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Halloween (Original title)The Babysitter Murders (Working title)John Carpenter's Halloween (Alternative title)
Date: 1978 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Directed by: John Carpenter

Production company billing: ©1978. Falcon International Productions a Compass International Pictures release Moustapha Akkad presents Donald Pleasence in John Carpenter's Halloween a Debra Hill production MPAA: 25373 [2.35:1] Film Extrracts The Thing (1951) aka The Thing from Another World Forbidden Planet (1956)
Synopsis: MFB 46.27Synopsis: 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.

Genre:
Horror

Subjects:
Child minding, Homicide
Releases
Date: 25 October 1978Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Metrocolor - Sound - MonoRuntime: 91 mins Length: 8195 FeetLanguage: English

Credits (51)
©: Falcon International Productions, Production Company: Falcon International Productions, a Compass International Pictures release: Compass International, Moustapha Akkad presents: Moustapha Akkad, Executive Producer: Irwin Yablans, Produced by/a Debra Hill production: Debra Hill, Associate Producer: Kool Lusby, Production Manager: Don Behrns, Production Assistant: Barry Bernardi, Production Assistant: Paul Fox, Assistant Director: Rick Wallace, 2nd Assistant Director: Jack De Wolf, Script Supervisor: Louise Jaffe, Screenplay by: John Carpenter, Debra Hill, Director of Photography: Dean Cundey, Camera Operator: Ray Stella, Panaglide: Ray Stella, Assistant Cameraman: Fred Victar, 2nd Assistant Cameraman: Krishna Rao, Gaffer: Mark Walthour, Best Boy [Electrical]: Josh Miller, Electrician: Reed Freeman, Key Grip: Dylan Shepard, Best Boy [Grip]: Steve Mathis, Grip: Walt Hill, Stills: Kim Gottlieb, Film Editor: Tommy Wallace, Charles Bornstein, Production Designer: Tommy Wallace, Assistant Art Director: Randy Moore, Set Decorator: Craig Stearns, Property Master: Craig Stearns, Set Painter: Richard Girod, Wardrobe: Beth Rodgers, Makeup: Erica Ulland, Titles and Opticals: MGM, Filmed in: Panavision, {Colour by}: Metrocolor, Music by: John Carpenter, Music Performed by: The Bowling Green Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestration: Dan Wyman, Music Co-ordinator: Bob Walters, Music Recording: Sound Arts, Music Recordist and Mixer: Peter Bergren, Sound Mixer: Tommy Causey, Boom Man: Joe Brennan, Re-recording: Samuel Goldwyn Studios, Supervising Sound Editor: William Stevenson, Stunt: Jim Winburn
Cast (20)
Donald Pleasence (Dr Sam Loomis), Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode), Nancy Loomis (Annie), P.J. Soles (Lynda), Charles Cyphers (Brackett), Kyle Richards (Lindsey), Brian Andrews (Tommy), John Michael Graham (Bob), Nancy Stephens (Marion), Arthur Malet (graveyard keeper), Mickey Yablans (Richie), Brent Le Page (Lonnie), Adam Hollander (Keith), Robert Phalen (Dr Wynn), Tony Moran (Michael Myers age 23), Will Sandin (Michael Myers age 6), Sandy Johnson (Judith Myers), David Kyle (boyfriend), Peter Griffith (Laurie's father), Nick Castle (The Shape)