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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:11,510 --> 00:00:15,680 Trick or treat. Halloween night, 1978. 2 00:00:16,474 --> 00:00:19,103 The world watched in horror… 3 00:00:19,811 --> 00:00:21,940 as this spine-chilling… 4 00:00:22,021 --> 00:00:23,902 …blood-splattering… 5 00:00:23,981 --> 00:00:25,902 "I don't want a lot of blood. I don't want gore." 6 00:00:25,942 --> 00:00:28,242 Wait, there's no blood? No blood. 7 00:00:28,318 --> 00:00:29,318 Okay. 8 00:00:29,821 --> 00:00:33,201 Well, the making of this bloodless horror classic… 9 00:00:33,283 --> 00:00:35,292 You know, it's Halloween. 10 00:00:35,368 --> 00:00:37,948 …wasn't without blood, sweat, and tears. 11 00:00:38,037 --> 00:00:39,078 None of that's true. 12 00:00:39,164 --> 00:00:42,543 And was less horror and more family comedy. 13 00:00:42,625 --> 00:00:44,994 Nancy was married to Tommy Wallace. 14 00:00:45,085 --> 00:00:46,665 That's my brother-in-law. 15 00:00:46,755 --> 00:00:49,375 Barely held together by enthusiasm… 16 00:00:49,466 --> 00:00:51,375 We were Scotch tape and chewing gum. 17 00:00:51,468 --> 00:00:52,637 …and inexperience. 18 00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:56,348 Our high school days were just in our rearview mirror. 19 00:00:56,430 --> 00:00:58,481 However, these novice filmmakers… 20 00:00:58,557 --> 00:01:02,188 "We'll have this mask, put it on and be the killer." I went, "Yeah, okay." 21 00:01:02,270 --> 00:01:04,519 …went on to reshape a genre. 22 00:01:04,605 --> 00:01:06,975 It's about stretching things out. 23 00:01:07,067 --> 00:01:09,027 And proved… Theater of the mind. 24 00:01:09,109 --> 00:01:10,609 …that what you can't see… 25 00:01:10,694 --> 00:01:13,314 In the springtime, it's very hard to find pumpkins. 26 00:01:13,406 --> 00:01:16,115 …is probably scarier than what you can. 27 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:18,831 You can see the wrench. You can just see it. 28 00:01:18,912 --> 00:01:19,912 Totally. 29 00:01:20,537 --> 00:01:23,668 This is the story of how this young team 30 00:01:23,750 --> 00:01:27,960 executed one of the greatest horror films of all time. 31 00:01:28,045 --> 00:01:30,466 It just started turning into this monster. 32 00:01:30,548 --> 00:01:33,337 Under the guidance of a creative visionary… 33 00:01:33,426 --> 00:01:35,596 Direct, write, do the music, everything. 34 00:01:35,677 --> 00:01:38,307 …who was practically a crew unto himself. 35 00:01:38,389 --> 00:01:39,929 It's real unusual. 36 00:01:41,893 --> 00:01:44,983 When you haven't got any money, it's... it's not unusual. 37 00:02:06,501 --> 00:02:10,170 These are The Movies That Made Us. 38 00:02:12,841 --> 00:02:15,431 Here's a pleasant neighborhood. 39 00:02:15,509 --> 00:02:19,930 Just any old street in America where teenagers gossip… 40 00:02:20,014 --> 00:02:22,984 I hate a guy with a car and no sense of humor. 41 00:02:23,058 --> 00:02:24,228 …kids are annoying… 42 00:02:24,310 --> 00:02:26,150 Can we make jack-o'-lanterns? Sure. 43 00:02:26,228 --> 00:02:29,399 …and men in masks stand near laundry. 44 00:02:29,481 --> 00:02:30,361 It's Halloween. 45 00:02:30,441 --> 00:02:33,700 That's right. Halloween, or more precisely, 46 00:02:33,777 --> 00:02:35,408 John Carpenter's Halloween. 47 00:02:35,487 --> 00:02:37,617 It's a simple, shocking tale… 48 00:02:38,615 --> 00:02:40,985 …of a babysitting shift gone horribly wrong. 49 00:02:41,076 --> 00:02:42,796 I'm not about to let anything happen to you. 50 00:02:42,871 --> 00:02:45,040 We'll see about that. 51 00:02:45,122 --> 00:02:47,962 It's the story of a small, cold-blooded killer… 52 00:02:48,042 --> 00:02:49,211 Michael! 53 00:02:49,293 --> 00:02:53,014 …who, after murdering his sister on Halloween night, which is illegal, 54 00:02:53,088 --> 00:02:57,139 settled in for a long life of high-security institutionalization. 55 00:02:57,218 --> 00:03:00,177 He hasn't spoken a word in 15 years. 56 00:03:00,263 --> 00:03:02,393 But one stormy night… 57 00:03:02,473 --> 00:03:05,562 …the patient escapes and returns home… 58 00:03:05,643 --> 00:03:09,902 …to begin the systematic slaughtering of all teenagers he can get his hands on. 59 00:03:13,067 --> 00:03:17,276 But hot on the heels of this troubled villain, aka Michael Myers, 60 00:03:17,362 --> 00:03:18,783 aka The Shape, 61 00:03:18,865 --> 00:03:20,064 is his old physician… 62 00:03:20,158 --> 00:03:21,578 I'm his doctor. 63 00:03:21,658 --> 00:03:24,449 …who understands the true nature of his ex-patient. 64 00:03:24,537 --> 00:03:27,417 Death has come to your little town. 65 00:03:27,497 --> 00:03:29,127 And along with the bravery 66 00:03:29,209 --> 00:03:31,538 and professional resilience of this babysitter… 67 00:03:31,627 --> 00:03:33,587 Do as I say! Hurry! Is it the boogeyman? 68 00:03:33,670 --> 00:03:36,260 …the Shape gets his comeuppance. 69 00:03:37,216 --> 00:03:38,926 Which does him in for the night 70 00:03:39,009 --> 00:03:41,969 and leaves everyone completely unsettled, 71 00:03:42,096 --> 00:03:44,216 wondering where on earth he went. 72 00:03:45,015 --> 00:03:47,015 The end. Sleep well. Good dreams. 73 00:03:47,100 --> 00:03:50,771 But despite being far from your average Hollywood blockbuster, 74 00:03:50,854 --> 00:03:54,895 the inception of this iconic horror film, well, it does start 75 00:03:54,984 --> 00:03:58,574 amidst the glitz and glamour of Tinseltown, also called… 76 00:03:58,655 --> 00:03:59,485 Los Angeles. 77 00:03:59,572 --> 00:04:00,491 And… Hollywood. 78 00:04:00,573 --> 00:04:04,242 Where the lights shine bright and the stars twinkle. 79 00:04:04,911 --> 00:04:07,621 From the red carpet to the... 80 00:04:08,455 --> 00:04:11,876 Well, actually, it all gets quite unglamorous very quickly after that, 81 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,379 because making movies is a lot of hard, sweaty work, 82 00:04:16,463 --> 00:04:19,764 and our story begins with one of the sweatiest of all. 83 00:04:19,841 --> 00:04:22,851 I found myself a job at Warner Bros. Actually loading trucks. 84 00:04:24,555 --> 00:04:27,595 In those days, we still used 35mm cans. 85 00:04:27,684 --> 00:04:31,024 A print of a film was two cans of a hundred pounds of film. 86 00:04:31,103 --> 00:04:35,653 And with this kind of strength, it didn't take Irwin long to lift himself 87 00:04:35,733 --> 00:04:37,533 out of the lifting business 88 00:04:37,610 --> 00:04:39,819 and into the booking business. 89 00:04:39,903 --> 00:04:43,033 Eventually, they took notice of me and offered me a chance to become a booker. 90 00:04:43,115 --> 00:04:47,656 A booker was the guy who physically booked the films into the movie theaters. 91 00:04:47,745 --> 00:04:49,574 It was logistical more than anything else. 92 00:04:49,663 --> 00:04:54,004 But in the '60s, anything else may have been a better choice… 93 00:04:55,168 --> 00:04:57,918 …because the movie industry wasn't doing well. 94 00:04:58,005 --> 00:04:59,005 It was dying. 95 00:05:01,009 --> 00:05:03,178 Everybody said, "Why are you in the movie business?" 96 00:05:03,261 --> 00:05:05,050 "It's a dying business. Get into television." 97 00:05:05,137 --> 00:05:06,927 We hope you have a wonderful time. 98 00:05:07,014 --> 00:05:09,805 The movie business was doomed, everyone thought. 99 00:05:09,891 --> 00:05:12,651 Doomed and dying… 100 00:05:12,728 --> 00:05:16,149 Irwin navigated the ghoulish cinematic landscape. 101 00:05:16,231 --> 00:05:20,451 That became a long progression of different jobs for Warner Bros. 102 00:05:20,528 --> 00:05:22,528 One of which eventually became 103 00:05:22,612 --> 00:05:26,283 actually a quite important part of the moviemaking process. 104 00:05:26,367 --> 00:05:29,576 I was responsible for setting up sneak previews. 