Continuity mistake: When Annie and Laurie leave the hardware store to go to their babysitting jobs it is broad daylight. When they reach the houses apparently just a few blocks away, it is already dark.
Halloween (1978)
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Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers, Nancy Kyes
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9.8/10. A horror masterpiece. My second favorite of Carpenter's movies. He creates a chilling picture of suburban America where evil like this could exist. Myers represents our deepest, darkest fears. He could be a metaphor for us unleashing our innermost demons, anger, anything upon others. Jamie Lee Curtis should always be remembered as one of the best Scream Queens of all time. The creepy breathing of Myers works well, as if he's merely a shell of a man going more on killing instinct than feelings and actual thought. Curtis plays the scared but determined babysitter well, showing that the least likely of us can survive with enough determination. Myers shows the dark side of man well.
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Trivia: 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.
Question: I have wondered this for ages. Laurie went over to the Wallace house because she thought they were all playing a prank on her. So when she found the bodies in the bedroom, why did she never assume that this could all just be a practical joke set-up? How did she know straight away that it was the real thing?
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Chosen answer: Because it was too graphic and elaborate for her to think it might be a prank. Not to mention that there was probably a very distinctive smell to the room.
JC Fernandez