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Halloween (1978)

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Halloween (1978)	comment	Halloween is a 1978 American horror film directed by John Carpenter (who also co-wrote the screenplay with producer Debra Hill) that has gone on to become one of the most profitable independent films of all time as well as one of the most influential works of modern screen horror. It's credited with codifying the Slasher Movie formula first conceived by such earlier films as Psycho, Black Christmas, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and is generally regarded as the genre's first true entry.Halloween night, 1963: In Haddonfield, Illinois, six-year-old Michael Myers picks up a kitchen knife and stabs his teenage sister Judith to death without any explanation. Michael is subsequently committed to Smith's Grove Sanitarium, where he is put under the watchful eye of Dr. Samuel Loomis (Donald Pleasence). Fifteen years later — on the night before Halloween — he escapes from the asylum and heads for home, with Loomis in pursuit. Back in Haddonfield, meanwhile, shy teenager Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) takes a job as a babysitter for Halloween. As the night of masks draws nearer, she keeps noticing an eerie masked figure stalking her. While Laurie suspects one of her schoolmates is playing a harmless Halloween prank on her, she and her friends have no idea of the danger awaiting them and Haddonfield...Produced on a shoestring budget, Halloween became a massive success on its release and inspired countless other slasher films in its wake. It also spawned an extensive movie franchise starting with Halloween II (1981), followed by a remake/franchise reboot in 2007. Then, in 2018, yet another film in the series was created as a direct sequel to this film, ignoring all the others.
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Halloween (1978) / int_1171ed72	comment	Sexy Shirt Switch: Annie soils her clothes while cooking, so she spends the rest of her time in the film walking around in panties and a man's Oxford shirt.
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Halloween (1978) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Halloween (1978) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: John Carpenter provides The Voice of Annie's boyfriend, Paul, over the phone.
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Halloween (1978) / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Halloween (1978) / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: There are only two shots in the whole film with actual blood, and neither is particularly explicit. Laurie even walks (or rather limps) through the kitchen where Bob was Impaled with Extreme Prejudice and finds no blood at all.
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Halloween (1978) / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Halloween (1978) / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The original theatrical trailer gives away the first scene's twist: that the killer is the victim's six-year-old brother.
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Halloween (1978) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Halloween (1978) / int_15b2cab3	comment	While Laurie is telling Tommy and Lindsey that she killed Michael, Michael's shadow can be seen behind her as he comes upstairs to attack her again.
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Halloween (1978) / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
Halloween (1978) / int_16ad6f7f	comment	"It" Is Dehumanizing: Dr. Loomis's treatment of Michael as a barely human "it" is established with this exchange with the nurse driving him to the asylum.
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Halloween (1978) / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Halloween (1978) / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Sheriff Brackett wants to alert the public that Michael is at large in Haddonfield, but Loomis dissuades him.
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Halloween (1978) / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
Halloween (1978) / int_19a5d773	comment	When Laurie rips off Michael's mask, you'd expect to see a deformed monster like Freddy or even Jason...except it isn't the case. When Laurie removes his mask, Michael is seen as a normal looking twenty-three-year-old man, a complete aversion that he is a normal human being who's truly empty and soulless inside.
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Halloween (1978) / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Halloween (1978) / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Three mean kids tease Tommy about the Boogeyman in the schoolyard, causing him to fall on his pumpkin and crush it.
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Halloween (1978) / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Halloween (1978) / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Ben Tramer, Laurie's crush.
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Halloween (1978) / int_1cb68381	type	Pom-Pom Girl
Halloween (1978) / int_1cb68381	comment	Pom-Pom Girl: Lynda's Establishing Character Moment is talking about all the new cheers she has to learn.
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Halloween (1978) / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Halloween (1978) / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Loomis hangs around the Myers house for hours before noticing that the car Michael stole from the asylum is parked a little way down the street in plain sight. Earlier, when he finds Michael's discarded hospital clothes, he leaves just before he would've found the body of the guy Michael killed for his coveralls. When going to meet Paul, Annie finds her car door locked and promptly goes to retrieve them. Upon returning, the same door is open and she obliviously gets in, only noticing something is off after noting the amount of condensation on the glass. Michael then promptly attacks from the back seat.
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Halloween (1978) / int_225d8ff9	type	Ambiguously Human
Halloween (1978) / int_225d8ff9	comment	Ambiguously Human: For most of the film, Michael seems to just be an insane man who can't (or won't) speak, but Dr. Loomis insists that there's something not quite human about him. Towards the end, we see some compelling evidence to support this idea, as he displays superhuman levels of endurance and pain tolerance, even quickly getting up after being shot six times in the chest and falling out a second-floor window.
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Halloween (1978) / int_23b059ec	type	Bedsheet Ghost
Halloween (1978) / int_23b059ec	comment	Bedsheet Ghost: Michael kills Lynda while dressed as one.
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Halloween (1978) / int_25b19f64	type	Cute Bookworm
Halloween (1978) / int_25b19f64	comment	Cute Bookworm: Laurie is bookish and an excellent student as well as desirable, albeit with a rather Plain Jane fashion sense.
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Halloween (1978) / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
Halloween (1978) / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: Nobody responds to Annie desperately honking her car horn while being choked or Laurieâ€™s screams for help as Michael chases her across the street.
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Halloween (1978) / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Halloween (1978) / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: The film takes place almost entirely on two Halloween nights, 15 years apart. This was the idea of the film's financier, Moustapha Akkad.
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Halloween (1978) / int_2b49eaf	type	Damsel out of Distress
Halloween (1978) / int_2b49eaf	comment	Damsel out of Distress: Laurie's the first person in the film to escape from and injure Michael.
