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What's the boogeyman?

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You know,

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Salahween, I guess everyone's entitled one
good scarab.

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It was

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the low-budget shocker that made a
surprise box office killing.

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Without movie stars or
special effects, it sliced

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its way to the top of
Hollywood's record books.

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Everybody was surprised by it.

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It's making was the ultimate test for a
group of struggling filmmakers who took a

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stab at creating a new chapter in Screen
Horror.

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We were a little army.

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We were a little army making a film.

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We were just a bunch of kids trying to
make a movie.

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When they were doing the deed,
the sexual abuse.

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Oh my God.

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Everybody did everything.

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Go get me a beer.

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You weren't getting me one.

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It was that kind of a Mickey Rooney,
let's make a movie.

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Totally.

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Anytime I'm channel surfing and I come
across a scene from Halloween,

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you know, I just have to sit there and
watch it again.

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It's amazing how many fans, generation
after generation after generation,

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who have come up to me and said,
I loved it.

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I was so scared I couldn't sleep.

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People really embraced this picture.

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Are you insane?

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Halloween is the gone with the wind of the
horror movies.

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I watched him for 15 years, sitting in a
room, staring at a wall, not seeing the

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wall, looking past the wall, looking at
this night in humanly patient,

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waiting for some secret silent alarm to
trigger him off.

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Death has come to your little town,
Sheriff.

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You can either ignore it or you can help
me to stop it.

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Released in 1978, the
horror tale Halloween became

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a box office smash and
a cultural phenomenon.

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I saw the boogeyman.

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With its simple but
terrifying story of small-town

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babysitters, stocked
by a maniacal killer.

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Despite a budget of just $320,000,
Halloween would go on to become the most

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profitable independently released film
ever.

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Its worldwide success shocked not only
Hollywood, but also the filmmakers behind

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it, who went on to become some of the
industry's hottest talents.

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All the elements were right, an intriguing
villain, a little bit of camp value with

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the the Loomis character played by Donald
Pleasons.

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I'm his doctor.

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You must be ready for him.

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If you don't, it's your funeral.

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You had some pretty teenagers in there.

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We have three new cheers to learn in the
morning.

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The game is in the afternoon.

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I have to get my hair done at five and the
dance is in eight.

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All the stars were in alignment.

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Totally.

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Everybody was very young.

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We were shooting an incredibly fast pace.

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The entire makeup wardrobe prop department
was in a tiny Winnebago.

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Here I was with these 18, 19, 20,
22-year-old guys primarily, and a lot of

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people's girlfriends and friends and
family all creating this movie.

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Well kiddo, I thought you out grew
superstition.

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We were kids back then in 78.

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People were giving us some money.

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We were going out and playing.

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We had a huge sandbox to play.

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We had our friends with us.

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We had no idea what we had.

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Here's something that a movie,
which didn't cost that much money,

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which is constantly continues to sell.

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I don't think there's another film like
it.

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Although Halloween was created by a team
of movie-making hopefuls, its eerie

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premise was the idea of a veteran
Hollywood player.

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Studio executive turned independent film
distributor Erwin Jablons.

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I want to do a horror film.

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So I started to think about how to do this
for the limited amount of money we had.

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And it occurred to me that if we did a
movie about babysitters, it would work

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because everybody had either been a
babysitter or been a baby.

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And also I thought it would be something
that would lend itself to kids in jeopardy.

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One night would be the best way to do it.

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Halloween just popped into my mind.

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Check a chain.

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Check a chain.

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And I thought to
myself, gee, wouldn't that

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be great, but I'll bet
somebody's done it.

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You know, the title's been used.

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Someone's made a picture called Halloween.

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And then the magical
thing that I learned,

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the word Halloween is
much weaker research.

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Not only had it not been used,
but even the word had not been used as

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part of another title in the history of
the movie business.

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Now that's an interesting thing.

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Yablons' enthusiasm was shared by his pick
for director.

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He turned to a 29-year-old
USC graduate who'd recently

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helmed one of Yablons'
most intriguing action films.

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His name was John Carpenter.

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I had made a low-budget movie called
Assault on Precinct 13.

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It had gotten some critical response in
Europe.

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It's terror in the night.

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It's the most shuttering assault on a
police station in history.

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This is the siege.

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It's a goddamn siege.

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Assault on Precinct 13.

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Erwin said, let's make
a horror film about

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babysitters who are stalked
by this psychotic killer.

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And John got it really excited.

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I met with him the next day at the
hamburger hamlet.

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We had a tuna fish sandwich together.

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And I explained it to him.

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He suggested we put
it on Halloween night,

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but play the whole
thing on Halloween night.

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And called a movie Halloween.

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Because he felt it was a holiday that
everybody could identify with.

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And it hadn't really been done.

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And since I needed the job and I wanted to
do that kind of thing, I said,

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sure, I'll do it.

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And as long as I can have complete creative
control, and I get my name above the title.

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And we'll do it.

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He said, I can do this for $300,000.

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I said, for $300,000, if you can do that,
you can have final cut.

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You can have it able to title it.

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You can have anything you want.

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He said he would do it in four weeks.

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He would do the music.

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And for that, he received
the princely sum of $10,000,

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which, by the way, was a lot
of money for John at that time.

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And 10% of profit, which I'm sure he
believed that he would never see a dollar of.

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Now I got to find a $300,000.

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But I agreed at the spot.

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I knew I would find that money somehow.

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We were in business with a man named
Mustafa Akad.

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And he invested some money in our company.

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But he was, quite frankly, uninterested.

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I was shooting an epic, big historic epic
line of the desert with Anthony Quinn and

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Irene Papas and Rod Steiger and Morocco
and Rome.

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And here I get a message that John
Carpenter wants to meet me.

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So I was in London.

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John Carpenter came to London with Erwinia
Blanton.

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I said, this is the idea.

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How much?

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They said $300,000.

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I said $300,000.

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I mean, when it's expensive, you get
worried.

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And when it is so cheap, you get worried.

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How can they make a movie or $300,000?

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I get backing John up and telling Mustafa
that this picture from a commercial point

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of view could be a very successful little
movie.

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And we would do very well.

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And then I really hit him with the zinger.

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I said to John, but you know, John,
$300,000 is a lot of money.

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And maybe it's just more than Mustafa can
handle.

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I think it was calculated because I knew
Mustafa was a very proud man.

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Oh, what do you mean?

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And with that, and then he reads us
$300,000 right there.

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And that was it.

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Galvanized by the promise of total
creative freedom, John Carpenter now

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eagerly set out to make a film that would
be his industry calling card.

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To co-write and produce, he turned to a
trusted past collaborator, Deborah Hill.

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His script supervisor on Assault on
Precinct 13.

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It took us about three weeks to write the
script.

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We placed it in Haddonfield, Illinois,
because I'm from Haddonfield, New Jersey.

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So I really had a sense of what a small
town was like.

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You're not supposed to go up there.

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Yes, I am.

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No, I'm not.

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Let's go down.

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It could be any place in the Midwest.

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Most small towns have a kind of haunted
house story of one kind or another.

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At least that's what teenagers believe.

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There's always a house
down the lane that somebody

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was killed in or
somebody went crazy in it.

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Then I'm going to live here.

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I know it's since 1963 when it happened.

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Every kid in Haddonfield thinks this place
is haunted, and the lane is alive.

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Bonnie, you're never going to go up there.

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Bonnie, this is a haunted house.

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Bonnie Land probably won't get out of the
sixth grade.

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I was a babysitter,
and I knew what it was

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like to be, you know,
all those characters.

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And so I really contributed a girl
dialogue.

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Why are you babysitting to me?

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The only reason she babysits is to have a
place.

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Shit.

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I have a place for that.

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I forgot my chemistry book.

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So who cares?

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I always forget my chemistry book,
and my math book, and my English book,

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and my, let's see my French book.

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Well, who needs books anyway?

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I don't need books.

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I always forget all of my books.

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I mean, it doesn't really matter if you
have your books or not.

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Hey, isn't that Devon Graham?

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I don't think so.

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I think he's cute.

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Hey, jerk!

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Speed kills!

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Can you take a joke?

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John really is, I would say, the developer
of the whole evil concept.

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He gave Michael Myers that sense of
foreboding.

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Oh, look.

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Look where?

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Behind the bush?

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I don't see anything.

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Can you drop by so fast that when you're
yelled at?

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Oh, settle, isn't he?

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Halloween is loaded with scares.

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Suspense scares.

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Hopefully not grisly or
gory, but suspenseful

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making people on
the edge of their seats.

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I enjoy doing that.

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Great.

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Laurie, dear.

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He wants to talk to you.

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He wants to take you out tonight.

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You're standing right there.

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Laurie, scared another one away.

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Halloween was really influenced by the
films of Alfred Hitchcock.

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They're coming!

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They're coming!

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And the kinds of films that John and I
loved when we grew up.

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Psycho is the granddaddy of these kind of
movies.

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That's the first modern horror film.

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Took horror out of Gothic castles and
European romanticism, vampires and

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werewolves, and brought it into modern day
problems and so forth.

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It was a terrifying movie.

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That was the signpost that everybody
followed.

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To play Halloween's Good Girl Hero in
Laurie Strode, Carpenter already had an

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actress in mind, a rising newcomer named
Annie Lockhart.

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I thought she was a great actress,
didn't she, turned us down?

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So, Debra came up with Jamie Lee.

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Jamie Lee was a contract player at
Universal.

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Jamie Lee Curtis was the perfect Laurie
Strode.

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She had vulnerable qualities and she just
was just wonderful in her audition.

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Excuse me, Laurie.

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Oh, Mr. Brackett, I'm sorry, Mr. Brackett.

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Oh, I didn't mean to startle, yeah?

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Oh, that's all right.

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You know, Halloween, I guess everyone's
entitled to one good scare, huh?

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Yes, sir.

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Nice of you, sir.

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She had just done Operation Pettico,
which was a television series.

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So, she was very, very green.

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She was very, very fresh.

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And yet she was the product of these
unique parents, Janet Lee and Tony Curtis.

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And besides being the best actress for the
role, as a producer, I saw a great

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opportunity to promote the fact that she
was the product of this Hollywood marriage.

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When Jamie Lee Curtis came to mind,
a month they popped in my mind.

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Janet Lee in, uh, in Psycho.

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So, we did how we hired Jamie Lee for that
reason.

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Who, incidentally, would have been the
best choice anyway.

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She's trying to be a fine actress.

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You know, Girl Scott comes through again.

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I was a young actor, and all I kept seeing
was my name.

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The character's name on every page,
so I knew it was a big part, and I knew

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that there were other parts that they were
casting, other women, other girls.

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And I was very much a smart aleck and was
a cheerleader in high school, so felt very

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concerned that I was being considered for
the really quiet, repressed young woman

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when, in fact, I was very much more like
the other two girls.

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Hello?

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Why'd you hang up on me?

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Annie?

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Was that you?

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Of course.

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Why'd you say anything?

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You scared me to death?

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I had my mouth full, couldn't you hear me?

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Thought I was an obscene phone call.

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Now you hear of me, Laurie.

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I already lost it.

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I doubt that.

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Listen, my mother's letting me use your
car.

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I'll pick you up.

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630.

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Okay.

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Bye.

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She added something beyond herself.

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Jamie, as I'm saying, was very savvy.

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You know, grew up with Hollywood parents.

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She wasn't that little teenager that she
played.

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That was her acting ability, and she was
very, very good.

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I'm babysitting the doils.

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It's only three hours is down.

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We can keep each other comfortable.

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Oh, terrific.

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I've got three choices.

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Watch the kids sleep.

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Listen to Linda school around and talk to
you.

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Cast as Laurie's girlfriends
were Nancy Loomis, the real-life

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wife of Halloween's production
designer, Tommy Lee Wallace.

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I plan on making popcorn and watching Dr.
Dementia.

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6 straight hours of horror movies.

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Little Lindsey Wallace won't know when to
hit her.

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And PJ Soles, who played a similar bad
girl role in the 1976 horror hit Carrie.

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Okay, so we're gonna... first we go
inside, right?

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Then we'll just talk a little.

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Then Annie, we'll distract Lindsey.

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That's when we go upstairs to the first
bedroom on the left.

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You got it?

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Okay, first I rip your clothes off.

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Don't rip my blouse.

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It's expensive, idiot.

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Then you rip my clothes off.

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Then we rip Lindsey's clothes off.

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Yeah, I think I got it.

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Totally.

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Like a million other actresses,
I auditioned.

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And it was only afterwards that I found
out that John Carpenter actually had

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written the part for me
and hoping that he would

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be able to use me in it
because he had seen Carrie.

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Want a beer?

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Yeah.

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Is that all you can say?

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Yeah.

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Go get me a beer.

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I thought you were gonna get me one.

