Tremble with fear with John Carpenter’s classic thanks to this Halloween Movie Poster that is sure to terrify your guests!
- Paper Feature:
- 🎨 Canvas: global standard in terms of printing and imitating a “canvas” look.
- By default, the poster contains a 4cm white border for framing (frame not included). If you don’t want it, please choose “without white border”.
- ✅ Size: Multiple choices available. ✅
- High UV resistance.
- Color vibrancy maximum, glare-free.
- recycled paper, guaranteeing environmental friendliness.
- Poster packaged carefully and delivered in a protective tube for Total protection.
- FREE STANDARD DELIVERY.
⚠️ Frame not included. ⚠️
Description of this Halloween Movie Poster
Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher 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 plot tells the story of a mentally ill man who is committed to a sanitarium for murdering his teenage sister who was babysitting him on Halloween night, when he was six years old. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his hometown, where he stalks a babysitter and her friends, all the while being pursued by his psychiatrist.
Filming took place in Southern California in May 1978, before its October premiere, where it grossed $70 million, becoming one of the highest-grossing independent films of all time. Primarily praised for Carpenter’s direction and score, many critics consider the film the first in a long line of horror films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) and Bob Clark’s Black Christmas (1974).
Halloween spawned a film franchise comprising eleven films that helped build a vast backstory for its antagonist Michael Myers, sometimes deviating completely from previous installments. A remake was released in 2007, followed by a sequel in 2009. An eleventh installment, which serves as a direct sequel to the original film and retcons all previous sequels, was released in 2018. Two sequels to this installment, titled Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, are scheduled for release on October 15, 2021, and October 14, 2022, respectively. In addition, a novelization, a video game, and a comic book series have been based on the film. In 2006, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
On Halloween night 1963, in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, six-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably stabs his teenage sister Judith to death with a kitchen knife. For the next fifteen years, he was incarcerated at the Smith’s Grove Sanitarium. On October 30, 1978, Michael’s psychiatrist, Dr. Samuel Loomis, and his colleague, Marion Chambers, arrived at the sanitarium to escort Michael to court for a hearing; Loomis hoped the outcome of the hearing would mean Michael would never be released from Smith’s Grove. However, Michael stole their car and escaped from Smith’s Grove, killing a mechanic for his overalls on the way back to Haddonfield. On his way home, Michael stole a blank, white mask from a hardware store. On Halloween, he saw high school senior Laurie Strode drop a key into the abandoned Myers house that her father was trying to sell. Laurie noticed Michael stalking her throughout the day, but her friends Annie Brackett and Lynda Van der Klok ignored her concerns. Loomis arrives in Haddonfield looking for Michael and discovers that Judith’s gravestone has disappeared from the local cemetery. He meets Annie’s father, Sheriff Leigh Brackett, and they investigate Michael’s house, where Loomis tells Brackett that Michael is pure evil. Brackett doubts the danger but leaves to patrol the streets, while Loomis waits at home for Michael to return. That evening, Laurie babysits Tommy Doyle, while Annie babysits Lindsey Wallace across the street.
Michael follows them, spying on Annie and killing the Wallaces’ dog. Tommy sees Michael from the windows and thinks it’s the bogeyman, but Laurie doesn’t believe him. Later, Annie takes Lindsey to the Doyles’ house to spend the night so she can pick up her boyfriend, Paul. When she gets into her car, Michael jumps out of the back seat, strangles her, and slits her throat. Shortly after, Lynda and her boyfriend Bob Simms arrive at the Wallace house and find it empty. After making love, Bob goes downstairs to get a beer, where Michael pins him against the wall with a kitchen knife. Michael then impersonates Bob in a ghost costume and confronts Lynda, who teases him to no avail. Annoyed, she calls Laurie to find out what happened to Annie. Michael strangles Lynda with the telephone cord while Laurie listens on the other end, thinking it’s a joke. Meanwhile, Loomis discovers the stolen car and begins searching the streets. Suspicious of the phone call, Laurie goes to the Wallace house across the street and discovers the bodies of her friends, as well as Judith’s tombstone, in the upstairs bedroom. She runs into the hallway in terror, where Michael suddenly appears in the darkness and cuts her arm, causing her to fall over the banister.
Wounded, she narrowly escapes and runs back to the Doyle house, but she has lost the front door keys after falling down the stairs. Tommy lets her in, then she orders him and Lindsey to hide, before realizing the phone is dead. Michael sneaks through the window and attacks her again, but she incapacitates him by stabbing him in the neck with a knitting needle. Thinking he is dead, Laurie stumbles upstairs to check on the children, but is shocked to see Michael alive. She tells the children to hide in the bathroom while Laurie hides in the bedroom closet, but Michael finds her and breaks in, so she stabs him in the eye with a coat hanger and in the chest with his own knife. She then tells Tommy and Lindsey to go down the street to a neighbor’s house to call the police. After they leave, Michael wakes up again and slowly approaches the unsuspecting Laurie. Loomis sees the children running out of the house and goes to investigate, finding Michael and Laurie fighting upstairs; Laurie rips Michael’s mask off, making him reluctant to put it back on. Loomis shoots Michael six times, knocking him off the balcony. Laurie asks Loomis if Michael was the “boogeyman,” which Loomis confirms. Loomis goes to the balcony and finds that Michael is gone. Unsurprisingly, he stares into the night as Laurie begins to sob. Michael’s breathing is heard during a montage of places he has recently been, indicating that he could be anywhere.