Halloween (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 2, 2007
- Originally Released: 1978
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jamie Lee Curtis & Donald Pleasence | |
Performer: | P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis, Charles Cyphers, Kyle Richards, Arthur Malet, David Kyle & Nick Castle | |
Directed by | John Carpenter | |
Edited by | Tommy Lee Wallace & Charles Bornstein | |
Screenwriting by | John Carpenter & Debra Hill | |
Composition by | John Carpenter | |
Produced by | Debra Hill | |
Director of Photography: | Dean Cundey | |
Executive Production by | Irwin Yablans |
Entertainment Reviews:
After a promising opening, Halloween becomes just another maniac-on-the-loose suspenser.
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Variety
John Carpenter's perfectly faceted gem of a horror movie...
Premiere
Rating: 5/5 --
Well worth another look on the big screen.
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Guardian
Carpenter's 1978 slasher classic has inspired a million imitations as well as sequels, but few that demonstrate so clearly that a disreputable genre movie can also be a pure, rigorous work of art.
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The Age (Australia)
Carpenter obviously knows the genre well and he builds a properly terrifying atmosphere through his well-paced direction. It's an effective entry for its intended market.
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Hollywood Reporter
Rating: A --
Halloween is the ensuing American nightmare. It's the national boogeyman.
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Consequence of Sound
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Four decades on, Halloween remains a tenacious - if messy - exercise in atmospheric thrills.
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Flickering Myth
Product Description:
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 longtime 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.