Halloween (35th Anniversary) (Blu-ray) R
The night he came home!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 24, 2013
- Originally Released: 1978
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Donald Pleasence & Jamie Lee Curtis | |
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:
Rating: 4/4 --
The beginning of the franchise is a masterpiece of horror which every aspiring filmmaker should see. [Full review in Spanish]
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Cinelipsis
Rating: 5/5 --
The quintessential popcorn horror film, a thrill ride with few equals.
Full Review
Parade Magazine
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)
...Rarely have the remoter corners of the Panavision frame been used to such good effect, as shifting volumes of darkness and light reveal the ineluctable presence of a sinister something...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/4 --
Not just the gold standard for American horror, but one of the greatest achievements in cinematic history.
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From the Front Row
...Carpenter's slasher is the original teen-scream flick...
Entertainment Weekly
John Carpenter's perfectly faceted gem of a horror movie...
Premiere
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.