(The "Halloween" theme plays in the background during the opening credits. We are given the traditioinal Jack-o-lantern credits sequence.)

MOUSTAPHA AKKAD presents ---HALLOWEEN: THE BEGINNING --- SEAN ASTIN as Dr. Sam Loomis--- BILLY BOYD as Dr. Terrence Wynn --- WILLIAM SHATNER as Peter Myers --- JAMIE LYNN SPEARS as Judith Myers --- and MARKIE POST as Margaret Myers --- Halloween theme by JOHN CARPENTER --- Based on characters created by JOHN CARPENTER & DEBRA HILL --- Written by PF4Eva --- Directed by JOHN CARPENTER

(The music fades.)

INT. SMITH'S GROVE-WARREN COUNTY SANITARIUM: Dr. Terrence Wynn enters Dr. Sam Loomis's office.

WYNN: You wanted to see me, Dr. Loomis?

LOOMIS: Yes. The Myers Family have a long history of criminal insanity. Six hundred and sixty-five Myers-es have been committed to insane asylums in the past fifty years, according to these records I have been given. We need to save this family from perishing from this earth. These Myers patients are extremely evil and dangerous. I feel as though their next child will be the Spawn of Satan.

WYNN: You mean....?

(Loomis nods his head in response.)

LOOMIS: We can't let that hapen, Terrence. I have spent fifteen years trying to get through to six of the Myers patients.

WYNN: Who are some of the Myers-es who have been committed?

LOOMIS: Their real names have never been released to me --- ever. They have been given nicknames like Lucifer, Satan, Samhain, and Thurisaz.

(Wynn notices that all of the patients are running wild out in the hall.)

WYNN: Since when do they get to wander around?.....

LOOMIS:(Long pause) Oh shit.....

(Scary, evil music kicks in.)

LOOMIS: (Con'td) We need to return to Haddonfield immiediately! The Evil is gone!.....