It was "The Night HE Came Home," warned the posters for John Carpenter's career-making horror smash. In Haddonfield, Ilinois, on Halloween night 1963, 6-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably slaughters his teenage sister. His psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) can't penetrate Michael's psyche after years of institutionalization, but he knows that, when Myers escapes before Halloween in 1978, there is going to be hell to pay in Haddonfield. While Loomis heads to Haddonfield to alert police, Myers spots bookish teenager Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and follows her, constantly appearing and vanishing as Laurie and her looser friends Lynda (P.J. Soles) and Annie (Nancy Loomis) make their Halloween plans. By nightfall, the responsible Laurie is doing her own and Annie's babysitting jobs, while Annie and Lynda frolic in the parent-free house across the street. But Annie and Lynda are not answering the phone, and suspicious Laurie heads across the street to the darkened house to see what is going on ... . ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
Special Features
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Widescreen presentation (2.35:1) enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs
Audio commentary with writer/director John Carpenter, actress Jamie Lee Curtis, and producer Debra Hill
"Halloween - A Cut Above the Rest" 87-minute documentary featuring interviews with John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles, Nick Castle, Charles Cyphers, Debra Hill, director of photography Dean Cundey, editor/production designer Tommy Lee Wallace, executive producers Irwin Yablans, Moustapha Akkad, and others
"On Location - 25 Years Later" featurette with actress P.J. Soles and producer Debra Hill revisiting the original Michael Myers house
Theatrical trailer
TV spots
Radio spots
Poster and still gallery
Talent bios
DVD-ROM: original screenplay
DVD-ROM: screen savers
Region
1
Languages
English
Display Format
Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
Audio
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Dolby Digital w/ 4 channels of sound from a 2-channel stereo mix.
Dolby Digital Mono
Chapters
Side #1 -- Feature Presentation
1. Main Titles [2:08]
2. All Hallows Eve, 1963 [4:54]
3. Hell Night [4:06]
4. On a Crisp October Morning... [3:21]
5. Fate [4:05]
6. Don't Talk to Strangers [4:26]
7. Trick or Treat [5:02]
8. Day of the Dead [2:54]
9. Autumn Twilight [3:43]
10. Haunted House [5:13]
11. The Bogeyman [4:06]
12. Things That Go Bump in the Night [4:59]
13. Samhain [5:10]
14. Pranks [4:14]
15. Halloween Partying [5:50]
16. Masquerade [4:27]
17. House of Mystery [5:31]
18. Decorations [4:10]
19. Danse Macabre [6:27]
20. "It Was the Bogeyman" [3:42]
21. End Credits [2:11]
Menu
Side #1 -- Feature Presentation
Chapter Selection
Audio Setup
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dolby Surround 2.0
Mono
Commentary With Writer/Director John Carpenter, Writer/Producer Debra Hill and Actress Jamie Lee Curtis
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