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HALLOWEEN (1978)

On Halloween night in 1963, a six-year-old Michael Myers brutally murders his older sister Judith with a large knife in their Haddonfield, Illinois home. He would be sent to Smith's Grove Sanitarium, with Dr. Samuel Loomis being assigned to his case. Fifteen years later on October 30, 1978, Loomis and his colleague Marion Chambers arrive at the sanitarium to escort Michael to a hearing, only to see all of the other inmates roaming around the yard in the rain. Concerned, Loomis exits the car to investigate, allowing Michael to ambush Marion before stealing their car and driving back to Haddonfield, killing a mechanic for some overalls along the way. The following morning on Halloween, Michael steals some rope, some knives, and a Halloween mask from various local stores.

Meanwhile, a 17-year-old Laurie Strode walks to school alongside a child she'll be babysitting later on Tommy Doyle. Along the way, she leaves a key at Michael's abandoned childhood home as her father is trying to sell the property, unaware of Michael's presence inside. Loomis soon arrives in Haddonfield in search of Michael, meeting Sherriff Leigh Brackett, who dismisses Loomis' concerns but agrees to help him nonetheless. Throughout the day, Michael begins stalking Laurie, who notices, with her friends Lynda van der Klok and Annie Brackett dismissing her concerns, only believing it to be some kind of Halloween joke.