Loomis walks over to look over the balcony but finds Michael's body is gone.

I had no idea who she was. The song is heard as Laurie steps into Annie's car on her way to babysit Tommy Doyle.The soundtrack was first released in the United States in October 1983, by Varèse Sarabande/MCA.On September 7, 2012, the official Halloween Movies Facebook page announced that the original Many compared the film with the work of Alfred Hitchcock, although The film was released for the first time on DVD in the United States by On October 2, 2008, the film was released for the first time on Blu-ray by Anchor Bay.Another major theme found in the film is the dangers of premarital sex.

John Carpenter directed the film, which stars Donald Pleasence as Dr. Sam Loomis, Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, and Nick Castle, Tony Moran, Debra Hill, and Tommy Lee Wallace sharing the role of Michael Myers (listed in the credits as "The Shape"). 2nd week of horror! When a 12 year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her. That's what 'Halloween' did for me. Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths and must survive the terrors of Leatherface and his family. To Carpenter, keeping the audience guessing was better than explaining away the character with "he's cursed by some..."In an interview, Carpenter admits that "Jamie Lee wasn't the first choice for Laurie. Annoyed, Lynda calls Laurie, but Michael strangles her with the telephone cord just as Laurie picks up. At a Flagship Theatre near you". Michael reawakens and chases Laurie upstairs, where she attempts to hide in a bedroom closet. Marion Chambers: The only thing I can't stand is their gibberish... how they keep ranting on and on. "At least that's what teenagers believe. According to scholar Nicholas Rogers, Carpenter's "frequent use of the unmounted first-person camera to represent the killer's point of view ... invited [viewers] to adopt the murderer's assaultive gaze and to hear his heavy breathing and plodding footsteps as he stalked his prey. I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply ... evil.While the review gives no New York City premiere date or specific theater, a display advertisement on page 72 reads: "Held over! In my opinion, a movie should stay with you long after the movie is over. Each Halloween night, I remember back to 1978, when 'Halloween' came out. Loomis sees Tommy and Lindsey fleeing the house and goes to investigate. Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her own son hangs in the balance.

With Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes. The monstrous spirit of a slain child murderer seeks revenge by invading the dreams of teenagers whose parents were responsible for his untimely death. Halloween is a 1978 American slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut.

While Sheriff Brackett and Dr. Loomis hunt for Michael Myers, a traumatized Laurie is rushed to hospital, and the serial killer is not far behind her. She orders the children to lock themselves in a closet upstairs and manages to fend off Michael by stabbing him with a knitting needle. She retrieves the knife and plunges it into his chest, seemingly killing him. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. According to Curtis, Carpenter created a "fear meter" because the film was shot out-of-sequence and she was not sure what her character's level of terror should be in certain scenes. When the movie went off me and my cousin were too scaried to go to bed so we stayed up until the infamous "Night Tracks" went off on TBS (REMEMBER NIGHT TRACKS??). It was so creepy. Loomis also refers to Michael as "evil" when he steals his car at the sanitarium.Historian Nicholas Rogers notes that film critics contend that Carpenter's direction and camera work made The first scene of the young Michael's voyeurism is followed by the murder of Judith seen through the eye holes of Michael's clown costume mask.