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Halloween (1978) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Halloween (1978) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Michael is somewhat of a subversion, in that he is more calm and quiet than crazy, but is still a cold-blooded homicidal maniac without conscience who is driven to kill.
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Halloween (1978) / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Halloween (1978) / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Laurie Strode — sweet, nerdy, pure, virginal NaÃ¯ve Everygirl — can hold her own against a psychotic killer.
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Halloween (1978) / int_2e39af52	type	Girlish Pigtails
Halloween (1978) / int_2e39af52	comment	Girlish Pigtails: Little Lindsey Wallace wears her hair like this.
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Halloween (1978) / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Halloween (1978) / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Annie, Bob, and Lynda all end up this way.
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Halloween (1978) / int_33576bdb	type	The Sheriff
Halloween (1978) / int_33576bdb	comment	Annie's father, Sheriff Leigh Brackett, is named for the female screenwriter of Rio Bravo (one of John Carpenter's favorite films, and a big plot influence on his previous effort).
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Halloween (1978) / int_33f6c897	type	Stoners Are Funny
Halloween (1978) / int_33f6c897	comment	Stoners Are Funny: Annie has a few amusing moments while high on marijuana. Laurie's pained hacking after trying to take a hit is also pretty funny.
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Halloween (1978) / int_3403abfc	type	Mugged for Disguise
Halloween (1978) / int_3403abfc	comment	Mugged for Disguise: Or in this case murdered for disguise, as Michael evidently acquired his blue coveralls in this manner. Loomis happens upon the scene of the murder but misses the tow-truck driver's body.
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Halloween (1978) / int_34d7d9b	type	Things That Go "Bump" in the Night
Halloween (1978) / int_34d7d9b	comment	Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: The Shape (aka Michael Myers) is repeatedly compared to the boogeyman, apparently unkillable, and deeply enigmatic. He also seems to particularly target teenagers. In a subversion of this particular trope, he doesn't show much interest in actual children beyond stalking Tommy as he walks home from school.
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Halloween (1978) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Halloween (1978) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Michael kills two of them, and it's implied that the first one was for food.
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Halloween (1978) / int_37a6a66a	type	Instrumental Theme Tune
Halloween (1978) / int_37a6a66a	comment	Instrumental Theme Tune: Composed by John Carpenter himself.
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Halloween (1978) / int_38da8916	type	Uncommon Time
Halloween (1978) / int_38da8916	comment	Uncommon Time: The score uses deliberate repetition of 5/4 to unsettle the audience.
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Halloween (1978) / int_3d1f2cae	type	Barrier-Busting Blow
Halloween (1978) / int_3d1f2cae	comment	Barrier-Busting Blow: At one point during the final chase, Laurie locks herself in a room and tries to escape through the back door. While she's fiddling with a barricade, Michael punches right through the door and unlocks it.
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Halloween (1978) / int_3e1c753d	type	Blue Is Heroic
Halloween (1978) / int_3e1c753d	comment	Blue Is Heroic: Laurie is the Final Girl and spends the second half of the film wearing a blue shirt and blue bell bottoms.
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Halloween (1978) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Halloween (1978) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Dr. Loomis manages to save Laurie from being strangled by Michael Myers at the last minute, shooting Myers six times and causing him to fall off a balcony. While the carnage is momentarily stopped, Laurie is horrifically traumatized by her friendsâ€™ deaths and her encounter with Michael, Loomis is horrified to realize he was right about Michael, and Michael vanishes despite being shot by Loomis and thrown off the balcony.
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Halloween (1978) / int_4230e681	type	Vader Breath
Halloween (1978) / int_4230e681	comment	Vader Breath: Michael is constantly heard breathing heavily beneath his mask, a trait that was sadly phased out in later films.
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Halloween (1978) / int_44bd31e2	type	Trope Codifier
Halloween (1978) / int_44bd31e2	comment	Trope Codifier: Along with Friday the 13th (1980), this film serves as one for the slasher film genre.
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Halloween (1978) / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Halloween (1978) / int_469e3e2f	comment	After The Shape has been defenestrated and is sprawled dead on the lawn, Loomis comforts Laurie. When he goes to look out the window, and the body is gone. The real horror is on Loomis's In-Universe Dull Surprise: he's resigned himself to the fact The Shape really is the Boogeyman.
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Halloween (1978) / int_4720744e	type	Cut Phone Lines
Halloween (1978) / int_4720744e	comment	Cut Phone Lines: Laurie finds them at the Doyle house she's chased into towards the end after being chased there by Michael when he slashes her.
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Halloween (1978) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Halloween (1978) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: This film features some of the best cinematography in Carpenter's career, such as leaves blowing around on a sidewalk.
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Halloween (1978) / int_49d7c511	type	Half-Empty Two-Shot
Halloween (1978) / int_49d7c511	comment	Half Empty Two Shot: Throughout the first half of the movie, Laurie is repeatedly framed in this fashion, to suggest to the viewer that someone is about to fill the empty space. Towards the end, the setup is finally paid off when Michael Myers emerges from the closet to attack her. The film popularized this concept when it comes to horror.
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Halloween (1978) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Halloween (1978) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: While killing Judith, Michael turns his head away after the first few stabs so we can't see anything other than the blade rising and falling (though we do see her as she falls over dead). Lynda falls out of frame as she's being strangled so that she's not visible in her final moments.
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Halloween (1978) / int_4af55b78	type	Credits Gag
Halloween (1978) / int_4af55b78	comment	Credits Gag: The score is credited as being performed by "The Bowling Green Symphony Orchestra," a fictional name. John Carpenter (who attended college in Bowling Green, Kentucky) did it all himself.
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Halloween (1978) / int_4b7364d	type	Dead Man Honking
Halloween (1978) / int_4b7364d	comment	Dead Man Honking: Annie Brackett falls dead on her car horn after Michael Myers cuts her throat.
