Halloween

Halloween

Release Date

1978

Director

  • John Carpenter

Cast

  • Donald Pleasence
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Tony Moran

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 to kill again.

On a cold Halloween night in 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally murdered his 17-year-old sister, Judith. He was sentenced and locked away for 15 years. But on October 30, 1978, while being transferred for a court date, a 21-year-old Michael Myers (Tony Moran) steals a car and escapes and returns to his quiet hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he looks for his next victims.

Past Programs

2016

The Science of Fear

Center of Science and Industry, Columbus, OH