The year was 1963. The place was Haddonfield, Illinois. The day was October 31, Halloween night. A local teenager named Judith Myers was brutally murdered by her six year old brother, Michael Audrey Myers. This would be only the beginning of a nightmare that would haunt the town of Haddonfield for years to come.

After being sentenced to Smith's Grove-Warren Country Sanitarium, Michael Myers remained there silent and emotionless for the next fifteen years.

Then on Halloween night in 1978, Michael Myers escaped from Smith's-Grove and returned to Haddonfield.

What was going to be a quiet Halloween night would turn deadly for a shy seventeen year old girl named Laurie Strode and her two friends Annie and Lynda.