CREDITS HALLOWEEN, 1978 dir: John Carpenter Jamie Lee Curtis Donald Pleasence Nancy Loomis

“I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realised what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply evil.”

The original, and best, stalkíníslash, with more scary stalking than gratuitous slashing.

Set in the fictitious Illinois suburb of ‘Haddonfield’ (producer Debra Hill grew up in Haddonfield, New Jersey), the movie blends locales in Hollywood and South Pasadena into one neighbourhood.

The house of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is in South Pasadena, on Oxley Street at the corner of Fairview Avenue, South Pasadena.

‘Haddonfield High’ is South Pasadena High School, Lyndon Street at Fremont Avenue.

Halloween: The Myers house: Mission Street, South Pasadena

‘Nichol’s Hardware Store’, robbed by Michael Myers (“just some rope, a knife and a Halloween mask... must be kids”) is The Frame Shop, 964 Mission Street at Meridian Avenue in South Pasadena. And on the opposite corner of Meridian is Century House, 1000 Mission Street, the now-bright-and-renovated Myers house. If the angle of the house looks a little odd, thatís because the entire building was moved from its former position around the corner at 707 Meridian Avenue.

The Doyle and Wallace houses can be found in Hollywood, on the 1500 block of Orange Grove Avenue between Sunset Boulevard and Selma Avenue. The house where Laurie babysits is 1530 Orange Grove Avenue, and the scene of the murders is across the street at 1537 Orange Grove Avenue.