105 00:05:29,661 --> 00:05:31,372 Before a film was finished… 106 00:05:32,165 --> 00:05:33,534 try it out with an audience… 107 00:05:34,625 --> 00:05:38,454 see the reactions, and make some decisions. 108 00:05:38,545 --> 00:05:40,625 And after those sneak previews… 109 00:05:40,715 --> 00:05:43,584 They'd always turn to me and ask what I thought. 110 00:05:43,675 --> 00:05:47,466 My wife would be with me a lot of the time and she thought I was… I was brilliant. 111 00:05:47,555 --> 00:05:50,305 One day, we were driving home from one of these. 112 00:05:50,391 --> 00:05:53,191 You know, she said, "If you know so much about making movies, 113 00:05:53,269 --> 00:05:54,348 why not make 'em?" 114 00:05:54,437 --> 00:05:56,726 So, thanks to the love of his life… 115 00:05:56,814 --> 00:05:58,444 She should be here to hear this. 116 00:05:58,524 --> 00:06:02,454 …Irwin got to work on creating a career he was passionate about. 117 00:06:02,528 --> 00:06:05,028 I knew that in my heart, beat the heart of a filmmaker. 118 00:06:05,113 --> 00:06:06,994 I knew that's what I wanted to do. 119 00:06:07,074 --> 00:06:09,404 Now, speaking of true love… Hello. 120 00:06:09,494 --> 00:06:11,504 …elsewhere in Los Angeles at the time… 121 00:06:11,579 --> 00:06:14,829 All the girls were clustered around this guy playing the guitar 122 00:06:14,915 --> 00:06:17,245 and I was like, "I see." 123 00:06:17,334 --> 00:06:21,045 And this heartthrob to which Tommy Lee Wallace refers… 124 00:06:21,129 --> 00:06:22,670 Shut up. He's cute! 125 00:06:22,757 --> 00:06:24,627 …is his buddy John Carpenter, 126 00:06:24,716 --> 00:06:27,637 who he grew up with in Bowling Green, Kentucky. 127 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,470 So, I went and harmonized with him, then the girls clustered around me, too. 128 00:06:31,557 --> 00:06:34,226 But really, it was John, Tommy, and Nick… 129 00:06:34,310 --> 00:06:35,139 Hi. Yes, hello. 130 00:06:35,228 --> 00:06:37,437 …who creatively clustered around each other. 131 00:06:37,521 --> 00:06:39,651 I met John Carpenter at USC. 132 00:06:40,774 --> 00:06:43,685 We loved music. We loved rock and roll. We were both in bands. 133 00:06:43,778 --> 00:06:46,278 And we would start doing music for each other's projects. 134 00:06:46,363 --> 00:06:49,994 But these troubadours made more than just beautiful music together. 135 00:06:50,076 --> 00:06:51,865 I worked with John on some shorts. 136 00:06:51,952 --> 00:06:53,752 Some of which Irwin is now wearing. 137 00:06:53,829 --> 00:06:56,790 Short films. Short... Short films. 138 00:06:56,874 --> 00:07:00,343 But with his time at USC coming to a close, 139 00:07:00,420 --> 00:07:02,509 John Carpenter put on his big-boy pants 140 00:07:03,004 --> 00:07:05,464 and directed his very first feature film… 141 00:07:05,550 --> 00:07:06,759 Dark Star. 142 00:07:06,843 --> 00:07:09,552 …with a measly $60,000 budget. 143 00:07:09,637 --> 00:07:12,466 He enlisted the help of me and lots of other buddies. 144 00:07:12,557 --> 00:07:14,637 Kind of Scotch tape and chewing gum 145 00:07:14,725 --> 00:07:17,055 out of the trunk of our cars on the weekend. 146 00:07:17,144 --> 00:07:20,014 Are you with me? It was all hands on deck. 147 00:07:20,105 --> 00:07:22,815 I moved props. I helped behind the camera. 148 00:07:22,899 --> 00:07:25,449 I was supple enough, I guess, to get behind it 149 00:07:25,528 --> 00:07:27,658 and do this and pretend like it was breathing. 150 00:07:27,737 --> 00:07:29,317 That's right. Nick was also… 151 00:07:29,406 --> 00:07:31,447 This crazy little beach ball monster. 152 00:07:31,533 --> 00:07:33,744 Here, boy! Painted like a tomato. 153 00:07:33,827 --> 00:07:35,497 Nick was this tomato. 154 00:07:35,579 --> 00:07:39,209 And while these guys squeaked out this low-budget feature, 155 00:07:39,292 --> 00:07:42,002 Irwin Yablans's dream of making movies 156 00:07:42,086 --> 00:07:43,875 with the encouragement of his wife… 157 00:07:43,963 --> 00:07:46,262 "Why don't you make it?" …had stalled. 158 00:07:46,340 --> 00:07:50,220 Now I've got this company, and I got about $50,000 in the bank… 159 00:07:50,302 --> 00:07:53,312 but I don't have any movies. Not like he hadn't been warned. 160 00:07:53,389 --> 00:07:55,478 "Why are you in the movie business? It's dying." 161 00:07:55,557 --> 00:07:59,687 Well, not so fast, because around that same time, 162 00:07:59,769 --> 00:08:03,860 in another part of town, John Carpenter's momentum was building. 163 00:08:03,940 --> 00:08:05,990 After John did Dark Star, 164 00:08:06,067 --> 00:08:09,237 and it was very good, actually, got a little bit of recognition… 165 00:08:09,322 --> 00:08:11,242 I told him you were one of the best. 166 00:08:11,324 --> 00:08:14,793 …he got some money to do this modern-day Howard Hawks movie, 167 00:08:14,869 --> 00:08:16,999 which is one of his favorite directors of all time. 168 00:08:17,079 --> 00:08:21,038 It was a take on the 1959 movie, Rio Bravo, titled… 169 00:08:21,167 --> 00:08:22,286 It's a goddamn siege. 170 00:08:22,375 --> 00:08:24,375 Right. Now just lose that first part. 171 00:08:24,461 --> 00:08:26,552 The Siege. That's it. 172 00:08:26,630 --> 00:08:30,721 Made for about $100,000 of some friend's dad's money, 173 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,140 The Siege fizzled. 174 00:08:32,220 --> 00:08:33,470 Jesus! Come on. 175 00:08:33,553 --> 00:08:38,524 But it also introduced a pivotal member of the Carpenter filmmaking family. 176 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,941 His script supervisor on that show was Debra Hill, 177 00:08:42,020 --> 00:08:46,230 and in post-production, Debra was along as assistant editor. 178 00:08:46,317 --> 00:08:49,736 And after they'd done their editing and assistant editing… 179 00:08:49,820 --> 00:08:52,279 We all felt we'd done a pretty good movie, but... 180 00:08:52,365 --> 00:08:54,575 But nobody else really did, 181 00:08:54,658 --> 00:08:58,538 and Carpenter couldn't find any major studio to distribute The Siege. 182 00:08:58,620 --> 00:08:59,620 This can't happen. 183 00:08:59,705 --> 00:09:02,705 A reality that coincided with Irwin's predicament. 184 00:09:02,792 --> 00:09:04,091 I don't have any movies. 185 00:09:04,168 --> 00:09:06,248 Which was about the time his phone rang. 186 00:09:07,754 --> 00:09:09,544 I got a phone call from an agent. 187 00:09:09,631 --> 00:09:10,471 Hello? 188 00:09:10,549 --> 00:09:13,429 He said, "Irwin, I have this young man who's just made a movie." 189 00:09:13,510 --> 00:09:15,010 "He's looking for distribution." 190 00:09:15,096 --> 00:09:18,385 I said, "Sure, send him over. What's his name?" "It's John Carpenter." 191 00:09:18,474 --> 00:09:20,144 And after watching The Siege… 192 00:09:20,225 --> 00:09:22,475 It would be a privilege if you'd walk outside with me. 193 00:09:22,562 --> 00:09:24,861 I was astonished. This is an incredibly good movie. 194 00:09:24,938 --> 00:09:28,649 I said, "Amazing that no studio is willing to take a chance on this picture, 195 00:09:28,734 --> 00:09:30,073 let alone this young man." 196 00:09:30,152 --> 00:09:32,491 And so, Irwin took a chance on both. 197 00:09:32,572 --> 00:09:33,412 Hello? 198 00:09:33,489 --> 00:09:35,869 I said, "Fellas, I think your movie is brilliant, 199 00:09:35,950 --> 00:09:39,200 and I'd like to distribute it." I'll kill you if this is a joke. 200 00:09:39,287 --> 00:09:40,616 It was no joke. 201 00:09:40,705 --> 00:09:44,325 I know how to distribute a movie. I'm a one-stop Warner Bros. 202 00:09:44,417 --> 00:09:47,836 And so, Irwin's one-stop studio started. 203 00:09:47,919 --> 00:09:49,549 I said, "I wanna change the title." 204 00:09:49,629 --> 00:09:51,590 Assault on Precinct 13. 205 00:09:51,673 --> 00:09:52,844 I made the trailer. 