10/11/25 - 31 Days of Halloween Movies
By LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222986)
United States
October 11, 2025 4:24am CST
1978 - Halloween
What list of Halloween movies would be complete without the slasher film, Halloween. This movie was actually responsible for the development of the slasher genre. Halloween was one of the most profitable independent films of all time, shot with a budget of only $300,000-$325,000 and bringing in $70 million at the box office. The screenplay was written in a mere 10 days; and Director John Carpenter was asked to score the movie to make it more scary. This film spawned a 13-film franchise.
In 1963 in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, the 6-year-old Michael Myers (the masked Myers was played by Nick Castle) kills his teenage sister with a chef's knife.
15 years later Dr. Samuel Loomis (Donald Pleasence) heads for the sanitarium with nurse Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens) where Michael is incarcerated. Dr. Loomis is to take Michael to a court hearing. When they arrive at the gate, Myers jumps on the car hood, attacks Marion and steals the car.
After killing a mechanic and stealing his coveralls and stealing a mask from a hardware store (the mask is modeled after William Shatner's Captain Kirk character) he begins stalking Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis).
Dr. Loomis, who is Michael's psychiatrist, spends the movie tracking him down.
Photo Credit: Pixabay
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15 responses
@Orson_Kart (8321)
• United Kingdom
11 Oct
There have been a few sequels, but I think this is the best of the lot. 
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@ptrikha_2 (49775)
• India
11 Oct
That sounds like an interesting review. Although I have not been a big fan of Horror movies, I have seen a few.
May be fans of such movies would be rating this one quite highly.
Why did you term it as 'slasher" ? (Your initial sentence).
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@ptrikha_2 (49775)
• India
12 Oct
@LindaOHio
Well, quite got it !
Is the movie slow paced, or just fine?
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@FourWalls (86950)
• United States
11 Oct
Probably to no one’s big surprise, I haven’t seen it. 
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
13 Oct
@FourWalls I prefer thrillers to horror and slasher films.
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@RasmaSandra (98156)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 Oct
I have all in video, The original is the best the second where she runs around the hospital is too much and the one about the Halloween mask factory is a bit too frightening,
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@RasmaSandra (98156)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Oct
@LindaOHio that is so not as good as the original, You should take a look at the second one when the chase if through the hospital
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
12 Oct
I think Halloween Season of the Witch is the mask factory, isn't it? I've seen that a couple of times.
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
13 Oct
@porwest And you're a guy. Women are usually more afraid to be alone at night. I know I am.
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
12 Oct
Yes. I won't watch this one anymore now that I'm alone.
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@porwest (112928)
• United States
12 Oct
@LindaOHio I can still watch scary things alone. I guess it's the horror writer in me.
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
12 Oct
Yup. Now that my husband is gone, I won't watch this one alone.
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@snowy22315 (209252)
• United States
12 Oct
@LindaOHio I am never afraid to watch scary movies alone. I admit I did have a nightmare once though because I was watching it in bed right before I went to sleep. Not Halloween but one of the Scream versions.
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
13 Oct
@snowy22315 I hate the break-in movies. I've adjusted a bit to being alone but not totally.
@celticeagle (190117)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Oct
I never watched any of those movies like Halloween, Elm Street and seems like there's one other I can't recall. Funny how Micheal keeps seeming to die and then comes back. Again, and again. They make a lot of money and that keeps them coming.
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@celticeagle (190117)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Oct
@LindaOHio ......I may have seen a scene from one once down through the years.
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
12 Oct
Yup. I've never seen the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
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@LeaPea2417 (40061)
• Toccoa, Georgia
11 Oct
I never watched any of the Halloween movies.
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
12 Oct
I won't watch any of the scary ones now that my husband is gone.
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@wolfgirl569 (136091)
• Marion, Ohio
11 Oct
I watched that one but it isn't one I cared for
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@wolfgirl569 (136091)
• Marion, Ohio
12 Oct
@LindaOHio A mixture of things. I do enjoy horror, science fiction and even some documentaries
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
13 Oct
@wolfgirl569 I like thrillers, some science fiction, comedies, true stories, true crime and some documentaries.
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
12 Oct
What type of movies do you like to watch?
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@MommyOfEli2013 (89983)
• Rupert, Idaho
11 Oct
Now this is more my genre of Halloween movies. That is very interesting that this movie has a character named Sam Loomis and that their partner was a Marion.
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
12 Oct
The first movie is the best. A couple of the sequels aren't bad.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
11 Oct
Wow! That's a lot of movies to watch. I try to look for some and watch them.
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
13 Oct
@Nakitakona I've seen all of these so far. I usually record a movie and then watch it when I have time.
@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
12 Oct
@LindaOHio Do you schedule them for watching?
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@LindaOHio (222986)
• United States
12 Oct
Now that my hubby is gone, I won't watch the really scary movies alone.
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