What is the iRankMovies score for Halloween?

Name: Halloween
Director: John Carpenter
Genre: horror, thriller
Released: 1978
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 7.7

Halloween has an iRankMovies score of 84.9/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Halloween (1978)

The night he came home!

Release:1978

Runtime:1h 31m

Country:United States

Director:John Carpenter

Language:English

Genre

HorrorThriller

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Keywords

MaskPolice HalloweenBabysitterMarijuanaStalkingSerial KillerManiac

iRank85

Halloween rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.7/10· 338K votes

Rotten Tomatoes97%

Metacritic91%

TMDb7.558/10· 6K votes

With 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.7/10 on IMDb and 91/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Halloween

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.

Cast of Halloween

Donald Pleasence
as Loomis
Jamie Lee Curtis
as Laurie
Nancy Kyes
as Annie
P. J. Soles
as Lynda
Charles Cyphers
as Brackett
Kyle Richards
as Lindsey
Brian Andrews
as Tommy
John Michael Graham
as Bob
Nancy Stephens
as Marion
Arthur Malet
as Graveyard Keeper
M
Mickey Yablans
as Richie
B
Brent Le Page
as Lonnie

Halloween facts

Budget: $325K
Box office: $70.3M
Collection: Halloween Collection

Our take on Halloween

John Carpenter's 1978 landmark unleashes masked killer Michael Myers on a suburban babysitter one Halloween night, inventing much of the slasher playbook with creeping dread and an iconic synth score. Lean, relentless and terrifyingly simple, it made the everyday feel lethal. If its stalking suspense gripped you, seek out slashers and atmospheric horror where an unstoppable evil hunts the ordinary in the dark.

Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026Methodology Data sources