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Yeah.

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I was married to Dennis Quaid at the time
and I know that they had asked to see if

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he was available, but I think he was doing
the movie of the week, which was kind of a

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bummer because it would have been fun to
have him.

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We brought a lot of ourselves and our own
ideas to the characters.

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All right, all right, come on,
where's my beer?

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I think every line I ever said, I ended
it with totally or started it with totally.

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Totally.

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Totally.

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Totally.

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Totally.

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Totally.

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Totally.

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Totally.

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But among their cast of fresh faces,
Carpenter and Hill were desperate to cast

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a recognized name in the small but pivotal
role of Michael Myers Pursuer,

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Dr. Sam Loomis.

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With $20,000 in the budget, the filmmakers
made an offer.

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My first choice was Peter Cushing.

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Peter Cushing was a famous British actor.

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I just loved him since I was a kid.

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This was in 1978 and 77, Peter Cushing was
in Star Wars.

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So we called his agent and made an offer
and he would...

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he would never deem to be in here a little
low budget film.

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Christopher Lee also declined to do the
role.

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It was funny, years later, we ran into
Christopher Lee at a party and he said

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that is the biggest mistake I ever made of
my career is to not be in this movie.

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It was I who said, have you ever seen
Donald Pleasants?

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And I remember Donald Pleasants playing a
bit of a loony in a picture called Will

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Penny and a few others, as a matter of
fact.

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And I knew he was a versatile actor.

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I didn't think we'd get him.

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But I said, wouldn't he give us a touch of
class?

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I was a huge fan of Donald.

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Had been again since I was a kid.

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So we hired Donald Pleasants and we gave
him an additional $20,000.

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So he total on the film was $320,000.

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Pardon me, I'm a loomist, Dr. Sam loomist.

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Be bracket.

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I'd like to have a word with if I could.

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Well, maybe a few minutes.

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I've got to take it.

356
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It's just important.

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Ten minutes.

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I'll be here.

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Donald accepted the part.

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My most frightening moment as a director
was the first time I had to go meet Donald.

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Years later, I became very close with
Donald.

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He became a very dear, dear friend.

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But at the time, I was scared to death of
him.

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So he said, I don't know why I'm doing
this film.

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I don't know what my character is all
about.

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The only reason I'm here is because my
daughter, who's a rock and roll guitar

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player, thought that the music you did in
Assault and Precinct 13 was good.

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So I don't know what I'm doing.

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There are parts of the script which I'm
now doing for John, which I can't accept.

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But I have to bring myself Brown to sing
it in his way because it's his film.

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I realize that he was just testing me.

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It's a little melodramatic.

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And certainly in my role.

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He got hungry.

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Could have been a skunk.

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Could have.

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And wouldn't do that.

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This is a number now.

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But of course it's not intended to be real
in that awful word realistic sense.

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He always wanted to test the director to
see, what did you have in mind for him?

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Did you have passion for the role?

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What was going on?

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00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:14,780
But oh, my heart was pounding.

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It was awful.

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It was awful.

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00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,840
But greater fright slayed just ahead.

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As the first day of filming now
approached, and John Carpenter set out to

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risk everything on the most ambitious film
of his career.

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I'm just up here.

390
00:20:44,340 --> 00:20:46,060
Shouldn't we go on up to the hospital?

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Wait.

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In May of 1978, cameras rolled on day one
of Halloween.

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As John Carpenter and his
eager young collaborators

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set out to conjure movie
magic from a skeletal budget.

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00:21:22,981 --> 00:21:25,620
We shot a 20 day schedule, four weeks.

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Everybody did everything.

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It's harder to ask a
stranger for a favor to

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work for free or to work
for very little money.

399
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:36,020
So we really asked our friends to help us
make this picture.

400
00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:39,760
A lot of people worked on the film,
worked free.

401
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:45,860
They didn't have the money to do it,
but it was making a film I bond love.

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00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:47,760
They loved the work.

403
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,660
You forgot about sleep for a couple of
months.

404
00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:52,420
You just went and made the movie.

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00:21:52,421 --> 00:21:56,160
And that was your life, and you ate it,
drank it, slept it.

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00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,480
Everybody was doing ten jobs.

407
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:35,260
It wasn't surprising to see Jamie grabbing
a case and helping us carry stuff.

408
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:36,840
She was really part of the crew.

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00:22:37,340 --> 00:22:39,600
We always said to make a fabulous girl's
count.

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00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,320
The actors didn't get paid very much,
which is okay, though.

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00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,160
They got scale, and that was important.

412
00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:48,622
I think it's the energy
that everybody exuded

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because we were all
young working actors.

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You know, just people beginning.

415
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And they all brought that enthusiasm in.

416
00:22:56,460 --> 00:22:57,460
Hi, Annie.

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00:22:57,660 --> 00:22:58,660
Laurie.

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00:22:59,100 --> 00:23:00,100
Hi, Dan.

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What happened?

420
00:23:03,260 --> 00:23:05,400
Oh, somebody broke into the hardware
store.

421
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:06,760
Probably kids.

422
00:23:07,020 --> 00:23:08,540
You blame everything on kids.

423
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:13,000
Well, now all they took were some Halloween
masks, a rope, and a couple of knives.

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00:23:13,500 --> 00:23:14,500
Who do you think it was?

425
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,500
It's hard growing up with a cynical
father.

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00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,960
That was the best time I'd ever had on a
film since, before or since.

427
00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:26,700
So we had a lot of fun on this set.

428
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,720
There was a lot of jokes and kind of
light.

429
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:31,720
It was a light atmosphere.

430
00:23:32,020 --> 00:23:33,020
We had a great time.

431
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:39,053
It wasn't really so much of
pressure because it's easier

432
00:23:39,054 --> 00:23:42,120
for me to get, you get a
scene in one or two takes.

433
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,729
You do a little bit of
rehearsal and then you

434
00:23:44,730 --> 00:23:47,941
give 150% and you try
to get it in the first take.

435
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:49,360
Hey, let's look for a note.

436
00:23:50,300 --> 00:23:51,300
Let's go.

437
00:23:52,860 --> 00:23:54,520
They had a dolly track.

438
00:23:55,340 --> 00:23:58,340
And I guess, you know, I had big,
high shoes on.

439
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,660
And then we're going to go from the couch
across the living room and up the stairs.

440
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,440
I was going to be one sweeping shot.

441
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,261
And, you know, you're always
trying to look ahead and not

442
00:24:07,262 --> 00:24:09,740
look at the camera, look
down to see where you're going.

443
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,980
Because, you know, you're trying to create
this fake world here.

444
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,640
Lindsey is gone for the night.

445
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:17,400
That's wonderful.

446
00:24:20,220 --> 00:24:23,360
And I guess I tripped over the dolly
track.

447
00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:27,300
And John kept it in because the rest of
the shot worked, so thanks John.

448
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,520
Even the movie's most veteran actor got
into the Halloween spirit.

449
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,860
He's lusting me the very sinister doctor.

450
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,600
When Donald's cousin came on set,
it was just amazing.

451
00:24:48,100 --> 00:24:50,680
We only could afford to shoot him for a
week.

452
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,940
So we scheduled all the scenes together.

453
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,440
And, you know, it was a lot to accomplish.

454
00:24:57,020 --> 00:25:01,101
But when they were doing the
D, the sexual D... Oh my God.

455
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:01,980
Yes.

456
00:25:02,620 --> 00:25:03,780
Donald was unbelievable.

457
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:05,380
He was so kind to us.

458
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,760
But he never looked down on what we were
doing.

459
00:25:07,761 --> 00:25:09,080
He gave every scene.

460
00:25:10,020 --> 00:25:11,020
Its respect.

461
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,080
He gave everything that we were doing.

462
00:25:13,340 --> 00:25:14,340
Absolute.

463
00:25:14,540 --> 00:25:15,540
100% of him.

464
00:25:15,660 --> 00:25:16,660
He was amazing.

465
00:25:16,780 --> 00:25:17,920
I just couldn't believe it.

466
00:25:18,220 --> 00:25:19,240
How great he was.

467
00:25:19,860 --> 00:25:20,980
Not too bad.

468
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:26,980
I feel better to have it happen in here
and then you leave.

469
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:29,740
I think she was sitting right here.

470
00:25:29,820 --> 00:25:31,940
I do think it's good for a lot to get
into.

471
00:25:32,180 --> 00:25:33,740
Because that gives him a close through.

472
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:34,920
Exactly.

473
00:25:35,260 --> 00:25:40,420
I think Donald was completely surprised
when he arrived here from England that we

474
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were so young and we were such a small
crew.

475
00:25:43,540 --> 00:25:47,620
There are behind the scenes shots stills
of him and I just chatting away.

476
00:25:52,650 --> 00:25:53,650
Chicken.

477
00:25:54,090 --> 00:25:55,090
Go ahead, Lonnie.

478
00:25:56,510 --> 00:25:57,510
Go in!

479
00:25:59,190 --> 00:26:00,390
Hey, Lonnie.

480
00:26:00,790 --> 00:26:02,630
Get your ass away from there.

481
00:26:03,770 --> 00:26:06,210
He was just so enamored with everybody.

482
00:26:06,211 --> 00:26:08,130
And so he kind of joined in.

483
00:26:08,290 --> 00:26:09,570
He was like pulling cable, too.

484
00:26:10,070 --> 00:26:11,410
And that was really great.

485
00:26:11,990 --> 00:26:13,590
I'd like to have a word with if I could.

486
00:26:13,630 --> 00:26:14,690
Well, maybe a few minutes.

487
00:26:14,870 --> 00:26:15,390
I've got to take care.

488
00:26:15,590 --> 00:26:16,590
It's important.

489
00:26:17,030 --> 00:26:18,030
Ten minutes.

490
00:26:18,130 --> 00:26:19,130
I'll be here.

491
00:26:19,390 --> 00:26:21,990
It was wonderful to work with him because
he was kind of spooky.

492
00:26:23,430 --> 00:26:24,970
Those eyes, you know, move it around.

493
00:26:25,270 --> 00:26:27,510
You just look at him and go, what's going
on in there?

494
00:26:29,290 --> 00:26:32,326
Halloween's success would
also rely not just on enthusiasm

495
00:26:32,327 --> 00:26:36,190
but the effectiveness of its
monstrous villain, Michael Myers.

496
00:26:36,610 --> 00:26:38,390
How does Samuels feel like?

497
00:26:42,070 --> 00:26:42,390
Me?

498
00:26:42,590 --> 00:26:43,590
Answer the question.

499
00:26:44,470 --> 00:26:50,270
Well, um, Costain wrote that fate was
somehow related only to religion whereas

500
00:26:50,271 --> 00:26:53,870
Samuels felt that, well, fate was like a
natural element like earth, air,

501
00:26:54,470 --> 00:26:55,050
fire, and water.

502
00:26:55,470 --> 00:26:56,470
That's right.

503
00:26:56,710 --> 00:27:00,265
Samuel's definitely
personified fate in Samuel's

504
00:27:00,266 --> 00:27:02,690
writing fate is immovable
like a mountain.

505
00:27:02,691 --> 00:27:09,650
Many of the names that, uh, that they use,
one comes to my, Michael Myers were little

506
00:27:09,651 --> 00:27:12,770
in jokes that John and Deborah used from
their own experiences.

507
00:27:13,230 --> 00:27:17,990
Michael Myers was the distributor of
assault on precinct 13 in England.

508
00:27:18,350 --> 00:27:20,790
Michael Myers pushed it into the London
Film Festival.

509
00:27:21,050 --> 00:27:22,690
That's where my reputation kind of began.

510
00:27:22,990 --> 00:27:23,990
So I felt I owed him.

511
00:27:24,770 --> 00:27:28,030
So that was my tribute to my, he was this
dearest, dearest man.

512
00:27:28,490 --> 00:27:29,490
He's cute.

513
00:27:29,670 --> 00:27:34,047
I thought it might be a
good idea to raise this

514
00:27:34,048 --> 00:27:38,170
Michael Myers character
up to a mythic status.

515
00:27:39,510 --> 00:27:45,290
Make him human, he asked, but almost like
a force, a force that will never stop,

516
00:27:46,030 --> 00:27:47,750
that can't be denied.

517
00:27:48,770 --> 00:27:50,310
I told him how dangerous he was.

518
00:27:50,590 --> 00:27:53,890
He wasn't of two roadblocks and an odd points
bulletin wouldn't stop a five-year-old.

519
00:27:54,030 --> 00:27:55,643
Well, it was your patient,
Doctor, and for Costain's

520
00:27:55,667 --> 00:27:56,970
word, strong enough, you
should have told somebody.

521
00:27:56,971 --> 00:27:57,971
I told everybody.

522
00:27:58,410 --> 00:27:59,030
Nobody listens.

