John Carpenter & Debra Hill’s ‘Halloween’ Comes Home to Theaters this Month!
Nearly fifty years later, John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s iconic slasher ‘Halloween’ comes home to theaters this month!
Nearly fifty years after its release, John Carpenter‘s slasher classic, Halloween, remains the definitive October horror movie. You can’t go anywhere during the Fall season without being reminded of Michael Myers. Not that any of us are complaining. And this year, fans will receive a particularly tasty treat, as we’ve learned that the iconic film will return to theaters this month, courtesy of Trancas International Films!
That’s right. Halloween will come home to hundreds of U.S. theaters nationwide this October with nearly 2,000 screenings while also expanding internationally to twelve countries. This international expansion features more than 180 screenings set for this October and additional dates being added regularly. Countries include Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom.
If you’ve somehow managed to get to this point in your life without seeing Halloween (you should fix that), the film opens on Halloween night in 1963, when six-year-old Michael Myers brutally murders his seventeen-year-old sister, Judith. Sentenced and locked away for fifteen years, Michael escapes Smith’s Grove Sanitarium on October 30, 1978, at age twenty-one, and returns to his quiet hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, in search of his next victims.
Halloween was written by horror icons John Carpenter (The Thing) and Debra Hill (The Fog) and directed by Carpenter. It starred Jamie Lee Curtis (Terror Train) in her film debut, alongside (), () and ().
