Halloween (1978)

Seventeen-year-old Laurie Strode (Curtis) is supposed to babysit Tommy Doyle (Brian Andrews) on Halloween — a normal occurrence in the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois. But she keeps noticing a masked man around her neighbourhood seemingly watching her. His name, we eventually find out, is Michael Myers (Nick Castle), and he is an escaped mental patient who killed his teenage sister Judith when he was just an adolescent.

As Myers killed Strode’s friends throughout the neighbourhood, he soon sets his sights on Laurie herself and the pair of kids she is protecting. She leads them to safety and is ultimately saved by Myers’ child psychiatrist, Dr Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence). Though Michael is shot at point-blank range multiple times and falls off the second story of a house, he disappears...