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Halloween (1978) / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Halloween (1978) / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: Laurie uses a knitting needle and a coat hanger to fight off Michael in the Doyles' house.
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Halloween (1978) / int_4df647d9	type	Billed Above the Title
Halloween (1978) / int_4df647d9	comment	Billed Above the Title: "Donald Pleasence in John Carpenter's Halloween"
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Halloween (1978) / int_4e4e98fa	type	Touch of the Monster
Halloween (1978) / int_4e4e98fa	comment	Touch of the Monster: Evoked when Tommy peers out the window and sees Michael carrying Annie's lifeless body in this fashion into the Wallace house across the street.
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Halloween (1978) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Halloween (1978) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: After The Shape has been defenestrated and is sprawled dead on the lawn, Loomis comforts Laurie. When he goes to look out the window, and the body is gone. The real horror is on Loomis's In-Universe Dull Surprise: he's resigned himself to the fact The Shape really is the Boogeyman. When Laurie rips off Michael's mask, you'd expect to see a deformed monster like Freddy or even Jason...except it isn't the case. When Laurie removes his mask, Michael is seen as a normal looking twenty-three-year-old man, a complete aversion that he is a normal human being who's truly empty and soulless inside. The Cold Open, where we are shown a First-Person Perspective of Michael's first-ever murder. He goes into a house, steals a knife, takes a mask, and stabs a girl to death. He then runs outside, where the girl's parents come home and take his mask off. We see that Michael is a six year old boy, and the girl he killed was his older sister.
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Halloween (1978) / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
Halloween (1978) / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: Judith Myers, later Lynda and Bob. Annie is also killed on her way to have sex.
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Halloween (1978) / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
Halloween (1978) / int_50d71a78	comment	Dual Wielding: Michael stole two knives from the hardware store. However he doesn't use both at once, as he discards the first knife he's using after Laurie stabs him in the neck (it's shown on the floor in the closing montage) and then brings out the second, which Laurie uses to stab him again when he attacks her in the closet.
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Halloween (1978) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Halloween (1978) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: We open with a POV of Michael approaching his house on Halloween night, 1963, and we close with a shot of the Myers house, broken down and abandoned on Halloween night, 1978.
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Halloween (1978) / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
Halloween (1978) / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Laurie becomes this. Despite being a shy high school student, she's able to fight off the killer three times and does her best to protect the children.
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Halloween (1978) / int_5369c081	type	Invisible Parents
Halloween (1978) / int_5369c081	comment	Invisible Parents: The only characters' parents shown are Michael's, as well as Laurie's and Annie's fathers, and only the latter — Sheriff Brackett — gets any significant screentime or involvement in the plot. Michael's parents are only shown for a moment and we hardly even see their faces, while Laurie's dad is only seen for a few seconds.
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Halloween (1978) / int_57980ca0	type	Smoking Hot Sex
Halloween (1978) / int_57980ca0	comment	Smoking Hot Sex: Lynda and Bob light up in bed after their sex scene is done. Useful for TV edits of the film where the toplessness can be cut without losing the context of the scene.
Halloween (1978) / int_57980ca0	featureApplicability	1.0
Halloween (1978) / int_57980ca0	featureConfidence	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_5924454b	type	Cerebus Call-Back
Halloween (1978) / int_5924454b	comment	Cerebus Call-Back: Laurie gets scared early in the film by an ominous-sounding phone call...which turns out to be Annie. She later overhears Lynda being strangled over the phone and assumes it's Annie playing another prank.
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Halloween (1978) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Halloween (1978) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Downplayed compared with other slasher movies. Sheriff Brackett does take Loomis's warnings seriously and joins him on an all-night stakeout of Michael's childhood house. Unfortunately, Michael's actions don't meet Loomis's expectations, and he and Brackett only belatedly realize what's happening. On the other hand, Michael burgles a hardware store early in the day and the police don't find out until hours later. Itâ€™s also possible that this wasnâ€™t Michael, considering the thief stole multiple knives (Michael only uses one) and rope (we never see Michael with any).
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Halloween (1978) / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Halloween (1978) / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: Michael's modus operandi. He spends far more time stalking and watching his victims than actually attacking them. Throughout the film, Michael can be spotted lurking in the background, particularly in the scene set in the aftermath of Michael breaking into the hardware store. In that scene, Dr. Loomis is in the foreground and Michael is driving the stolen car in the background right behind him. During Annie's attempt at washing her soiled blouse, Michael can be seen watching her through the windows. He also lurks in a similar way while she chats on the phone with her boyfriend Paul. While Laurie is telling Tommy and Lindsey that she killed Michael, Michael's shadow can be seen behind her as he comes upstairs to attack her again.
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Halloween (1978) / int_5d397b9c	type	The Mountains of Illinois
Halloween (1978) / int_5d397b9c	comment	The Mountains of Illinois: The movie was filmed in California in the spring, but set in Illinois during the fall. You can see mountains in the background as Loomis is talking in a phone booth and palm trees as Laurie and Tommy are walking to school. The trees are also rather suspiciously verdant for all of the dead leaves scattered on the ground.
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Halloween (1978) / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Halloween (1978) / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: After the opening, the film skips from 1963 to 1978.
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Halloween (1978) / int_5fcb9ad1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_60df53e2	type	Suburbia
Halloween (1978) / int_60df53e2	comment	Suburbia: Of the Midwestern variety (although it was actually filmed in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena). Also one of the first horror films to utilize the familiar suburban environment and a key contributor to the "suburban Gothic" sub-genre.
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Halloween (1978) / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
Halloween (1978) / int_652bf890	comment	Drone of Dread: Most of the murders in the film are accompanied by one of these in the score.