523
00:27:59,250 --> 00:28:00,190
There's nothing else I can do.

524
00:28:00,191 --> 00:28:02,431
You can get back in there and get back on
that telephone.

525
00:28:02,470 --> 00:28:04,470
Tell him exactly who walked out of here
last night.

526
00:28:04,690 --> 00:28:06,106
And tell him exactly where he's going.

527
00:28:06,130 --> 00:28:07,130
Probably going.

528
00:28:07,370 --> 00:28:08,050
I'm wasting my time.

529
00:28:08,290 --> 00:28:10,550
Sam hadn't feel as 150 miles away from
here now.

530
00:28:10,770 --> 00:28:12,246
Now, for God's sakes, he can't drive a
car.

531
00:28:12,270 --> 00:28:13,690
He was doing very well last night.

532
00:28:14,350 --> 00:28:16,030
Maybe someone around here gave him
lessons.

533
00:28:16,970 --> 00:28:20,050
And I suppose I was influenced by a couple
of things.

534
00:28:20,210 --> 00:28:22,990
I remember Michael Crichton directed a
movie called Westworld.

535
00:28:23,790 --> 00:28:27,370
Yule Brenner was a robot, a killer robot
that couldn't be destroyed.

536
00:28:28,010 --> 00:28:30,570
MGM presents Westworld.

537
00:28:32,730 --> 00:28:35,850
We know you'll enjoy your stay in
Westworld.

538
00:28:36,310 --> 00:28:37,310
Hold it.

539
00:28:37,590 --> 00:28:38,990
The ultimate resort.

540
00:28:39,430 --> 00:28:40,430
Let me do it this time.

541
00:28:40,810 --> 00:28:41,810
We're nothing.

542
00:28:42,790 --> 00:28:45,030
Nothing can possibly go wrong.

543
00:28:45,290 --> 00:28:45,570
You've shot.

544
00:28:46,290 --> 00:28:46,870
Go wrong.

545
00:28:47,090 --> 00:28:47,470
Go wrong.

546
00:28:48,030 --> 00:28:48,590
Go wrong.

547
00:28:48,790 --> 00:28:49,790
Oh, my God.

548
00:28:50,950 --> 00:28:58,010
But when I was in college, I had a class,
a psychology or something.

549
00:28:58,270 --> 00:29:01,330
And we visited a mental institution.

550
00:29:01,730 --> 00:29:03,290
And this was in Kentucky.

551
00:29:05,170 --> 00:29:07,930
And visited the most serious mentally ill
patients.

552
00:29:08,290 --> 00:29:09,070
And there was this kid.

553
00:29:09,270 --> 00:29:10,310
I missed him at 12 or 13.

554
00:29:10,610 --> 00:29:15,770
And he literally had this look that I gave
the lines to Donald Pleasance to say,

555
00:29:16,650 --> 00:29:25,070
I met this six-year-old child with this
blank pale emotionless face.

556
00:29:26,610 --> 00:29:28,050
The blackest eyes.

557
00:29:29,010 --> 00:29:30,390
The devil's eyes.

558
00:29:31,790 --> 00:29:34,470
I spent eight years trying to reach him.

559
00:29:35,150 --> 00:29:38,770
And then another seven tried to keep him
locked up because I realized that what was

560
00:29:38,771 --> 00:29:42,970
living behind that boy's eyes was purely
and simply evil.

561
00:29:43,590 --> 00:29:44,790
It's a schizophrenic care.

562
00:29:45,810 --> 00:29:47,410
Stair is what it is.

563
00:29:47,610 --> 00:29:48,610
It's a real evil stare.

564
00:29:49,210 --> 00:29:50,970
And it was unsettling to me.

565
00:29:51,710 --> 00:29:57,450
And it was like the creepiest thing I'd
ever seen just because as a stranger,

566
00:29:58,210 --> 00:29:59,690
it was completely insane.

567
00:30:01,970 --> 00:30:04,030
Here's a guy who's a sociopath.

568
00:30:04,450 --> 00:30:15,750
He killed his sister when
he was like six years

569
00:30:15,751 --> 00:30:15,750
old on Halloween night
dressed as a clown.

570
00:30:15,751 --> 00:30:20,350
All of carpenters ingenuity and a stunning
new camera only recently invented.

571
00:30:21,010 --> 00:30:24,070
When I was making student films,
I was in love with dolly shots.

572
00:30:24,870 --> 00:30:26,818
I was in love with Orson
Welles' opening shot in

573
00:30:26,819 --> 00:30:29,511
Touch of Evil, which
is a big long crane shot.

574
00:30:30,850 --> 00:30:35,370
But physically, when you do dolly shot,
it takes a long time.

575
00:30:35,510 --> 00:30:38,110
You have to lay down this track and you
put the camera on a dolly.

576
00:30:38,570 --> 00:30:39,530
Get these people to push it.

577
00:30:39,531 --> 00:30:42,090
You know, it takes time.

578
00:30:42,310 --> 00:30:45,710
We don't have the time and a low-budget
film to make a lot of dolly shots.

579
00:30:46,050 --> 00:30:49,750
And then I discovered something called the
Steadicam, or the panic line.

580
00:30:50,270 --> 00:30:51,390
That's a Panavision version.

581
00:30:52,230 --> 00:30:55,650
It's a gyroscopic camera that you attach
to yourself, the camera operator,

582
00:30:56,150 --> 00:30:57,150
and walk around with it.

583
00:30:57,650 --> 00:31:00,150
The Steadicam, it was a brand new device.

584
00:31:00,650 --> 00:31:05,970
And it allowed us to smoothly sort of move
the camera wherever a guy could walk.

585
00:31:05,971 --> 00:31:10,550
And John said he wanted to use that as the
opening shot.

586
00:31:11,310 --> 00:31:17,451
A sort of long, continuous
shot that brought the audience

587
00:31:17,452 --> 00:31:21,590
into the back story of what
was going to be the movie.

588
00:31:23,170 --> 00:31:25,094
He wanted to start off
establishing the old house,

589
00:31:25,095 --> 00:31:35,950
moving up to it as if it was
somebody's point of view.

590
00:31:36,510 --> 00:31:40,310
Never one to, you know, short from a
challenge like that, I immediately

591
00:31:40,311 --> 00:31:42,071
thought, well, this is going to be great
fun.

592
00:31:42,770 --> 00:31:47,710
John used the camera as we know as the
character, Michael.

593
00:31:48,450 --> 00:31:51,950
So the camera becomes Michael moving in.

594
00:31:54,270 --> 00:31:55,590
We are alone, aren't we?

595
00:31:56,890 --> 00:31:58,190
Michael's around someplace.

596
00:32:00,210 --> 00:32:05,010
We look into the windows, we come around,
and we come back around in the back door.

597
00:32:05,011 --> 00:32:11,091
And that's when I, posing as the young boy,
get the knife, and I'm carrying the knife.

598
00:32:15,460 --> 00:32:18,662
Obviously when you
shoot with children, you're

599
00:32:18,663 --> 00:32:21,641
limited in terms of the
time to shoot with the kids.

600
00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:24,756
Very, very complicated
lighting set up, very complicated

601
00:32:24,757 --> 00:32:27,160
shot, and that was going
to take up most of the time.

602
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,600
So they needed somebody whose hands were
small enough.

603
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,480
So I became, you know, the kid.

604
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,240
I'm carrying the knife.

605
00:32:36,241 --> 00:32:38,020
Those are my hands in the clown suit.

606
00:32:47,380 --> 00:32:49,620
That's me climbing upstairs with the
camera behind me.

607
00:33:08,710 --> 00:33:10,450
And that's me killing a sister.

608
00:33:11,570 --> 00:33:13,490
I actually wasn't even touching her.

609
00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:22,095
It was also a challenge
because the shot took

610
00:33:22,096 --> 00:33:25,200
almost exactly one
role of film each time.

611
00:33:25,380 --> 00:33:27,383
So every time we did
the shot, we would just

612
00:33:27,384 --> 00:33:29,120
barely get it done and
the film would run out.

613
00:33:29,121 --> 00:33:31,847
Eventually, they decided
they wanted to piece

614
00:33:31,848 --> 00:33:34,741
together, I think, three
of the different takes.

615
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:41,420
If you have a very sharp eye, you'll
notice that as the camera moves up,

616
00:33:41,500 --> 00:33:44,840
the stairs looks down on the floor and
sees the mask.

617
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,320
And then places the mask in front of the
lens.

618
00:33:48,940 --> 00:33:49,280
There's a cut.

619
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:54,063
The second one is just as the
camera runs from having killed

620
00:33:54,064 --> 00:33:57,740
the girl to the top of the stairs
and swishes to look down.

621
00:33:57,741 --> 00:33:59,340
There's another cut that occurs there.

622
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,720
It took us a night to do the whole
sequence.

623
00:34:23,690 --> 00:34:25,750
Michael, we had a crane for the evening.

624
00:34:26,670 --> 00:34:29,050
We pulled back from the little kid who's
unmasked.

625
00:34:29,051 --> 00:34:31,390
We come back from the house up and see the
neighborhood.

626
00:34:42,740 --> 00:34:45,660
That was an ambitious shot for a little
old-budget crew.

627
00:34:49,850 --> 00:34:54,790
Although set in the Midwest, Halloween was
filmed entirely in Southern California.

628
00:34:55,330 --> 00:34:58,470
Halloween has a couple of distinct
locations.

629
00:34:58,550 --> 00:34:59,670
Let me tell you about them.

630
00:34:59,890 --> 00:35:00,910
One is in South Pasadena.

631
00:35:01,470 --> 00:35:05,950
That's where the old house is,
that the kids are out in front of.

632
00:35:06,890 --> 00:35:10,510
That's where we pull back in the beginning
of the movie.

633
00:35:11,690 --> 00:35:14,950
The Halloween street, however,
where the girls are babysitting.

634
00:35:14,951 --> 00:35:18,490
That's actually in my hometown of
Hollywood, California.

635
00:35:19,170 --> 00:35:20,570
It's right off of Sunset Boulevard.

636
00:35:21,190 --> 00:35:22,770
And they were wonderful to us.

637
00:35:23,310 --> 00:35:24,310
Absolutely wonderful.

638
00:35:25,050 --> 00:35:26,590
They didn't mind the shooting at all.

639
00:35:27,150 --> 00:35:35,290
Our biggest problems in creating an autumn
world in Southern California in the spring

640
00:35:35,291 --> 00:35:40,518
with palm trees was to shoot
around the palm trees or to

641
00:35:40,519 --> 00:35:44,370
create shots that blocked out
the palm trees in some way.

642
00:35:46,010 --> 00:35:48,810
Especially in the beginning of the movie,
you can see a few palm trees.

643
00:35:48,910 --> 00:35:51,110
That's the only thing that screwed it up.

644
00:35:52,090 --> 00:35:53,090
What the hell?

645
00:35:56,750 --> 00:36:00,690
In the beginning of the movie,
we got these big bags of leaves,

646
00:36:01,470 --> 00:36:04,186
orange leaves, fall
leaves, and we would have

647
00:36:04,187 --> 00:36:07,130
this sort of stupid fan
next to the camera.

648
00:36:07,450 --> 00:36:10,730
We would throw the leaves so that they
would blow in front of the camera.

649
00:36:13,690 --> 00:36:18,110
I remember there maybe being six to eight
people on the crew.

650
00:36:18,590 --> 00:36:21,070
And it was time to throw the leaves on the
grass.

651
00:36:21,330 --> 00:36:22,330
Everybody pitched in.

652
00:36:22,670 --> 00:36:25,010
And when we finished that scene,
you know what we did?

653
00:36:25,510 --> 00:36:26,941
We went and raked the
leaves, picked them up

654
00:36:26,942 --> 00:36:29,591
and put them back in
the bags for the next time.

655
00:36:30,170 --> 00:36:33,777
But amid the group's
exuberance, there was also anxiety

656
00:36:33,778 --> 00:36:36,870
on the part of first-time
film star Jamie Lee Curtis.

657
00:36:45,410 --> 00:36:48,950
The first day we shot, I remember going
home and thinking I was going to be fired.

658
00:36:48,951 --> 00:36:49,951
I just thought I sucked.

659
00:36:54,730 --> 00:36:58,214
And I remember being at home
and my roommate said, Jamie,

660
00:36:58,215 --> 00:37:01,150
it's John Carpenter and I
thought, oh man, this is it.

661
00:37:01,570 --> 00:37:02,570
Hello?

662
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:10,960
Who is this?

663
00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:17,037
And he called to say
how happy he was with the

664
00:37:17,038 --> 00:37:18,780
day's work and I just
thought that was great.

665
00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:20,720
That's never happened to me again.

