"make it as good as I can? So, you know, stop throwing rocks from the sidelines and get in there and try to do something positive."" When the rights were acquired by Blumhouse, filmmaker Adam Wingard discussed making a new ""Halloween"" film, but ultimately dropped out after being sated by an email of encouragement from Carpenter, ""I kinda walked away from it like, I just got everything I wanted out of this job. 'This is about as good as it gets.'"" On February 9, 2017, David Gordon Green and Danny McBride were announced as handling screenwriting duties, with Green directing"
"that somebody was killed in, or that somebody went crazy in."" Carpenter's inspiration for the ""evil"" that Michael would embody came from a visit he had taken during college to a psychiatric institution in Kentucky. There, he visited a ward with his psychology classmates where ""the most serious, mentally ill patients"" were held. Among those patients was an adolescent boy, who possessed a blank, ""schizophrenic stare."" Carpenter's experience would inspire the characterization that Loomis would give of Michael to Sheriff Brackett in the film. The cast of ""Halloween"" included veteran actor Donald Pleasence and then-unknown actress Jamie Lee Curtis. The"
"a Grand Prize (for ""The Last Starfighter""), a Bronze Gryphon, and a Gold Medal of the Regional Council. Nick Castle Nicholas Charles Castle (born September 21, 1947) is an American screenwriter, film director and actor known for his role as Michael Myers in ""Halloween"", directed by John Carpenter. Castle also co-wrote ""Escape from New York"" with Carpenter. Castle was born in Kingsport, Tennessee, the son of Millie and Charles Edward Castle, who was an actor and top choreographer for motion pictures, television, and the stage, and was nominated for an Emmy. As a child, Nick Castle often appeared as an"
"Nick Castle Nicholas Charles Castle (born September 21, 1947) is an American screenwriter, film director and actor known for his role as Michael Myers in ""Halloween"", directed by John Carpenter. Castle also co-wrote ""Escape from New York"" with Carpenter. Castle was born in Kingsport, Tennessee, the son of Millie and Charles Edward Castle, who was an actor and top choreographer for motion pictures, television, and the stage, and was nominated for an Emmy. As a child, Nick Castle often appeared as an extra or in bit roles in his father's films. He studied film at USC, where he served as"
"million against a $7 million budget. Influenced by the French New Wave's ""Eyes Without a Face"" (1960), science fiction thriller ""Westworld"" (1973) and ""Black Christmas"" (1974), ""Halloween"" was directed, composed and co-written by Carpenter, who co-write with his then-girlfriend and producing partner Debra Hill on a budget of $300,000 provided by Syrian-American producer Moustapha Akkad. To minimize costs, locations were reduced and time took place over a brief period. Jamie Lee Curtis, daughter of Janet Leigh, was cast as the heroine Laurie Strode while veteran actor Donald Pleasance was cast as Dr. Sam Loomis, an homage to John Gavin's character"
"in ""Psycho"". ""Halloween""'s opening tracks a six-year-old's point-of-view as he kills his older sister, a scene emulated in numerous films such as ""Blow Out"" (1981) and ""The Funhouse"" (1981). Carpenter denies writing sexually active teens to be victims in favor of a virginal ""final girl"" survivor, though subsequent filmmakers copied what appeared to be a ""sex-equals-death"" mantra. When shown an early cut of ""Halloween"" without a musical score, all major American studios declined to distribute it, one executive even remarking that it was not scary. Carpenter added music himself, and the film was distributed locally in four Kansas City theaters"
"wanted to show the connection between Laurie and Michael, and provide a glimpse into each character's psyche. Filming primarily took place in Georgia, which provided Zombie with a tax incentive as well as the visual look the director was going for with the film. When it came time to provide a musical score, Zombie had trouble finding a place to include John Carpenter's original ""Halloween"" theme music. Although Carpenter's theme was used throughout Zombie's remake, the theme was only included in the final shot of this film. ""Halloween II"" was officially released on August 28, 2009 in North America, and"
"Charles Cyphers Charles Cyphers (born July 28, 1939) is an American actor who has starred in many films and on television. He is known in the horror movie community for his work in the films of John Carpenter, especially his role as Sheriff Leigh Brackett in Carpenter's 1978 hit horror movie ""Halloween"". He reprised this role in the 1981 sequel ""Halloween II"". He is not related to actor Jon Cypher, alongside whom he starred in ""Hill Street Blues"". Cyphers's first feature film was the 1974 movie ""Truck Turner"", and he first worked with Carpenter in the 1976 action film ""Assault"
