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Halloween (advertised as John Carpenter's Halloween) is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with its producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence , Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut), P. J. Soles , and Nancy Loomis .
Moustapha al Akkad (Arabic: مصطفى العقاد, romanized: Muṣṭafā al-ʿAqqād; July 1, 1930 – November 11, 2005) was a Syrian-American film producer and director, best known for producing the original series of Halloween films and directing The Message and Lion of the Desert.
Irwin Yablans (born July 25, 1934) is an American independent film producer and distributor known for his work in the horror film industry. His brother, Frank Yablans , was also a producer. Life and career
"Halloween" (1978) is a classic horror film, but even superfans may not know these fun facts. ... Debra Hill, a producer on the film and Carpenter's then-girlfriend, ...
Halloween (1978) was a commercial success and helped develop the slasher genre. Originally an idea suggested by producer Irwin Yablans (titled The Babysitter Murders), who thought of a film about babysitters being menaced by a stalker, Carpenter took the idea and another suggestion from Yablans that it occur during Halloween and developed a ...
John Carpenter's Halloween wasn't a smash hit when it was first released in 1978, but it slowly built an audience and would eventually become one of the highest-grossing independent films of all time.
And yet it is how I have made my entire career, which was born really from the 1978 Halloween movie,” Curtis told The Wall Street Journal in October 2021 while promoting the 12th Halloween flick ...
The original Halloween, released in 1978, was written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill—the film's director and producer respectively. The film, itself inspired by Alfred Hitchcock 's Psycho and Bob Clark 's Black Christmas , is known to have inspired a long line of slasher films .