666
00:37:21,220 --> 00:37:24,540
This was her first big break and she
wanted to be very good.

667
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,860
So she and I had a great time together.

668
00:37:28,180 --> 00:37:30,120
We had a hoot because she's very funny.

669
00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:31,500
She's very charming.

670
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:32,560
She's very lovable.

671
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,580
And you know, we became very good friends
after that.

672
00:37:35,581 --> 00:37:38,240
I just was totally enamored by Jamie.

673
00:37:38,820 --> 00:37:41,400
I felt like Jamie was my little sister.

674
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:46,620
She really needs a lot of love and a lot
of confidence building.

675
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,360
And I think that's what makes her so
unique as a talent.

676
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,225
Is that the somewhat
the lack of confidence she

677
00:37:53,226 --> 00:37:55,561
makes up for sort of a
bigger-than-life character?

678
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,000
You know, you could ask somebody.

679
00:37:59,020 --> 00:38:00,020
Sure you could.

680
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,800
All you have to do is go up to somebody
and say, you want to go to the dance?

681
00:38:04,580 --> 00:38:05,840
You could do that.

682
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:07,000
I couldn't.

683
00:38:30,620 --> 00:38:35,300
Inhabiting the sinister shape of Michael
Myers was one of John Carpenter's friends

684
00:38:35,301 --> 00:38:39,540
and former USC schoolmates, future
filmmaker Nick Castle.

685
00:38:40,500 --> 00:38:45,940
When I found out that John was going to be
shooting Halloween, pretty close to my

686
00:38:45,941 --> 00:38:52,820
house actually, I went down there and
asked if I could stick around the set

687
00:38:52,821 --> 00:38:55,271
because at that time
I was trying to get my

688
00:38:55,272 --> 00:38:58,381
own pictures off the
ground as a director.

689
00:38:58,460 --> 00:39:00,379
And he said, okay,
fine, but as long as you're

690
00:39:00,380 --> 00:39:03,141
going to be here, why
don't you do something?

691
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,752
And he said, go here,
put this on, and you'll

692
00:39:05,753 --> 00:39:08,481
be the guy running
around with the killer.

693
00:39:09,540 --> 00:39:10,060
And that's fine.

694
00:39:10,220 --> 00:39:10,740
Do I get any money?

695
00:39:10,980 --> 00:39:11,980
Yes, $25 a day.

696
00:39:12,820 --> 00:39:13,820
And it was great.

697
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:18,920
He's just a real pal, and his father was a
choreographer for Fred Astaire,

698
00:39:19,180 --> 00:39:20,180
and he just moved right.

699
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,206
And I think John really
wanted to play him as

700
00:39:26,207 --> 00:39:30,381
that, where he just
looks, and his head turns.

701
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:36,720
And he's enamored by this sister-like
character that he sees in Moistrode.

702
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:37,580
He makes the connection.

703
00:39:37,581 --> 00:39:42,911
He breaks out of the insane
asylum and gets to his house and

704
00:39:42,912 --> 00:39:47,200
sees this young girl and makes
this sort of subtle connection.

705
00:39:56,200 --> 00:40:00,460
I basically asked the actor question,
what is my motivation?

706
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:06,480
And he said, your motivation is to walk
from this point to the end point.

707
00:40:06,481 --> 00:40:07,920
And roll.

708
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:13,840
Do nothing.

709
00:40:14,060 --> 00:40:15,060
Just walk.

710
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:16,600
Don't act.

711
00:40:17,140 --> 00:40:18,140
Just walk.

712
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,680
I think he really gave the movie
something.

713
00:40:24,340 --> 00:40:27,460
I think there's little moments that he
does in the movie that are really special

714
00:40:27,461 --> 00:40:32,360
that, you know, take it away from being
just some sort of thug in a suit.

715
00:40:33,580 --> 00:40:34,580
Come on out.

716
00:40:42,540 --> 00:40:46,460
The only crazy thing he did was when he
stabs the kid.

717
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:06,121
And he looks at him like this, like
he's looking at a butterfly collection.

718
00:41:09,970 --> 00:41:11,930
That's the only direction I think I gave
him.

719
00:41:12,950 --> 00:41:16,550
He was just, you know, a gentle friend of
John's there.

720
00:41:16,830 --> 00:41:18,690
He didn't want to hurt anybody.

721
00:41:19,390 --> 00:41:21,890
Nick had a wife and I believed two babies.

722
00:41:22,450 --> 00:41:24,050
And they came by every day at lunch.

723
00:41:24,430 --> 00:41:27,350
And, you know, here's this guy with this
over-suit on.

724
00:41:27,570 --> 00:41:29,590
And, you know, the
mask was just always lying

725
00:41:29,591 --> 00:41:31,250
next, only put it on
and go do the work.

726
00:41:31,650 --> 00:41:35,160
John sent me out to
find the perfect mask

727
00:41:35,161 --> 00:41:38,450
or to create the perfect
mask for the movie.

728
00:41:38,890 --> 00:41:41,070
And it was simply to be a kind of a blank
face.

729
00:41:42,030 --> 00:41:43,630
We didn't have any money to make a mask.

730
00:41:43,850 --> 00:41:46,550
It was originally written the way you see
it.

731
00:41:46,551 --> 00:41:49,970
In other words, it's a pale mask with
human features.

732
00:41:50,450 --> 00:41:51,590
Almost feature less.

733
00:41:52,270 --> 00:41:54,350
I don't know why I wrote that down.

734
00:41:55,170 --> 00:41:56,490
My Deborah and I decided on that.

735
00:41:56,530 --> 00:41:59,950
Maybe it was because of an old movie
called Eyes Without a Face.

736
00:42:00,550 --> 00:42:01,550
It's a French film.

737
00:42:01,650 --> 00:42:04,510
And this girl had a burned face.

738
00:42:04,670 --> 00:42:06,310
So she wore this face mask.

739
00:42:06,630 --> 00:42:12,231
It was real creepy because it was
featureless and immobile except for her eyes.

740
00:42:12,690 --> 00:42:16,450
So, Tommy Lee Wallace, the
production designer, ran up to

741
00:42:16,451 --> 00:42:18,971
the mask shop on Hollywood
Boulevard and bought a couple.

742
00:42:19,050 --> 00:42:20,050
One was a clown mask.

743
00:42:20,730 --> 00:42:22,170
And that's, you know, one way to go.

744
00:42:22,610 --> 00:42:26,110
And the other, he got this William Shatner
Star Trek mask.

745
00:42:26,830 --> 00:42:27,830
Captain Kirk.

746
00:42:28,270 --> 00:42:32,750
Because in mask form, the William Shatner
mask was just kind of a blank face.

747
00:42:32,950 --> 00:42:34,350
It didn't really look like anybody.

748
00:42:34,610 --> 00:42:37,566
And he cut the eye holes out a little bit
bigger so they weren't like this.

749
00:42:37,590 --> 00:42:38,230
They were rounder.

750
00:42:38,231 --> 00:42:39,231
Tore off the eyebrows.

751
00:42:40,170 --> 00:42:43,630
I kind of goofed up the hair a little so
it looked demented and strange.

752
00:42:44,370 --> 00:42:46,770
And I spray painted it whiter than it
already was.

753
00:42:48,530 --> 00:42:49,530
Took off the sideburns.

754
00:42:51,010 --> 00:42:52,010
That's the one.

755
00:42:52,510 --> 00:42:53,510
Ah, cheese.

756
00:42:53,990 --> 00:42:54,990
Oh, cheese.

757
00:42:57,750 --> 00:43:00,530
Oh, it created a shiver right in the room.

758
00:43:01,170 --> 00:43:02,650
And we knew we had something special.

759
00:43:03,410 --> 00:43:06,270
I guess I owe the success of Halloween to
William Shatner.

760
00:43:07,150 --> 00:43:08,250
Well, sort of.

761
00:43:08,910 --> 00:43:11,670
The hilarious thing about
the mask situation is that

762
00:43:11,671 --> 00:43:15,070
the mask of Captain Kirk
anyway looked nothing like him.

763
00:43:15,830 --> 00:43:16,930
Nothing like him.

764
00:43:17,310 --> 00:43:20,261
I don't know what it looked
like, but that was the secret

765
00:43:20,262 --> 00:43:22,551
that we really didn't look
like William Shatner at all.

766
00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:36,840
John was acutely aware of the importance
of composition.

767
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:46,940
You deliberately put a character on one
side of the frame, leaving a lot of empty

768
00:43:46,941 --> 00:43:52,220
frame, which can either tell the audience
something is going to happen there,

769
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:53,740
or potentially could happen.

770
00:43:58,630 --> 00:43:59,630
Hello?

771
00:44:01,530 --> 00:44:02,530
Who's there?

772
00:44:05,150 --> 00:44:07,310
Paul, is this one of your cheap trims?

773
00:44:07,311 --> 00:44:13,870
There's one where Nancy Loomis is in the
kitchen talking on the phone.

774
00:44:17,590 --> 00:44:19,090
Hi, Annie.

775
00:44:19,670 --> 00:44:20,670
Oh, hi, Paul.

776
00:44:20,990 --> 00:44:23,290
Alright, cut it out.

777
00:44:23,450 --> 00:44:24,470
It can happen to anyone.

778
00:44:25,150 --> 00:44:27,490
And the camera sort of pans with her.

779
00:44:28,850 --> 00:44:34,330
And it passes by behind her in the
doorway, is the shape standing there.

780
00:44:34,331 --> 00:44:38,650
And the camera gets off of it, and
then when it comes back, he's not there.

781
00:44:39,070 --> 00:44:41,890
Yeah, but I've seen you stuck in plenty of
other positions.

782
00:44:44,370 --> 00:44:45,370
Oh, that's fabulous.

783
00:44:45,690 --> 00:44:46,690
When did they leave?

784
00:44:47,130 --> 00:44:48,130
About a half hour ago.

785
00:44:48,790 --> 00:44:49,790
Oh, utterly fantastic.

786
00:45:01,330 --> 00:45:02,330
Oh, the dog.

787
00:45:03,050 --> 00:45:04,050
Killing the dog.

788
00:45:04,450 --> 00:45:05,170
You know, I'm a dog lover.

789
00:45:05,450 --> 00:45:06,130
I hate it that.

790
00:45:06,330 --> 00:45:09,493
But I think what we had
to do was to find a way

791
00:45:09,494 --> 00:45:12,671
to show that the shape
was really evil and deadly.

792
00:45:14,970 --> 00:45:18,950
Lindsay Lester's barking again and getting
on my nerves again.

793
00:45:22,690 --> 00:45:24,010
Never mind.

794
00:45:25,170 --> 00:45:26,550
I guess you found a hot date.

795
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:42,440
In crafting the story of Halloween,
John Carpenter cleverly balanced high

796
00:45:42,441 --> 00:45:45,580
tension with carefully chosen moments of
comic relief.

797
00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:49,640
Most of them were courtesy of co-star PJ
Soles.

798
00:45:50,260 --> 00:45:51,260
Hey, is Annie around?

799
00:45:52,140 --> 00:45:53,500
I thought she'd be home right now.

800
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:54,600
She went to pick up Paul.

801
00:45:54,660 --> 00:45:56,420
Well, she's totally not here.

802
00:45:58,300 --> 00:46:00,140
She probably stopped off someplace.

803
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:01,856
Have her call me when she gets home
though.

804
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,520
I have Lindsay here and I want to know
what time to put her to bed.

805
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:06,080
Okay.

806
00:46:06,220 --> 00:46:06,560
Later.

807
00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:07,700
Have a good time.

808
00:46:08,100 --> 00:46:09,620
We definitely will.

809
00:46:11,100 --> 00:46:12,100
Bye.

810
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,587
You know, Jamie always
told me she was jealous

811
00:46:16,588 --> 00:46:19,220
of my part because I
got to do all the fun stuff.

812
00:46:19,221 --> 00:46:20,560
I had a lot of make out scenes.

813
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:23,160
But

814
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:27,400
the phone keeps ringing.

815
00:46:28,060 --> 00:46:29,700
Oh, and I can't keep you in the kitchen.

816
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:31,200
Just answer the damn phone.

817
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:32,480
Well, I can't.

818
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:33,600
What if it's the wallaces?

819
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:35,480
Can Annie in trouble now?

820
00:46:40,130 --> 00:46:41,270
Just taking her phone.

821
00:46:41,271 --> 00:46:42,271
I'm going to go back.

822
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:05,940
That bedroom scene.

823
00:47:06,180 --> 00:47:07,820
That was really a good scene.

824
00:47:08,260 --> 00:47:15,750
Oh, fantastic.

825
00:47:19,500 --> 00:47:22,404
John did say it would be nice
in this scene if we could have

826
00:47:22,405 --> 00:47:24,560
a little nudity and I don't
know however you want to do it.