206 00:09:54,217 --> 00:09:56,847 I designed the poster. And most importantly… 207 00:09:56,928 --> 00:10:00,599 I had a relationship with the exhibitors, so I was able to call in old favors, 208 00:10:00,682 --> 00:10:02,043 and I got the picture distributed. 209 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:03,100 Right. Bye. 210 00:10:04,144 --> 00:10:07,934 And finally, John Carpenter would have an audience. 211 00:10:08,024 --> 00:10:09,573 Assault came out, and… 212 00:10:09,649 --> 00:10:10,649 No. 213 00:10:11,277 --> 00:10:12,106 Sorry. 214 00:10:12,193 --> 00:10:13,703 …didn't do anything much. 215 00:10:14,279 --> 00:10:15,700 That is, until… 216 00:10:15,780 --> 00:10:17,161 Until it went to England. 217 00:10:17,741 --> 00:10:20,871 Because Irwin received another important phone call. 218 00:10:20,952 --> 00:10:23,753 And I answered the phone. "Irwin Yablans?" "Yes." 219 00:10:23,831 --> 00:10:25,331 "My name is Michael Myers." 220 00:10:27,335 --> 00:10:29,835 "And I'd like to enter your film in the London Film Festival." 221 00:10:29,919 --> 00:10:30,919 He got my attention. 222 00:10:31,004 --> 00:10:34,794 Someone in the central office wanted to give you something special. 223 00:10:34,884 --> 00:10:37,644 He did indeed enter it into the London Film Festival. 224 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,559 It won the first prize. 225 00:10:39,639 --> 00:10:43,769 Suddenly, it's the darling of UK-London cinema. 226 00:10:43,850 --> 00:10:45,900 That sure got around fast. 227 00:10:45,977 --> 00:10:47,977 Inexplicably, it was a hit in England. 228 00:10:48,063 --> 00:10:49,573 People just went wild for it. 229 00:10:49,649 --> 00:10:54,239 And I think that had some echo effect back here in the States. 230 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,409 But, as with all echoes, they fade. 231 00:10:57,490 --> 00:11:01,289 And so, with a degree of urgency, Irwin thought… 232 00:11:01,369 --> 00:11:04,369 I gotta find something for... To make with John Carpenter. 233 00:11:04,455 --> 00:11:07,955 And immediately began bouncing ideas around in his head. 234 00:11:08,042 --> 00:11:11,552 I'm racking my brain. "What can we do? What kind of movie can we make?" 235 00:11:12,129 --> 00:11:16,428 And out of nowhere, I thought, "Why not make a movie about babysitters 236 00:11:17,134 --> 00:11:19,724 being terrorized in a single night?" 237 00:11:19,803 --> 00:11:21,474 Hey, now that's wonderful. 238 00:11:21,554 --> 00:11:23,465 But not just any old night. 239 00:11:23,557 --> 00:11:25,596 "Why not make it on the scariest night of the year?" 240 00:11:25,643 --> 00:11:27,982 And he's not talking about Valentine's Day. 241 00:11:28,562 --> 00:11:29,731 Halloween. 242 00:11:30,773 --> 00:11:32,982 Diane was in bed, my wife. He woke her up. 243 00:11:33,067 --> 00:11:35,187 I told her the story. She said, "Sensational." 244 00:11:35,277 --> 00:11:36,486 Cute, Bob. Real cute. 245 00:11:36,570 --> 00:11:40,200 "Call John right now." And I did. I got him on the phone at night. 246 00:11:40,282 --> 00:11:43,792 I said, "Can you meet me tomorrow?" I told him the story. He got it instantly. 247 00:11:44,370 --> 00:11:47,750 And when they all went back to bed, they could rest easy 248 00:11:47,831 --> 00:11:49,672 knowing that Irwin Yablans 249 00:11:49,750 --> 00:11:53,960 had just created the movie that we'd all come to know as… 250 00:11:54,046 --> 00:11:57,086 The Babysitter Murders. Okay, fine. 251 00:11:57,173 --> 00:11:59,183 And with this simple idea… 252 00:11:59,259 --> 00:12:02,100 A horror film set on Halloween, 253 00:12:02,178 --> 00:12:04,469 called Halloween. So, not The Babysitter Murders? 254 00:12:04,557 --> 00:12:06,096 No, none of that's true. 255 00:12:06,182 --> 00:12:10,273 There was no such thing as Babysitter Murders ever. 256 00:12:10,354 --> 00:12:13,234 Well, that's not what the internet says, so… 257 00:12:13,315 --> 00:12:17,184 No. Remember, I'm the sole source, because it came right from here. 258 00:12:17,278 --> 00:12:18,317 That's the idea. 259 00:12:18,903 --> 00:12:22,124 But Irwin's magnificent idea was a horror, 260 00:12:22,198 --> 00:12:27,369 which is funny to think, at the time, John Carpenter wasn't known for. 261 00:12:27,455 --> 00:12:29,784 I enjoy suspense 262 00:12:29,874 --> 00:12:31,423 and action and thrills. 263 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:34,129 And I enjoy comedy. I guess, mainly, the genres. 264 00:12:34,211 --> 00:12:36,711 Exactly. Carpenter had no interest 265 00:12:36,797 --> 00:12:39,677 in making your average 1970s horror movie. 266 00:12:39,759 --> 00:12:41,548 You know the ones. 267 00:12:46,557 --> 00:12:47,886 God is dead! 268 00:12:47,975 --> 00:12:49,684 Hail Satan! Satan lives! 269 00:12:49,769 --> 00:12:52,979 And as it happened, Irwin saw Halloween differently, too. 270 00:12:53,062 --> 00:12:55,113 Ma'am? Answer the question. 271 00:12:55,191 --> 00:12:58,740 A vision he laid out to John Carpenter at lunch. 272 00:12:58,818 --> 00:13:01,109 I remember I had a tuna fish sandwich. 273 00:13:01,197 --> 00:13:04,277 And I said, "John." I said, "I'm the last of the radio generation." 274 00:13:04,365 --> 00:13:07,905 When I was a kid, I would listen to Inner Sanctum and Lights Out, 275 00:13:07,995 --> 00:13:09,904 radio horror shows. 276 00:13:10,581 --> 00:13:13,380 And I wanna tell you, I would get under the covers with the radio, 277 00:13:13,458 --> 00:13:16,048 and nothing you could possibly see on a screen 278 00:13:16,128 --> 00:13:18,918 could match what I would conjure up in my mind. 279 00:13:19,005 --> 00:13:21,586 And I want this movie to play like that. 280 00:13:21,674 --> 00:13:23,044 Theater of the mind. 281 00:13:23,134 --> 00:13:24,965 Which meant less of this. 282 00:13:26,554 --> 00:13:28,715 "I don't want a lot of blood. I don't want gore." 283 00:13:28,807 --> 00:13:30,597 And more of this. 284 00:13:30,683 --> 00:13:33,403 I want the audience to be frightened, not repulsed. 285 00:13:33,479 --> 00:13:36,479 Drag their eyes to the right and scare them on the left. 286 00:13:37,899 --> 00:13:41,740 But hang on. How would the director take this direction? 287 00:13:41,821 --> 00:13:44,071 He would've made a movie about my tuna fish sandwich. 288 00:13:44,155 --> 00:13:47,446 The Tuna Fish Murders? He just wanted to make a movie. 289 00:13:47,534 --> 00:13:49,784 Ideally, not about tuna. 290 00:13:49,870 --> 00:13:52,000 But it wasn't quite that easy. 291 00:13:52,081 --> 00:13:54,630 John Carpenter did have a couple of demands. 292 00:13:54,707 --> 00:13:56,918 John says he wants $10,000. 293 00:13:57,001 --> 00:13:59,261 As just a deposit or something? 294 00:13:59,337 --> 00:14:03,798 Now this is, direct, write, do the music, everything. 295 00:14:03,884 --> 00:14:05,144 And his next request… 296 00:14:05,219 --> 00:14:07,558 John asked if Debra Hill could produce the movie. 297 00:14:07,638 --> 00:14:09,847 Because since Assault on Precinct 13… 298 00:14:09,932 --> 00:14:12,942 She and John got to know each other much better. 299 00:14:13,018 --> 00:14:15,477 They were together. Professionally and personally. 300 00:14:15,562 --> 00:14:18,363 I said, "Sure, she can produce, if you think she's up to it, go ahead." 301 00:14:18,399 --> 00:14:20,778 But there was one last thing. 302 00:14:20,860 --> 00:14:23,490 He said to me, "Can I have my name above the title?" 303 00:14:23,571 --> 00:14:26,240 Which I thought was a hell of a request from a novice filmmaker. 304 00:14:26,322 --> 00:14:27,743 And I remember what I said to him. 305 00:14:27,825 --> 00:14:30,534 "If you can do this movie for $300,000 the way I like it, 306 00:14:30,619 --> 00:14:32,288 you can have anything you want." 307 00:14:32,370 --> 00:14:36,500 Except a free lunch, because for all Irwin's promises… 308 00:14:36,584 --> 00:14:38,384 I didn't have the 300,000. 