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Halloween (1978) / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Halloween (1978) / int_659ef759	comment	Implacable Man: Michael cannot be reasoned with and keeps on trucking through multiple stabbings, gunshots, and a multistory fall.
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Halloween (1978) / int_67f3ff98	type	Brake Angrily
Halloween (1978) / int_67f3ff98	comment	Brake Angrily: Michael speeds past the girls while driving Loomis's car, prompting Annie to call out, "Hey, jerk! Speed kills!" He slams the brakes, then drives away after a suspenseful Beat.
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Halloween (1978) / int_6841f7f5	type	Evil Phone
Halloween (1978) / int_6841f7f5	comment	Evil Phone: Subverted when Laurie — already starting to freak out after having seen Michael watching her in several places, including her nextdoor neighbor's backyard — answers a ringing phone but gets no response from the other end save for gross munching noises. She hangs up, the phone rings again, she warily answers...and it's Annie, who wants to know why she hung up before (and explains that she couldn't talk with a mouthful of food...although why you would call someone to talk when you have a mouthful of food and ''can't'' talk is anyone's guess). Played straight later on, when Michael strangles Lynda with the phone cord just as she calls Laurie. Michael then picks up the phone to listen to Laurie's frantic cries, before calmly hanging up.
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Halloween (1978) / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Halloween (1978) / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Laurie to Tommy and Lindsey. After all, she is their babysitter.
Halloween (1978) / int_69681e01	featureApplicability	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_6b00879d	type	Disconnected by Death
Halloween (1978) / int_6b00879d	comment	Disconnected by Death: Lynda gets strangled to death by a phone cord mid-conversation.
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Halloween (1978) / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Halloween (1978) / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: The original Michael Myers Halloween mask was a Captain Kirk mask, spray-painted white and with the hair frizzed out and eyeholes altered. The effect is downright creepy.
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Halloween (1978) / int_6badd0a5	type	Anti-Climactic Unmasking
Halloween (1978) / int_6badd0a5	comment	Again at the end, when the adult Michael is briefly unmasked to reveal...a normal-looking, and surprisingly beautiful, man (aside from the eye injury).
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Halloween (1978) / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
Halloween (1978) / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: In the opening scene, we get a glimpse of Judith topless and in panties through Michael's mask before he stabs her. Later we see Annie topless and in panties (albeit from the back) after she gets hot butter on her clothes and removes them before changing into a man's dress shirt as Michael watches from outside. Lynda also gets a scene topless...though it quickly turns into Fan Disservice when Michael starts strangling her and later when her corpse is put in a closet.
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Halloween (1978) / int_6e27397	type	Missed Him by That Much
Halloween (1978) / int_6e27397	comment	Throughout the film, Michael can be spotted lurking in the background, particularly in the scene set in the aftermath of Michael breaking into the hardware store. In that scene, Dr. Loomis is in the foreground and Michael is driving the stolen car in the background right behind him.
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Halloween (1978) / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Halloween (1978) / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Pulled off repeatedly by the Shape, most notably in the ending. It is especially egregious at an earlier point of the film; Laurie sees Michael staring at her from a neighbor's yard, but after a close-up on Laurie that lasts all of a couple of seconds, he's gone without a trace, with no sign that Laurie had even taken her eyes off of him.
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Halloween (1978) / int_714667be	type	Murderer P.O.V.
Halloween (1978) / int_714667be	comment	Murderer P.O.V.: Sometimes accompanied by Vader Breath.
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Halloween (1978) / int_720e0c25	type	Grave Robbing
Halloween (1978) / int_720e0c25	comment	Grave Robbing: An unorthodox example; Michael steals his sister's gravestone and later deposits it on the Wallaces' bed behind Annie's corpse.
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Halloween (1978) / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Halloween (1978) / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Lampshaded by Laurie's English teacher during a class lecture... right after Laurie, gazing idly out the window, has caught a glimpse of Michael watching her from across the street.
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Halloween (1978) / int_73d4b01a	type	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It
Halloween (1978) / int_73d4b01a	comment	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: The title is rendered onscreen as "John Carpenter's Halloween". This was the first of many Carpenter films to be billed in this manner.
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Halloween (1978) / int_765a1683	type	Enemy Rising Behind
Halloween (1978) / int_765a1683	comment	Enemy Rising Behind: One of the movie's most famous scares has a Not Quite Dead Michael Myers slowly rising up behind an exhausted Laurie after she (and we) think she killed him.
Halloween (1978) / int_765a1683	featureApplicability	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Halloween (1978) / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Subverted, after Annie complains that Paul is grounded and "can't come over tonight".
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Halloween (1978) / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Halloween (1978) / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: The original script had the murders take place over several days. Due to the low budget, the film's financier suggested setting the bulk of the film's action during one night: Halloween. This would minimize the sets and costume changes as well as provide a strong theme (and a title) to the film.
Halloween (1978) / int_786bf97f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
Halloween (1978) / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: In the 1979 novelization based on the film, Michael Myers is portrayed as this. In the original film, however, this is absolutely avoided.
Halloween (1978) / int_7ec94d53	featureApplicability	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Halloween (1978) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Myers kills his sister at the age of six, establishing that he is the villain of the story.
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Halloween (1978) / int_84764598	type	Dramatic Thunder
Halloween (1978) / int_84764598	comment	Dramatic Thunder: Michael's escape from Smith's Grove takes place during a thunderstorm.
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Halloween (1978) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Halloween (1978) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: After the opening prologue, we never see Michael's parents again or learn what happened to them.
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Halloween (1978) / int_88abba17	type	Horror Host
Halloween (1978) / int_88abba17	comment	Horror Host: A TV station in Haddonfield (or some nearby city) has one of these, as referenced by Annie in dialogue.
