Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles
Plot: 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.
Disc Release Date: 25 September 2018
Halloween was shot using Panavision Panaflex on 35mm film (and a miniscule budget!) and has recently been scanned at 4K resolution which has been used here for this Ultra HD Blu-ray release. The disc presents...
Unfortunately the disc has not been up-graded to the immersive surround tracks, so no Dolby Atmos or DTS-X, what we do have is the same Dolby TrueHD 7.1 track that adorned previous releases. What is also...
All the extras have been all previously available and are on the UHD as well as the included Blu-ray. Audio Commentary - With John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis who chat amiably about the production,...
Halloween comes to 4K, does the all new 4K scan readdress the colour timing? 40 years. That’s how long Halloween has been scaring us. And it’s little wonder why; the construction of the film is textbook....
The masterpiece that is Halloween needs little to no introduction. The first (real) slasher movies, the unstoppable killer killing horny teenagers, the long slow build up; everything about the film is...
Note 2: My 1080p video score above is my personal reaction to the 2007 Blu-ray version, which is the one included with this release. Our original review at the dawn of both the format and this site gave...
This is actually far from the first time in a review where in the audio section I've begun by saying I'm scoring what's here, not what isn't here. For those unaware of some fan complaints, I refer you...
All of the supplements Marty details in his Halloween Blu-ray review of the 35th Anniversary Edition are included on the 4K UHD disc. The 1080p Blu-ray included in this package has the supplements mentioned...
If your local shopping emporiums are anything like the ones I frequent, Halloween items have been on the shelves for weeks now, and in fact Christmas knick knacks may well already be showing up as well,...
If you've seen the 35th Anniversary edition of Halloween, you'll have at least some general guidelines for what this new 4K UHD looks like. That said, I found this to be even darker than the 35th Anniversary...
Death comes home on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray with yet another questionable, likely controversial, and perhaps even disappointing home video presentation. This new HEVC H.265 encode was recycled from the same...
The seminal horror classic makes its way to Ultra HD with the same Dolby TrueHD 7.1 soundtrack as the Blu-ray. And like before, as much as the lossless mix is greatly appreciated with excellent dialogue...
All the same supplements are ported over from previous home video releases and can be enjoyed on the UHD, which can be read in more detail in our review of the standard Blu-ray HERE....
One of the most financially successful independent motion pictures of all time, John Carpenter's highly influential Halloween is the kind of horror movie that creeps out at you from behind the bushes and...
Celebrating 40 years of creepy scares, John Carpenter's seminal horror classic Halloween remains a well-crafted and impressively stylized genre piece, featuring Donald Pleasance, the film-debut of Jamie...
A film like Halloween has an aesthetic that incorporates film grain and the use of optics that won’t result in the type of high gloss, tack-like sharpness of a film shot using digital cameras. This isn’t...
Disc 1: Halloween Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc 2: Halloween Blu-ray (2007 release) • Audio Commentary with Writer/Director John Carpenter and Actor Jamie Lee Curtis • “The Night She Came Home” Featurette • “On...
Halloween needs no introduction among genre fans. I really like John Carpenter’s films. I was 14 when it was released and didn’t see it until it was on cable TV. Back then it was all the rage with its...
It makes its debut on Ultra HD Blu-ray from Lionsgate Home Entertainment featuring excellent Ultra HD video, complimentary lossless surround sound, and legacy supplements. If you’re a fan and are equipped...