"in York County, Pennsylvania and is loosely based on Rehmeyer's Hollow, and Pennsylvania Dutch pow-wow. Adam Senft, a struggling writer, is out walking his dog in the forest behind his house when he hears pan pipes playing, and finds one of his neighbors, Shelly Carpenter, who is fellating the stone statue of a satyr which appears to change into a living creature. Unsure of what he's seen, Adam flees the forest. At home, Adam and his wife Tara are struggling with their marriage after a miscarriage. When their neighbor Shannon Legerski disappears, her husband Paul is taken away by the"
"film ""Vampires"" (1998). Carpenter has released three studio albums, titled ""Lost Themes"" (2015), ""Lost Themes II"" (2016), and """" (2017). Carpenter was born January 16, 1948 in Carthage, New York, the son of Milton Jean (née Carter) and Howard Ralph Carpenter, a music professor. He and his family relocated to Bowling Green, Kentucky during 1953. He was interested in films from an early age, particularly the westerns of Howard Hawks and John Ford, as well as 1950s low-budget horror films, such as ""The Thing from Another World"" and high budget science fiction like ""Forbidden Planet"" and began filming horror short"
"this kind of crazy humor that people from New York would expect to see."" He brought in Nick Castle, a friend from his film school days at University of Southern California who played ""The Shape"" in ""Halloween"". Castle invented the Cabbie character and came up with the film's ending. The film's setting proved to be a potential problem for Carpenter, who needed to create a decaying, semi-destroyed version of New York City on a shoe-string budget. He and the film's production designer Joe Alves rejected shooting on location in New York City because it would be too hard to make"
"Nancy Kyes Nancy Louise Kyes (born December 19, 1949) is an American film and television actress. In most of her film appearances, she is credited under her stage name Nancy Loomis. She is best known for her role as Annie Brackett in ""Halloween"" (1978) and the sequel ""Halloween II"" (1981), as well as roles in two of John Carpenter's films: Julie in ""Assault on Precinct 13"" (1976) and Sandy Fadel in ""The Fog"" (1980). Kyes was born in Falls Church, Virginia, in the United States. She attended high school in Riverside, California, and studied theatre at Northwestern University in Evanston,"
"versus each other. It was shot in black and white for artistic effect. The story is set in Hope, Derbyshire, England. It's Christmastime, and 'tis the season to put on Shakespeare's most cheery seasonal play: ""Hamlet"". Joe Harper takes the project on as a Final Stand of sorts under the encouragement of his catty agent, advertising in the local newspaper for actors at a low price. From the rabble of actors both strange and untalented, he chooses the following: Hamlet: Joe Harper himself. Ophelia: Nina Raymond, a shortsighted well-meaning space cadet who has been using low-calorie mayonnaise for lotion because"
"have interpreted it as a statement on children's rights and variously placed it in the thriller, horror, mystery or other genres. On Halloween in the seaside town of Wells Harbor, Maine, Rynn Jacobs is celebrating her thirteenth birthday alone in her father Lester's house. Lester was a poet and the two recently moved from England, where he leased the house for three years. Frank Hallet, the adult son of landlady Cora Hallet, visits and makes sexual advances toward Rynn. Cora Hallet later arrives at the house, searching for Rynn's father. Rynn claims he is in New York and taunts the"
"such as ""Prison"" (1988). When Yablans was younger he realized he wanted to work in the movie industry by looking in one of the drive in movie theater trash and found pieces of cut out scenes. ""Halloween"" began as an idea suggested by Yablans (entitled ""The Babysitter Murders""), who envisioned a film about babysitters being menaced by a stalker. Carpenter took the idea and another suggestion from Yablans that it take place during Halloween and developed them into a story. Along with noted film producer and financier Moustapha Akkad, Yablans put forward $300,000 for the film's production, filming in Pasadena,"
"John Michael Graham John Michael Graham is an actor known for his role in the 1978 classic John Carpenter horror movie ""Halloween"" as Bob Simms, the boyfriend of P.J. Soles's character. Graham also appeared as an extra in the film ""Grease"" and several commercials in the 1970s, including Dr. Pepper. Graham has worked for Disney since 1989. In 2001, Graham wrote, produced and acted in the well received cult play ""Murder's a Drag!"". A kitschy homage to Hollywood film noir and ""women's pictures"" of the 1940s and 1950s. It was remounted in 2011, in Orlando, FL, with the original cast"
"as uniquely collaborative, with cast members often helping move equipment, cameras, and helping facilitate set-ups. ""Halloween"" was filmed in 20 days over a four-week period in May 1978. Much of the filming was completed using a Steadicam, a then-new camera that allowed the filmmakers to move around spaces smoothly. Filming locations included South Pasadena, California; Garfield Elementary School in Alhambra; and the cemetery at Sierra Madre, California. An abandoned house owned by a church stood in as the Myers house. Two homes on Orange Grove Avenue (near Sunset Boulevard) in Hollywood were used for the film's climax, as the street"