Halloween (1978) / int_88abba17	featureApplicability	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
Halloween (1978) / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Lynda, the blond cheerleader, rattles off all of the school books she regularly "forgets" to take home from school, which amounts to all of them.
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Halloween (1978) / int_9059bd5d	type	Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Halloween (1978) / int_9059bd5d	comment	Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Laurie finds all three of her murdered friends in a 15-second span near the end of the film, the last two via this trope. This setup was mercilessly poached by future franchise nemesis Friday the 13th movies for most of their climaxes.
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Halloween (1978) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Halloween (1978) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Myers gives one of Tommy Doyle's bullies a good scare after said bully taunts Tommy about the boogeyman.
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Halloween (1978) / int_932da128	type	Monster Clown
Halloween (1978) / int_932da128	comment	Monster Clown: Michael's childhood Halloween costume. Was considered for the adult Michael as well, but the filmmakers wound up going with the soon-to-become iconic blank, white mask instead of a clown mask.
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Halloween (1978) / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Halloween (1978) / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself:
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Halloween (1978) / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Halloween (1978) / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: Dr. Loomis is named after Sam Loomis from Psycho (and one of the hospital employees can be heard calling him Sam). Tommy Doyle is named after Wendell Corey's policeman character from Rear Window. Other characters are named after people Carpenter knew; Leigh Brackett was a screenwriter who often worked with Howard Hawks, Michael Myers was a producer who'd entered Assault on Precinct 13 into European film festivals, and Laurie Strode was supposedly an old girlfriend.
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Halloween (1978) / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Halloween (1978) / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: We never find out how Michael escaped from the asylum. Loomis and a nurse arrive and find that the patients are all milling around the grounds, with Michael lying in wait. The only hint is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it flash of a wrench Michael is carrying. We also never find out what the man from the cemetery keeper's anecdote did with the hacksaw...
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Halloween (1978) / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Halloween (1978) / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Laurie gets in a couple of digs at Annie, notably teasing her for "exploring uncharted territory" when Paul drags her into the boys' locker room and quips "oh, fancy" when she sees Annie's Sexy Shirt Switch.
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Halloween (1978) / int_99c36bb5	type	Ironic Nursery Tune
Halloween (1978) / int_99c36bb5	comment	Ironic Nursery Tune: Chanted by a bunch of unseen kids after the opening credits.
Halloween (1978) / int_99c36bb5	featureApplicability	1.0
Halloween (1978) / int_99c36bb5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Halloween (1978) / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: Annie's corpse is left posed on the bed with Judith's gravestone above her head.
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Halloween (1978) / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Halloween (1978) / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Michael. He takes a knitting needle in the neck, a clothes hanger through the eye, his own knife in his gut, six bullets in the abdomen, and a fall onto his back from a second-story balcony, and that doesn't kill him.
Halloween (1978) / int_9d17b859	featureApplicability	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_9e5369d1	type	Orphaned Setup
Halloween (1978) / int_9e5369d1	comment	Orphaned Setup: A non-joke variant comes when the cemetery keeper begins to tell Loomis about another grisly past incident from the next town over, but gets cut off before he can finish.
Halloween (1978) / int_9e5369d1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Halloween (1978) / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: Michael Myers is shot repeatedly at point-blank range and then falls from a second-story balcony. When Loomis goes to look, however, the body is gone. Turns out he really was the Boogeyman. Thus, the parade of sequels begins...
Halloween (1978) / int_9e86e227	featureApplicability	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Halloween (1978) / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: As the title suggests, the movie takes place on Halloween, with only a single scene (Michael's escape from Smith's Grove) not definitely happening on October 31st.
Halloween (1978) / int_9ee065ab	featureApplicability	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_a18a7c01	type	Hand-or-Object Underwear
Halloween (1978) / int_a18a7c01	comment	Hand-or-Object Underwear: Judith reflexively covers her breasts when she spots little Michael in her bedroom, then keeps them there in a vain effort to defend herself from his attack.
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Halloween (1978) / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Halloween (1978) / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: Several shots are inspired by Psycho, including Judith's murder by kitchen knife while naked. The opening scene is inspired by the similar single-take opening from Touch of Evil.
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Halloween (1978) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Halloween (1978) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: It's not particularly detailed or gory, but Laurie stabs Michael in the eye with a hanger at the end of movie. Michael being Michael, he just walks it off.
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Halloween (1978) / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
Halloween (1978) / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Ambiguous with Michael Myers. All of his victims are teenagers or adults, and he's never shown to be actively targeting pre-teen children except for when he stalks Tommy as he walks home from school. Whether this is due to happenstance or the fact that young kids just aren't on Michael's "to kill" radar screen is unclear. Either way, it isn't due to morality or conscience, as Michael has none; perhaps children just aren't as much of a thrill to go after as teens due to their helplessness.
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Halloween (1978) / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
Halloween (1978) / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: Judith and her boyfriend make out on the couch, then head upstairs. From Michael's POV outside, we see the lights in her room go out, telling us that they're having sex.
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Halloween (1978) / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
Halloween (1978) / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: Michael commits seemingly motiveless murder at the age of six.
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Halloween (1978) / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Halloween (1978) / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Michael picks off the other victims easily, but he fails to stab Laurie in the first encounter when she was defenseless and caught off-guard. His swing only tears one of her sleeves and draws her blood a bit. She gets more injured from the subsequent fall to downstairs, however.
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Halloween (1978) / int_a7ddc88e	type	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes
Halloween (1978) / int_a7ddc88e	comment	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Downplayed, but Annie is the sheriff's daughter. She smokes weed, plans to have underage sex, and abandons the girl she's babysitting.
