Movies like Halloween

Key Features:: Slasher, Masked killer, Halloween, Small town setting, Escaped mental patient, Final girl, Supernatural horror, Psychological horror, Violence-high, Cult classic, Franchise foundation
Tone:: serious, suspense-driven, gritty
Target Audience:: Horror fans, Cult film enthusiasts, Suspense seekers
Emotional Arc:: Anticipation → Dread → Terror

Halloween

1978-10-24

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Genres

Horror, Thriller

Cast

Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P. J. Soles, Charles Cyphers, Kyle Richards, Brian Andrews, John Michael Graham, Nancy Stephens, Arthur Malet

Crew

John Carpenter, John Carpenter, Debra Hill

Rating

★7.6(5983 votes)