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Halloween

1978·1h 31m·R
HorrorThriller
IMDb Rating
★ 7.7/10
339,633 votes
Metascore
91
Metacritic

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill again.

Halloween is a 1978 horror thriller movie directed by John Carpenter, starring Donald Pleasence, Tony Moran, Jamie Lee Curtis. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.7/10 from 339,633 votes and runs 1h 31m.

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Director
John Carpenter
Stars
Donald Pleasence
Tony Moran
Jamie Lee Curtis
Nancy Kyes
Details
1978-10-27
91 min
Movie
R
★ United States
★ English
Keywords
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