The #Blurtmusic October Playlist is coming to an end: for the farewell I chose the soundtrack from the John Carpenter film Halloween.
The film.
Halloween is a 1978 independent horror film directed and orchestrated by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in their feature debut.
The film was the first installment in what has become the Halloween franchise and spawned seven sequels and two reboots. In the film, on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers murders his sister in the fictional Midwestern city of Haddonfield, Illinois.
Fifteen years later, he escapes from Smith's Grove Sanitarium on October 30, 1978 and returns home to kill again. The next day, Halloween, Michael stalks teenage Laurie Strode. Michael's psychiatrist, Dr. Sam Loomis, knowing Michael's intentions, goes to Haddonfield to find and arrest him.
Halloween was produced on a budget of $ 300,000 and grossed $ 47 million at the box office in the United States, $ 23 million internationally, for a total of $ 70 million worldwide, equivalent to approximately $ 267 million. dollars as of 2016, becoming one of the most profitable independent films.
Many critics credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock in Psycho (1960). Halloween had many copycats and spawned several clichés found in low-budget horror movies of the 1980s and 1990s.
Unlike many of its copycats, Halloween contains little graphic violence and gore.
It was one of the first horror movies to introduce the concept of the murderer's death and coming back to life again within the same movie. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."