Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis,
P.J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis
At the age of six, Michael Myers (Will
Sandin) murders his sister Judith (Sandy Johnson). After this evil event, he is sent from his
hometown to a sanitarium and treated by Dr. Samuel Loomis (Donald
Pleasance). Over the next fifteen years,
very little progress is made as Michael becomes catatonic. When he escapes from the sanitarium on
October 30th and goes back to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois,
Dr. Loomis follows to try and stop Michael from killing again. On Halloween, Michael unleashes hell and
murders anything in his path in Haddonfield including a dog.
Halloween is the original slasher movie (aside
from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho). The birth of Michael Myers—the first of the
big three serial killers (Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Freddy Krueger)—heralded
a new era in cinema. Every slasher film
since 1978 has been influenced in some way by the merciless kills and
unprecedented thrills in this film.
Michael Myers is a horror icon, and his bloody debut undoubtedly
deserves to be immortalized in our horror movie bucket list.
