8.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Halloween (1978)
Halloween (1978)
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Viewer Rating
8.5
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's central conflict and themes are primarily apolitical, focusing on primal fear and survival against an unexplainable evil rather than promoting or critiquing specific political ideologies.
The film features traditional casting without explicit race or gender swaps of established roles. Its narrative maintains a neutral or positive framing of traditional identities and does not incorporate explicit DEI themes, focusing instead on a classic horror premise.
Secondary
Halloween (1978) does not include any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a slasher antagonist and his victims, with no elements pertaining to queer identity or experiences.
Halloween (1978) is a slasher film centered on a psychopathic killer, Michael Myers, and his pursuit of teenage babysitter Laurie Strode. The narrative does not include any identifiable transsexual characters, themes, or related plot points, making the portrayal N/A.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Halloween (1978) is the original film in its franchise, introducing all its characters for the first time. There is no prior source material or previous installment from which character genders could have been established and subsequently altered.
The 1978 film "Halloween" is the original installment, introducing its characters for the first time. There are no prior canonical or historical racial depictions for its characters to be swapped from, thus no race swaps occur.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.7
7.6
Critic Ratings
9.7
9.0
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