Barone, Matt (October 23, 2017). "The Best Slasher Films of All Time". Complex. Archived from the original on December 12, 2018 . Retrieved January 21, 2020. Lou Cedrone of The Baltimore Evening Sun referred to it as "tediously familiar" and whose only notable element is "Jamie Lee Curtis, whose performance as the intended fourth victim, is well above the rest of the film." [117] Halloween". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on February 9, 2015 . Retrieved January 15, 2015.

Spawning a franchise that consists of 13 films to date, the iconic film featuring Michael Myers has an iconic poster to match. Robert Gleason's haunting artwork depicts a knife wielding pumpkin face and is instantly recognisable. This US One-Sheet poster is from the original International release of the film in 1978 and is in great condition.It’s a fun Easter egg because it’s something most fans have probably never noticed before – and of course, once you do notice it, the image is nearly impossible to forget. If you take a look at the hand holding the knife on the poster, you’ll notice the textures of its skin and veins make up the caricature of a face screaming in fear. Yikes. This cult zombie film was George A. Romero’s directorial debut. Not only did it give birth to a new genre in American cinema, the typeface used for the poster and titles spawned many imitations in the years that followed. Bradley-Tschirgi, Mat (May 30, 2017). "9 Spooky Horror Atari 2600 Games That Are Worth a Damn". Dread Central. Archived from the original on August 23, 2017 . Retrieved September 8, 2018. Muir, John Kenneth (2012). The Films of John Carpenter. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9348-7. Turek, Ryan (September 13, 2012). "John Carpenter's Halloween Returning to Theaters This Fall". ComingSoon.net. Archived from the original on September 12, 2017 . Retrieved September 8, 2018.

Synapse Finds Complete Halloween Negatives". Fangoria. August 29, 2006. Archived from the original on February 28, 2007. Tony Moran as Michael Myers – age 21 (mistakenly 23 in credits) (Michael Myers unmasked at the end of the film) Noël, Carroll (Autumn 1987). "The Nature of Horror". Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 1 (46): 51–59. doi: 10.1515/9781942401209-006. S2CID 239368695.

D'Alessandro, Anthony (July 8, 2020). "Blumhouse & Universal Move 'Halloween Kills', 'Forever Purge' & More To Later Release Dates". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020 . Retrieved October 20, 2021. The major themes present in Halloween also became common in the slasher films it inspired. Film scholar Pat Gill notes that in Halloween, there is a theme of absentee parents [13] but films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th feature the parents becoming directly responsible for the creation of the killer. [157] Calendar: Movies: Halloween". Los Angeles Times. November 5, 1978. p.44. Archived from the original on September 9, 2018 . Retrieved September 8, 2018– via Newspapers.com. Halloween (1978)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Archived from the original on August 14, 2019 . Retrieved October 29, 2019. The art in question offers up glimpses of the world of the dead known in the game as Limbo (and the monsters within), which also showing the various locales of the world of the living you’ll be traversing. That includes the Tatooist, who was revealed in the Gamescom trailer.

Empire 's 500 Greatest Movies of All Time". Empire. Archived from the original on November 7, 2011 . Retrieved July 31, 2011. Synopsis: A re-imagining of the horror icon Freddy Krueger, a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality.Minutalio, Rose. "The Untold Story of the Real Person Who Inspired Halloween's Michael Myers". Esquire . Retrieved November 3, 2023. Librarian of Congress Adds Home Movie, Silent Films and Hollywood Classics to Film Preservation List". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on April 12, 2020 . Retrieved April 30, 2020.

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Artist Bob Gleason is the man responsible for the iconic original Halloween poster art, but from what I gather, he had no idea about this hidden little oddity until it was pointed out to him. Gleason’s own hand served as the model for Myers’ hand on the poster, but it seems the appearance of the screaming face was completely unintentional. Byrnes, Chad (October 22, 2018). "A Killer List: The Greatest Movie Slashers of All Time". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on July 3, 2019 . Retrieved January 21, 2020. a b Stark, Susan (December 1, 1978). " 'Halloween': A cult film is born". Detroit Free Press. Detroit, Michigan. p.2B. Archived from the original on September 9, 2018 . Retrieved September 8, 2018– via Newspapers.com. a b Berardinelli, James. "review of Halloween". ReelViews. Archived from the original on September 8, 2018 . Retrieved September 5, 2018. DEBRA HILL'S SPEECH – A 1998 INTRODUCTION TO HALLOWEEN". Archived from the original on October 16, 2007 . Retrieved December 4, 2018.