Halloween
(also known as John Carpenter's Halloween) is a 1978 American
independent horror film set in the fictional Midwest town
of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween. The original draft
of the screenplay was titled The Babysitter Murders. John
Carpenter directed the film, which stars Donald Pleasence
as Dr. Sam Loomis, Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, and
Nick Castle as Michael Myers (listed in the credits as "The
Shape"). The film centers on Michael Myers' escape
from a psychiatric hospital, his murdering of teenagers,
and Dr. Loomis's attempts to track and stop him.Halloween
was produced on a budget of only $325,000 and grossed $47
million at the box office in the United States. Many critics
credit this film as the first in a long line of slasher
films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). The
movie originated many of the clichés seen in low-budget
horror films of the 1980s and 1990s, although first-time
viewers of Halloween may be surprised by the fact that the
film contains little actual graphic violence or gore.Critics
have suggested that Halloween and its slasher film successors
may encourage sadism and misogyny. Others have suggested
the film is a social critique of the immorality of young
people in 1970s America, pointing out that many of Myers'
victims are sexually promiscuous and substance abusers,
while the lone heroine is depicted as chaste and innocent.
While Carpenter dismisses these analyses, the perceived
parallel between the characters' moral strengths and their
likelihood of surviving to the film's conclusion has nevertheless
become a standard slasher movie trope
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