827
00:47:24,561 --> 00:47:26,580
But he was trying to be very gentle with
it.

828
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:29,660
But, you know, in the script it does say
she slides the sheet down.

829
00:47:29,661 --> 00:47:32,420
Now, I happen to be naked under there.

830
00:47:33,140 --> 00:47:36,900
And the ghost, the guy comes back with the
sheet over his head.

831
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:38,820
And I'm thinking it's my boyfriend.

832
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:43,160
How come I can't get him to react to me or
anything?

833
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:45,140
Well, did you get my beer?

834
00:47:52,820 --> 00:47:54,320
Cute, Bob, real cute.

835
00:47:54,321 --> 00:47:58,500
I think the line was, okay big guy,
come over here.

836
00:47:58,780 --> 00:48:01,901
But instead I slid the sheet down
and say... See anything you like?

837
00:48:02,940 --> 00:48:05,680
I just thought that was really funny and
John liked it too.

838
00:48:05,860 --> 00:48:07,900
And that's become a classic line.

839
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:11,276
In fact, the first time that I
had gone to see the movie

840
00:48:11,277 --> 00:48:15,480
in Hollywood, there was a
guy behind me, right behind me.

841
00:48:15,580 --> 00:48:18,080
I was sitting there watching and I say,
see anything you like?

842
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:19,560
Okay, answer me.

843
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:23,220
And the guy goes, you bet your sweet beep
I do.

844
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:25,200
Are you weird?

845
00:48:26,140 --> 00:48:27,880
And I just sank down in my chair.

846
00:48:28,060 --> 00:48:31,180
I was so embarrassed and I thought,
oh boy, I gotta wait till everybody clears

847
00:48:31,181 --> 00:48:33,942
out of here before I move, because I don't
want him to know it was me.

848
00:48:34,860 --> 00:48:37,059
Carpenter and Debra
Hill had filled their script

849
00:48:37,060 --> 00:48:40,081
with several set pieces
of shocking horror.

850
00:48:40,220 --> 00:48:44,030
Now, with time running out,
Carpenter had to capture that

851
00:48:44,031 --> 00:48:48,020
horror on film with little
bloodshed and no special effects.

852
00:48:49,660 --> 00:48:54,520
Usually at carnivals or fairs or any place,
there's always the haunted house ride.

853
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,480
Things jump out at you and these foolish
things happen.

854
00:48:58,100 --> 00:49:00,676
And when I was a little
guy, kid, I went to these

855
00:49:00,677 --> 00:49:03,140
things and I remember what
scared me about those rides.

856
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,480
I tried to duplicate them in a cinematic
way.

857
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:11,320
The things that go bump and jump out and
scare you.

858
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,260
We wanted it to not be gory, wouldn't it
be scary?

859
00:49:20,620 --> 00:49:22,660
And there's a big difference between gore
and scare.

860
00:49:24,460 --> 00:49:28,460
John is from childhood from earliest days.

861
00:49:29,140 --> 00:49:31,720
One of his passions was scary movies.

862
00:49:33,240 --> 00:49:36,147
And when he got his
turn, he drew from the

863
00:49:36,148 --> 00:49:39,080
lessons he had learned
watching these movies.

864
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:43,980
And one of the cardinal rules is don't
show too much of the monster.

865
00:49:45,740 --> 00:49:50,300
One of the oldest tricks in the book is to
understand that it's not what you see,

866
00:49:50,420 --> 00:49:53,600
it's what you don't see, that gets you
scared.

867
00:49:55,740 --> 00:49:58,920
It's about knowing some things in there.

868
00:49:59,780 --> 00:50:06,020
And when your character, for some
compelling reason, must go in there,

869
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:07,700
it's about anticipation.

870
00:50:08,700 --> 00:50:09,780
Where's it going to happen?

871
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:15,240
John often likened it to the idea of a
Jack in the Box.

872
00:50:17,380 --> 00:50:24,622
When you're playing this tune, which
is awfully friendly, but suddenly it goes.

873
00:50:24,623 --> 00:50:25,061
..

874
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:48,660
As far as filming it and at the time it
being scary, it just wasn't.

875
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:52,860
We'd always end up laughing and even my
death scene where I'm getting strangled by

876
00:50:52,861 --> 00:50:54,780
the phone, I had to beg him to do it
harder.

877
00:50:54,781 --> 00:50:58,260
I said, you know, don't kill me,
but just do it a little harder because all

878
00:50:58,261 --> 00:51:01,120
you're doing is tickling my neck and I
can't die this way.

879
00:51:13,260 --> 00:51:14,420
All right, Annie.

880
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,320
First I get your famous chewing,
now I get your famous squealing.

881
00:51:21,820 --> 00:51:22,960
And you're all right.

882
00:51:32,730 --> 00:51:37,270
John was very, very acutely aware of his
being how you build suspense.

883
00:52:23,820 --> 00:52:26,740
The great moment, Jamie Lee's running in
the house.

884
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:32,712
She runs upstairs and is
hiding in a corner where

885
00:52:32,713 --> 00:52:35,620
she thinks she's safe
and it's sort of dark.

886
00:52:36,300 --> 00:52:40,760
And John said, how can we accomplish the
idea that our eyes are sort of getting

887
00:52:40,761 --> 00:52:43,834
used to the dark and
we're starting to see

888
00:52:43,835 --> 00:52:46,520
the fact that Michael
Myers is hiding there?

889
00:52:46,521 --> 00:52:48,140
And I said, oh, well, this would be fun.

890
00:52:48,460 --> 00:52:51,020
So we set it up with a small light on a
dimmer.

891
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:55,740
I gradually turned the light up so it
began to just barely expose the film.

892
00:52:56,100 --> 00:52:57,660
And then you start to notice something.

893
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:01,340
She's back there and there's no exposure
on it.

894
00:53:01,540 --> 00:53:06,600
This is black and then slowly he just
turns it up so you barely begin to see a

895
00:53:06,601 --> 00:53:08,561
little exposure on the face and then he
comes out.

896
00:53:18,820 --> 00:53:22,920
As the end of Halloween's filming
approached, spirits on the set stayed

897
00:53:22,921 --> 00:53:27,940
surprisingly high as cast and crew rallied
each other to make it to the finish line.

898
00:53:27,941 --> 00:53:28,941
Okay.

899
00:53:36,100 --> 00:53:37,640
John clearly knew what he wanted.

900
00:53:38,140 --> 00:53:42,140
There was no waffling of a sort of first
time movie director.

901
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,220
There was just no time to question it.

902
00:53:47,740 --> 00:53:52,280
When you make a little budget movie like
this, it forces a director into committing

903
00:53:52,281 --> 00:53:55,108
and being creative,
trying to be creative about

904
00:53:55,109 --> 00:53:57,680
how can I do this so
the audience will watch it.

905
00:53:57,681 --> 00:53:59,320
Rather than being really bored with it.

906
00:53:59,580 --> 00:54:01,972
I think that's one of the
strengths of Halloween

907
00:54:01,973 --> 00:54:04,880
is in the sense that
this pace is different.

908
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,100
It's not the cutty pace that you're used
to.

909
00:54:08,580 --> 00:54:09,660
We didn't have enough time.

910
00:54:15,740 --> 00:54:17,893
And there's one shot
where Jamie runs from one

911
00:54:17,894 --> 00:54:20,941
house up to another's
screams in her neighbor.

912
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:41,519
He runs all the way across
the street and we're just we're

913
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:46,340
panagliding with her right
into the door as she bangs on it.

914
00:54:46,660 --> 00:54:48,320
We worked our butts off to do that.

915
00:54:50,820 --> 00:54:51,300
Tommy!

916
00:54:51,301 --> 00:54:52,320
Tommy, it's me!

917
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:13,040
I'm gonna get upstairs.

918
00:55:13,140 --> 00:55:14,140
What is going on?

919
00:55:21,240 --> 00:55:22,360
Get in there, come on Tommy.

920
00:55:22,620 --> 00:55:23,620
Now lock the door!

921
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:42,700
If you watch the picture, it builds and
builds and builds and builds and builds.

922
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:52,446
The shots of the shape, they
get an hour and an hour and an

923
00:55:52,447 --> 00:55:55,440
hour until the end of the movie
where Jamie's in the closet.

924
00:55:57,660 --> 00:56:00,980
It's a really tight, you know,
close up kind of movie.

925
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,460
You're in there with her and this guy's
coming after her and you're going,

926
00:56:07,780 --> 00:56:09,020
oh my God, what's she gonna do?

927
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:10,080
Grab the hair!

928
00:56:10,380 --> 00:56:12,100
I mean, yeah, you get frightened.

929
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:31,480
At the end, of course, Jamie Lee is always
dropping the stupid knife.

930
00:56:33,940 --> 00:56:37,449
He wanted her to be
a very vulnerable little

931
00:56:37,450 --> 00:56:40,260
girl so that you as an
audience cared about her.

932
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:41,560
Come here.

933
00:56:41,780 --> 00:56:42,940
Just listen to me.

934
00:56:44,220 --> 00:56:47,345
When you go down the
stairs and out the front door, I

935
00:56:47,346 --> 00:56:49,841
want you to go down the
street to the Mackenzie's house.

936
00:56:50,060 --> 00:56:53,920
I want you to tell them to call the police
and tell them to send them over here.

937
00:56:54,940 --> 00:56:59,000
During the shoot, John Carpenter was also
busy working on another ingredient,

938
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:03,340
the music score, which the keyboard
playing director composed himself.

939
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:08,940
I had three days to do the score and my
father bought me a pair of bongos,

940
00:57:09,140 --> 00:57:12,320
believe it or not, when I was a teenager,
which I'd never particularly learned how

941
00:57:12,321 --> 00:57:14,860
to play, but he taught me five,
four time on them.

942
00:57:17,140 --> 00:57:20,480
Five, four time, it became the Halloween.

943
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:21,800
That's all that is.

944
00:57:22,820 --> 00:57:23,820
It worked.

945
00:57:26,340 --> 00:57:32,021
I just did it on the piano, octaves, and
put some synth strings and so forth on it.

946
00:57:38,290 --> 00:57:41,150
And right off the bat, you are at a
balance.

947
00:57:41,151 --> 00:57:45,550
It's almost as if your whole mind is being
short-circuited and played with because

948
00:57:45,551 --> 00:57:47,830
you're getting this fast, crazy,
erratic music.

949
00:57:55,240 --> 00:58:01,480
With the music, it went to an incredibly
other dimension.

950
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:03,920
I mean, it was another movie completely.

951
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:06,020
It was so effective.

952
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,660
Now, you say, how long could it take?

953
00:58:12,860 --> 00:58:14,020
Well, how long could it take?

954
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:15,776
John had four weeks to prepare the film.

955
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:18,440
He had four weeks to shoot it and four
weeks to finish itself.

956
00:58:19,780 --> 00:58:21,380
He probably did it while he was shaving.

957
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:23,316
Well, it didn't work without the music.

958
00:58:23,340 --> 00:58:24,540
I did it interestingly enough.

959
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:28,060
I showed it to an executive from 20th,
but I didn't have the music on it.

960
00:58:28,460 --> 00:58:29,940
As she said, this is not frightening.

961
00:58:30,540 --> 00:58:31,740
That's nothing scary about this movie.

962
00:58:31,741 --> 00:58:36,000
Fate caught up with several lives here.

963
00:58:36,980 --> 00:58:44,100
No matter what course of action Collins
took, he was destined to his own fate.

964
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:46,160
Did not have music.

965
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:48,200
It's not taught me a valuable lesson.

966
00:58:48,620 --> 00:58:50,440
It wasn't effective because it was all
silent.

967
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:54,960
Fate caught up with several lives here.

968
00:58:55,900 --> 00:59:01,720
No matter what course of action Collins
took, he was destined to his own fate.

969
00:59:01,740 --> 00:59:03,240
He was destined to his own fate.

970
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:50,900
People would scream when Michael is
unmasked in the hallway there,

971
00:59:51,020 --> 00:59:52,020
Jamie unmasked him.

972
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:53,640
What you're seeing is nothing.

973
00:59:54,260 --> 00:59:55,380
He's just a guy under there.

974
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:58,580
But you're so built up to it, people would
scream at it.

975
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:03,013
John and Deborah wanted a
certain look for the person that was

976
01:00:03,014 --> 01:00:06,720
going to eventually be Michael
Myers when the mask came off.

977
01:00:07,020 --> 01:00:08,940
They didn't want someone really handsome
like me.

978
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:14,540
So they said they wanted someone that
looked more angelic, kind of against type.

979
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:19,560
But I'll let the audience decide if they
actually made a good casting decision there.

980
01:00:20,260 --> 01:00:22,100
I think I would have been much better,
frankly.