309 00:14:38,460 --> 00:14:40,340 Well, maybe this guy did. 310 00:14:40,421 --> 00:14:41,921 Moustapha Akkad, 311 00:14:42,005 --> 00:14:45,505 a moviemaker who, at this point, had joined forces with Irwin. 312 00:14:45,592 --> 00:14:48,643 We became fifty-fifty partners. Fifty-fifty? 313 00:14:48,721 --> 00:14:50,811 Actually, he got 51 percent. 314 00:14:50,889 --> 00:14:54,230 Of course, because? He had access to a lot of money. 315 00:14:54,309 --> 00:14:57,190 But Moustapha wasn't exactly an open checkbook. 316 00:14:58,230 --> 00:15:02,399 Based in London, Halloween wasn't exactly his cup of tea. 317 00:15:02,484 --> 00:15:05,323 Moustapha said, "I worry when a movie is too much money." 318 00:15:05,403 --> 00:15:08,874 I said, "Moustapha, if $300,000 is too much, 319 00:15:08,948 --> 00:15:10,948 we'll skip it. We won't make the movie." 320 00:15:11,034 --> 00:15:12,904 "No, no, no, no." His pride. 321 00:15:12,995 --> 00:15:15,705 And just like that… He agreed to the 300,000. 322 00:15:15,788 --> 00:15:16,788 Okay. 323 00:15:17,499 --> 00:15:19,338 Three hundred thousand. 324 00:15:19,418 --> 00:15:23,587 Not to burst the bubble, but it really wasn't a lot of money 325 00:15:23,672 --> 00:15:25,471 compared to movies of the day. 326 00:15:25,548 --> 00:15:30,389 Nevertheless, it was time to kick this low-budget movie into high gear, 327 00:15:30,471 --> 00:15:31,890 beginning with the script, 328 00:15:31,971 --> 00:15:34,312 which John Carpenter wrote with Debra Hill. 329 00:15:34,390 --> 00:15:37,270 The heart and soul of Halloween is John and Debra. 330 00:15:37,352 --> 00:15:39,903 Halloween was originally written by Debra Hill, 331 00:15:39,980 --> 00:15:44,529 and then John came in and layered in the mythology of… 332 00:15:44,610 --> 00:15:45,440 Evil. 333 00:15:45,527 --> 00:15:48,197 You know, the nature of evil, how you can't kill evil. 334 00:15:48,279 --> 00:15:50,029 The blackest eyes. 335 00:15:50,950 --> 00:15:52,029 The devil's eyes. 336 00:15:52,116 --> 00:15:57,287 It also didn't stretch too far beyond a relatable domestic experience. 337 00:15:57,373 --> 00:15:59,883 The fact that this could happen to anyone, anywhere. 338 00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:00,999 It's a normal town. 339 00:16:01,085 --> 00:16:03,544 John knew absolutely what he was doing 340 00:16:03,629 --> 00:16:08,298 and all the tricks that go with creating an atmosphere of unease. 341 00:16:08,384 --> 00:16:12,974 But it was Debra who basically shaped Laurie, her friends. 342 00:16:13,054 --> 00:16:16,095 You totally never showed. That's not true. Here I am. 343 00:16:16,182 --> 00:16:18,982 About two weeks later… They presented me with a first draft, 344 00:16:19,061 --> 00:16:20,561 and that was it. 345 00:16:20,645 --> 00:16:22,056 And as casting began, 346 00:16:22,147 --> 00:16:24,856 John Carpenter and Debra Hill began considering 347 00:16:24,942 --> 00:16:27,861 who their murderous Michael Myers would be. 348 00:16:27,945 --> 00:16:29,654 "My name is Michael Myers." 349 00:16:29,738 --> 00:16:32,528 As a thank you for giving Carpenter a start 350 00:16:32,615 --> 00:16:34,196 with Assault on Precinct 13. 351 00:16:34,283 --> 00:16:37,963 His wife was upset for years, because they had no participation in the movie. 352 00:16:38,038 --> 00:16:39,748 She felt they were owed something. 353 00:16:39,831 --> 00:16:43,381 Bit awkward. But, anyway, the character did have another name. 354 00:16:43,460 --> 00:16:45,799 The Shape. Yes, The Shape. 355 00:16:45,879 --> 00:16:49,588 There's very little mention of him as Michael Myers in the script. 356 00:16:49,674 --> 00:16:50,875 He was always The Shape. 357 00:16:50,967 --> 00:16:53,758 Well, anyway, they'd come back to that one. 358 00:16:53,846 --> 00:16:58,556 But in the meantime, John and Debra focused on casting Dr. Samuel Loomis. 359 00:16:58,642 --> 00:17:00,601 Johnny came to me and wanted Christopher Lee. 360 00:17:00,686 --> 00:17:02,395 Christopher Lee. 361 00:17:02,479 --> 00:17:06,439 Prestigious, seasoned and even bloodthirsty. 362 00:17:06,525 --> 00:17:07,684 Count Dracula. 363 00:17:07,776 --> 00:17:10,145 But despite his unquenchable bloodlust… 364 00:17:10,237 --> 00:17:11,817 Christopher Lee turned it down. 365 00:17:11,904 --> 00:17:14,315 Take it away! 366 00:17:14,407 --> 00:17:16,038 Just as well for Irwin, because… 367 00:17:16,117 --> 00:17:20,077 I had seen a movie called Will Penny. Starring Charlton Heston. 368 00:17:20,163 --> 00:17:23,794 And while Charlton Heston's unyielding dispersal of pain 369 00:17:23,875 --> 00:17:25,455 was rather terrifying… 370 00:17:25,544 --> 00:17:26,804 Get up! 371 00:17:26,878 --> 00:17:30,088 …it was another performance in this 1968 Western 372 00:17:30,173 --> 00:17:32,804 in which Irwin saw a potential for Halloween. 373 00:17:32,884 --> 00:17:35,384 Merry Christmas. Well, close enough. 374 00:17:35,471 --> 00:17:39,431 Donald Pleasence had played the insane patriarch of a bunch of crazy brigands. 375 00:17:39,516 --> 00:17:42,635 You ain't seen the last of me! And he's not wrong. 376 00:17:42,728 --> 00:17:45,268 In fact, this seasoned star of stage and screen 377 00:17:45,355 --> 00:17:47,184 had been seen in countless films. 378 00:17:47,273 --> 00:17:48,483 Hello. 379 00:17:48,567 --> 00:17:51,896 Having evaded Nazis with Steve McQueen in The Great Escape… 380 00:17:53,197 --> 00:17:54,817 Almost evaded. 381 00:17:54,906 --> 00:17:56,737 …to tormenting James Bond in… 382 00:17:56,825 --> 00:17:57,825 You only live twice. 383 00:17:57,910 --> 00:17:59,079 He knows. 384 00:17:59,161 --> 00:18:03,211 I said, "If you get Pleasence, you'd get gravitas to the part and the movie." 385 00:18:03,289 --> 00:18:05,130 But would Carpenter agree? 386 00:18:05,209 --> 00:18:06,128 John agreed. 387 00:18:06,210 --> 00:18:07,710 He agreed. That's right. 388 00:18:07,795 --> 00:18:09,664 With the Loomis role cast, 389 00:18:09,755 --> 00:18:14,835 attention was turned to filling the role of the film's lead teen, Laurie Strode, 390 00:18:14,926 --> 00:18:18,557 for which Carpenter and Hill wanted the relatively unknown actress… 391 00:18:18,638 --> 00:18:20,769 You buy that here? …Jamie Lee Curtis. 392 00:18:21,933 --> 00:18:24,144 Unknown to everyone except Columbo. 393 00:18:24,228 --> 00:18:25,397 I can come back. 394 00:18:25,479 --> 00:18:27,729 And she was a charming, polite young lady. 395 00:18:27,815 --> 00:18:30,494 And clearly impressed... Didn't impress me one way or the other. 396 00:18:30,526 --> 00:18:32,776 I'm really terribly sorry. 397 00:18:32,861 --> 00:18:36,871 While her résumé wasn't that impressive, her pedigree very much was. 398 00:18:36,949 --> 00:18:39,699 When I found out who Jamie Lee Curtis was, 399 00:18:39,785 --> 00:18:41,994 I wanted her immediately. 400 00:18:42,078 --> 00:18:44,328 Well, Jamie Lee came from impressive stock. 401 00:18:44,413 --> 00:18:46,544 The daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. 402 00:18:46,625 --> 00:18:48,535 Yes, that Tony Curtis. 403 00:18:48,626 --> 00:18:49,836 I'm Spartacus! 404 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,049 And, yes, that Janet Leigh. 405 00:18:52,131 --> 00:18:54,131 Meaning… 406 00:18:54,215 --> 00:18:55,925 Her mother had starred in Psycho. 407 00:18:56,009 --> 00:18:58,259 Curious. That was good enough for me. 408 00:18:58,345 --> 00:19:01,595 And if John thought she could cut it, that was good enough for me. 409 00:19:02,182 --> 00:19:05,271 Having found their wholesome and thoughtful Laurie, 410 00:19:05,352 --> 00:19:10,771 it was then time to cast her decidedly less wholesome and thoughtful friends, 411 00:19:10,857 --> 00:19:11,688 Annie and Lynda. 