A babysitting gig, a quiet suburban street, and a stranger who just won't stay down.
Before his Halloween rampage, the escaped killer swipes something heavy from his hometown cemetery. What does he steal?
His sister's tombstone Michael Myers killed his teenage sister Judith as a six-year-old, and Laurie later finds her stolen headstone upstairs beside her friends' bodies.
Offered a tiny paycheck to write, direct, and compose the music, John Carpenter said yes on one condition. What did he insist on?
Full creative control The gamble paid off, since the shoestring slasher became one of the most profitable independent films ever made.
The doctor chasing the killer is named after a character from an older horror classic, one starring the lead actress's real-life mom. Which Hitchcock film?
Psycho Jamie Lee Curtis made her film debut as Laurie Strode, and her mother Janet Leigh had played Marion Crane, whose boyfriend in Psycho was Sam Loomis.
To fool a teenage girl, the masked killer dresses up as her boyfriend. What classic trick-or-treat costume does he throw on?
A ghost costume Lynda teases the silent figure in the doorway, never realizing her real boyfriend Bob is already dead downstairs.
Older horror movies left women waiting to be rescued, but Laurie fights back and survives. What nickname did critics give this kind of last-one-standing heroine?
The final girl Scholar Carol J. Clover argued that Halloween started the role, helping the film pioneer the whole slasher genre.