981
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:29,260
The movie's final minutes
were also enhanced by the

982
01:00:29,261 --> 01:00:32,400
sensitive contribution of
co-star Donald Pleasance.

983
01:00:32,860 --> 01:00:34,640
Donald taught me a lot about acting.

984
01:00:34,780 --> 01:00:38,680
There's a scene in Halloween after Michael
Myers has been shot off this balcony.

985
01:01:04,340 --> 01:01:06,240
Donald's character sees that the body's
gone.

986
01:01:06,620 --> 01:01:08,040
He said I can play this two ways.

987
01:01:09,140 --> 01:01:10,140
I can play this.

988
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:12,340
Oh my God.

989
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:15,100
Or I can play this.

990
01:01:15,300 --> 01:01:16,300
I knew this would happen.

991
01:01:17,820 --> 01:01:19,120
I said, I didn't know.

992
01:01:19,300 --> 01:01:20,500
I didn't know what to say.

993
01:01:20,580 --> 01:01:22,260
So I said, can you do it both ways for me?

994
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:24,000
And he did.

995
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:26,580
And we used, I knew this would happen.

996
01:01:31,140 --> 01:01:32,140
That was the one.

997
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:34,280
That was the one that was chilling.

998
01:01:37,540 --> 01:01:40,860
The final montage of the movie was
actually made in the editing room.

999
01:01:41,380 --> 01:01:44,100
I don't think that it was certainly not in
the script.

1000
01:01:44,860 --> 01:01:48,040
And all these like shots of places where
he had been or could have been.

1001
01:01:53,660 --> 01:01:57,980
The ending means he's not only gone,
he's everywhere.

1002
01:02:09,090 --> 01:02:10,910
This guy is a human, but he's not.

1003
01:02:11,190 --> 01:02:12,190
He's more than that.

1004
01:02:12,650 --> 01:02:15,410
He's not exactly supernatural,
but maybe he is.

1005
01:02:15,411 --> 01:02:17,330
Who knows how he got that way.

1006
01:02:18,270 --> 01:02:19,810
It makes the ending more surprising.

1007
01:02:21,410 --> 01:02:24,701
If you don't say he's
been, you know, cursed

1008
01:02:24,702 --> 01:02:28,291
by some, you don't give
much of an explanation.

1009
01:02:28,510 --> 01:02:32,670
So your imagination works much more.

1010
01:02:33,310 --> 01:02:34,310
That's more terrifying.

1011
01:02:37,980 --> 01:02:39,757
It was very funny because
people who saw the

1012
01:02:39,758 --> 01:02:42,801
picture thought we had
set it up for a sequel.

1013
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:45,800
And you know, that wasn't, it was the
furthest thing from our minds.

1014
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:49,280
Carpenter put his finishing touches on
Halloween.

1015
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,660
Distributor Erwin Jablons was fighting a
different battle.

1016
01:02:53,380 --> 01:02:55,787
With help from his longtime
business partner, a former

1017
01:02:55,788 --> 01:02:58,800
entertainment lawyer turned
film distributor named Joe Wolfe.

1018
01:02:59,540 --> 01:03:03,760
Together, Wolfe and Jablons struggled to
get their low-budget film into theaters,

1019
01:03:04,140 --> 01:03:07,611
either by releasing it
themselves or best of all, by

1020
01:03:07,612 --> 01:03:10,341
convincing a major studio
to provide distribution.

1021
01:03:11,060 --> 01:03:13,033
I had invited Warner Brothers,
Columbia, Paramount, all

1022
01:03:13,034 --> 01:03:15,301
of the majors to come to the
screening, none of whom came.

1023
01:03:15,780 --> 01:03:19,000
In those days, this before they even paid
attention is kind of pictures.

1024
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:22,581
So I sat down with Joe and I said, we're
going to strip this picture ourselves.

1025
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:24,980
I need to get some prints.

1026
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,120
Erwin said to me, I need a lot of prints.

1027
01:03:28,060 --> 01:03:28,860
I said, well, how am I going to get them?

1028
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:32,640
I said, well, I'll call MGM and see if
they'll give them to me.

1029
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,460
Just what happens is that I've done a
favor for MGM.

1030
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:39,880
And I walked in and got, oh, I ordered 400
prints.

1031
01:03:40,580 --> 01:03:41,580
They said, yes.

1032
01:03:42,300 --> 01:03:46,620
The distribution was not on a national
level, it was just town by town.

1033
01:03:47,180 --> 01:03:51,480
Erwin Jablons, he was really very good at
that selling it theater by theater,

1034
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:53,520
town by town, city by city.

1035
01:03:53,960 --> 01:04:00,820
We had been asked to go to USC and John,
who being an alumnus of the school.

1036
01:04:01,420 --> 01:04:06,800
We ran the film and then got up and were
being grilled by the film students.

1037
01:04:06,801 --> 01:04:12,780
John took the film back to his class at
SC, because people and I said,

1038
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:14,520
why are you making that piece of junk?

1039
01:04:14,620 --> 01:04:18,020
One of the students raised a
hand and got up and he said,

1040
01:04:18,021 --> 01:04:21,900
you know, I have to ask
you people, why in the world?

1041
01:04:22,500 --> 01:04:23,562
If you're going to make
a movie, why in the

1042
01:04:23,563 --> 01:04:25,700
world would you want to
make this kind of movie?

1043
01:04:26,580 --> 01:04:29,180
I mean, a disgusting horror film.

1044
01:04:29,320 --> 01:04:30,220
Why would you want to make this?

1045
01:04:30,221 --> 01:04:35,440
And we all kind of looked at each other
and said, well, what we really tried to do

1046
01:04:35,441 --> 01:04:39,460
was to take a genre that hadn't been done
for a while.

1047
01:04:39,900 --> 01:04:43,720
But to do something sort of fresh with it,
to do something stylish.

1048
01:04:45,100 --> 01:04:48,759
And Deborah said, yeah,
we can always hope that

1049
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:52,220
someday it would become
kind of a classic film.

1050
01:04:52,221 --> 01:04:56,152
And the guy said, why
you people, you think

1051
01:04:56,153 --> 01:04:59,301
this film is ever going
to become a classic?

1052
01:04:59,900 --> 01:05:01,300
Why, how pretentious of you?

1053
01:05:01,460 --> 01:05:03,500
I think that's absolutely ridiculous,
you people.

1054
01:05:03,620 --> 01:05:04,620
And he left.

1055
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:08,380
First time I served was in a class at
UCLA.

1056
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:13,220
I would say 35, 33% of people walk out.

1057
01:05:14,420 --> 01:05:18,515
And, you know, I looked over
at my wife and said, well, you

1058
01:05:18,516 --> 01:05:20,640
know, 33% of people aren't
going to like a horror picture.

1059
01:05:20,641 --> 01:05:23,678
With no movie stars
and no studio backing, the

1060
01:05:23,679 --> 01:05:27,541
future of Halloween
seemed frightening indeed.

1061
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:30,300
But what happened next
was more surprising and

1062
01:05:30,301 --> 01:05:33,581
shocking than anything
John Carpenter had imagined.

1063
01:05:37,220 --> 01:05:38,440
Halloween night.

1064
01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:41,780
A small American town.

1065
01:05:43,340 --> 01:05:44,480
15 years ago.

1066
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:11,380
In October of 1978, after 20 days of
filming and a total cost of just $320,000,

1067
01:06:11,900 --> 01:06:14,020
Halloween opened in limited release.

1068
01:06:14,980 --> 01:06:18,910
The very first engagement
of the picture in a paying

1069
01:06:18,911 --> 01:06:22,740
situation was in Kansas
City in four theaters.

1070
01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:26,080
And I remember sitting by the phone that
night waiting for the receipts.

1071
01:06:26,700 --> 01:06:29,360
And I got the figures $200 and $300.

1072
01:06:29,980 --> 01:06:32,280
They were not impressive, but they were
not disastrous.

1073
01:06:32,281 --> 01:06:34,340
I was never smart even yet.

1074
01:06:34,740 --> 01:06:39,600
It was released in October, November of
1978, and he wasn't doing great.

1075
01:06:40,020 --> 01:06:42,720
And then Deborah Collins said,
it looks like we bombed.

1076
01:06:43,460 --> 01:06:44,620
Don't underestimate it.

1077
01:06:45,020 --> 01:06:46,760
The next day, I got a phone call.

1078
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:48,160
They were double.

1079
01:06:49,260 --> 01:06:51,520
The next day, they were triple.

1080
01:06:52,260 --> 01:06:54,380
By the weekend, they were ten times.

1081
01:07:02,260 --> 01:07:03,260
I've never...

1082
01:07:03,620 --> 01:07:05,280
A few people got it.

1083
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:08,740
A few people knew that it was special.

1084
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:09,720
It was well made.

1085
01:07:09,980 --> 01:07:14,800
It was a good piece of cinema,
as well as a good popcorn movie.

1086
01:07:17,220 --> 01:07:20,980
Off a lot of other people just shrugged it
off or didn't like it at all.

1087
01:07:21,220 --> 01:07:24,420
It was something that built over,
you know, three or four months.

1088
01:07:25,540 --> 01:07:27,889
And even then, it wasn't
like I walked down the street

1089
01:07:27,890 --> 01:07:31,320
and people were going,
Hey, Louis Strand, all right.

1090
01:07:31,940 --> 01:07:34,180
The amazing thing is how this movie built.

1091
01:07:34,380 --> 01:07:37,100
Erwin Yabons, who released the picture
through Compass International,

1092
01:07:37,820 --> 01:07:38,560
truly had a plan.

1093
01:07:38,780 --> 01:07:40,780
The plans to take you to the Chicago Film
Festival.

1094
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:46,900
It wasn't until the picture opened at the
Chicago Film Festival that we realized we

1095
01:07:46,901 --> 01:07:49,400
had a critical and commercial success on
our hand.

1096
01:07:49,860 --> 01:07:51,925
The picture was reviewed
wonderfully, and the

1097
01:07:51,926 --> 01:07:53,500
audiences were just
lined up around the block.

1098
01:07:53,940 --> 01:07:57,260
The pictures, normally they open up and
they go down.

1099
01:07:58,020 --> 01:08:00,200
You know, the people who go and see them.

1100
01:08:00,740 --> 01:08:01,740
This picture was amazing.

1101
01:08:02,100 --> 01:08:04,040
It kept on going up and up and up.

1102
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,460
Like Philadelphia, like Boston,
you know.

1103
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:10,740
And basically, weeks stayed.

1104
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:14,496
People had told two other people,
four other people, five other people.

1105
01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:15,340
They told ten other people.

1106
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:16,976
It was almost like the game of telephone.

1107
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:17,940
Oh, that's fabulous.

1108
01:08:17,941 --> 01:08:20,580
The reviews were over a period of eight
weeks.

1109
01:08:21,420 --> 01:08:23,440
This film just killed them.

1110
01:08:24,060 --> 01:08:25,260
We couldn't believe it.

1111
01:08:25,620 --> 01:08:26,900
I'll kill you if this is a joke.

1112
01:08:27,300 --> 01:08:30,720
You know, I used to come up to sit down
with Erwin and we'd say, well,

1113
01:08:30,860 --> 01:08:31,420
what do we do now?

1114
01:08:31,860 --> 01:08:35,220
Everybody's coming up saying, ooh,
what are you talking about?

1115
01:08:35,580 --> 01:08:37,320
You know, well, it's a big hit.

1116
01:08:38,060 --> 01:08:38,520
No, it's not.

1117
01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:39,120
Yeah, it is.

1118
01:08:39,260 --> 01:08:40,260
I had no idea.

1119
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:45,820
Suddenly, the movie No Studio had wanted
was a box office blockbuster.

1120
01:08:45,821 --> 01:08:50,640
Halloween surpassed everyone's
expectations to become the most profitable

1121
01:08:50,641 --> 01:08:54,639
independently released
film to date, grossing over

1122
01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:57,741
$70 million worldwide
in its original release.

1123
01:08:58,620 --> 01:09:02,860
It was, you know, the new indie sensation
that everyone had to see.

1124
01:09:03,320 --> 01:09:07,400
What said Halloween apart from other
horror films of that time?

1125
01:09:08,180 --> 01:09:11,140
I think it was just a skill that John
Carpenter brought to the material.

1126
01:09:11,860 --> 01:09:13,694
Subjective shots
from the killer's point of

1127
01:09:13,695 --> 01:09:16,821
view really hadn't been
done that much before.

1128
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:19,941
He came up with a very
memorable score, you know,

1129
01:09:19,942 --> 01:09:22,761
that had John Edge
right from the beginning.

1130
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:25,677
He had good actors and the
victims were also sympathetic,

1131
01:09:25,678 --> 01:09:28,600
so many of the slasher films
that came out after Halloween.

