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hwp a screenplay by John Carpenter and Debra Hill
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1 MAIN TITLE SEQUENCE
OPEN on a black screen. SUPERIMPOSE in dark red letters:
HALLOWEEN
FADE IN TO:
Darkness, with a SMALL SHAPE in the center of the screen. As MAIN
TITLES CONTINUE OVER, CAMERA SLOWLY MOVES IN ON the shape.
We get closer and closer until we see that the shape is a HALLOWEEN
MASK. It is a large, full-head platex rubber mask, not a monster or
ghoul, but the pale, NEUTRAL FEATURES OF A MAN weirdly distorted by
the rubber.
Finally CAMERA MOVES IN CLOSE on the eyes of the mask. It is blank,
empty, a dark, staring socket. SUPERIMPOSE FINAL CREDIT.
FADE OUT:
FADE IN:
2 Black screen. SUPERIMPOSE:
HADDONFIELD, ILLINOIS
OCTOBER 31, 1963
DISSOLVE TO:
3 EXT./INT. MYERS HOUSE - NIGHT - SUBJECTIVE POV (PANAGLIDE)
It is night. We move toward the rear of the house through SOMEONES
POV. CAMERA MOVES UP to a Jack-O-Lantern glowing brightly on a
windowsill. It is a windy night and the curtains around the Jack-O-
Lantern ruffle back and forth. Suddenly we hear voices from inside the
house.
SISTER (V.O.)
My parents wont be back till ten.
BOYFRIEND (V.O.)
Are you sure?
Then LAUGHTER.
The POV moves from the Jack-O-Lantern down to another window and peers
inside. We see the sisters bedroom through the blowing curtains.
Into the bedroom comes the SISTER, 18, very pretty. She GIGGLES as the
BOYFRIEND jumps into the room. Alan, 18, he wears a Halloween mask and
a costume.
BOYFRIEND (V.O.; contd)
Were all alone, arent we?
SISTER (V.O.)
Michaels around someplace...
The boyfriend grabs the sister and kisses her.
SISTER (V.O.; contd)
Take off that thing.
The boyfriend rips off his mask. He is a handsome young man
underneath. They kiss again, this time with more passion. The
boyfriend begins to unbutton the sisters blouse. She responds to him.
The POV swing away from the window and begins to restlessly pace back
and forth, agitated, disturbed. We HEAR THE SOUNDS of the sister and
boyfriend inside the bedroom growing more and more passionate.
Finally the POV moves back up to the window. Inside through the moving
curtains, we see the sister and the boyfriend on the bed, naked,
making love.
The POV springs back from the window and stalks quickly down the side
of the house, past the Jack-O-Lantern, around to a door. Quickly the
door is opened and the POV moves inside.
The POV glides silently through the house into the kitchen, up to a
drawer. The drawer is opened. A large BUTCHER KNIFE is withdrawn.
Then the POV swings around and moves to the kitchen door. We look down
a hallway to the front door. The boyfriend steps out of the bedroom
door, buttoning his shirt. The sister stands in the doorway, a sheet
wrapped around her.
BOYFRIEND
I gotta go.
SISTER
Will you call me tomorrow?
BOYFRIEND
Yeah, sure.
SISTER
Promise?
BOYFRIEND
Yeah.
They kiss again and the boyfriend walks to the front door. The sister
watches as he leaves and shuts the door behind him. Then she turns and
steps back into the bedroom.
The POV moves slowly down the hall to the bedroom door and peers
around inside. The sister sits at her night-table brushing her hair.
She is still completely nude.
Slowly the POV moves into the room. Suddenly we move down to the
discarded Halloween mask on the floor. The POV bends down and picks it
up. Then suddenly the POV is covered by the mask and we see through
the eye-holes.
The POV moves up behind the sister. Sensing a presence, she spins
around and stares at the POV, covering her breasts quickly.
SISTER
Michael...?
Suddenly the POV lunges forward. The sister continues to stare
incredulously. There is a RAPID BLUR as the POV drives the butcher
knife into the sisters chest and out again almost before weve seen
it.
The sister looks down at the blood forming at her hands, then back up
at the POV with an astonished disbelief.
Then in a WILD PAROXYSM the butcher knife blurs continuously in and
out of frame, slashing the sister mercilessly. She begins to SCREAM,
trying to fend off the blows with her hands, then suddenly falls out
of frame to the floor.
The POV moves back away from the sisters lifeless body, spins around
and careens out of the bedroom.
At top speed the POV races through the darkened house, to the front
door, out the door, down the steps and rapidly up the street. The
CAMERA careens along in frenzied flight, up the sidewalk, up a small
side alley, down someones back yard, then to a sudden, abrupt halt in
front of MOTHER and FATHER just coming out of a neighbors house.
Mother and Father stare at the POV, at first in puzzlement, then slow,
growing horror.
MOTHER
Michael?
4 CLOSE SHOT - MICHAEL - CRANE
The fathers hand reaches up and rips off the Halloween mask,
revealing MICHAEL, 6, underneath, a bright-eyed boy with a calm, quiet
smile on his face.
CAMERA PULLS BACK, revealing the blood-stained butcher knife in his
hand, then further back. CRANING UP past his parents standing there,
up from the neighbors house to a HIGH SHOT of the neighborhood as the
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