"series in subsequent films. Filming took place in the spring of 1981, primarily at Morningside Hospital in Los Angeles, California, on a budget of $2.5 million. ""Halloween II"" was distributed by Universal Pictures, and premiered in the United States on October 30, 1981. The film was a box office success, grossing over $25 million domestically, though it drew significant attention from film critics who criticized its overt violence and gore comparative to the original film. Originally, ""Halloween II"" was intended to be the last chapter of the ""Halloween"" series to revolve around Michael Myers and the town of Haddonfield, but"
"in October 2018. The film acts as a direct sequel to Carpenter's original film, ignoring the continuity of all other previous films. It is his first direct involvement with the franchise since 1982's """". Carpenter's films are characterized by minimalist lighting and photography, static cameras, use of steadicam, and distinctive synthesized scores (usually self-composed). With the exception of ""Someone's Watching Me!"", ""Elvis"", ""The Thing"", ""Starman"", ""Memoirs of an Invisible Man"", and ""The Ward"", he has scored all of his films (though some are collaborations), most famously the themes from ""Halloween"" and ""Assault on Precinct 13"". His music is generally synthesized"
"has given ""Halloween III"" new legions of fans and established its reputation as a standalone cult film. On October 23, shop owner Harry Grimbridge is chased along a barren road in Northern California by mysterious men in suits. He makes it to a gas station, clutching a jack-o'-lantern mask. He is driven to the hospital by station attendant Walter Jones. At the hospital, Grimbridge is placed in the care of Dr. Dan Challis. That night, another mysterious man in a suit enters Grimbridge's hospital room, murders him, then immolates himself. The next morning, Grimbridge's daughter, Ellie, and Challis agree to"
"open with a surgical knife and another has an adult immolate herself. John Carpenter moved the story from England to Northern California and set it in the contemporary time period. He gave female characters larger roles in the story. If the children apply moderate psychic powers, their pupils have the appearances of red or green-flecked pupils, and the color becomes a bright white when they apply strong psychic powers. Charlotte Gravenor, the hairstylist, bleached the hair of the actors who played the children, and then applied white hairspray to their hair. This made them appear like aliens. Bruce Nicholson and"
"Debra Hill Debra Hill (November 10, 1950 – March 7, 2005) was an American film producer and screenwriter, best known for producing various works of John Carpenter. She also co-wrote four of his films: ""Halloween"", ""The Fog"", ""Escape from New York"" and ""Escape from L.A."" They also wrote and produced ""Halloween II"" together, which Carpenter did not direct. Hill was born in Haddonfield, New Jersey and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1975 she started as a production assistant on adventure documentaries, and progressed through jobs as a script supervisor, assistant director and second unit director. Hill first worked with"
"gimmick, ""Black Christmas"" is visually and thematically a precursor to John Carpenter's ""Halloween"" (1978), as young women are terrorized in a previously safe environment during an iconic holiday. Like ""Halloween"", Clark's film opens with a lengthy point-of-view, but it differs in the treatment of the killer's identity. Despite making $4,053,000 on a $620,000 budget, ""Black Christmas"" was initially criticized, with ""Variety"" complaining that it was a ""bloody, senseless kill-for-kicks"" flick that exploited unnecessary violence. Despite its modest initial box office run, the film has garnered critical reappraisal, with film historians noting its importance in the horror film genre and some"
"After her death, Carpenter told Associated Press working with Hill was ""one of the greatest experiences of my life – she had a passion for not just movies about women or women's ideas but films for everybody"". Debra Hill Debra Hill (November 10, 1950 – March 7, 2005) was an American film producer and screenwriter, best known for producing various works of John Carpenter. She also co-wrote four of his films: ""Halloween"", ""The Fog"", ""Escape from New York"" and ""Escape from L.A."" They also wrote and produced ""Halloween II"" together, which Carpenter did not direct. Hill was born in Haddonfield,"
"parasite. ""Eye"" is another transplant story, this time featuring Mark Hamill as a baseball player who loses an eye in a car accident and receives a transplant, only to be taken over by the personality of the eye's previous owner, a murderous killer. A creepy-looking coroner introduces three different horror tales involving his current work on cadavers in ""body bags"". Anne is a young college student who arrives for her first job working the night shift at an all-night filling station near Haddonfield, Illinois (a reference to the setting of Carpenter's two ""Halloween"" films). The leaving worker, Bill, reminds her"