1132
01:09:29,220 --> 01:09:31,223
You know, these characters
are just set up to die,

1133
01:09:31,224 --> 01:09:33,841
but you cared about the
characters in Halloween.

1134
01:09:34,700 --> 01:09:41,960
First time I saw it in a movie theater was
amazing, because they suddenly started

1135
01:09:41,961 --> 01:09:47,280
picking up on all the characters,
and particularly, you know, screaming to

1136
01:09:47,281 --> 01:09:50,460
Laurie Stroe, don't go there, don't go in
the house, don't cross the street.

1137
01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:54,280
I mean, it was very much, you know,
an audience participation, and

1138
01:09:54,281 --> 01:10:00,500
particularly when they realized that the
character PJ played had this kind of the

1139
01:10:00,501 --> 01:10:02,740
way she talked where she said totally all
the time.

1140
01:10:05,300 --> 01:10:08,780
So when she would finish the sentence, the
whole audience would scream out totally.

1141
01:10:09,180 --> 01:10:10,680
I totally promise.

1142
01:10:11,140 --> 01:10:12,380
Totally don't blame you.

1143
01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:14,520
So it was like really, really fun.

1144
01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:17,800
And then, I mean, I just kept going the
whole opening weekend.

1145
01:10:18,220 --> 01:10:21,760
I went multiple times to different
theaters, and by the end of the weekend,

1146
01:10:21,980 --> 01:10:23,100
it was like Rocky Harshow.

1147
01:10:23,340 --> 01:10:30,540
People were screaming and yelling lines
back and interactive.

1148
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:31,720
It was really great.

1149
01:10:31,820 --> 01:10:32,820
It was really great.

1150
01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:35,895
In her very first movie
role, Jamie Lee Curtis

1151
01:10:35,896 --> 01:10:38,981
had established herself
as a star to watch.

1152
01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:40,120
It gave me a movie career.

1153
01:10:40,220 --> 01:10:44,680
I tried to point out the irony that in
those exploitation movies, I was

1154
01:10:44,681 --> 01:10:48,260
intelligent, forthright, fought back
against adversity.

1155
01:10:53,260 --> 01:10:55,220
And she got to do all this great stuff.

1156
01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:57,560
She got to be frightened and screamed.

1157
01:10:58,020 --> 01:10:59,500
She got to be caretaking to the kids.

1158
01:10:59,660 --> 01:11:00,820
She got to fight the monster.

1159
01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:03,136
I mean, she did all kinds of great stuff.

1160
01:11:03,160 --> 01:11:04,320
And that's a dream part.

1161
01:11:04,321 --> 01:11:08,720
Halloween also launched the careers of its
talented makers behind the camera.

1162
01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:13,660
Most of the people, you know, in
Halloween, man, people have become major

1163
01:11:13,661 --> 01:11:16,360
contributors to the film industry from
this film.

1164
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:17,840
Everybody has been successful.

1165
01:11:18,320 --> 01:11:20,696
Dean Country became one of the top
cinematographers in the town.

1166
01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:22,160
They've become an ace producer.

1167
01:11:23,180 --> 01:11:24,420
The castle became a director.

1168
01:11:25,220 --> 01:11:27,660
You know, lots of times you hear about the
curse of something.

1169
01:11:27,820 --> 01:11:32,300
This is one movie where I can't really
think of anybody who was cursed.

1170
01:11:32,301 --> 01:11:33,720
Everybody benefit.

1171
01:11:34,080 --> 01:11:35,280
Everybody has been successful.

1172
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:37,000
It's been only a positive story.

1173
01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:39,945
By virtue of the
contract that I had as the

1174
01:11:39,946 --> 01:11:43,900
writer-director, I had a
net participation profit deal.

1175
01:11:44,140 --> 01:11:48,480
And I got the biggest check I had ever
seen in my life from Halloween.

1176
01:11:49,380 --> 01:11:50,380
It was stunning.

1177
01:11:50,960 --> 01:11:51,960
I couldn't believe it.

1178
01:11:52,100 --> 01:11:55,725
The film's simple plot also
became fodder for serious

1179
01:11:55,726 --> 01:11:58,440
analysis by many of the
nation's top movie critics.

1180
01:11:58,441 --> 01:12:01,451
Some saw a conservative
agenda in a story that

1181
01:12:01,452 --> 01:12:04,621
hinged on the murder
of sexually active women.

1182
01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:06,460
But its director disagreed.

1183
01:12:07,260 --> 01:12:11,100
The teenagers that were victims are the
more sexually active.

1184
01:12:12,360 --> 01:12:15,940
But that misses just the essential point
of the film.

1185
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:19,140
The movie's about the revenge of the
repressed.

1186
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:24,940
And Jamie Lee has a connection with
the killer because she's repressed, too.

1187
01:12:24,941 --> 01:12:25,941
It's tragic.

1188
01:12:26,200 --> 01:12:27,200
You never go out.

1189
01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:30,960
You must have a small fortune stash from
babysitting so much.

1190
01:12:31,540 --> 01:12:32,540
Guys think I'm too smart.

1191
01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:37,160
To me, these kids are just engaged in
normal teenage behavior.

1192
01:12:37,740 --> 01:12:39,820
They get killed because they're not paying
attention.

1193
01:12:40,300 --> 01:12:43,600
They're involved with their boyfriends and
they don't think anything's going on.

1194
01:12:43,980 --> 01:12:45,420
There's no Christian right morality.

1195
01:12:46,480 --> 01:12:52,140
And psychiatrists and academics tend to
read a little too much into Halloween.

1196
01:12:52,141 --> 01:12:54,261
You know, Carpenter just wanted to make a
scary movie.

1197
01:12:54,740 --> 01:12:56,140
I asked my son, he was 17.

1198
01:12:57,260 --> 01:12:59,860
Why do you go pay money and go and see
these scary movies?

1199
01:13:00,780 --> 01:13:03,920
He said that I take a girl to the movies
after five minutes.

1200
01:13:04,180 --> 01:13:06,140
Either she's grabbing me or not grabbing
her.

1201
01:13:06,940 --> 01:13:10,000
And this is so, next day he will take a
new girl.

1202
01:13:11,160 --> 01:13:12,880
Jerk, I've got a shirt on.

1203
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:14,320
That's all you ever think about.

1204
01:13:14,980 --> 01:13:18,860
Soon after Halloween's success,
John Carpenter's creation received the

1205
01:13:18,861 --> 01:13:21,360
ultimate Hollywood compliment of
imitation.

1206
01:13:22,300 --> 01:13:25,418
Now, the same studios that
had turned the movie down

1207
01:13:25,419 --> 01:13:28,240
began making a series
of blood-stained imitators.

1208
01:13:28,940 --> 01:13:33,620
You know, the first of the horror movies,
you know, everything came after that.

1209
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:38,700
Friday the 13th, night in Marin Allen
Street, which I was involved in.

1210
01:13:39,100 --> 01:13:44,114
I created a whole, you know,
industry of slasher films from

1211
01:13:44,115 --> 01:13:47,880
Friday the 13th and any
holiday that wasn't safe anymore.

1212
01:13:47,881 --> 01:13:53,860
You know, you had New Year's Evil, Silent
Night, Deadly Night, April Fool's Day.

1213
01:13:54,580 --> 01:13:57,760
It should also add that a lot of
mainstream movies, I think, imitated the

1214
01:13:57,761 --> 01:14:03,000
slasher tropes, films like Fatal
Attraction and Sleeping with the Enemy,

1215
01:14:03,660 --> 01:14:09,020
you know, films like that where they took,
you know, show they dressed it up with big

1216
01:14:09,021 --> 01:14:11,595
stars and big production
values, but those

1217
01:14:11,596 --> 01:14:13,920
are really slasher
films under the surface.

1218
01:14:13,921 --> 01:14:17,100
And again, they also owe that to
Halloween.

1219
01:14:18,300 --> 01:14:23,080
As other movie monsters got into the act,
Michael Myers himself returned to screens.

1220
01:14:23,700 --> 01:14:28,860
Dino De Laurentiis with Universal came,
they wanted to do a sequel.

1221
01:14:29,620 --> 01:14:33,540
A sequel, I thought, my God, I mean, that's
not television, never heard of a sequel.

1222
01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:38,760
They said, no, no, we want to do a sequel
and I said, well, I don't know.

1223
01:14:38,940 --> 01:14:41,060
They said, don't worry, we'll give you a
profit in advance.

1224
01:14:41,061 --> 01:14:43,480
I said, okay.

1225
01:14:44,420 --> 01:14:47,338
1981 saw the release
of Halloween 2, produced

1226
01:14:47,339 --> 01:14:50,361
by Debra Hill and
co-written by John Carpenter.

1227
01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:55,549
John Carpenter and I agreed to
write Halloween 2 and produce

1228
01:14:55,550 --> 01:14:58,720
it, and we wanted it to be
a continuation of the night.

1229
01:14:59,340 --> 01:15:03,840
And it was very difficult for that movie
to be fully realized because we,

1230
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:07,140
not until after we were in the midst of
shooting it.

1231
01:15:07,141 --> 01:15:12,240
We realized we had the lead character of
Laurie Strode, Comatose in a Bed.

1232
01:15:12,820 --> 01:15:16,880
She was not proactive and it really didn't
work in my opinion.

1233
01:15:17,440 --> 01:15:21,980
I will say that what got me through
writing that script was Budweiser,

1234
01:15:22,340 --> 01:15:25,054
six pack of beer a
night, sitting in front of the

1235
01:15:25,055 --> 01:15:28,081
typewriter saying, what
in the hell can I put down?

1236
01:15:28,220 --> 01:15:29,220
I have no idea.

1237
01:15:30,260 --> 01:15:31,600
We're remaking the same film.

1238
01:15:32,660 --> 01:15:33,300
Only not as good.

1239
01:15:33,301 --> 01:15:36,774
The film was a box
office hit, and it paved the

1240
01:15:36,775 --> 01:15:40,260
way for a seemingly
unstoppable series of sequels.

1241
01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:43,060
I've only seen one or two.

1242
01:15:43,780 --> 01:15:45,800
Halloween 2 was okay.

1243
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:47,860
Halloween 3 was a horror.

1244
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:50,060
It was just a terrible movie.

1245
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:55,043
Halloween 3, when approached
to do a sequel, John and I

1246
01:15:55,044 --> 01:15:57,400
decided we wanted to do
something completely different.

1247
01:15:57,401 --> 01:16:00,400
We loved this guy, Nigel Neal,
who had written the Crater Mask movies,

1248
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:02,000
and so we wanted to work with him.

1249
01:16:02,700 --> 01:16:06,560
And essentially we found out that the
audiences really wanted to see Michael Myers.

1250
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:09,580
Do you know the Laurentis with the
Universal?

1251
01:16:10,040 --> 01:16:12,160
They don't want Michael Myers.

1252
01:16:12,540 --> 01:16:16,040
Let's make a horror story, but without
Michael Myers.

1253
01:16:16,540 --> 01:16:17,900
I don't like that story.

1254
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:23,540
I was not in favor of this, but I was like
out voting.

1255
01:16:24,160 --> 01:16:25,160
We tried it.

1256
01:16:25,820 --> 01:16:26,820
It failed.

1257
01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:31,340
So number four, I get them all out,
and I did number four.

1258
01:16:32,220 --> 01:16:34,981
Going back to the basic
elements of one, we

1259
01:16:34,982 --> 01:16:38,600
always, always go back
to the basics and the tools.

1260
01:16:39,580 --> 01:16:42,144
Ultimately, John and I
didn't want to make any more

1261
01:16:42,145 --> 01:16:44,561
sequels, and so Mustafa
Codd started making them.

1262
01:16:44,980 --> 01:16:46,380
Mustafa, he's like Mr. Halloween.

1263
01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:49,140
I'm the godfather of the Halloween.

1264
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:52,480
I preserve its continuity.

1265
01:16:53,420 --> 01:16:54,440
I preserve its element.

1266
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:56,480
I will keep doing it.

1267
01:16:57,400 --> 01:16:58,920
And I'll stop at 22.

1268
01:17:00,140 --> 01:17:02,700
That's what Donald Pleasance said.

1269
01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:05,865
One of the press were
asking him, come on, Donald,

1270
01:17:05,866 --> 01:17:08,600
you're going to keep
doing these Halloween's?

1271
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:11,360
He said, no way, no way.

1272
01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:12,520
I'll stop at 22.

1273
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:17,020
So I like to follow his advice.

1274
01:17:17,660 --> 01:17:21,140
Mustafa Codd has kept the franchise alive,
because he believes it.

1275
01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:23,856
Years later, Miramax
bought the rights to the

1276
01:17:23,857 --> 01:17:25,780
Halloween franchise,
and they had the idea.

