HALLOWEEN (1978):

Director John Carpenter, relatively unknown name in the movie business at the time, received a proposal from executive producer Irwin Yablans to make a low-budget movie about babysitters being murdered. “It was a horrible idea,” Carpenter told the New York Times in 2018. “But I wanted to make more movies, so I said, ‘Great!” What resulted was a plot about a boy called Michael Myers who escapes from a mental hospital 15 years later to return to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill babysitters on Halloween night. Jamie Lee Curtis plays high school student Laurie Strode who takes on the might of Myers.