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Halloween (1978) / int_a87b7e81	type	Scenery Dissonance
Halloween (1978) / int_a87b7e81	comment	Scenery Dissonance: Michael Myers stalks Laurie Strode and her friends through the sunny, idyllic streets of Haddonfield in the middle of the day.
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Halloween (1978) / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
Halloween (1978) / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Final Girl: Laurie Strode is the Trope Codifier for a shy, virginal, and more morally upright girl surviving - while her outgoing, sexually active, troublemaking friends die.
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Halloween (1978) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Halloween (1978) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Annie, and to a lesser extent, Laurie.
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Halloween (1978) / int_afcafc5d	type	Drop Dead Gorgeous
Halloween (1978) / int_afcafc5d	comment	Drop Dead Gorgeous: All three female victims are killed in a state of undress. Judith is wearing only panties, Annie has pulled a Sexy Shirt Switch, and Lynda is presumably nude although we only see her top half.
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Halloween (1978) / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Halloween (1978) / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: All three female victims spend a good portion of their screentime in some state of undress. Annie's wardrobe is particularly gratuitous, as she finds a way to need a Sexy Shirt Switch while in the middle of babysitting and then manages to trap herself in a window so her panty-clad rump is sticking up in the air.
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Halloween (1978) / int_b0692cd9	type	Intro-Only Point of View
Halloween (1978) / int_b0692cd9	comment	Intro-Only Point of View: The first several minutes of the film are shown from Michael's perspective as he walks around his house, fetches a kitchen knife, and murders his sister. This style made The Reveal that he's only six years old all the more shocking (at the time, anyway).
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Halloween (1978) / int_b30dd522	type	Quizzical Tilt
Halloween (1978) / int_b30dd522	comment	Quizzical Tilt: Michael does one after killing Bob. The actor was told to regard him like he would a butterfly collection.
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Halloween (1978) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Halloween (1978) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Laurie has a dim view of Tommy's comic books.
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Halloween (1978) / int_b5785433	type	ColdOpen
Halloween (1978) / int_b5785433	comment	The Cold Open, where we are shown a First-Person Perspective of Michael's first-ever murder. He goes into a house, steals a knife, takes a mask, and stabs a girl to death. He then runs outside, where the girl's parents come home and take his mask off. We see that Michael is a six year old boy, and the girl he killed was his older sister.
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Halloween (1978) / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Halloween (1978) / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Loomis spooks a few neighborhood kids and smirks to himself as he watches them flee, then gets startled himself when Sheriff Brackett puts a hand on his shoulder.
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Halloween (1978) / int_b970a40	type	Valley Girl
Halloween (1978) / int_b970a40	comment	Valley Girl: Lynda is "Totally!" a proto version of this. Amusingly enough, the movie was filmed in Southern California.
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Halloween (1978) / int_bb30b9e9	type	Danger Takes a Backseat
Halloween (1978) / int_bb30b9e9	comment	Danger Takes a Backseat: When Annie gets in the car, Michael is behind her. He strangles her, then slashes her throat.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c16b3149	type	Going by the Matchbook
Halloween (1978) / int_c16b3149	comment	Going by the Matchbook: Dr. Loomis finds a garage mechanic's abandoned pickup truck, and on the ground next to it is the same matchbook carried by the nurse who was with him when Michael Myers escaped the previous night. She leaves her matches in the car Michael stole, and they wind up on the ground next to the truck belonging to the guy he stole his jumpsuit from.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c16f48aa	type	Monster Misogyny
Halloween (1978) / int_c16f48aa	comment	Monster Misogyny: While Michael does kill two men in the movie, they're mostly for practical purposes (killing the trucker for his clothes and killing Bob simply because he surprised him) but he appears to be primarily fixated on teenage girls, even from childhood. He also stalks and voyeuristically watches only his female victims and appears to enjoy their terror and suffering.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Halloween (1978) / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Young Michael's parents' reaction to discovering him in front of the house dazedly clutching a bloodied carving knife. His mom even casually places her hands in her pockets. Loomis, after seeing Michael's body missing at the end. The idea behind this is presumably that Loomis, believing Michael to be pure evil, is unsurprised at his quarry's escape.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c1cef253	type	Nice, Mean, and In-Between
Halloween (1978) / int_c1cef253	comment	Nice Mean And In Between: The three girls again: Laurie is the Nice, responsible bookworm, Annie has a Mean, sharp tongue and Lynda is the In-Between â€” still rebellious but more vapid.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c2c80ef	type	Neck Lift
Halloween (1978) / int_c2c80ef	comment	Neck Lift: Michael does this to Bob before killing him.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Halloween (1978) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Immediately after taunting Tommy about the boogeyman, a bully runs directly into the boogeyman himself.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
Halloween (1978) / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: The 1981 NBC broadcast featured a new cut of the movie with less violence and 12 minutes of additional scenes shot during the production of first sequel with mostly the same crew, and Pleasence, Curtis, Soles, and Kyes reprising their roles. They were all toward the beginning of the film, and mostly just exist to pad out the runtime and tie the story more directly into the sequel. This cut was used for almost all TV broadcasts until the late '90s when the film was first remastered. Around that time, an "extended cut" was also released on VHS and DVD that was the original theatrical cut with the additional scenes included. These scenes were also included as a separate bonus feature on the 2013 Blu-ray, but, due to fan demand, the full "extended cut" was included in the deluxe box set in HD as a bonus feature (with the added scenes in SD). New scenes include: Dr. Loomis talking to other doctors at the hospital about Michael Myers' case and then later observing Michael himself. Dr. Loomis talking to two nurses, who explain how Michael managed to escape from Smith's Grove. They also show him that Michael wrote the word "sister" on a door, making Loomis assume that Michael has returned to Haddonfield. Lynda talking to Laurie, who later talks to Annie over the phone.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Halloween (1978) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Annie is saved from being trapped in the window and looks like she'll be safe as she prepares to meet up with her boyfriend Paul. Michael then kills her.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Halloween (1978) / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: A 19-year-old Jamie Lee Curtis gets an "And Introducing" credit in her star-making debut.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Halloween (1978) / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: Long out of print and tough to find now, it offers up a few additional plot points about Michael. For instance, it answers the Plot Hole about how Myers knows how to drive: by carefully watching Loomis operate the car, during their many sessions apparently. It also heavily suggests that Michael is possessed by the ghost of an ancient Celtic boy who murdered a girl he was in love with and was subsequently cursed, making Michael an innocent victim. It also explains the wrench that can be seen in his hand when he smashes the car window to scare Nurse Marion (he'd used it to smash the locks in the other patients' rooms, allowing them to wander outside).
