- BFI identifier55366
- Date1978 (Copyright)
- Production countryUSA
- Production company
- SynopsisMFB 46.27 (NFA Catalogue) A boy kills his babysitter on Halloween Night and fifteen years later escapes from a mental institution to return to the scene of the crime to seek for additional victims. (Synopsis)
- Work historyOnscreen title reads 'John Carpenter's Halloween'.
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: John Carpenter
©: Falcon International Productions
Production Company: Falcon International Productions
view all - CastDonald Pleasence (Dr Sam Loomis)
Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode)
Nancy Loomis (Annie)
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Title
Halloween (Original)
The Babysitter Murders (Working)
John Carpenter's Halloween (Alternative)
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