412 00:19:11,775 --> 00:19:14,234 So, here it says, "Lynda says, 'Totally, ' 413 00:19:14,318 --> 00:19:17,199 and Lynda, 'This is totally silly.'" And… 414 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,990 Luckily, Carpenter and Hill found the total package with… 415 00:19:21,576 --> 00:19:24,497 P.J. Soles. She was just adorable. 416 00:19:24,579 --> 00:19:28,500 And this young actress was also no stranger to the world of horror. 417 00:19:28,584 --> 00:19:31,423 They saw her in Carrie and thought she would be perfect for Lynda. 418 00:19:31,502 --> 00:19:33,673 Totally. And for the role of Annie, 419 00:19:33,755 --> 00:19:36,545 Carpenter and Hill hired from within when they cast… 420 00:19:36,633 --> 00:19:38,343 Dr. Sam Loomis. No! 421 00:19:38,926 --> 00:19:40,636 Nancy Loomis. A Loomis. 422 00:19:40,721 --> 00:19:41,810 Loomis. 423 00:19:41,888 --> 00:19:45,179 Loomis... Well, besides the fact... No relation to the doctor. 424 00:19:45,267 --> 00:19:48,057 She'd had a part in Assault on Precinct 13 425 00:19:48,144 --> 00:19:52,065 and was perfectly happy to go on and do the next film, Halloween. 426 00:19:52,148 --> 00:19:54,318 But she'd be carpooling to work. 427 00:19:54,401 --> 00:19:57,151 Nancy was married to Tommy Wallace. 428 00:19:57,237 --> 00:19:58,356 And Tommy Lee Wallace… 429 00:19:58,447 --> 00:19:59,947 Hello. …well, he'll tell you. 430 00:20:00,031 --> 00:20:02,201 I did a lot of jobs on Halloween. 431 00:20:02,284 --> 00:20:06,753 Most significantly, production designer and film editor. 432 00:20:06,829 --> 00:20:08,329 But Nancy Loomis's husband 433 00:20:08,414 --> 00:20:11,535 wasn't the only multi-hyphenate in this Hollywood power couple. 434 00:20:11,626 --> 00:20:13,376 Since she and I were together, 435 00:20:13,461 --> 00:20:16,721 she was part of the art department, doing the costumes. 436 00:20:16,798 --> 00:20:19,127 It was really a family affair. 437 00:20:19,218 --> 00:20:22,887 A bit of a friend affair, too. We were all friends from other movies. 438 00:20:22,971 --> 00:20:26,141 For example, take script supervisor, Louise Jaffe. 439 00:20:26,224 --> 00:20:30,555 The first film I worked on, Nancy Loomis was the wardrobe person, 440 00:20:30,645 --> 00:20:32,145 and we became great friends. 441 00:20:32,230 --> 00:20:35,691 But Nancy Loomis also knew makeup artist, Erica Ueland. 442 00:20:35,776 --> 00:20:38,445 Nancy'd been a friend of mine for many years. 443 00:20:38,528 --> 00:20:40,817 Which makes sense when you consider that… 444 00:20:40,905 --> 00:20:43,276 Louise is my roommate on Gower Street. Yes. 445 00:20:43,366 --> 00:20:47,156 Or cinematographer Dean Cundey, who knew best boy, Steve Mathis. 446 00:20:47,246 --> 00:20:49,955 Dean and I go way back. I did several movies with Dean. 447 00:20:50,039 --> 00:20:53,039 And second assistant camera operator, Krishna Rao. 448 00:20:53,125 --> 00:20:55,955 Dean trained me to be a camera assistant. 449 00:20:56,087 --> 00:20:58,008 That's my brother-in-law. 450 00:20:58,089 --> 00:20:59,880 Consider the point made. 451 00:20:59,967 --> 00:21:02,426 Debra had assembled a crew that was young… 452 00:21:02,510 --> 00:21:05,851 Our high school days were just in our rearview mirror. 453 00:21:05,931 --> 00:21:06,810 …hungry… 454 00:21:06,890 --> 00:21:09,309 This was a real movie for all of us, it was cool. 455 00:21:09,393 --> 00:21:10,643 …and one more thing… 456 00:21:11,394 --> 00:21:15,394 We were all young, hungry, and poor. Cheap, which was just as well, 457 00:21:15,481 --> 00:21:19,112 seeing as how this was a very moderately-budgeted… 458 00:21:19,193 --> 00:21:20,653 Scotch tape and chewing gum. 459 00:21:20,737 --> 00:21:21,856 …type of operation. 460 00:21:21,946 --> 00:21:24,196 But there was one line item on the budget 461 00:21:24,282 --> 00:21:27,083 that Carpenter insisted they not skimp on. 462 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,039 I was the cheap part. No, not Dean Cundey. 463 00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:32,541 The one thing was Panavision equipment. 464 00:21:32,624 --> 00:21:34,173 Of the $300,000, 465 00:21:34,250 --> 00:21:37,300 we spent almost 70,000 of that at Panavision. 466 00:21:37,378 --> 00:21:40,338 A sizable chunk was spent on… The Panaglide. 467 00:21:41,258 --> 00:21:45,097 …a high-end camera rig that would help this low-budget film look… 468 00:21:45,177 --> 00:21:46,677 Like a zillion bucks. 469 00:21:46,762 --> 00:21:50,272 Because while most cameras of the day were pretty stationary, 470 00:21:50,349 --> 00:21:55,150 the brand-new Panaglide camera, as demonstrated by Dean Cundey himself, 471 00:21:55,230 --> 00:21:57,150 could move around quite freely. 472 00:21:57,231 --> 00:21:59,902 John saw the camera as the audience's eyes. 473 00:21:59,984 --> 00:22:03,565 So, I think that any time you can play a shot in one, 474 00:22:03,654 --> 00:22:07,275 it's better because it's moving the audience smoothly, 475 00:22:07,366 --> 00:22:11,287 as if they were actually walking through a scene or a moment. 476 00:22:11,371 --> 00:22:14,671 Which would be the perfect touch for a film like Halloween. 477 00:22:14,750 --> 00:22:16,000 The only problem was… 478 00:22:16,084 --> 00:22:20,344 It was maybe the second film to use the Steadicam. 479 00:22:20,422 --> 00:22:23,432 So, while Dean and his team learned how to be smooth operators… 480 00:22:23,508 --> 00:22:26,597 In the parking lot of Panavision. Yeah. 481 00:22:26,678 --> 00:22:29,768 …Tommy Wallace was grappling with his own daunting assignment. 482 00:22:29,847 --> 00:22:33,097 So, my assignment was, go find a mask. 483 00:22:33,184 --> 00:22:36,394 But not just a mask, the mask. 484 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,609 The script described it as a kind of blank face. 485 00:22:39,691 --> 00:22:44,780 So, Tommy headed straight to the epicenter of creepy, blank faces. 486 00:22:44,863 --> 00:22:46,663 Down on Hollywood Boulevard… 487 00:22:49,201 --> 00:22:54,161 …at a magic company that sold a lot of masks and costumery… 488 00:22:55,123 --> 00:23:00,053 Up on the shelf were these full face masks of people like Richard Nixon. 489 00:23:00,127 --> 00:23:01,337 Well, I'm not a crook. 490 00:23:02,963 --> 00:23:06,554 And down at the end was a Mr. Spock mask. 491 00:23:07,259 --> 00:23:08,180 Fascinating. 492 00:23:08,260 --> 00:23:11,810 And right next to it was this kind of blank-faced 493 00:23:12,391 --> 00:23:13,391 Captain Kirk. 494 00:23:14,101 --> 00:23:16,730 Come on. The lovable Captain Kirk? 495 00:23:16,811 --> 00:23:19,311 I'm Captain Kirk! 496 00:23:19,397 --> 00:23:21,268 He is terrifying. 497 00:23:21,357 --> 00:23:23,028 So, I grabbed one of those, 498 00:23:23,109 --> 00:23:27,240 and I grabbed an Emmett Kelly sad-sack clown mask. 499 00:23:27,321 --> 00:23:30,781 And so Tommy headed back to his shop and began customizing. 500 00:23:30,866 --> 00:23:32,737 Opened up the eye holes. 501 00:23:33,577 --> 00:23:34,907 Took off the eyebrows. 502 00:23:34,996 --> 00:23:38,536 Took off the sideburns, which sort of punkafied the guy. 503 00:23:38,625 --> 00:23:40,744 Painted the face appliance white, 504 00:23:40,836 --> 00:23:44,415 and I darkened the hair down. Looked pretty good. 505 00:23:44,506 --> 00:23:46,875 But John and Debra would be the judge of that. 506 00:23:47,634 --> 00:23:49,513 We tried out the clown mask first. 507 00:23:51,179 --> 00:23:53,888 We all agreed, "that's strange, that's eerie." 508 00:23:53,973 --> 00:23:57,064 Strange and eerie. Captain Kirk, anyone? 509 00:23:57,144 --> 00:23:58,483 I'm Captain Kirk! 510 00:23:59,354 --> 00:24:03,074 As soon as the second mask came out of the dressing room, 511 00:24:03,150 --> 00:24:06,150 we were all, "Fuck me." 512 00:24:08,028 --> 00:24:10,739 That mask looked so creepy. 513 00:24:10,824 --> 00:24:13,084 It's just something about that blank face. 514 00:24:14,118 --> 00:24:17,499 There's no personality. It's just purely evil. 515 00:24:17,580 --> 00:24:20,250 And so we knew we had a movie. 