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Terrifying Facts about John Carpenter’s Halloween. It doesn't matter how many times you've seen it; John Carpenter's Halloween, which was released nearly 4. Here are 1. 5 things you might not have known about the film. IT TOOK LESS THAN TWO WEEKS TO WRITE THE SCRIPT.

Director John Carpenter originally intended to call his movie The Babysitter Murders, but producer Irwin Yablans suggested that the story may be more significant if it were based around a specific holiday, so the title was changed to Halloween. Carpenter and co- screenwriter Debra Hill wrote the original script in just 1.

IT FEATURES JAMIE LEE CURTIS'S FEATURE DEBUT. Jamie Lee Curtis was initially interested in the role because she loved Carpenter’s 1. Assault on Precinct 1. Laurie Strode three separate times. Carpenter initially wanted actress Anne Lockhart for the role, but cast Curtis after her final audition, where she nailed the scene of Laurie looking out her window to see Michael Myers in her backyard.

Curtis has reprised her role as Laurie several times in the near- 4. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (the pseudo- sequel that did not feature the Michael Myers storyline). In 2. 01. 8, she'll play Laurie again when David Gordon Green will add yet another film to the franchise. IT WAS SET IN THE MIDWEST, BUT IT WASN'T SHOT THERE. Though Halloween is set in the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, it was shot on location in South Pasadena and Hollywood, California. If you look closely, you can see palm trees in the backgrounds of some shots, like the scene above where Laurie walks Tommy Doyle to the Myers’s house. Haddonfield is named after co- writer and producer Debra Hill’s hometown of Haddonfield, New Jersey.

THE PRODUCTION WAS INCREDIBLY SHORT. The 2. 0- day shoot commenced in the spring of 1. October of the same year. The seasonal restrictions created some interesting hurdles for the production—dozens of bags of fake leaves painted by production designer Tommy Lee Wallace were reused for various scenes. Others may notice that the trees that line the streets of the fictional Haddonfield are fully green instead of autumnally colored. Carpenter initially wanted to somehow change the trees too, but budget restraints kept him from making them seasonally correct. THE SCRIPT DIDN'T CALL FOR A SPECIFIC KIND OF MASK. Watch The Circuit Download Full.

The mask for Michael Myers was only described as having “the pale, neutral features of a man,” and for the movie the design was boiled down to two options: both were cheap latex masks painted white and bought for under $2 apiece at local toy stores by Wallace. One was a replica mask of a clown character called “Weary Willie” popularized by actor Emmett Kelly, and the other was a stretched out Captain Kirk mask from Star Trek.

Carpenter chose the whitewashed Kirk mask because of its eerily blank stare that fit perfectly with the Myers character. 6. CARPENTER NAMED MANY OF THE CHARACTERS IN HALLOWEEN AFTER ACQUAINTANCES OR INFLUENCES. Michael Myers came from the British film distributor who helped put out Carpenter’s previous movie, Assault on Precinct 1. UK, while Laurie Strode is named after one of his ex- girlfriends. Tommy Doyle is named after a character from Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, and Sheriff Leigh Brackett is named after sci- fi novelist and screenwriter Leigh Brackett, who wrote classics like The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, and The Empire Strikes Back. HALLOWEEN’S ICONIC FLOATING P. O. V. SHOTS WERE DONE USING A PANAGLIDE CAMERA RIG.

The Panaglide was a competitor to the now- ubiquitous Steadicam, which allowed the camera to be fitted to a camera operator for far- ranging and smoothly unbroken shots. Carpenter loved it because he could shoot copious amounts of footage in one day to make up for the film’s minuscule $3. Halloween was among the first films to use the Panaglide, alongside films like Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven. Check out director of photography Dean Cundey’s original camera tests for Halloween using the rig above.

Directed by John Carpenter. With Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes. Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael. The Tomatometer rating – based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and television critics – is a trusted measurement of movie and TV programming quality. Warner Bros. is developing a movie about the origin story for The Joker that will not be part of the DC Extended Universe. WB is only a few years into launching the. · · Unsubscribe from FilmIsNow Movie Bloopers & Extras? Subscribe Here: http:// Download App (Android): http:// Download App (iOS.

ONE CHARACTER WAS NAMED AFTER ANOTHER FAMOUS MOVIE CHARACTER. Donald Pleasence’s character, Dr. Sam Loomis, was named after the character of the same name from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Curtis’s mother, Janet Leigh, appeared in Psycho as Sam Loomis’s girlfriend Marion, and was killed in the film’s famous shower scene. For the Loomis character in Halloween, Carpenter originally wanted either Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee, but both passed on the film because the pay was too low. Pleasence would go on to appear in four Halloween sequels, concluding with Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers, which was released after his death in 1. MOST OF THE MAIN CAST PROVIDED THEIR OWN WARDROBE.

Curtis bought her costumes at JC Penney, all for under $1. THE THING MAKES A CAMEO. One of the scary movies that Lindsay Wallace watches on TV is the 1. The Thing (a. k. a., The Thing from Another World). Carpenter would later remake The Thing in 1. John W. Campbell Jr.

Who Goes There?”1. MICHAEL MYERS IS PLAYED BY THREE DIFFERENT ACTORS. Michael Myers was primarily played by actor Nick Castle, who was Carpenter’s friend from USC film school and who would go on to co- write Carpenter’s 1.

Escape from New York, but was also played by production designer Tommy Lee Wallace whenever needed. When Myers is unmasked at the end of the film, he is played by actor Tony Moran who would go on to appear in guest spots on TV shows like The Waltons and CHi. PS. Moran was paid $2. Halloween. 1. 2. THE MYERS HOUSE WAS RELOCATED IN THE 1. S. Halloween fans looking to see the Myers home in its original location are out of luck: In 1. Meridian Avenue in South Pasadena, California, after it was slated to be demolished.

The home is now located at 1. Mission Street in South Pasadena, and it won't be going anywhere. The home was named a historical landmark in the city of South Pasadena, not only because of its cinematic history but also because the house itself dates back to 1. AT THE TIME OF SHOOTING, THE HOUSE REALLY WAS ABANDONED. The scenes of the Myers house looking dilapidated were actually how the crew found it and they shot it as is. It wasn’t until the last shot on the last day of production (which is actually the first shot in the movie) that the entire crew banded together to paint the house and dress it with furniture to make it look lived- in.

CARPENTER COMPLETED THE ENTIRE SCORE FOR HALLOWEEN BY HIMSELF IN ONLY THREE DAYS. The director usually does all the music for his own films, and his theme for the movie came from a simple drumming exercise for the bongos that his father had taught him when he was a child. CARPENTER FILMED NEW SCENES AFTER THE FACT. To fill a two- hour time slot needed for television broadcasts of Halloween, Carpenter filmed additional scenes during the production of Halloween II (which Carpenter co- wrote and co- produced, but did not direct) that primarily featured Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis. The new scenes include Dr. Loomis at a hearing to review young Michael’s incarceration at the sanitarium and confronting a young Michael in his room, Loomis discovering Michael has escaped and scrawled the word “Sister” on his door, and a concerned Laurie asking her friend Lynda about the man she keeps seeing around their neighborhood.

From the directors of the hit film Open Water, Silent House is a uniquely unsettling horror thriller starring Elizabeth Olsen as Sarah, a young woman who finds herself sealed inside her family's secluded lake house. With no contact to the outside world, and no way out, panic turns to terror to terror as events become increasingly ominous in and around the house. Directed by filmmaking duo Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, Silent House uses meticulous camera choreography to take the audience on a tension- filled, real time journey, experienced in a single uninterrupted shot.