The definitive Halloween (1978) drinking game

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With spooky season just around the corner, there can only be one film to celebrate the festivities. It's time to head back to Haddonfield to celebrate and get roaringly drunk in the process.

Halloween is chock full of slasher tropes, so there's plenty of fodder for a catastrophic drinking game. And because it would be irresponsible to give you a drinking game without testing it ourselves, travel blogger Sophia Moss and I trialed it for health and safety reasons. You can see the full story of how it went here.

So grab a bottle of wine and a bottle of your favourite spirit, check the news to make sure no crazed killers have escaped your local psychiatric hospital, and whatever you do don't have sex. And for God's sake listen to Dr Loomis.

Drink a finger of wine/beer if...

The Halloween theme music plays



We're a big fan of John Carpenter's jazzy synth music, and it's great that the director's multi-talented. But don't you think it was a little overused in this movie.

If you're feeling brave: Drink for every 30 seconds the music played. Sophia and I tried doing this and it did not end well. That music plays a lot.


Dr Loomis delives some foreboding



It must be kind of irritating if you keep telling the police a crazed killer has broken lose and nobody takes you seriously, but Dr Loomis is just a one man suspense machine in this film.

If you're feeling brave: Drink for every single sentence Loomis says which is either cryptic, ominous or a blatent attempt to ratchet up the suspense. That's pretty much everything he says.


Characters get it on 



As all slasher movie fans know, sex = death. We're only asking you to control your raging libido for the duration of one murder spree, for God's sake guys...

If you're feeling brave: Drink every time sex is mentioned. Sophia and I only imbided for actual penetration and we still felt squiffy.


Each sighting of Michael Myers



Like most killers in slashers, Michael appears to possess the ability to disappear into thin air. But it's nice he got to have a pleasant stroll around Haddonfield before he got into the nitty gritty of mass murder.

If you're feeling brave: Michael spends about 2/3 of the film popping up all over the shop. By the halfway mark you'll be wishing he'd just go away and leave these kids alone. The wise among you will stop drinking for Michael's appearances when the murder begins, but if you're truly bent on self-destruction then keep going until the end.

Drink a shot for...

Each death



Just admit it, the reason we watch slashers is to see attractive teenagers brutally murdered in various creative ways.

If you're feeling brave: There are four onscreen deaths in Halloween, and two offscreen ones (one of these is a dog, sorry canine lovers). If you really want to spend the rest of your evening leaning over a cistern, you can also take a shot for each time Michael "dies".


Each time Michael appears to have snuffed it, but comes back for more



Yep, Michael much like Jason and Freddy is basically unkillable. Which makes less sense considering Michael is just an average guy with a murder streak and not a lakey zombie boy or a dream-haunting child killer.

If you're feeling brave: By this point, you'll probably know if you have it in you to survive the drinking game. Sophia and I did not, so we ditched this rule for reasons of self-preservation.


That's your lot. If you're feeling inspired, here's some final words of caution from Sophia and I after we finished the drinking game and were feeling a little worse for wear:


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