Halloween 1978 Vintage T-shirt

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Halloween is a 1978 independent horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her feature film debut. The film was the first installment in a franchise that, as of 2020, has spawned seven sequels and two reboots. The film's plot begins on Halloween night in 1963 when Michael Myers murders his sister in the fictional Midwestern American town of Haddonfield, Illinois. Fifteen years later, on October 30, 1978, he escapes from the Smith's Grove sanatorium where he is being held and returns to Haddonfield to kill again. The next day, Halloween, Michael stalks teenager Laurie Strode. Michael's psychiatrist, Dr. Sam Loomis, knowing Michael's intentions, goes to town to find and stop him.

Halloween was produced on a budget of $300,000 and grossed $47 million at the box office in the United States and $23 million internationally, earning $70 million worldwide, equivalent to approximately $267 million as of 2016. This makes it one of the most profitable independent films of all time.

Many critics credit the film as the first in a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Due to its popularity, it is also credited with inspiring other films, spawning many clichés found in low-budget horror films of the 1980s and 1990s, and several techniques and plot elements have become tropes of the genre. However, unlike many of its imitators, Halloween contains little graphic violence and gore. It was one of the first horror films to introduce the concept of the killer being killed and brought back to life again within the same film. Some critics have suggested that Myers' film may encourage sadism and misogyny by audiences who identify with its villain. Others have suggested that it is a social critique of immoral behavior in teenagers and young adults, by depicting Myers' victims as sexually promiscuous or substance abusers, while the heroine is depicted as an innocent and pure young woman. The director has repeatedly rejected such analyses.