Details
- Status
- Released
- Release
- October 25, 1978 (48 years ago)
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Origins
- Companies
- Compass International Pictures, Falcon International Productions
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Donald PleasenceDr. Sam Loomis

Jamie Lee CurtisLaurie Strode

Nancy KyesAnnie Brackett

P.J. SolesLynda Van Der Klok

Charles CyphersSheriff Leigh Brackett

Kyle RichardsLindsey Wallace

Brian AndrewsTommy Doyle

John Michael GrahamBob Simms

Nancy StephensMarion Chambers

Arthur MaletGraveyard Keeper
Mickey YablansRichie
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Crew View all

John CarpenterDirector & Screenplay

Debra HillScreenplay
Irwin YablansExecutive Producer

Moustapha AkkadProducer
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External reviews
Classic Film Review: John Carpenter's Halloween Carves Terror Out of American ComfortsIn 1978, death came to everyone's town and has yet to leave.
HalloweenRead the Empire Movie review of Halloween. Regardless of how silly you think it all is, this will have you scared witless by the time the end...
EMPIRE ESSAY: HalloweenRead the Empire Movie review of EMPIRE ESSAY: Halloween. Regardless of the limp comedies that followed, Halloween remains about as distilled, raw an...
Halloween review – John Carpenter horror that continues to be very very scaryHitchcock’s Psycho is faintly visible in the background of the still-terrifying slasher with the lumbering unstoppable killer
Halloween review: John Carpenter’s ’70s slasher remains a harrowing rideJamie Lee Curtis takes on Michael Myers for the first, and best, time.