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Halloween (1978) / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Halloween (1978) / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Judith, Annie, and Lynda are all in various states of undress during their very unnerving death scenes with Laurie finding the corpses of the latter two.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
Halloween (1978) / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Michael is very effective at sneaking around, oftentimes impossibly so (his disappearing act behind the sidewalk shrub in broad daylight, then when he appears in Laurie's neighbor's backyard and disappears when the camera cuts away from him even though Laurie hasn't taken her eyes off him being particularly shining examples), which only adds to just how chilling and otherworldly he is.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Halloween (1978) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Haddonfield is named after producer and co-writer Debra Hill's hometown of Haddonfield, New Jersey. Laurie and the kids watch The Thing from Another World and Forbidden Planet on television. Annie's father, Sheriff Leigh Brackett, is named for the female screenwriter of Rio Bravo (one of John Carpenter's favorite films, and a big plot influence on his previous effort). Laurie reads a book on King Arthur to Tommy, who decides that he likes his comic books better. Dr. Sam Loomis's name is a reference to Sam Loomis from Psycho.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
Halloween (1978) / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: While being pursued by Michael during the climax, Laurie bangs on the door of a neighbor's house and screams for help. They turn their lights on, peer through a window and see her...and then shut the lights back off a few seconds later.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c8c00dc9	type	Obvious Stunt Double
Halloween (1978) / int_c8c00dc9	comment	Obvious Stunt Double: In an unusual inversion, Nick Castle, a stunt actor, plays Michael throughout the film, including when Michael jumps up onto the car roof in the beginning, and his face is briefly visible, clearly not played by the same actor who appears for one scene where Michael is unmasked by Laurie. Instead of an obvious stunt double, we have ourselves an obvious face double.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Halloween (1978) / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Bob is (somehow) pinned to a wall with a knife.
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Halloween (1978) / int_c9561e8b	type	Slashers Prefer Blondes
Halloween (1978) / int_c9561e8b	comment	Slashers Prefer Blondes: Lynda, although it's semi-averted by having brunette Annie get bumped off first. Michael's sister Judith is another aversion.
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Halloween (1978) / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
Halloween (1978) / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: Halloween was one of the first horror movies to use the blue filter for night scenes.
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Halloween (1978) / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Halloween (1978) / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Michael's either a) a literal supernatural boogeyman who can't be destroyed, or b) just an extremely tough and resilient psychopath. The film's ambiguous enough to allow either interpretation, although the ending strongly suggests the former.
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Halloween (1978) / int_cc39902e	type	Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon
Halloween (1978) / int_cc39902e	comment	Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Once Michael Myers appears on screen as a child. It may be hard to believe that a child with a harmless and innocent appearance is the psychopathic Ax-Crazy Serial Killer of the whole movie. Even after being unmasked towards the end of the movie, he resembles nothing so much as a normal, even handsome, young man.note Carpenter specifically wanted Michael to have an "angelic" face, to juxtapose with his horrible deeds.
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Halloween (1978) / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Halloween (1978) / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Used throughout the film, most effectively in the final scene. Michael's ominous breathing grows louder and louder as we see shots of some of the places he's been during the final act, until...the credits roll.
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Halloween (1978) / int_d2102da0	type	Bad People Abuse Animals
Halloween (1978) / int_d2102da0	comment	Bad People Abuse Animals: Michael kills a couple of dogs over the course of the movie, though not For the Evulz. The first is implied to be killed for food, and the second is killed to stop it from giving away his presence by barking and to ensure it doesn't attack him since it is being threatened. This doesn't really make its death any easier to watch, however.
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Halloween (1978) / int_d24c0700	type	The Foreign Subtitle
Halloween (1978) / int_d24c0700	comment	The Foreign Subtitle: The Night of Masks (Finland), The Night of the Witches (Italy), The Night of Horror (Germany).
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Halloween (1978) / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
Halloween (1978) / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: Lynda drops "totally" into a lot of her sentences. Debra Hill claims it reached Memetic Mutation levels with a few teens in one showing she went to.
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Halloween (1978) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Halloween (1978) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Michael gets stabbed with his own knife by Laurie. This temporarily puts him down.
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Halloween (1978) / int_d4bf11d1	type	Dramatic Unmask
Halloween (1978) / int_d4bf11d1	comment	Dramatic Unmask: In the intro, when the slasher-killer is unmasked to reveal...a six-year-old boy. Again at the end, when the adult Michael is briefly unmasked to reveal...a normal-looking, and surprisingly beautiful, man (aside from the eye injury).
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Halloween (1978) / int_d67aae8f	type	It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Halloween (1978) / int_d67aae8f	comment	It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Following the prologue, the film begins on a rainy Halloween Eve.
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Halloween (1978) / int_d67aae8f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Halloween (1978) / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Loomis stakes out the old Myers home, thinking that Michael will return there out of instinct. He's right, but Michael had already been there earlier in the day and seemed to have no plans to return the same evening.
