Well since it's Halloween season I think it's time I start the month of October right with the franchise that introduced is to it's main antagonist Michael Myers.
On October 25,1978 The Original Halloween movie was released in theatres after it's release the movie became the most profitable independent films of all time grossing $70 million in the box office. Primarlily praised for John Carpenter's direction and the musical score,many critics credit the film in the first in a long line of Slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's "PSYCHO" (released in 1960) and Bob Clark's "BLACK CHRISTMAS" (1974) not to mention Tobe Hooper's "TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE" (1974) and it's considered to be of one if NOT the GREATEST Horror Films ever made.
How Halloween came about was when an independent film producer named Irwin Yablans and his financier Moustapha Akkad sought out Director John Carpenter following the viewing of his previous film "Assault on Precinct 13" at the Milan Film Festival and they wanted him to direct a film of a psychotic killer that stalked babysitters. Well Carpenter along with Debra Hill had wrote the screenplay in approximately 10 days.
In the start of the film it was Halloween Night in 1963 in a town called Haddonfield,Illinois. Michael Myers then a 6 year old boy stabbed his teenage sister to death with a chef's knife. He was soo caught shortly thereafter and we fast forward to October 30,1978 and Dr.Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) Michael's psychiatrist and his colleague Nurse Marion Chambers drive to Smith Grove's Sanitarium (where Michael has been incarcerated since killing Judith all those years ago) to escort Michael to a court hearing where Dr.Loomis hopes he'd be locked up for life,Michael managed to escape the Sanitatium and steals a car. Halloween was the next day and after killing a mechanic stealing his coveralls on the way to Haddonfield and stole knives,ropes and a white expressionless mask from a hardware store,Michael Myers sees Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) drop off a key at the long-abandoned Myers house that her father had been trying to sell for years. Laurie noticed that Michael had been stalking her throughout the day but her friends Annie and Lynda dismiss her concerns. Meanwhile Dr.Loomis made it to Haddonfield as he discovered Judith's tombstone has been stolen from the cemetery,tightening his suspicions that Michael is in town. Dr.Loomis meets Sheriff Brackett (the father of Annie) and they investigate the Myers' house. Dr. Loomis tells Brackett that in 15 years he's known Michael and that he is purely EVIL.
That Night Laurie babysits Tommy Doyle while Annie babysits Lindsay Wallace across the street. Michael follows them spying on Annie and murdered the Wallace's dog by strangling it to death. Well later in the night Annie decided to take Lindsay over to the Doyle house so she could meet with her boyfriend Paul. Unknown to her Michael kills her by slicing her throat with the chef's knife. Soon Lynda and her boyfriend Bob arrive at the Wallace house to find it abandoned and they ended up having sex. Bob went downstairs to get a beer and Michael ended up killing him by pinning him to a wall with a kitchen knife. Then Michael posed as Bob in a ghost costume and confronts Annie who teased him to no affect. Then when Annie decided to call Laurie,Michael took the phone cord and strangled her to death while Laurie listened in on the other end,believiing it's a joke Laurie went next door to investigate. Loomis finally arrived and discovered the stolen car and searched the streets.
Meanwhile Laurie went to The Wallace house and discovered her friends are dead and sees Judith's tombstone in the upstairs bedroom She flees to the hallway in distress when Michael appeared slashing her arm causing her to fall over the stairway banister. Barely escaping with her life she went back to the Doyle house,Tommy lets her in as those two along with Lindsey hide from Michael. Michael snuck through the window and attacked Laurie again but she stabs him in the neck with a knitting needle,that didn't keep Michael down for long as he got back up and went after Laurie again this time she stabs him with a hire hanger she then has Tommy and Lindsay go to a neighbor's house and have them call the police,after they leave Michael rises again and continued to go after Laurie,Luckilly Dr.Loomis saw the kids running to a neighbor's house so he went over the Doyle's house to investigate. He sees Michael attempting to strangle Laurie until Loomis took his mask off,distracting him as he puts the mask back on Loomis shot him six times knocking him off the balcony. He soon looks over the the balcony and discovers that Michael has vanished. Laurie sobs in terror after asking if that was "the boogeyman" and Dr. Loomis confirmed her worst fear.
Halloween spawned a film franchise that spawned 13 films in 45 years after it's release. My overall rating for the Original Halloween is a 90/100 Now keep in mind there was a remake of "Halloween" in 2007 Directed by Rob Zombie and that movie didn't bring the franchise any new life and the sequel 2009's "Halloween II" was NO BETTER.
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