Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film set in the
fictional Midwest town of Haddonfield, Illinois, on Halloween. The
film was directed by John Carpenter and stars Donald Pleasence as Dr.
Sam Loomis, Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, and Nick Castle as
Michael Myers. The film centers on Michael Myers' escape from a
psychiatric hospital, his murdering of teenagers, and Sam Loomis's
attempts to track and stop Myers. Halloween was produced on a budget
of only $325,000 and grossed $47 million at the box office in the
United States, making it the most successful independent film in
American movie history. Many critics credit this film as the first in
a long line of slasher films inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
(1960). The movie originated many of the clichés seen in low-budget
horror films of the 1980s and 1990s, although first-time viewers of
Halloween may be surprised by the fact that the film contains little
actual graphic violence or gore.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
27 BC:
Gaius Octavius was given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus)
929:
Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III of Cordoba declared himself caliph, thereby
establishing the Caliph of Córdoba.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd-ar-Rahman_III)
1547:
Ivan the Terrible was crowned Tsar of Russia.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_IV_of_Russia)
1909:
The expedition led by Ernest Shackleton located the Magnetic South
Pole.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton)
2006:
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was sworn in as President of Liberia, becoming
Africa's first female elected head of state.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Johnson-Sirleaf)
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Wikiquote of the day:
To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects
me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have
from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what
continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better. A
better state of one's feelings or simply the idea of a silence in
one's self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the
same. -- Susan Sontag
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susan_Sontag)