What is Halloween (1978 movie)?
{{for|the 2018 movie and near final installment of the franchise|Halloween (2018 movie)}} '''''Halloween''''' is a 1978 [[horror movie]] and the first film in the [[Halloween (series)|''Halloween'' movie series]]. On Halloween 1963 in [[Illinois]], six year old Michael Myers [[murder]]s his [[sister]]. Fifteen [[year]]s later, he escapes from a [[psychiatric hospital]], returns home and [[stalking|stalks]] [[teenager]] Laurie Strode and her friends. It was remade [[Halloween (2007 movie)|in 2007]]. The movie's script was created and the movie was filmed in under twenty days.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59788/15-terrifying-facts-about-john-carpenters-halloween|title=15 Terrifying Facts About John Carpenter’s Halloween|date=October 26, 2018|publisher=Mental Floss}}</ref> ==Plot== On [[Halloween]] night 1963, in the town of Haddonfield, [[Illinois]], six-year-old [[Michael Myers]], dressed in a clown costume, stabs his older sister Judith to death with a kitchen knife in their home. Fifteen years later, on October 30, 1978, Michael's psychiatrist, [[Samuel Loomis|Dr. Samuel Loomis]], and his colleague, Marion Chambers, arrive at Warren County's Smith's Grove Sanitarium to escort Michael to court. Michael escapes the sanitarium, stealing Loomis' car in the process, and returning home to Haddonfield. On the road, Michael kills a mechanic for his coveralls. He then steals a mask, knives, and rope from a local hardware store. The following day, on Halloween, Michael begins [[stalking]] high school student [[Laurie Strode]] after she drops off a key at his former house, so her father can sell it. Throughout the day, Laurie notices Michael following her, but her best friends Annie Brackett and Lynda Van der Klok dismiss her concerns. Loomis arrives in Haddonfield in search of Michael, visiting Judith's [[grave]] in the local [[cemetery]], only to find her [[tombstone]] stolen. He meets with Haddonfield's [[sheriff]], Leigh Brackett, Annie's father, and they both go to Michael's house, where L