Michael Myers' mask is a Captain Kirk mask painted white with ruffled hair.

Up until the Blair Witch project, Halloween was the highest grossing independent movie ever made. It was made with a tiny budget of $310 000, but made $50 000 000, at the box office.

John Carpenter provides the voice of Annie's boyfriend, Paul, whom we hear on the phone talking to Annie.

This is just an observation but almost everyone Michael Myers kills (or tries to kill) sings to themselves when they are alone - maybe that just really annoyed him or something.

When they were shooting the scenes for the start of the film (all the ones seen from Michael's POV) they couldn't get the 6-year old child actor until the last day so the movie's producer, Debra Hill, volunteered to be Michael for any scenes where his hands come into view. This is why the nails on young Michael's hands look so well manicured and varnished.

John Carpenter and Nick Castle went to acting school and were friends. On shooting "Halloween," Castle visited Carpenter, and Carpenter saw he was the right proportions for Michael Myers, so he cast him in the part straight away.

When Lindsay is watching TV alone, the movie she is watching is The Thing. A few years later, John Carpenter, who directed Halloween, would remake The Thing. Submitted by Mark Bernhard

Donald Pleasance's character is named Sam Loomis. If you've seen Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho,this sounds very familiar because John Gavin,who played Janet Leigh's lover in the movie, was also named Sam Loomis.

The budget for Halloween was so small, most of the cast had to wear their own clothes. Jamie Lee Curtis bought Laurie Strode's wardrobe herself at JCPenney for a hundred dollars.