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Halloween (1978) - 10 trivia entries
Directed by John Carpenter, starring Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles (add more)
Up until The Blair Witch Project (1999), 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.
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.
When Lindsay is watching TV alone, the movie she is watching is The Thing From Another World (1951). A few years later, John Carpenter, who directed Halloween, would film a remake entitled The Thing (1982).
Donald Pleasance's character is named Sam Loomis. If you've seen Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), this sounds very familiar because John Gavin, who played Janet Leigh's lover in the movie, was also named Sam Loomis.
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