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Halloween

1978, Movie, R, 93 mins

Halloween: Review

"The evil is loose!" There's nary a drop of blood on screen in this rollicking funhouse of a movie from John Carpenter, but there is enough sheer cinematic ingenuity on display to coax screams out of the most jaded gorehound. Fifteen years after stabbing his older sister to death on Halloween night, scary Michael Meyers returns to his small Illinois hometown once more to wreak havoc. Read the complete review for Halloween

Halloween: Cast & Details

Year: 1978
Rated R

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Cast
Donald Pleasence: Loomis
Jamie Lee Curtis: Laurie
Nancy Loomis: Annie
P.J. Soles: Lynda
Charles Cyphers: Brackett
Kyle Richards: Lindsey

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Halloween: TV Guide News

2008 Halloween Viewing Guide | Today's News: Our Take | 10/24/2008
Break out the candy corn and hide under the blankets 2008 — it's our guide to Halloween TV! From creepies and crawlies to cartoons and classics, these are the most bewitching things to be watching. read more 11 Comments
What's Your Favorite Scary Movie? | TVGuide.com Asks | 10/13/2008

The time of tricks and treats is upon us again. But for those of us who have outgrown banging down doors for candy (and we're not certain we have), Halloween serves as an excuse to dig up our favorite freaky horror flicks.

Whether you like the gore of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, chilling serial killers like Halloween's Michael Myers or the more modern Asian-inspired screamfests such as The Ring, nothing makes Halloween more fun than watching (or re-watching) a creepy flick.

So, we want to know: What's your go-to scary movie?

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Interview with a Zombie: An Inside Look at the New Halloween | Today's News: Our Take | 8/30/2007
Michael Myers was a very, very bad boy. That point is made frightfully clear in Rob Zombie's Halloween, a new take on John Carpenter's original and seminal 1978 shrieker, hitting theaters Friday. After screening the much-anticipated flick, TVGuide.com welcomed the chance to sit down with the edgy auteur to discuss how he gave shape to "the Shape." TVGuide.com: Halloween was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I remember coming out of the theater, in broad daylight, and looking over my shoulder the entire walk to the car.Rob Zombie: I totally understand that. I remember going to see Jaws as a kid, 1975, and afterwards we went to Denny's and I was literally in the bathroom freaked out thinking that a shark is going to crash through the w read more
Name the Best and Worst Horror Remakes! | Movie News | 8/29/2007
Question So what did you think of the Rob Zombie Halloween remake One of the best one of the worst in between And on that subject what do you think are the best and worst remakes of classic horror movies I thought the new Dawn of the Dead was awesome and I like the John Carpenter version of The Thing even better than the original Black Christmas and House of Wax were just pitiful MarkFlickChick Sad to say Rob Zombies Halloween wasnt screened for critics In this instance Im keeping an open mind since studios are notorious for not showing horror movies good or bad to critics My colleague Ken Foxs review will be here starting Aug 31 2007 and Ill probably check it out over the weekend I mean Ive seen every single Halloween film in a theater the week it opened After nearly 30 years why break with tradition nowIm generally in line with your thoughts I think as far as sequels that never needed to be made go Dawn of the Dead is pretty g read more be the first to leave a comment
Jason, Michael or Freddy: Who Has the Fright Stuff? | Today's News: Our Take | 8/22/2007
Halloween is almost upon us — Rob Zombie's remake of the John Carpenter classic, that is — and thus my (sometimes dark) thoughts have turned to the big screen's best bogeymen.I am not at liberty to "review" per se the new Halloween, which I had the opportunity to screen a few weeks back, but I will say that Tyler Mane (a past cohort of Zombie's, and X-Men's Sabretooth) makes for a most imposing Michael Myers. I always gave Michael a fair shake, as he does the most with the mentally wrong and silent type. One of the best screams came from Carpenter's original, when Michael, coat hanger still in his eye, propped himself up in the background, as an oblivious Jamie Lee Curtis cowered.Freddy Krueger of the Elm Street pics always had an unfair advantage over mute murderers, able to win over the audience with his clever barbs and puns so bad they themselves nearly killed you.Jason Voorhees, most memorably committed to celluloid in several of the Friday the 13ths by Kane Hodder (o... read more