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In 1978, executive producer Irwin Yablans got an idea. That idea was to make a low budget exploitation horror film called "The Baby-Sitter Murders". Excited about this project, he called John Carpenter, who had just directed a chilling exploitation action film called "Assault On Precinct 13". John Carpenter agreed to direct the film if he was allowed total autonomy. Yablans gave creative control to Carpenter and suggested the film take place on Halloween night and instead of "The Baby-Sitter Murders", title the film "Halloween". Carpenter hired Debra Hill (Who had been script supervisor on "Assault On Precinct 13") to produce and write the film with him. Together, John Carpenter & Debra Hill made one of the scariest and most stylish horror films ever: the horror classic, "Halloween".

The film opens in Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night, 1963. An unknown voyeur watches a young woman and her boyfriend go up to her bedroom to have sex. The voyeur moves into the kitchen and selects a large knife. The boyfriend leaves and the voyeur moves its way upstairs and into the woman's bedroom. Shocked that she has been spied on, the young woman screams "Michael?". The voyeur takes the knife and stabs the woman repeatedly, then runs outside to be confronted by his parents. The camera pulls back to reveal the voyeur is a six year old boy, who has just murdered his sister. This boy, Michael Myers is then locked up in Smith's Grove Sanitarium. 15 years later, on October 30, 1978, Michael Myers (Nick Castle) escapes and heads towards Haddonfield to kill again. Myers' Doctor, Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) knows the pure evil that lurks in Michael's psyche and knows that he will head for his hometown to kill. Michael Myers arrives in Haddonfield just in time for old memories to be sparked by three high school students. The sweet, lonely and virginal Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis), the smart-aleck Annie (Nancy Loomis) and the peppy cheerleader, Lynda (P.J. Soles). Michael Myers continuously stalks them while they're baby-sitting on Halloween night before dispatching them one by one. Laurie gets suspicious when no one answers the phone at the house where Annie is baby-sitting and decides to check it out. There she discovers the bodies of her friends and confronts the psychopath that has been stalking her and that has murdered her friends. Laurie runs to save the kids she has been baby-sitting and to seek refuge from Michael Myers. But, Myers follows and Laurie fights hard for her life. Myers is eventually shot six times by Dr. Loomis and falls off a balcony, only to get up and disappear into the night.