Halloween is a movie novelization written by Curtis Richards in 1979 and based on the movie of the same name, directed by John Carpenter in 1978. The movie features Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Nancy Loomis, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers, Kyle Richards, and others.
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Storyline
On October 31, 1963, on Halloween night in the fictional small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, six-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably stabs his older sister Judith to death with a kitchen knife in their home and is incarcerated at Smith’s Grove sanitarium. He meets with Annie’s father, Sheriff Leigh Brackett, and they both investigate Michael’s house, where Loomis tells Sheriff Brackett of the danger Michael poses.
Movie vs Book
Year
1978
Minutes
91
Movie Rate
7.70
Source: IMDb
Year
1979
Pages
168
Book Rate
8.28
S: Goodreads
Book
Halloween
Author: Curtis Richards
Country: USA
First published in: 1979
Length: 168 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Halloween
User polls & recommendations
“The book is so rich. There are so many fantastic details, but in order to preserve and have the time to bring that to the screen, we had to make important choices.”
DENIS VILLENEUVE (Filmmaker, Scriptwriter)
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