Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles Directed By: John Carpenter Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, THX, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Items: 1 Release Date: September 28, 1999 Running Time: 91 minutes Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay Theatrical Release Date: October 25, 1978
Product Description: Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 09/24/2002 Run time: 92 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com essential video: Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It's a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie's freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin's character in Psycho. In the end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience--it's one of those movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen. ("No! Don't drop that knife!") Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more installments: 1981's dismal Halloween II, which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate events, and 1998's occasionally gripping Halloween H20, which proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years. --Robert Horton
Amazon.com: Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It's a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie's freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin's character in Psycho. In the end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience--it's one of those movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen. ("No! Don't drop that knife!") Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more installments: 1981's dismal Halloween II, which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate events, and 1998's occasionally gripping Halloween H20, which proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years. --Robert Horton
A classic horror film on a very good BD release ^ Halloween never looked better than on this Blu-ray. Except for some softness in the picture in certain scenes where the background or some caracters look out of focus, the image is so sharp and detailed that is hard to believe this is a 1978 movie. And personally I don't care about the change in the color timing that caused a lot of debate on the internet forums. Sound is just ok, considering the source and the extras, while slim compared to other editions, are solid, like the commentary track and the featurette. I just wish the TV version was available through seamless branching. Anyway, I give this BD an overal score of 8/10.
The 'missing chapters' from the 'Halloween' legend. ^ This rare out of print DVD of the classic film 'Halloween' contains footage shot by original director John Carpenter and added to the film when it made it's network TV debut. After all the gore was edited out, Carpenter and co. had to fill up the time needed to air a film during prime time hours. And so missing chapters, like glimpses of Michael Myers in the asylum as a boy, were finally revealed to fans. As a 'purist', i do own a copy of the film in it's original theatric cut, but the 'fan' in me considers this a must have companion to the original cut. You won't be dissapointed!
best horror film of all time ^ This is the best horror movie ever made and it looks great on blu ray.
Halloween ^ Great item! I'm sorry that it took so long to leave you positive feedback. You are a great seller! Thank you so much!!
Halloween ^ On Halloween 1963, Haddenfield, 10-year-old Michael Myers, estranged and mentally unstable, is imprisoned in Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of Dr. Sam Loomis for the murders of his mother's boyfriend, his older sister, and her boyfriend. Now, 16 years later, he escapes and now in search of his baby sister Laurie and Dr. Loomis must warn the residents of Haddenfield and get to Laurie before Michael does. This movie does make for a very admirable companion piece to a horror classic, blending the old and the new into an entertaining and thought-provoking fright movie.
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