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Halloween (1978) / int_dbca2c99	featureConfidence	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Halloween (1978) / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Loomis arrives at Smith's Grove to escort Michael to a mandatory court hearing on the very night (and at the very time) of his escape, thus allowing Michael to make off in his car. This may not be a contrived coincidence at all but could have actually been planned for by Michael, as he would've known Loomis would be coming to take him to the hearing that night. He waited 15 years to break out, which makes it seem like this was exactly the opportunity he was waiting for.
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Halloween (1978) / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
Halloween (1978) / int_dda12cb3	comment	Cat Scare: Early in the film, Laurie — walking home from school and having already caught a brief glimpse of Michael standing behind a hedge—is startled by Sheriff Brackett bumping into her on the sidewalk. Later, there's a scene where Loomis and Brackett are exploring the abandoned Myers house and a broken gutter suddenly crashes through a window, causing a startled Loomis to whip out a handgun. Still later, Loomis — keeping watch outside of the Myers house — scares off a group of boys from nosing around...and gets spooked himself when Brackett comes up behind him and puts a hand on his shoulder. Brackett really likes to sneak up on people, apparently.
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Halloween (1978) / int_e394c5d	comment	Color Wash: Cinematographer Dean Cundey used this to give the daytime scenes an autumnal brown tint and the night scenes an eerie blue one. (The 2003 DVD transfer of the film "fixed" this, much to the dismay of Cundey and the fans. Thankfully, the issue was largely rectified for the 35th Anniversary DVD/Blu-ray release in 2013.)
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Halloween (1978) / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
Halloween (1978) / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Michael is shot several times and presumed dead, but vanishes without a trace moments later. Laurie screams in horror as Loomis gazes out into the darkness. End of movie.
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Halloween (1978) / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Loomis finally catches up with Michael at the very end, just in time to save Laurie.
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Halloween (1978) / int_eb81c601	featureConfidence	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
Halloween (1978) / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: One of the films that defined the Slasher Movie craze...only the killer's not all that invincible, the main adult character is actively hunting the killer down rather than being useless, the violence is shockingly bloodless by modern standards, there are only four onscreen deaths, the killer is deliberately given no Freudian Excuse,and under his mask, he's just a guy.
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Halloween (1978) / int_f2238159	type	Stock Slasher
Halloween (1978) / int_f2238159	comment	Stock Slasher: Together with Friday the 13th Part 2, Halloween serves as the Trope Codifier: Michael Myers sports a twisted Captain Kirk mask, never speaks, has superhuman endurance and resistance to pain, and wields a carving knife as a weapon.
Halloween (1978) / int_f2238159	featureApplicability	1.0
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Halloween (1978) / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Halloween (1978) / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Michael is first visible as a blank-faced child in a clown costume holding a bloody knife.
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Halloween (1978) / int_f4efb057	type	Characters as Device
Halloween (1978) / int_f4efb057	comment	Characters as Device: Michael does nothing but murder people, for which he has no motive and from which he gets no benefit. He's simply a monster to threaten our main heroine. It's intentional in this case, as Carpenter set out to make Michael impossible to sympathize with or even understand.
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Halloween (1978) / int_f8600b	type	Cool Big Sis
Halloween (1978) / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: While not biologically related to him, Laurie behaves like an older sister to Tommy Doyle, a neighborhood boy she often babysits. Tommy seems genuinely fond of her as well.
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Halloween (1978) / int_fabd6906	type	Everytown, America
Halloween (1978) / int_fabd6906	comment	Everytown, America: Haddonfield, Illinois, the fictional town where the majority of the story takes place, is your typical "all-American" town with idyllic suburban streets, friendly townsfolk, and the local high school girls babysitting the little ones.
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Halloween (1978) / int_fb2136ec	type	Big, Thin, Short Trio
Halloween (1978) / int_fb2136ec	comment	Big, Thin, Short Trio: The three girls: Lynda (big, as the tallest and most statuesque), Laurie (thin, with a more slender build) and Annie (short, at 5â€™3â€�, noticeably shorter than the 5â€™7â€� Laurie and 5â€™8â€� Lynda).
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Halloween (1978) / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Halloween (1978) / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: There is no plausible way a grown person's body could be pinned up on a wall with nothing more than a carving knife through the abdomen.
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Halloween (1978) / int_ff6ae1f6	type	Evil-Detecting Dog
Halloween (1978) / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Lester, the Wallaces' German shepherd, barks at Michael hiding behind the bushes...until Michael strangles him.
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Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Actor-Inspired Element / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Adaptational Heroism / int_49729b9c
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Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Badly Battered Babysitter / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Beauty, Brains and Brawn / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Bedsheet Ghost / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Beyond Redemption / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Black Eyes of Evil / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Bloodbath Villain Origin / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Bloodless Carnage / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Cain and Abel / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Callousness Towards Emergency / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Cerebus Call-Back / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Characters Dropping Like Flies / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Chiaroscuro / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Creator Cameo / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Cult Soundtrack / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Danger Takes a Backseat / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Dead Man Honking / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Developing Doomed Characters / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Diabolus ex Nihilo / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Digital Destruction / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Divorced Installment / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Dramatic Unmask / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Dumb Struck / int_49729b9c
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Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Stopped Numbering Sequels / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Suburbia / int_49729b9c
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Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	The Oner / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	They Look Just Like Everyone Else! / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Things That Go "Bump" in the Night / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Toplessness from the Back / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Touch of the Monster / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Town Girls / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Trope Codifier / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	20 Minutes into the Past / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Use Their Own Weapon Against Them / int_49729b9c
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Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Villain Opening Scene / int_49729b9c
Halloween (1978)	hasFeature	Working Title / int_49729b9c
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