Halloween
The night he came home!
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.
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Signature
- Craft · Tension · Drama
- Worldwide
- $70M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Halloween actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
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Story overview
What It's About
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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.
Where to watch
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Halloween appears in 2 Nutevio collections. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Best Horror Movies Ranked #18
Placed at #18 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
- Horror Movies Ranked #19
Placed at #19 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Halloween returned 216.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $325,000
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $70M
- Release date
- Oct 24, 1978
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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