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HALLOWEEN
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(1978)
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The original
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Halloween
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will always hold a place in my movie-loving heart because it was one of the first R rated movies I saw without a parent or guardian. Not sure how it plays with teenagers today, what with most current horror movies relying on either torture or creepy children, but I love it for it’s simplicity (get away from the masked guy with a knife!), and of course for its pulsating score. One of the first things I did after moving to Los Angeles was drive up and down the street where Halloween was shot – yeah, a tree-line California neighborhood doubled in the movie for Haddonfield, IL – with a cassette tape of the soundtrack playing on the car stereo. It turns out that babysitter Laurie Strode (
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Jamie Leigh-Curtis
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) could’ve sought refuge from evil Michael Myers at the Kentucky Fried Chicken just down the block from her house on Sunset Blvd. –
Doug Benson
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