#The babysitter horror movie series#
#The babysitter horror movie windows#

Annie later takes Lindsey over to the Doyle house to spend the night so she can pick up her boyfriend Paul.

#The babysitter horror movie windows#

Tommy sees Michael from the windows and thinks he is the boogeyman, but Laurie does not believe him. Michael follows them, spying on Annie and killing the Wallaces' dog. That night, Laurie babysits Tommy Doyle, while Annie babysits Lindsey Wallace across the street. Brackett is doubtful of the danger but goes to patrol the streets, while Loomis waits at the house, expecting Michael to return. He meets with Annie's father, Sheriff Leigh Brackett, and they investigate Michael's house, where Loomis tells Brackett that Michael is pure evil. Loomis arrives in Haddonfield in search of Michael and finds Judith's tombstone missing from the local cemetery. Laurie notices Michael stalking her throughout the day but her friends Annie Brackett and Lynda Van der Klok dismiss her concerns. On Halloween, he sees high school student Laurie Strode drop off a key at the long-abandoned Myers house that her father is trying to sell. Upon arriving, he steals knives, ropes, and a white, expressionless mask from the local hardware store. However, Michael steals their car and escapes Smith's Grove, killing a mechanic for his coveralls on the way back to Haddonfield. Samuel Loomis, and his colleague, Marion Chambers, arrive at the sanitarium to escort Michael to court for a hearing Loomis hopes the outcome of the hearing is that Michael will be locked up for life. On October 30, 1978, Michael's psychiatrist, Dr. For the next fifteen years, he is incarcerated at Smith's Grove Sanitarium. On Halloween night in 1963, in the fictional suburban town of Haddonfield, Illinois, six-year-old Michael Myers stabs his teenage sister Judith to death with a chef's knife.

#The babysitter horror movie series#

Additionally, a novelization, a video game and comic book series have been based on the film. An eleventh installment, which serves as a direct sequel to the original film that retcons all previous sequels, was released in 2018 this was followed by two direct sequels: Halloween Kills (2021) and the upcoming Halloween Ends (2022). A remake was released in 2007, which was followed by a sequel in 2009. A direct sequel of the film was released in 1981. Halloween spawned a film franchise comprising thirteen films which helped construct an extensive backstory for its antagonist Michael Myers, sometimes narratively diverging entirely from previous installments. 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'. It is considered one of the greatest and most influential horror films ever made. Primarily praised for Carpenter's direction and score, many critics credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), and Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974). Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his hometown, where he stalks a female babysitter and her friends, while under pursuit by his psychiatrist.įilming took place in Southern California in May 1978 the work premiered in October, whereupon it grossed $70 million, becoming one of the most profitable independent films of all time.

The plot centers around a mental patient, Michael Myers, who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his babysitting teenage sister on Halloween night when he was six years old. Soles and Nancy Kyes appearing in supporting roles. Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut) and Donald Pleasence, with P.