"Samuel Loomis Dr. Samuel ""Sam"" Loomis is a fictional character in the ""Halloween"" franchise. One of the two main protagonists of the overall series (the other being Laurie Strode), he appears in seven of the eleven Halloween films, first appearing in John Carpenter's original 1978 film. Donald Pleasence plays the character in five films and Malcolm McDowell portrays him in the 2007 reimagining, ""Halloween"" and its sequel ""Halloween II"". Throughout the ""Halloween"" franchise, he is depicted as the archenemy to the series' central character and primary antagonist, Michael Myers. Dr. Loomis' name was derived from Sam Loomis, played by John"
"John Carpenter in 1975, as the script supervisor and assistant editor of ""Assault on Precinct 13"". This led not only to further professional collaborations between Hill and Carpenter, but also marked the beginning of their personal relationship. In 1978, she and director Carpenter co-wrote the horror movie ""Halloween"". Following its success, Hill and Carpenter worked together on ""Halloween II"" (1981) and """" (1982). Their other credits together include: ""The Fog"" (1980), ""Escape from New York"" (1981) and its sequel, ""Escape from L.A."" (1996). In 1986, Hill formed an independent production company with her friend Lynda Obst. Together, they produced ""Adventures"
"John"" (1990), ""Bug Buster"" (1998), ""A Dog's Tale"" (1999), ""Daybreak"" (2000), ""Cahoots"" (2001), ""Hollywood, It's a Dog's Life"" (2004), ""ExTerminators"" (2009) and ""Dakota's Summer"" (2014). Though Lockhart herself claims no recollection of being approached, she was reportedly John Carpenter's first choice to play the role of main character Laurie Strode in ""Halloween"" (1978). Other commitments kept her from doing so. In addition to her television and film appearances, Lockhart has also worked extensively in commercials and voice acting. In 1997, she began working with Lane Davies to form the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival, the forerunner of the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company, which"
"October 12, 1992. The film is set in Salem, Massachusetts, but most of it was shot on sound stages in Burbank, California. However, its daytime scenes were filmed in Salem and Marblehead, Massachusetts during two weeks of filming with principal cast. Production was completed on February 10, 1993. Pioneer Village, a recreation of early-colonial Salem, was used for the opening scenes set in 1693. Other locations included Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, where Max is accosted by Ice and Jay, the Old Town Hall in Salem, where the town Halloween party takes place, and Phipps Elementary School, where the witches"
"subtitle which was used in all of the promotional material, TV spots, trailers, and merchandising; it simply says """"Halloween 5"""". A sequel, """", was released in 1995. On October 31, 1988, Michael Myers is shot and falls down a mine shaft. Escaping into a nearby creek, he stumbles upon a local hermit and falls into a coma, placing him in the hermit's care, being nursed back to health. One year later, on October 30, 1989, Michael awakens, kills the hermit, and returns to Haddonfield to find his niece Jamie Lloyd again, who narrowly avoided being killed by Michael the year"
"described by ""Variety"" as a ""Night of the Living Dead-tinged offshoot of ... Assault on Precinct 13"". In 2002, the film inspired Florent Emilio Siri's 2002 quasi-remake ""The Nest"", As a result of this film, John Carpenter would go on to work with producer Irwin Yablans on ""Halloween"", the most successful film of Carpenter's career. Due to the success of ""Assault"" in London, Carpenter named the Shape in ""Halloween"" after Michael Myers of Miracle Films, the British distributor for ""Assault"". Myers's son Martin considered the tribute as a ""tremendous honor"" and ""a lasting memorial to his late father"". Donald Pleasence"
"and received a rave review from The Orlando Sentinel. Quote: ""The clever script...plays like a sketch from the old ""Carol Burnett Show"" in which Harvey Korman and Tim Conway just happen to be playing women."" John Michael Graham John Michael Graham is an actor known for his role in the 1978 classic John Carpenter horror movie ""Halloween"" as Bob Simms, the boyfriend of P.J. Soles's character. Graham also appeared as an extra in the film ""Grease"" and several commercials in the 1970s, including Dr. Pepper. Graham has worked for Disney since 1989. In 2001, Graham wrote, produced and acted in"
"sometimes narratively diverging entirely from previous installments. A remake was released in 2007, which itself was followed by a sequel in 2009. An eleventh installment, which serves as a direct sequel to the original film that retcons all previous sequels, was released in 2018. Additionally, a novelization, video game and comic book series have been based on the film. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."" On Halloween night 1963, in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois, six-year-old Michael Myers, dressed"