Halloween (film)

Halloween (film)

Dr. Sam Loomis

• I met him, fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with this blind, pale, emotionless face and, the blackest eyes... the DEVIL'S eyes! I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up for I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... EVIL!

• [into phone] You've got to believe me, Officer, he is coming to Haddonfield... Because I know him - I'm his doctor! You must be ready for him... If you don't, it's your funeral!

• He came home!

• You've fooled them, haven't you Michael? Well, you haven't fooled me.

Others

• Laurie: Lynda, if this is a joke, I'll kill you!

• Sheriff Leigh Brackett: It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare.

• Lynda: [exposing her breasts] See anything you like?

Dialogue

Sheriff Leigh Brackett: [referring to a partially eaten dog] A man wouldn't do that.

Dr. Sam Loomis: This isn't a man.

Annie Brackett: [Michael Myers' car cruises by the girls walking home from school] Hey, jerk! SPEED KILLS!

[The car screeches to a halt, just down the street]

Annie Brackett: God, can't he take a joke?

Laurie: You know Annie some day you're going to get us all in deep trouble.

Lynda: Totally.

Annie Brackett: I HATE a guy with a car and no sense of humor.

Annie Brackett: Still spooked?

Laurie: I wasn't spooked.

Annie Brackett: LIES!

Laurie: I wasn't! I saw someone standing in Mr. Riddle's back yard.

Annie Brackett: Probably Mr. Riddle!

Laurie: He was watching me.

Annie Brackett: Mr. Riddle was watching you? Laurie, Mr. Riddle is eighty-seven!

Laurie: He can still watch.

Annie Brackett: That's probably all he can do!

Lynda: It's totally insane. We have three new cheers to learn in the morning, the game is in the afternoon, I have to get my hair done at five, and the dance is at eight! I'll be totally wiped out!

Laurie: [sarcastically] I don't think you have enough to do tomorrow.

Lynda: Totally!

Marion Chambers: [referring to Michael Myers] Don't you think it would be better if you referred to "it" as "him"?

Dr. Sam Loomis: If you say so.

Marion Chambers: Your compassion's overwhelming, doctor.

Dr. Terence Wynn: Now, for God's sake, he can't even drive a car!

Dr. Sam Loomis: He was doing very well last night! Maybe someone around here gave him lessons!

Sheriff Leigh Brackett: I have a feeling that you're way off on this.

Dr. Sam Loomis: You have the wrong feeling.

Sheriff Leigh Brackett: You're not doing very much to prove me wrong!

Dr. Sam Loomis: What more do you need?

Sheriff Leigh Brackett: Well, it's going to take a lot more than fancy talk to keep me up all night crawling around these bushes.

Dr. Sam Loomis: I- I- I watched him for fifteen years, sitting in a room, staring at a wall, not seeing the wall, looking past the wall - looking at this night, inhumanly patient, waiting for some secret, silent alarm to trigger him off. Death has come to your little town, Sheriff. Now you can either ignore it, or you can help me to stop it.

Sheriff Leigh Brackett: More fancy talk.

Sheriff Leigh Brackett: Every kid in Haddonfield thinks this place is haunted.

Dr. Sam Loomis: They may be right.

Dr. Sam Loomis: [pulling his gun after being startled by a crash] You must think me a very sinister doctor... oh, I have a permit.

Sheriff Leigh Brackett: Seems to me you're just plain scared.

Dr. Sam Loomis: Yeah, yeah I am...

Graveyard Keeper: Yeah, you know every town has something like this happen... I remember over in Russellville, old Charlie Bowles, about fifteen years ago... One night, he finished dinner, and he excused himself from the table. He went out to the garage, and got himself a hacksaw. Then he went back into the house, kissed his wife and his two children goodbye, and then he proceeded to...

Dr. Sam Loomis: Where are we?

Graveyard Keeper: Eh? Oh, it's, uh, right over here...

[Michael Myers is lurking behind a hedge near the sidewalk]

Laurie: Annie, look!

Annie Brackett: Look where? I don't see anything.

Laurie: That guy who passed us in the car before, the one you yelled at!

Annie Brackett: Subtle, isn't he?

[Marches over to the bush]

Annie Brackett: Hey, creep!

[pauses]

Annie Brackett: Laurie, dear. He wants to talk to you. He wants to take you out tonight.

Laurie: [Coming over, then seeing there's nobody there] He was standing right there.

Annie Brackett: Poor Laurie! Scared another one away. It's tragic, you NEVER go out. You must have a small fortune stashed away from babysitting so much.

Laurie: Guys thinks I'm too smart.

Annie Brackett: I don't, I think you're wacko. Now you're seeing men behind bushes!

Lynda: So Annie, are we still on for tonight?

Annie Brackett: I wouldn't want to get you in deep trouble, Lynda!

Lynda: Oh come on Annie! Bob and I have been planning it for weeks.

Annie Brackett: Alright, the Wallace's leave at seven.

Laurie: I'm babysitting the Doyle's, it's two houses down. We can keep each other company!

Annie Brackett: Oh terrific, I've got three choices: Watch the kid sleep, listen to Lynda screw around or talk to you!

Lynda: [concerning Annie] The only reason she baby sits is to have a place for...

Laurie: [realizing she had forgotten something] Shit.

Annie Brackett: I have a place for that!

Laurie: I forgot my chemistry book.

Lynda: So who cares? I always forget my chemistry book and my math book, and my English book, and my, let's see, my French book, and... well who needs books anyway, I don't need books, I always forget all my books, I mean, it doesn't really matter if you have your books or not... [Michael Myers drives by] Hey isn't that Devon Graham?

Laurie: I don't think so.

Tommy Doyle: Laurie, what's the boogeyman?

Laurie: There's no such thing.

Lynda: Now when we get inside, Annie will distract Lindsey and we go upstairs to the first bedroom on the right. Got it?

Bob: First I rip your clothes off...

Lynda: Don't rip my blouse, it's expensive you idiot!

Bob: Then I rip my clothes off, then I rip Lindsey's clothes off, yeah I think I got it. [Lynda giggles]

Lindsey Wallace: I'm scared!

Laurie: There's nothing to be scared of, now get changed.

Tommy Doyle: Are you sure?

Laurie: Yes.

Tommy Doyle: How?

Laurie: I killed him...

Tommy Doyle: BUT YOU CAN'T KILL THE BOOGIE MAN!

Laurie: [after Michael falls off the balcony] It was the boogeyman.

Dr. Sam Loomis: As a matter of fact... it was.

Taglines

• The Night HE Came Home!

• HE came home for HALLOWEEN.

• Everyone is entitled to one good scare

• Trick or treat... or die

• Let's celebrate the horror

• Happy Halloween!

• The Trick Is To Stay Alive!

Cast

• Donald Pleasence - Dr. Sam Loomis
• Jamie Lee Curtis - Laurie Strode
• Nancy Loomis - Annie Brackett
• P.J. Soles - Lynda
• Charles Cyphers - Sheriff Leigh Brackett
• Kyle Richards - Lindsey Wallace
• Brian Andrews - Tommy Doyle
• John Michael Graham - Bob Simms
• Nancy Stephens - Marion Chambers
• Tony Moran - Michael Myers (age 23)

External links

• Halloween quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Halloween at Rotten Tomatoes