Halloween: 30th Anniversary Box Set | 
| Director: John Carpenter
Actor: Jamie Lee Curtis
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
Category: DVD
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 38190
Format: Box Set, Collector's Edition, Color, Dvd, Limited Edition, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 515 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.8 x 2.9
MPN: ANBD15944D
UPC: 013131594492
EAN: 0013131594492
ASIN: B001CZJKS0
Theatrical Release Date: 1978
Release Date: October 14, 2008
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Product Description
Halloween 1 (restored edition) halloween 4 halloween 5 halloween 1 (blu-ray) halloween - 25 years of terror (documentary) Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 10/14/2008 Starring: Jaime Lee Curtis Run time: 556 minutes Director: John Carpenter
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 Close But No Cigar... May 16, 2009
Ronald Nocella (Philadelphia Pa)
I was excited to hear of this release from Anchor Bay. The 30th Anniversary set of Halloween features Halloween, Halloween Extended Edition, Halloween 4, Halloween 5, Halloween: 25 Years of Terror, and the Blu Ray edition of Halloween.
While I find the packaging and the DVDs great to have, they are all already available and have been for some time. The only disc worthy of being in the set is the Halloween Extended Edition because it was out of print until now. No bonus discs of additional footage or interviews are included. There are special features on each disc but again, they have all been released previously. I was hoping for a bit more. I understand that due to rights issues, they cant release a complete boxed set with every Halloween film but I would have been happier with just Halloween and perhaps Halloween 2 Extended Editions with some NEW bonus features.
To those at Anchor Bay... give us fans what we deserve and have been waiting YEARS for. Id like to see uncut versions of the films Ive loved my entire life. I know of unseen footage that has been shot for Halloween 2, 4, 5, 6, H20, and Resurrection. Lets see it already!
This is a nice set to own IF you dont already own the films from prior releases. Otherwise, dont bother. Its close... but no cigar!
The best you're going to get (at least for now) March 15, 2009
David Henry (St. Louis)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Basically this is every DVD release that Anchor Bay has the rights to, packaged together. The box art is pretty good, but they didn't add any new special features. You only get one disc of 25 Years of Terror, but as far as I can ascertain by reading other reviews, they just stuck 2 discs worth on 1 disc, so I'm not sure if there's anything missing. Probably not anything of great consequence, anyway. If you already have all the DVD releases, forget it. I didn't have any of them yet so it was a great purchase. You also get Halloween on Blu-Ray. Yay. I don't have a Blu-Ray player, so whatever.
 Behind The Halloween Box Set (Spoiler Alert!) February 26, 2009
M. D. Lambert
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Actually, they didn't include ALL the Halloween movies. They included the first 5 movies that are, according to some, the best of the series. They did not include the last three movies: Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (#6), Halloween: H20 (#7), and Halloween Resurrection (#8). The awful remake created by Rob Zombie is considered by some as #9.
The first movie directed by John Carpenter was of course the best. The second movie directed by Rick Rosenthal was good, but in my opinion, not as good as the first. Few movies manage to surpass their originals anyhow. The third installment directed by Tommy Lee Wallace was atrocious, and while the fourth film directed by Dwight H. Little returned us to the Michael Myers storyline, it still didn't live up to the hype. And the fifth movie directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard & Arthur Speer wasn't that much better than its predecessor. Halloween 5 is littered with plot holes and events that make no sense whatsoever.
The sixth film, The Curse of Michael Myers directed by Joe Chapelle is an important film because it gives more of a back story about Michael Myers, but still was a less than stellar film. This movie was also Donald Pleasance's final appearance in the Halloween series as he passed away in February 1995, seven months before the film was released.
Halloween H20, which was released three years after Pleasance's death, while it does contain voice over work from his character Dr. Loomis in the beginning, it is not the actual voice of Donald Pleasance. It was actor Tom Kane trying to sound like Donald Pleasance.
After hoping that H20 would be the last of terrible sequels in the Halloween series, four years later, they hit us with Halloween Resurrection directed by Rick Rosenthal, who directed Halloween II. But not even bringing back Rosenthal could help this awful movie. The only thing anyone could say about this movie was that Michael Myers finally kills Laurie Strode.
I liked the first two movies, but not enough to buy the box set. If you want a good horror movie box set I recommend either Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street.
 I'm telling you, I released it six times! December 30, 2008
N. P. Stathoulopoulos (Brooklyn, NY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The beautiful people of Anchor Bay, scions of releasing lost slasher gems and coming out with deluxo packages galore for the fanatic, really dropped the ball with the Myers project.
Halloween has been released approximately 97 times in the last year alone, so you'd think Anchor Bay would finally just do it and include every stinking version, every extra, and every format in this thing, and do it right. DVD and Blu-Ray, and VHS, too. What about every format it's ever been released on, ever? I'm serious. Enough is enough.
But it's not. As several have already pointed out, Anchor Bay slapped this baby together with every bit of product they have rights to. So you have the Extended Cut (aka the TV Version), and you have the documentary 25 Years of Terror, and then you have...Halloween 4 and Halloween 5, just thrown in there because...Anchor Bay has the rights. You don't get all of the extras from the previous DVD releases of Halloween, though you do get the Blu Ray (which was already separately released). And including H4 and H5 without the far better H2 (and even the insanity of H3) makes this plain silly. I guess they figured it was the 20 anniversary of Halloween 4, too, which I'm surprised isn't getting a separate box set of its own, complete with version four mask. And the mask? Come on, it's no good...this thing is plain cheesy. A replica knife would have been better, even a pair of coveralls, but not this thing.
No, this is not the Holy Grail of Halloween boxes that you'd think a 30 anniversary would warrant (though they did do a nice 25 year thingee...five years ago). Stick with the Divimax version of the original, and the widescreen version of part II. Would recommend this only if you find it on a (big) sale (it's overpriced) and don't own two or more of the versions here. Plus you can keep the mask. Even a Loomis raincoat would have been more useful.
Don't Wort To Buy !! December 2, 2008
Heroes Club (San Francisco, Ca USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Poor this is all I can tell you !! Nothing Special !!
Waste Of $$
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