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MOVIE · 1978

Halloween

HorrorThriller91 min

Fifteen years after killing his sister as a child, Michael Myers escapes a mental hospital and returns to Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night. Jamie Lee Curtis is Laurie Strode, a teenage babysitter who finds herself in his path, while Donald Pleasence’s Dr. Loomis follows the masked killer through the quiet suburbs. Directed by John Carpenter, the story unfolds across neighborhood streets, front porches, and darkened houses as Michael moves silently through a town that doesn’t yet understand what has come home.

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