Halloween

John Carpenter · 1978 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A boy in an Illinois town kills his sister on Halloween night, and fifteen years later walks out of the institution holding him and drives home in a stolen car. A high-school babysitter and her friends make plans for the evening while a psychiatrist searches the streets for his patient. Carpenter shot it in three weeks for a few hundred thousand dollars and set the grammar for a decade of slashers.

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• ↓ Scream
  Wes Craven · 1996 CE · Film — alludes to this

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• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
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