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Halloween
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #801
- IMDb #681
- Google retired #1739
- Rotten Tomatoes #232
- Metacritic #105
- Letterboxd #1259
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #196
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #602
- Metacritic Critics #160
- Metacritic Audience #158
- Criticker #875
- Douban #1849
- Kinopoisk #2595
- AlloCiné #1434
- Trakt #1228
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 59, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97. Critics average 94, everyone else 76.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Fifteen years after murdering his sister, a mentally disturbed man escapes from a sanitarium and returns to his quiet hometown. He stalks a teenage babysitter and her friends on Halloween night. A psychiatrist who knows the killer's evil nature races to find him before the night is over, while the young woman must fight for her life against the seemingly unstoppable force.
Details
- Director
- John Carpenter
- Writers
- Debra Hill, John Carpenter
- Released
- 24 October 1978
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $325.0K
- Box office
- $70.3M
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Cast
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Awards
9 wins & 3 nominations total
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