Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5012106334243
Format: Dolby, PAL, Surround Sound
Label: Mia Video Entertainment Ltd
Manufacturer: Mia Video Entertainment Ltd
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Mia Video Entertainment Ltd
Running Time: 180 minutes
Studio: Mia Video Entertainment Ltd
Theatrical Release Date: October 25, 1978

---

Related Items:

• Halloween - Resurrection [2002]
• Halloween VI: The Curse of Michael Myers [1995]
• Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later [1998]
• Halloween II [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
• Halloween 5 - the Revenge of Michael Myers
• see more

Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display

---

Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
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 instalments: 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




Rating: - set the standard for slashers.
"halloween" directed by john carpenter is a classic,ive seen it countless times & it never fails to impress.but now anchor bay have remastered this
classic on r1 ntsc & its an impressive transfer with a great sound remix.
this film earned jamie lee curtis the "scream queen " title as laurie strode.donald pleasance plays the haunted dr sam loomis ,blaming himself for maniac michael myers escape from the local looney bin. its groundbreaking stuff ,its amazing that carpenter wrote,directed ... Read More

---

Rating: - Quick Reviews!
Whether or not you feel that, excluding Psycho, this was the first of its genre- it is definitely the most influential (for better or worse) and easily the most famous. John Carpenter's Halloween, like Romero's NOTD before it came out of low-budget nowhere land, and paralysed audiences around the world upon it's release, turning it's cast into stars and ensuring that horror movies would never be the same again. Almost thirty years on, even though horror movies have become much darker and more grotesque, ... Read More

---

Rating: - Death has come to your little town
Once Halloween was Samhain, the one night of the year when the dead returned to cause trouble for the living.

Well, Michael Myers wasn't dead, but on "Halloween" he returned to cause trouble for the people of his hometown, with all its dark houses and teenage victims. And John Carpenter's masterpiece lives up to its reputation: creepy, eerie, harrowing, and full of solid acting from Donald Pleasance and Jamie Lee Curtis.

On Halloween, 1963, young Michael Myers lurked outside the ... Read More

---

Rating: - Are you afraid of the bogeyman
What can I say about this film that hasn't already been said before. I am going to say it anyway, this is as scary if not the scariest film I have ever seen and I don't think I will ever see a scarier one ever again. Having grown up with horror movies, I first saw this as a kid in the early 80's and it genuinely terrified me, and that was with the lights on. If I had watched this alone with the lights off then I really don't know how I would have got through it. I have seen it so many times since then that ... Read More

---

Rating: - If anyone is the bogeyman, it is surely Michael Myers
What can I say about this film that hasn't already been said before. I am going to say it anyway, this is as scary if not the scariest film I have ever seen and I don't think I will ever see a scarier one ever again. Having grown up with horror movies, I first saw this as a kid in the early 80's and it genuinely terrified me, and that was with the lights on. If I had watched this alone with the lights off then I really don't know how I would have got through it. I have seen it so many times since then that ... Read More

---