Halloween Page #4

Synopsis: The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that 15 year old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother, Michael. After being institutionalized for 15 years, Myers breaks out on the night before Halloween. No one knows, nor wants to find out, what will happen on October 31st 1978 besides Myers' psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis. He knows Michael is coming back to Haddonfield, but by the time the town realizes it, it'll be too late for many people.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director(s): John Carpenter
Production: Compass International Pictures
  5 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
78
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
R
Year:
1978
91 min
3,405 Views


Lindsey!

Lindseeey!

No, no answer. Doctor, where are those fingers from?

I don't know, Mr. Scott.

Hallo?

Hi Lindsey, this is Paul. Is Annie there?

Yes, she is.

Get her for me, will ya?

She's washing her clothes.

Look, just tell her it's me, ok?

Ok.

Annie, Paul called!

You locked yourself there.

- I know.

Pull my foot. I'm stuck!

Now promise me you won't tell anybody about this.

She got stuck in a window. She'll be right here.

Hello?

- Hi Annie.

Oh, hi Paul.

- Stuck, huh?

All right, cut it out. It can happen to anyone.

- Sure ... stuck in the widow.

Yeah, but I've seen you stuck in plenty of other positions!

My parents are gone.

Oh that's fabulous. When did they leave?

About half hour ago

- Oh, utterly fantastic.

So why don't you just walk over?

You coming pick me up.

- Well, I can't come now. My clothes are in the wash.

Oh shut up jerk. Can't, I've got a shirt on.

That's all you ever think about.

I think that's all you ever think about.

- That's not true, I think about lots of things.

Now why don't we not stand here

talking about them and get down to doing them?

Lock your doors, bolt your windows and turn off the lights.

Don't go away ... cause here is a scene ...

- I'm scared.

Then why are you sitting here with half the lights off?

I don't know.

- Well, come on get your coat.

We're going to pick up Paul.

I don't want to.

Look, Lindsey, I thought we understood each other.

- I want to stay here and watch this.

Okay, if I can fix it so you can watch TV

with Tommy Doyle, would you like that?

Yes.

- Well, come with me.

Come on! Hurry up.

That's strange that has to short it out.

Hi Tommy.

Hi.

Come on in. We're making a Jack-O-Lantern.

- You know I wanna watch TV.

Annie, come in here.

... and now the horrifying conclusion ...

... to ... the Damn.

Oh, fancy.

This has not been my night.

I spilled butter all over. My cloths are in the wash.

I got stuck in a window. - I'd like you call Ben Tramer

and tell him you're just fooling around.

I can't. - Yes, you can. - No, he went drinking with

Mike Godfrey and he won't be back until late.

You'll have to call him ... tomorrow.

Besides, I'm on my way to pick up Paul.

Wait a minute.

If you watch her,

I'll CONSIDER talking to Ben Tramer in the morning.

Deal.

I thought Paul was grounded.

- He was. Old jerko found a way to sneak out.

Listen, I'll call you in an hour or so, ok?

- Yeah.

Bye.

Bye.

The old girl scout comes through again.

My Paul ... I give you all

No keys, but pleeease ...

my Paul

Oh, Paul ...

I can no longer stall ...

Oh Paul. Oh Paul ...

I can no longer stall...

Dearly Paul ...

my Paul

Attention ...

Captain and crew standby reverse polarity.

Standard class A security will be maintained upon landing.

And until further notice all land in and hold on.

That is all.

Artificial gravity are ...

Add lock. Cut primary coarse.

Primaries cut.

Lindsey ...

Lindseyyy ....

Where are you?

There is the boogeyman! He is outside!

Look, there is the boogeyman outside! - What's wrong?

I saw the boogeyman! I know that - Oh, Tommy stop it!

- But at Lindsey's! - You're scaring Lindsey.

He's over there!

- Tommy, stop it! There is nobody out there!

There's no boogeyman. And if you don't stop all this

I'll have to turn off the TV and send you to bed.

Nobody believes me.

- I believe you, Tommy.

I'm not afraid.

- Bull.

I'm not.

- Then go in.

Chicken.

Go ahead, Lonnie.

Go in!

Hey!

Hey, Lonnie ...

Get your ass away from there ...

Jesus.

Are you all right here?

Yeah.

