When Laurie is waiting for Linda to pick her up, she is waiting with a pumpkin and it's still very light out. But when they arrive to the houses where they babysit, it's dark outside. However, it's only a few blocks away from their home. [It's late autumn and late afternoon, so the sun probably set very early and very quickly.]
Halloween (1978) - 18 corrections
Directed by John Carpenter, starring Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles
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When Laurie is waiting for Linda to pick her up, she is waiting with a pumpkin and it's still very light out. But when they arrive to the houses where they babysit, it's dark outside. However, it's only a few blocks away from their home. [It's late autumn and late afternoon, so the sun probably set very early and very quickly.] The date on the tombstone above Annie says that Judith Myers was born November 10, 1947, and died October 31, 1963. that would make her 15 (not quite 16 yet) at the time of death, yet everyone says that she was 17 years old. [Lot's of people, especially at that age, round up or down their age, depending on when their birthday is. Most people would say she's 16 this year, or is 17 next year, or in a couple of months, not taking the time to figure out the actual age. Also, if she was a grade ahead in school, or started at 5 instead of 6 like I did, she could be thought of as older since her peer group would be that age.] When Laurie stabs Michael in the head with her knitting needle, she stabs him in the upper left part of his head, but in the next shot the needle is now in the left part of his neck. [I have seen the move many times. She has always stabbed him in the neck.] On their way to babysit, Annie and Laurie run into sheriff Brackett who's investigating a recent break-in at the local hardware store. He reveals to the girls that the only things taken were "a couple of knives, some rope, and a Halloween mask." First, how can it be a break in if it's the middle of the day and the sign on the door says "OPEN"? Second, if we're to assume that Michael was responsible for stealing such a fine selection of items, why wasn't the break-in reported in the morning when Michael was already shown wearing the mask? [It wasn't in the morning that he broke in it was around 3:00. Also it could be called a break-in if someone enters through the back so Michael probably got in that way. It might have taken a while for the shopkeeper to notice the break in, then search to see what's been taken.] In the scene where Laurie is walking home from school after her friends have left her, there is a little brown leaf stuck in her hair at the top of her head, but when she turns around and bumps into the Sheriff, the leaf is gone suddenly. [When she turned around, the leaf could of easily been blown out of her hair or it simply fallen out.] When Michael gets shot by the doctor, he falls off the balcony. In the next shot, the doctor pulls the trigger again. What was he going to shoot at? [Dr. Loomis was angry to see Michael, so pulling the trigger is a natural reaction after seeing him. It was just hysteria.] At the beginning when Michael kills Judith, he puts on the clown mask and you can see that before he picked it up there were two eyeholes but once he put it on there was just a large space and the two eyeholes aren't visible. [This is a widely accepted filming technique, that properly and correctly shows the POV of the person behind the mask, that has two distinct eye holes. If you wear a mask you won't see two separate images.] Corrected by Rikki When Michael is going through the dining room, you can see the clock says 10 o'clock. But when he is going up the stairs you can hear the bell chime 12 times signifying 12 o'clock. [The clock only chimes ten times.] In the beginning after Michael goes upstairs to kill his sister, he picks up the clown mask. But right before he picks up the mask the camera runs out of film and they have to reload the camera and there is a half a seconds pause of a black screen. [This was just him putting on the mask. If you ever put a mask on you are blinded by part of it till you get the eye holes in place.] At the end of the film when they show the different scenes in stills, the knife is shown on the floor by the sofa. Laurie had dropped it earlier after stabbing Michael with the knitting needle. He then has it again upstairs when she's in the closet. He drops it after being stabbed with the hanger. She picked it up when she stepped over him getting out of the closet and dropped it by the bed. How did the knife get back downstairs on the floor for the final stills? [As the Sheriff has already pointed out that "a couple of knives, some rope, and a halloween mask" had been stolen from the shop, we know 'the shape' has more than one knife.] At the beginning, when Michael is about to kill his sister, we see through his eyes. When his sister turns around to see him, she has to look way up, meaning that he would be very tall, when infact, he is only 6 years old. [The sister is sitting at her vanity, brushing her hair. That is why Michael appears taller than her.] When Laurie spots Michael standing behind the clothes line the shot goes from Michael, to Laurie, and back to the empty spot where Michael was standing. However, Laurie never actually looked away from the area, only the camera did, so why is she so frightened when he is gone. She throws the window shut and back away, surely she saw him walk away... [Michael doesn't walk away, he disappears right before her eyes. It's intentionally shot the way it is. When she jumps back, it's because one second she's looking at him, and the next he's gone right before her eyes.] In the opening scene, after young Michael comes out of the house with the bloody knife and his parents see him, they only utter the words "Michael?" and stand there, staring at him with their hands in their pockets. Don't you think they would be curious as to why the knife is bloody and go inside? They don't seem disturbed at all. [Bad acting, sure, but hardly a plot hole. Given that Michael was carted off to a mental institute, it's pretty obvious that they did eventually do all of the things you mention. Besides, if you came home to find your kid wandering around with a blood smeared knife, you'd probably be a little shocked to do anything immediately too.]
When Loomis shoots Michael and he falls over the balcony, you can see that he hopped over it and did not just fall. [Actually he didn't "hop". You don't even have to look closely, on the reversal shot, he just walks straight off the balcony. There must have been a plank that he wlaked off, in order that he didn't need to jump.] In the part where Michael Myers is driving down the street, watching Laurie and her friends walk home from school, the camera is supposed to be filming from Michael's point of view. However, they shoot it from the backseat, looking out the window. (You can see the metal grill seperating the front and back.) If Michael is driving the car how can he be sitting in the backseat? [This shot isn't supposed to be from Michael's view. Near the end of this scene, if you watch it in widescreen view, it shows Myers in the front seat driving. The view is actually supposed to be as if you were in the backseat of the car. It talks about scenes like these in more detail in the pamphlet inside the 25th anniversary edition DVD.] When Annie is taking her clothes off, her underwear is a solid colour, but in the laundry room it is polka-dotted. [If you look really carefully, especially on the DVD version, her underwear IS polka-dotted. It is hard to tell unless you look.] Michael Myers escapes from prison when he is 21. He is able to drive a car even though he has been incarcerated since childhood. Where did he learn to flawlessly drive a car during those years? [Loomis actually remarks in the film that someone must have taught him (probably the nurse who let him escape). This could be the explanation.] When Annie goes to her car to pick up her boyfriend Paul the car is locked. she gets her keys and she then opens the car door without unlocking it. [When Annie opens the car door without unlocking it is because Michael is already in the car. She even acknowledges the strangeness of the event by making an odd face.]