1277
01:17:25,781 --> 01:17:29,340
Jamie actually had the idea of reuniting
us again for it.

1278
01:17:30,480 --> 01:17:31,660
And I met with him.

1279
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:33,400
Everybody wanted to do it, except me.

1280
01:17:34,420 --> 01:17:36,420
God bless all of you here, but no thanks.

1281
01:17:37,340 --> 01:17:41,480
The one that is closest to Halloween 1 is
H2O.

1282
01:17:42,020 --> 01:17:46,285
I think that the filmmakers,
and certainly Jamie, tried to

1283
01:17:46,286 --> 01:17:49,520
stylistically keep it as close
to the original as possible.

1284
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:51,340
And for that, I'm extremely grateful.

1285
01:17:51,341 --> 01:17:52,341
Thanks.

1286
01:17:52,520 --> 01:17:56,450
I have this lots of fight
with scriptwriters all along

1287
01:17:56,451 --> 01:18:00,560
this series whereby I
don't want him to be killed.

1288
01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:01,600
Okay, he can be shot.

1289
01:18:01,780 --> 01:18:02,780
He can be wounded.

1290
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:07,320
But not have him in a
dynamite blow up or chop his

1291
01:18:07,321 --> 01:18:11,840
head or do, because it
means, you know, he's dead.

1292
01:18:12,100 --> 01:18:13,100
How can we get him back?

1293
01:18:13,940 --> 01:18:17,760
Actually, I'm still involved in how we
make another one sequel.

1294
01:18:17,761 --> 01:18:19,980
I get the benefit of being paid some
money.

1295
01:18:19,981 --> 01:18:24,000
Which is wonderful, because I'm a
capitalist and enjoy that.

1296
01:18:24,480 --> 01:18:28,240
But still it's Halloween 1 that brings
them all in.

1297
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:31,380
And when people go and buy and they buy
Halloween 1.

1298
01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:37,160
NBC wanted to buy Halloween and put it on
TV, but it wasn't long enough.

1299
01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:40,797
They had a running
time of, I forget what it is

1300
01:18:40,798 --> 01:18:43,140
now, and we were two
minutes under or something.

1301
01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:46,260
So I had to shoot additional footage,
carpet footage, I call it.

1302
01:18:46,261 --> 01:18:50,680
Michael Myers is the most dangerous
patient I have ever observed.

1303
01:18:51,020 --> 01:18:54,400
Doctor, there is no diagnostic evidence to
support that statement.

1304
01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:57,380
He's covering up.

1305
01:18:57,840 --> 01:19:00,500
This catatonia is a conscious act.

1306
01:19:01,900 --> 01:19:05,240
There's an instinctive force within him.

1307
01:19:07,820 --> 01:19:08,880
He's waiting.

1308
01:19:12,140 --> 01:19:13,140
For what?

1309
01:19:18,820 --> 01:19:19,940
I don't know.

1310
01:19:20,460 --> 01:19:22,520
But we got ways so made a lot of money
from it.

1311
01:19:22,680 --> 01:19:24,680
I hold out.

1312
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:27,320
I hold right out.

1313
01:19:33,500 --> 01:19:34,060
Hurry up!

1314
01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:34,500
Hurry up!

1315
01:19:34,780 --> 01:19:35,440
Shut the door!

1316
01:19:35,620 --> 01:19:36,620
Shut the door!

1317
01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:39,620
Some guy is following me.

1318
01:19:40,540 --> 01:19:41,540
I'm sure?

1319
01:19:42,940 --> 01:19:45,960
I think it's a guy that passed us in the
street in that station wagon.

1320
01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:49,160
I couldn't see him very well, but I think
it's Steve Todd.

1321
01:19:50,420 --> 01:19:52,100
His brother has a station wagon.

1322
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:55,200
He was parked outside the school today.

1323
01:19:56,260 --> 01:19:58,300
Right outside the window he was staring at
me.

1324
01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:02,180
Steve Todd was staring at you.

1325
01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:05,160
Somebody was.

1326
01:20:06,840 --> 01:20:08,940
A while ago he was in my backyard.

1327
01:20:10,180 --> 01:20:11,500
Well, maybe he just wants a date.

1328
01:20:11,640 --> 01:20:12,200
Or shut up!

1329
01:20:12,540 --> 01:20:13,840
Well, someone could want a date.

1330
01:20:14,460 --> 01:20:17,631
I think they sort of left
it the way it was, but

1331
01:20:17,632 --> 01:20:20,621
NBC required these
changes and they were made.

1332
01:20:24,650 --> 01:20:29,810
What's amazing to me as a writer of it and
producer of it is that 20-some years after

1333
01:20:29,811 --> 01:20:33,410
we made the picture, there's still a huge
fan base out there.

1334
01:20:34,070 --> 01:20:35,230
People adore it.

1335
01:20:35,350 --> 01:20:37,150
You know, it's like Rocky Horror Picture
Show.

1336
01:20:37,230 --> 01:20:39,494
It's like any of the
movies where people can

1337
01:20:39,495 --> 01:20:42,991
dress up as the
characters or get that mask.

1338
01:20:43,070 --> 01:20:44,070
Alright!

1339
01:20:45,130 --> 01:20:49,570
It did inspire merchandise and
merchandising over the years.

1340
01:20:49,990 --> 01:20:51,550
You know, there's been Halloween masks.

1341
01:20:53,150 --> 01:20:54,970
Posters and dolls.

1342
01:20:55,870 --> 01:20:58,590
I have all the little action figures at
home.

1343
01:20:58,890 --> 01:21:00,230
I am actually an action figure.

1344
01:21:00,590 --> 01:21:01,590
That's kind of exciting.

1345
01:21:01,770 --> 01:21:02,770
There's Luke Skywalker.

1346
01:21:03,390 --> 01:21:04,550
There's, you know, than me.

1347
01:21:04,890 --> 01:21:05,030
You know?

1348
01:21:05,530 --> 01:21:06,530
So that's a lot of fun.

1349
01:21:07,190 --> 01:21:08,230
Goddamn tids.

1350
01:21:09,290 --> 01:21:11,750
They do anything for Halloween.

1351
01:21:12,890 --> 01:21:17,630
I suppose there's one thing about Halloween
that I hold very dear and precious.

1352
01:21:17,910 --> 01:21:18,910
And that is that...

1353
01:21:19,370 --> 01:21:23,950
much like the killer himself, Halloween
seems to never die.

1354
01:21:25,450 --> 01:21:29,390
People constantly coming up and say they
saw the film and they remember when they

1355
01:21:29,391 --> 01:21:31,950
saw it, when they were kids or they've
seen it on TV.

1356
01:21:33,990 --> 01:21:35,890
And that is really neat.

1357
01:21:37,450 --> 01:21:39,993
Halloween would go on
to make another fortune

1358
01:21:39,994 --> 01:21:42,911
in its many incarnations
on home video and DVD.

1359
01:21:43,350 --> 01:21:47,510
And it's still selling tremendous amount
of video cassettes.

1360
01:21:48,330 --> 01:21:50,990
And it's going to be on television every
year.

1361
01:21:51,430 --> 01:21:51,930
It's fantastic.

1362
01:21:52,370 --> 01:21:55,490
You know, it's one of those things that
may happen once in a lifetime.

1363
01:21:56,330 --> 01:22:01,230
As for its creator, John Carpenter would
go on to other triumphs that established

1364
01:22:01,231 --> 01:22:04,890
him as one of the top horror and suspense
directors of his generation.

1365
01:22:05,710 --> 01:22:09,290
Halloween got me branded as a horror
director and they had sent me down in a

1366
01:22:09,291 --> 01:22:12,590
career making fantasy and science fiction
and horror.

1367
01:22:12,870 --> 01:22:14,470
But hey, I got to become John Carpenter.

1368
01:22:15,170 --> 01:22:16,270
How cool is that?

1369
01:22:17,650 --> 01:22:20,845
Despite John Carpenter's
other successes, many still

1370
01:22:20,846 --> 01:22:23,791
consider Halloween his
ultimate accomplishment.

1371
01:22:24,210 --> 01:22:27,110
And it endures today as a chilling horror
classic.

1372
01:22:28,570 --> 01:22:33,630
And a still inspiring example of
filmmaking ambition and imagination.

1373
01:22:34,890 --> 01:22:35,890
And it wouldn't do that.

1374
01:22:37,030 --> 01:22:38,130
This is not a man.

1375
01:22:39,070 --> 01:22:40,770
And it's still a scary movie.

1376
01:22:41,770 --> 01:22:44,590
Because they allow you to do all the
thinking.

1377
01:22:44,910 --> 01:22:46,890
You don't need all that blood and guts and
gore.

1378
01:22:47,610 --> 01:22:49,210
Because you know what's going to happen.

1379
01:22:49,290 --> 01:22:51,250
Create that atmosphere and you've got an
audience.

1380
01:22:52,470 --> 01:22:53,650
You know, Halloween.

1381
01:22:54,410 --> 01:22:56,450
I guess everyone's entitled to one good,
scared him.

1382
01:22:56,670 --> 01:22:57,830
Fear is an interesting thing.

1383
01:22:58,430 --> 01:23:00,010
We all are afraid of the same things.

1384
01:23:01,570 --> 01:23:02,910
We're the black man's outside.

1385
01:23:03,450 --> 01:23:03,490
Look!

1386
01:23:04,450 --> 01:23:06,510
That's what makes these movies so
universal.

1387
01:23:06,910 --> 01:23:08,510
That makes them play in every country.

1388
01:23:09,130 --> 01:23:17,620
We're all afraid of death, loss of identity,
loss of a loved one, disfigurement.

1389
01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:21,040
All the horrors of humanity we all have.

1390
01:23:21,420 --> 01:23:22,420
We can all relate.

1391
01:23:24,940 --> 01:23:28,680
If it scares you and you can sit on the
couch and get a little closer to your

1392
01:23:28,681 --> 01:23:32,020
girlfriend and put your arm around her and
make her feel a little better.

1393
01:23:32,140 --> 01:23:33,600
You know, and comfort her well.

1394
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:36,660
She's squealing in the chair there then.

1395
01:23:37,320 --> 01:23:38,680
That's a good movie to see.

1396
01:23:39,060 --> 01:23:40,060
Have a good time.

1397
01:23:40,100 --> 01:23:41,560
We definitely will.

1398
01:23:42,080 --> 01:23:44,580
And I advise some of these from the merit.

1399
01:23:45,220 --> 01:23:50,160
Take a husband and put a tape of Halloween
and watch it.

1400
01:23:50,780 --> 01:23:53,160
I think it will bring out some emotions.

1401
01:23:54,540 --> 01:23:55,260
Or some intimacy.

1402
01:23:55,261 --> 01:23:58,660
Oh, fantastic.

1403
01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:01,960
I love Michael Myers.

1404
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:08,540
To me everybody hates him, but I am going
to keep him alive as long as I can.

1405
01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:10,200
Are you weird?

1406
01:24:10,480 --> 01:24:12,380
It definitely stands the test of time.

1407
01:24:12,880 --> 01:24:17,580
It hasn't dated unlike a lot of other films,
you know, from the 70s and older films.

1408
01:24:17,581 --> 01:24:20,980
It's the, you know, a real primal
experience.

1409
01:24:21,820 --> 01:24:24,240
It's, you know, lean, mean, fighting
machine.

1410
01:24:27,440 --> 01:24:31,327
By Hitchcock, Carpenter
was really able to mind those

1411
01:24:31,328 --> 01:24:34,321
feelings that nobody's safe
no matter where you are.

1412
01:24:36,220 --> 01:24:38,780
You know, you leave the big city and you
go out into the suburbs.

1413
01:24:39,500 --> 01:24:41,060
But there's evil lurking out there too.

1414
01:24:41,720 --> 01:24:43,320
Hey, I can't kill the boogie man.

1415
01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:45,960
He's everywhere.

1416
01:24:46,420 --> 01:24:47,420
Evil still lives.

1417
01:24:47,580 --> 01:24:48,580
He will always live.

1418
01:24:49,440 --> 01:24:50,440
He's in the shadows.

1419
01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:51,600
He may be in your house.

1420
01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:53,400
He may be in mine.

1421
01:24:54,380 --> 01:24:55,380
Oh, no.

1422
01:24:57,820 --> 01:24:58,520
Cute, Bob.

1423
01:24:58,820 --> 01:24:59,820
Real cute.

1424
01:25:00,060 --> 01:25:01,060
Come on out.

1425
01:25:17,350 --> 01:25:18,430
What's the boogie man?

1426
01:25:21,570 --> 01:25:23,810
As a matter of fact, it was.

1427
01:25:51,300 --> 01:25:52,540
Oh!

1428
01:25:52,880 --> 01:25:53,880
Ooh!