516 00:24:20,333 --> 00:24:22,883 What they still didn't have was a Shape. 517 00:24:22,961 --> 00:24:26,131 However, as principal photography was gearing up 518 00:24:26,213 --> 00:24:28,433 in sunny South Pasadena, California, 519 00:24:28,508 --> 00:24:32,097 standing in for a dreary Haddonfield, Illinois, 520 00:24:32,179 --> 00:24:36,388 lurking amongst the suburban shrubbery was 521 00:24:37,142 --> 00:24:38,142 Nick. 522 00:24:38,184 --> 00:24:39,265 Nick was in the bush. 523 00:24:39,352 --> 00:24:43,021 It was very close to, where I lived. 524 00:24:43,105 --> 00:24:45,976 But not being specifically involved with this project, 525 00:24:46,067 --> 00:24:47,396 their old buddy said… 526 00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:50,655 "You know, John, you know what'd be cool? If I could just hang." 527 00:24:50,739 --> 00:24:52,618 The words hung in the air. 528 00:24:52,699 --> 00:24:57,038 The broad-shouldered Nick Castle awaited John Carpenter's response. 529 00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:58,210 "Okay, no problem." 530 00:24:58,288 --> 00:25:01,877 But having a useful contributor just standing around 531 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,750 like a nosy neighbor, 532 00:25:04,836 --> 00:25:07,006 didn't make any sense whatsoever. 533 00:25:07,087 --> 00:25:08,508 Or did it? 534 00:25:08,589 --> 00:25:13,140 He needed someone to do all of these walking, lurking shots. 535 00:25:13,220 --> 00:25:15,220 So, John Carpenter said… 536 00:25:15,305 --> 00:25:17,805 "Wait a minute, why don't you just put the mask on 537 00:25:17,891 --> 00:25:19,641 and walk around and be the killer?" 538 00:25:20,143 --> 00:25:21,522 And I went, "Yeah, okay." 539 00:25:22,019 --> 00:25:25,480 And by simply putting on this mask and walking about, 540 00:25:25,565 --> 00:25:29,565 Michael Myers, aka The Shape, came to life. 541 00:25:29,653 --> 00:25:31,492 And Nick had a good walk. 542 00:25:31,570 --> 00:25:34,701 His father was a dancer and choreographer, 543 00:25:34,782 --> 00:25:38,083 so Nick just naturally had a good gait about him. 544 00:25:38,161 --> 00:25:40,161 I think that's kind of bullshit. 545 00:25:40,247 --> 00:25:42,957 John and I really didn't discuss anything about, 546 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,090 you know, what I was supposed to do. 547 00:25:45,167 --> 00:25:48,958 Basically, what's my motivation? You know, I was... I'm suddenly an actor. 548 00:25:49,047 --> 00:25:52,626 But Carpenter wasn't looking for a murderous method actor. 549 00:25:52,717 --> 00:25:54,757 He only needed a shape. 550 00:25:54,844 --> 00:25:56,354 He just said, "Walk towards me." 551 00:25:57,972 --> 00:25:58,972 Or, "Stand there." 552 00:26:00,558 --> 00:26:01,939 "Now tilt your head to the right." 553 00:26:04,019 --> 00:26:06,609 It was this direction… "What's this supposed to mean?" 554 00:26:06,690 --> 00:26:09,400 …that left Nick scratching his tilted head. 555 00:26:09,483 --> 00:26:12,153 And it wasn't until I kind of looked at the dailies 556 00:26:12,237 --> 00:26:15,277 and went, "I see. He's kind of admiring his work." 557 00:26:15,365 --> 00:26:17,325 "That's cool. What a great idea!" 558 00:26:17,409 --> 00:26:21,288 And thus, this newly minted thespian found his motivation. 559 00:26:21,371 --> 00:26:23,500 Just do whatever John says. 560 00:26:23,582 --> 00:26:26,461 While directing Nick was a walk in the park, 561 00:26:26,542 --> 00:26:27,843 or wherever he was walking, 562 00:26:27,919 --> 00:26:31,419 the production's big-name actor had other ideas. 563 00:26:31,506 --> 00:26:34,125 He was kind of annoyed that he had to be in this movie. 564 00:26:34,217 --> 00:26:36,846 In other words, I think the script is a bit overwritten. 565 00:26:36,927 --> 00:26:40,847 That's... I don't know, it's difficult to find an expression other than that. 566 00:26:40,932 --> 00:26:44,771 But any misgivings Pleasence had over the role didn't show. 567 00:26:44,853 --> 00:26:48,232 He was a good actor after all. He handled it like a pro. 568 00:26:48,315 --> 00:26:50,644 He was drinking a lot of wine. 569 00:26:50,733 --> 00:26:52,693 Yeah. Are you all right? 570 00:26:54,028 --> 00:26:56,489 Well, it's a good thing he wasn't driving. 571 00:26:56,573 --> 00:26:59,452 The night that we were out in the rainstorm, 572 00:26:59,534 --> 00:27:03,544 he had a bottle or two of red wine in his trailer. 573 00:27:03,622 --> 00:27:06,422 I was worried that he wasn't even gonna be able to walk down the steps. 574 00:27:07,250 --> 00:27:10,500 It was a very difficult scene, because all those people were out 575 00:27:10,586 --> 00:27:14,666 and walking around in their robes, all the people from the sanitarium. 576 00:27:14,758 --> 00:27:17,218 And for Donald Pleasence's character, 577 00:27:17,301 --> 00:27:19,432 actually a really important scene. 578 00:27:19,511 --> 00:27:25,021 And he had in-the-car dialogue with that nurse, and it had to be coherent. 579 00:27:25,809 --> 00:27:27,849 You haven't anything to worry about. 580 00:27:27,936 --> 00:27:31,567 No, John Carpenter had plenty to worry about. 581 00:27:31,650 --> 00:27:34,490 Donald Pleasence just opened up on John. 582 00:27:34,568 --> 00:27:36,778 "You're making me look like an ass." 583 00:27:36,863 --> 00:27:38,163 It's a little melodramatic. 584 00:27:38,865 --> 00:27:41,984 And there, with his entire crew watching, 585 00:27:42,076 --> 00:27:45,457 and his star two bottles of red wine in, 586 00:27:45,538 --> 00:27:47,998 the novice director was put to the test. 587 00:27:48,083 --> 00:27:51,133 John was beyond his years 588 00:27:51,211 --> 00:27:55,050 in terms of his ability to handle people and handle situations. 589 00:27:55,131 --> 00:27:57,840 And that night, he handled Donald Pleasence. 590 00:27:57,925 --> 00:27:58,756 Wait. 591 00:27:58,843 --> 00:28:03,682 During a scene when sobering coherency was, well, key. 592 00:28:03,765 --> 00:28:06,684 And it was totally coherent, even though he was… 593 00:28:07,268 --> 00:28:09,597 In a rush to get back to his trailer? 594 00:28:10,896 --> 00:28:16,027 While the angry yet oddly coherent words of Donald Pleasence cut like a knife, 595 00:28:16,111 --> 00:28:19,911 the next challenge of the night involved a blunt instrument. 596 00:28:20,448 --> 00:28:22,698 Yeah, the window was tough to break. 597 00:28:22,784 --> 00:28:24,953 But, as the movie's art director, 598 00:28:25,036 --> 00:28:26,786 Tommy Lee Wallace knew what to do. 599 00:28:26,871 --> 00:28:30,290 He's up on top of the roof of the station wagon and, bam! 600 00:28:30,375 --> 00:28:33,795 If you look, you can see the wrench right here. 601 00:28:33,877 --> 00:28:36,627 Taped with flesh-colored tape. You can just see it. 602 00:28:36,714 --> 00:28:38,164 After a grueling shoot… 603 00:28:38,258 --> 00:28:42,218 That was possibly the most difficult day of the entire shoot. 604 00:28:42,302 --> 00:28:44,432 …they prep themselves for more. 605 00:28:44,513 --> 00:28:46,273 And the worst was yet to come, 606 00:28:46,348 --> 00:28:51,148 because Tommy Lee Wallace faced a… pumpkin shortage. 607 00:28:51,229 --> 00:28:54,398 Believe it or not, in California in the springtime, 608 00:28:54,481 --> 00:28:56,481 it's very hard to find pumpkins. 609 00:28:56,567 --> 00:28:58,448 We only had three pumpkins. 610 00:28:58,528 --> 00:29:00,238 There's one. 611 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:01,451 There's two. 612 00:29:02,030 --> 00:29:03,030 And there's… 613 00:29:04,366 --> 00:29:06,116 There's three. God! 614 00:29:06,201 --> 00:29:09,662 John did it on take one. 615 00:29:10,707 --> 00:29:13,126 Well, worst case, Nick had experience 616 00:29:13,209 --> 00:29:15,749 puppeteering fruit and veg, so, you know. 617 00:29:16,628 --> 00:29:18,628 For the rest of their pumpkin needs… 618 00:29:18,714 --> 00:29:21,335 We found some kind of South American gourd 619 00:29:21,425 --> 00:29:26,925 that was dark green, so, naturally… "Paint department!" 