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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 .
Al Akkad was born on July 1, 1930, in Aleppo in the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. [3] He received his high school degree from the Aleppo American College.His father, then a customs officer, gave him $200 and a copy of the Quran before he left for the United States to study film direction and production at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Debra Hill, a producer on the film and Carpenter's then-girlfriend, actually cowrote the film with him. She also helped write some of the sequel films, including "Halloween II" (1981). The ...
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 ...
The film's young lead went on to become its most recognizable alumnus by a considerable margin. After her breakout success as Laurie Strode in Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis cemented her title of ...
After multiple TV roles, Jamie Lee Curtis made her big-screen debut in 1978’s Halloween as Laurie Strode, a high school babysitter who is being harassed by Michael Myers after he escapes from ...
Dr. Samuel J. Loomis is a fictional character in the Halloween franchise.A main protagonist of the overall series, Loomis appears on-screen in eight of the thirteen Halloween films (and is mentioned or featured in photographs and audio recordings in others), first appearing in John Carpenter's original 1978 film.
It is the ultimate Halloween movie—it was then, when it first came out in 1978, and it still is now. It's got a creepy silent stalker, a badass babysitter, genuine jolts of fright, a couple of ...