween night 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably slaughters his teenage sister. His psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) can't penetrate Michael's psyche after years of institutionalization, but he knows that, when Myers escapes before Halloween in 1978, there is going to be hell to pay in Haddonfield. While Loomis heads to Haddonfield to alert police, Myers ... Full Synopsis

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	Donald Pleasence Doctor Loomis Jamie Lee Curtis Laurie Nancy Loomis Annie P.J. Soles Lynda

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