620 00:29:27,015 --> 00:29:28,134 Would that be you? 621 00:29:29,893 --> 00:29:33,103 But pumpkins weren't the only thing this production was short on. 622 00:29:33,188 --> 00:29:36,357 I just kept wondering, "Where's the blood? Where's the blood?" 623 00:29:36,441 --> 00:29:37,730 It didn't need blood. 624 00:29:37,817 --> 00:29:40,947 Because true to Irwin's original direction… 625 00:29:41,028 --> 00:29:42,318 Theater of the mind. 626 00:29:42,905 --> 00:29:47,536 …John Carpenter was drawing from earlier master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. 627 00:29:47,618 --> 00:29:51,749 It's like Psycho. You never see the knife hit Janet Leigh. 628 00:29:51,830 --> 00:29:53,976 As a viewer, you were able to use your imagination more 629 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,750 and it makes it more horrifying to imagine 630 00:29:55,835 --> 00:29:59,375 what happens the other side of the window when Annie's being killed in the car. 631 00:29:59,463 --> 00:30:02,723 But more than just leaving things to the imagination… 632 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,300 Carpenter was going for something 633 00:30:05,385 --> 00:30:07,346 that was a little bit more nuanced. 634 00:30:07,430 --> 00:30:09,930 And here's a good example. 635 00:30:10,016 --> 00:30:12,935 There's a scene in the film where Jamie Lee is at the top of the stairs… 636 00:30:15,230 --> 00:30:17,480 And there's a shadowy area. 637 00:30:19,233 --> 00:30:22,903 Which John uses that empty space as like, what's there? 638 00:30:22,987 --> 00:30:24,856 Well, Nick was there. Hi. 639 00:30:24,948 --> 00:30:26,198 He was everywhere. 640 00:30:26,281 --> 00:30:30,372 John said, "How can we make Michael Myers sort of appear?" 641 00:30:30,994 --> 00:30:33,285 There in the dark? Well, the answer was… 642 00:30:33,373 --> 00:30:34,423 By using lighting. 643 00:30:34,499 --> 00:30:37,419 And I said, "How about if we put it on a dimmer 644 00:30:37,501 --> 00:30:39,842 and we'll have a light on his face?" 645 00:30:39,921 --> 00:30:44,800 And I wanted the audience to feel like their eyes are getting used to the dark. 646 00:30:44,884 --> 00:30:46,094 And the light comes up. 647 00:30:49,180 --> 00:30:50,890 And that's when I realized… 648 00:30:50,973 --> 00:30:52,604 "God, this is real scary shit." 649 00:30:52,683 --> 00:30:54,443 The stabbing. 650 00:30:54,519 --> 00:30:57,108 I had the blood, if they needed it. They didn't. 651 00:30:57,896 --> 00:31:00,977 And when it came to Jamie Lee Curtis… 652 00:31:01,733 --> 00:31:04,284 the crew found themselves falling for her. 653 00:31:04,362 --> 00:31:07,122 It was fun acting with Jamie. 654 00:31:07,198 --> 00:31:10,488 Hang on, "acting?" Isn't Tommy the art director? 655 00:31:10,576 --> 00:31:13,616 We only had money for one of these fake doors. 656 00:31:13,704 --> 00:31:17,994 And he said, "I'd better do it because if I screw up, then, yeah, it's my fault." 657 00:31:18,084 --> 00:31:20,713 "I don't want you to screw up." And you know, then I... 658 00:31:21,753 --> 00:31:24,923 Look in there and do The Shape. Yeah, that was fun. 659 00:31:25,008 --> 00:31:27,087 And as for the lead actor… 660 00:31:27,175 --> 00:31:31,215 Jamie, from day one, was kind of the girl scout next door. 661 00:31:31,306 --> 00:31:33,675 She was just great. 662 00:31:33,766 --> 00:31:38,226 She loved the crew, she carried camera cases when she wasn't too busy 663 00:31:38,313 --> 00:31:41,573 doing her… day job, you might say. 664 00:31:41,648 --> 00:31:43,898 Day job or sometimes, night job. 665 00:31:45,528 --> 00:31:47,407 But as production neared its end… 666 00:31:47,488 --> 00:31:50,157 We had one day left to shoot. 667 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,580 …this one would be an all-night job. 668 00:31:52,660 --> 00:31:55,369 And it all came down to one last shot. 669 00:31:55,454 --> 00:31:59,994 Which, in itself, was a long shot in every way. 670 00:32:00,084 --> 00:32:02,804 … just to be clear, it was really long. 671 00:32:02,878 --> 00:32:05,209 And he said, "We want to walk up to the house." 672 00:32:05,839 --> 00:32:08,970 Move up, around to the side, look through the window. 673 00:32:09,051 --> 00:32:11,761 There's the couple there. Michael's around someplace. 674 00:32:11,846 --> 00:32:14,056 We look at the window, the light goes out. 675 00:32:14,140 --> 00:32:17,140 And as he described it, we would walk it. 676 00:32:17,226 --> 00:32:18,556 But as they walked it, 677 00:32:18,644 --> 00:32:21,015 the challenges they'd face pulling this shot off 678 00:32:21,105 --> 00:32:22,605 became more and more apparent. 679 00:32:22,690 --> 00:32:27,069 In the film, the house is in good shape at the beginning and deteriorates. 680 00:32:27,153 --> 00:32:30,913 Anybody live here? Not since 1963 when it happened. 681 00:32:30,990 --> 00:32:32,119 But we shot in reverse. 682 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,750 We shot all the deteriorated stuff and then just painted what we would see. 683 00:32:35,827 --> 00:32:37,958 Low-budget filmmaking at its finest. 684 00:32:38,038 --> 00:32:41,078 And one of the reasons that budget was so low 685 00:32:41,166 --> 00:32:44,166 was because of that fancy Panaglide contraption 686 00:32:44,252 --> 00:32:48,512 that Dean Cundey was expected to lug about for this epic shot. 687 00:32:48,590 --> 00:32:52,641 It gives you a great deal more flexibility of how you can move the camera. 688 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,349 But it also gives you a much smaller film magazine, 689 00:32:56,432 --> 00:32:59,642 limiting their takes to four minutes and 26 seconds. 690 00:33:00,269 --> 00:33:03,148 Somebody was timing it as they were practicing, 691 00:33:03,230 --> 00:33:07,361 and it was clear that we weren't going to get the whole shot. 692 00:33:07,442 --> 00:33:08,742 Terrific. 693 00:33:08,819 --> 00:33:11,950 Debra jumped in and said, "Well, we need a cut point." 694 00:33:12,030 --> 00:33:13,990 It was a lot of fun to devise that. 695 00:33:14,075 --> 00:33:15,484 And the solution? 696 00:33:15,576 --> 00:33:18,195 We'll block the lens with a mask. 697 00:33:18,287 --> 00:33:21,497 We'll put the mask on in exactly the right spot for the eyes, 698 00:33:21,582 --> 00:33:23,382 and we'll continue the shot. 699 00:33:23,459 --> 00:33:25,548 And so, after the first take, 700 00:33:25,627 --> 00:33:26,958 they did another take, 701 00:33:27,046 --> 00:33:28,086 and then another one. 702 00:33:28,172 --> 00:33:29,471 A lot more takes. 703 00:33:29,548 --> 00:33:32,429 Reset everything, get it going, so we could do another take. 704 00:33:32,509 --> 00:33:35,430 "Move this couch. It was in the way of going up the stairs, 705 00:33:35,512 --> 00:33:37,472 but we wanna see it coming down. Move the lights." 706 00:33:37,515 --> 00:33:39,724 And so you'd see people jumping out of windows, 707 00:33:39,808 --> 00:33:41,528 and standing on balconies with their lights. 708 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:44,060 I was there with a bucket of blood. 709 00:33:44,939 --> 00:33:46,608 Now there's blood. 710 00:33:47,607 --> 00:33:51,278 With crew dangling from balconies and doing anything to clear the shot, 711 00:33:51,362 --> 00:33:53,412 they did a lot of takes. 712 00:33:53,489 --> 00:33:58,659 Did over 20. We wore Ray Stella out. Dean put the rig on. We wore Dean out. 713 00:33:58,744 --> 00:34:03,365 We just kept doing it, the same shot over and over and over and over. 714 00:34:03,458 --> 00:34:07,048 I'm convinced that if it was still night, we'd still be shooting. 