1978 · horror
Halloween
Directed by John Carpenter1h 31m1978
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.
Our read: Halloween (1978) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, extreme horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
Watching Halloween tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Halloween feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want patient Carpenter dread where ordinary suburbia turns lethal.”
Skip it tonight — You need fast scares tonight or cannot handle stalking violence.
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Discussion
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