Bloopers:
Errors in geography: The movie is set in Illinois, but snow-capped
mountains can be seen when
Doctor Loomis is using the pay phone.
Continuity: Set in October in Illinois, the trees should not have healthy green leaves.
Continuity: Pavement changes quickly from dry to wet when Laurie is walking home from school.
Continuity: The front door knob of the house where Laurie is baby-sitting
is on the right when
seen from both sides of the door.
Miscellaneous: Although the story takes place in Illinois, all the
cars have California license
plates.
Crew or equipment visible: When Laurie sees the shape near the bush,
cigarette smoke from
director John Carpenter's cigarette can be seen floating into view.
Crew or equipment visible: While Bob and Lynda are heading up to
the bedroom from the living
room, Lynda trips on a dolly track and tries to ignore it. [wide
screen only]
Trivia:
This is the film debut for Jamie Lee Curtis.
Donald Pleasence's role as Sam Loomis is named after a character
of the same name in Psycho
(1960).
Director John Carpenter was raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In
one scene, the subtitle on the
screen depicts the location as "Smiths Grove, Illinois." Smiths
Grove, Kentucky, is a small town
of about 600 people 15 miles from Bowling Green. There are many
other references to other local
towns and landmarks.
Since the movie was actually shot in spring, the crew had to buy
paper leaves from a decorator and
paint them in the desired autumn colors, then scatter them in the
filming locations. To save
money, after a scene was filmed, the leaves were collected and reused.
The kids watch the opening of The Thing From Another World on TV.
Carpenter would later
re-make this film himself in 1982 as The Thing.
Halloween was shot in 21 days in the spring of 1978. Made on a budget
of $300,000, it became the
highest grossing independent movie ever made at that time.
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