Well, nothing's going on except kids playing pranks,

trick or treating, partying, getting high.

I have the feeling you're way off on this.

You have the wrong feeling.

- You're not doing very much to prove me wrong.

What more do you need?

Well, it's going to take more than fancy talk

to keep me up all night crawling around these bushes.

I, I, I watched him for fifteen years ...

sitting in a room, staring at a wall, not seeing the wall ...

looking past the wall

looking at ... THIS NIGHT inhumanly patient.

waiting for some secret, silent alarm ...

to trigger him off.

Death has come to your little town, Sheriff.

You can either ignore it or you can help me to stop it.

More fancy talk.

Doctor, do you know what Haddonfield is?

Families ...

Children ... all lined up in rows,

up and down these streets.

You're telling me they're lined up for a slaughterhouse.

They could be.

All right, I'll stay with you out tonight ...

just on the chance that you're right.

And if you are right ...

damn you for letting him go.

Ok. So we gonna first, we'll go inside, right?

Then we just talk a little.

Then Annie will distract Lindsey, that's when we'll

go upstairs to the first bedroom on the left. You got it?

Ok. First I rip your clothes off ...

Don't rip, my blouse is expensive, idiot.

- Then you rip my clothes off...

then we rip Lyndsey's cloth off. Yeah, I think I got it.

Totally.

Bob ... put me down.

Put me down. This is a totally silly.

Put me down.

Hey, it's totally dark.

- Yeah.

Annie!

Annie, we're here!

- I wonder where they went.

Oh, Annie probably took Lindsey out or something.

Hey, let's look for a note.

Let's don't.

He's gonna get you ...

No, he's not. - Hey, nobody's getting anybody.

Stop scaring each other.

Everybody's having good time tonight.

All right, guys, what's next?

Let's make more popcorn. - No, we had enough.

Why don't we watch the rest of the movie?

Yeah.

All right, put it back on.

Doyle house.

Hi Laurie ... what's up?

I'm just sitting down for the first time tonight.

Hey ... is Annie around?

No, I thought she'd be home by now.

She went to pick up Paul.

- Well, she's totally not here.

She's probably stopped off some place.

Have her call me when she gets home.

I have Lyndsey here and I want to know

what time to put her to bed.

Okay. Later.

- Have a good time.

We definetely will.

Bye.

Lindsey is gone for the night.

- Hey, now that's wonderful.

Oh, sh*t! Not again.

I can't help it. The phone keeps ringing.

Oh, I can't keep you interested, huh?

- Just answer that damn phone.

I can't. What if it's the Wallaces?

We'd get Annie in trouble now.

Just take it off the hook.

Fantastic.

Totally.

- Yeah.

Wanna beer?

- Yeah.

Is that all you can say?

Yeah.

Go get me a beer.

- I thought you were gonna get me one.

Yeaah.

I'll be right back.

Don't get dressed.

Annie?

Paul?

Lynda, you a**hole!

Ok, Lynda.

Come on out.

Well, did you get my beer?

Cute, Bob. Real cute.

See anything you like?

What's the matter? Can I get your ghost, Bob?

All right, all right. Come on, where is my beer?

Ok, ain't answer me?

Ok, don't answer me?

Oh, you're weird!

Well, I'm gonna call Laurie.

I wanna know where Paul and Annie are.

This is going nowhere.

Finally.

Hello?

Hello?

All right, Annie. First I get your famous chewing,

now I get your famous squealing?

Annie, you all right?

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John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, musician, and composer. Although Carpenter has worked with various film genres, he is associated most commonly with horror, action and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s.Most films of Carpenter's career were initially commercial and critical failures, with the notable exceptions of Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), and Starman (1984). However, many of Carpenter's films from the 1970s and the 1980s have come to be considered as cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. The cult classics that Carpenter has directed include Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988), and In the Mouth of Madness (1995). He returned to the Halloween franchise as both composer and executive producer for the horror sequel Halloween (2018). Carpenter is also notable for having composed or co-composed most of his films' music; some of them are now well-known, with the main theme of Halloween being considered a part of popular culture. He won a Saturn Award for Best Music for the film Vampires (1998). Carpenter has released three studio albums, titled Lost Themes (2015), Lost Themes II (2016), and Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998 (2017). more…

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