This Halloween night, celebrate the holiday with the film that helped define it.
John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN (1978) returns to the big screen at the Hi-Pointe Theatre for a special Halloween night screening. More than four decades after Michael Myers first stalked the streets of Haddonfield, Carpenter’s landmark horror classic remains one of the most suspenseful, influential, and downright terrifying movies ever made.

On Halloween night in 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers murders his teenage sister and is committed to a psychiatric hospital. Fifteen years later, Michael escapes and returns to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois. As psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis desperately searches for him, Michael begins stalking high-school student Laurie Strode and her friends, transforming an ordinary Halloween night into a relentless nightmare.

“Halloween is an absolutely merciless thriller.” — Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Metacritic

“From the first shot to the last, this movie is confidently guided by a specific and committed vision.” — Jason Zinoman, The New York Times