| Halloween | |
| Type: | film score |
| Artist: | John Carpenter |
| Cover: | John Carpenter - Halloween soundtrack 1983.jpg |
| Released: | October 1983 (USA) |
| Recorded: | 1978 |
| Studio: | Sound Arts Studio, Los Angeles, California |
| Length: | 33:43 (1983 release) 51:51 (1998 release) 45:58 (2018 release) |
| Label: | Columbia (1979 release) Varèse Sarabande (1983 & 1998 releases) Mondo Records (2018 release) |
| Next Title: | Dark Star |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
Halloween is a soundtrack album composed and performed by John Carpenter, featuring the score to the 1978 film Halloween. It was released in the US in 1983 through Varèse Sarabande. An expanded 20th Anniversary Edition was released in 1998 through Varèse Sarabande. In 2018, an LP was released by Mondo Records featuring the mono tracks taken from the original 35mm stem of the film and for the first time features the music as originally heard in theaters and on the earliest VHS releases of the film. The soundtrack would later play a major role in influencing the synthwave music genre.