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Halloween (1978)

★ 7.6 · 6,147 ratings on TMDB

The night he came home!

Halloween poster★ 7.6

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

DirectorJohn Carpenter
CastArthur Malet, Brian Andrews, Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Michael Graham
GenresHorror, Thriller
The emergence reading

Halloween keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Spider-Man (2002)E8Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)E8Forrest Gump (1994)E8Inside Out (2015)E8Deadpool (2016)E8Up (2009)E8

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Horror, ThrillerThe Pope's Exorcist (2023)E9/E10 · Horror, Thriller28 Weeks Later (2007)E4/E12/E14 · Horror, ThrillerThe First Purge (2018)E10/E11 · Horror, ThrillerThe Purge: Election Year (2016)E12 · Horror, ThrillerThe Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)E9/E10 · Horror, Thriller

Same people

Shared director or cast.

The Fog (1980)dir. John CarpenterEscape from New York (1981)dir. John CarpenterAssault on Precinct 13 (1976)dir. John CarpenterHalloween II (1981)Charles CyphersKnives Out (2019)Jamie Lee CurtisCarrie (1976)P. J. Soles