715 00:34:07,127 --> 00:34:10,297 But of course, the sun did eventually rise 716 00:34:10,380 --> 00:34:13,221 on a very exhausted but happy crew. 717 00:34:13,300 --> 00:34:17,431 I'm very tired, but I can see that this is going to be 718 00:34:17,512 --> 00:34:20,483 a significant moment for the film. 719 00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:23,599 The revolutionary Panaglide camera rig 720 00:34:23,686 --> 00:34:26,226 proved well worth its steep share of the budget. 721 00:34:26,313 --> 00:34:33,074 Each take was gold. It was this thrust for 15 or 16 hours. 722 00:34:33,153 --> 00:34:36,373 Nobody thought about whether we were tired or whether we weren't tired. 723 00:34:36,449 --> 00:34:39,199 We were just resetting and going again. 724 00:34:39,284 --> 00:34:42,244 It was actually a beautiful way to end the film. 725 00:34:42,329 --> 00:34:43,539 And with that… 726 00:34:43,623 --> 00:34:46,083 John turned to everybody and said, "I got my shot." 727 00:34:46,166 --> 00:34:48,036 …Halloween finished shooting. 728 00:34:48,126 --> 00:34:49,996 Right, then. Time for editing. 729 00:34:50,088 --> 00:34:52,797 And to do that, they brought in a serious... 730 00:34:52,882 --> 00:34:55,431 Hello. It's just... Tommy just did it. 731 00:34:55,510 --> 00:34:57,849 Along with assistance from Charles Bornstein. 732 00:34:57,929 --> 00:35:01,969 And together, the two refined the film's dreadful pacing. 733 00:35:02,057 --> 00:35:03,557 In a good way. 734 00:35:03,643 --> 00:35:06,603 Tommy and John always likened it to a rubber band. 735 00:35:06,686 --> 00:35:09,476 How far could you stretch the rubber band… 736 00:35:13,110 --> 00:35:15,400 …before you knew it was going to snap? 737 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,159 And it's just about stretching things out 738 00:35:20,242 --> 00:35:24,213 to make it so that when you know that something horrible is gonna happen… 739 00:35:25,623 --> 00:35:29,632 it creates this horrible dread, and you just want it to be over. 740 00:35:29,710 --> 00:35:32,550 They even found a way to stretch that dread… 741 00:35:33,797 --> 00:35:35,797 past the ending of the film. 742 00:35:37,260 --> 00:35:39,550 How about having them go out of the theater 743 00:35:39,637 --> 00:35:43,637 dreading to go to their car, because that empty street 744 00:35:43,724 --> 00:35:48,153 could have the boogeyman hiding behind a telephone pole or something? 745 00:35:48,228 --> 00:35:50,938 Or the bushes. He does seem to like the bushes. 746 00:35:51,023 --> 00:35:53,483 But the idea was born in the cutting room. 747 00:35:53,568 --> 00:35:56,398 Well, the original ending was from Loomis's point of view, 748 00:35:56,487 --> 00:35:57,606 from inside the house. 749 00:35:57,697 --> 00:35:59,657 Loomis's point of view, 750 00:35:59,739 --> 00:36:04,289 "The backyard, the neighboring yards, the street, all are empty, quiet, dark." 751 00:36:04,369 --> 00:36:07,369 "There is only the sound of the wind swelling in the trees." 752 00:36:07,456 --> 00:36:11,335 "Michael is gone. Period. Fade to black." 753 00:36:11,418 --> 00:36:12,668 "Roll end titles." 754 00:36:12,753 --> 00:36:17,302 But to change perspective this late in the game was a big challenge. 755 00:36:17,382 --> 00:36:18,762 We just didn't have 756 00:36:18,842 --> 00:36:22,563 a bunch of establishing shots of places to work with. 757 00:36:22,637 --> 00:36:25,677 Establishing shots like this. But luckily for them… 758 00:36:25,766 --> 00:36:28,726 I saved a lot of the stuff that normally you would throw out. 759 00:36:28,811 --> 00:36:31,610 Tommy would go through and he would find 760 00:36:31,688 --> 00:36:33,978 a piece of the empty staircase 761 00:36:34,065 --> 00:36:38,735 before the slate came in, shots of just empty locations. 762 00:36:38,820 --> 00:36:40,621 We just stole every, 763 00:36:40,697 --> 00:36:45,827 absolutely every little shot we could find to put that montage together. 764 00:36:45,911 --> 00:36:48,661 A spine-tingling end to a distressful thriller 765 00:36:48,748 --> 00:36:51,038 that for John Carpenter, was far from over. 766 00:36:51,125 --> 00:36:52,994 John was the composer. 767 00:36:53,085 --> 00:36:55,085 He was Bowling Green Symphony Orchestra, 768 00:36:55,170 --> 00:36:56,880 which is credited on the screen. 769 00:36:57,590 --> 00:36:59,090 All the music came from John. 770 00:36:59,175 --> 00:37:01,005 And it all came rather quickly. 771 00:37:01,092 --> 00:37:03,143 I think he did it in, like, three days or something. 772 00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:07,231 The thought of which is almost as terrifying as the main theme itself. 773 00:37:07,307 --> 00:37:08,307 You know the one. 774 00:37:14,065 --> 00:37:17,644 So simple. The riff is repeated and repeated and repeated, 775 00:37:17,735 --> 00:37:19,815 but it isn't repeated the same way. 776 00:37:21,989 --> 00:37:24,579 Music tells you how you're supposed to feel about this stuff. 777 00:37:24,659 --> 00:37:27,748 John's music for Halloween was masterful with that. 778 00:37:27,827 --> 00:37:30,918 And after masterfully marrying that music to picture… 779 00:37:30,998 --> 00:37:33,577 It was like another movie. I jumped out of my chair. 780 00:37:33,668 --> 00:37:35,588 As for the movie's financial investor… 781 00:37:35,670 --> 00:37:38,880 And Moustapha came with me to screen the movie, 782 00:37:38,965 --> 00:37:40,925 I'll never forget, we came out of the screening 783 00:37:41,007 --> 00:37:42,717 and Moustapha was quiet, pensive. 784 00:37:42,802 --> 00:37:44,641 What's the matter with you? 785 00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,019 And he turned to me and said those immortal words to me. 786 00:37:48,516 --> 00:37:50,806 "I don't see my name anywhere on the screen." 787 00:37:52,103 --> 00:37:54,693 Easily fixed. But more importantly… 788 00:37:54,771 --> 00:37:58,822 At that moment, I knew we had a big, important movie. 789 00:37:58,900 --> 00:38:01,030 And so, things came full circle 790 00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:04,782 when Irwin arranged a sneak peek preview screening of his own movie. 791 00:38:04,864 --> 00:38:07,235 And I invited all the studios to come. 792 00:38:07,326 --> 00:38:09,445 But they didn't. The studios never sent anybody. 793 00:38:09,536 --> 00:38:12,367 Instead, a bunch of college students did. 794 00:38:12,456 --> 00:38:13,916 Is that any help? 795 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,710 The big studios weren't interested in making horror pictures. 796 00:38:17,795 --> 00:38:20,045 That was déclassé for them. 797 00:38:20,130 --> 00:38:22,130 You're not doing very much to prove me wrong. 798 00:38:22,215 --> 00:38:24,175 And as for those college kids… 799 00:38:24,260 --> 00:38:26,179 The screening was a howling success. 800 00:38:26,262 --> 00:38:28,851 Jamie Lee Curtis drops the knife a number of times. 801 00:38:28,931 --> 00:38:30,251 And the last time she dropped it, 802 00:38:30,307 --> 00:38:33,807 some wise guy from the audience yelled, "You deserve to die!" 803 00:38:33,893 --> 00:38:37,114 Despite what the studios thought, 804 00:38:37,188 --> 00:38:38,688 Halloween didn't deserve to die. 805 00:38:38,773 --> 00:38:41,943 So Irwin fell back on another talent from his past. 806 00:38:42,027 --> 00:38:43,068 Loading trucks. 807 00:38:43,153 --> 00:38:45,034 No, what he did after that. 808 00:38:45,114 --> 00:38:46,414 A booker. You got it. 809 00:38:46,489 --> 00:38:48,949 And he distributed Halloween himself. 810 00:38:49,034 --> 00:38:51,494 I decided that I would open the movie in a small city. 811 00:38:51,579 --> 00:38:54,918 If I got good reaction, I could use them to my advantage. 812 00:38:54,998 --> 00:38:57,378 If they weren't that good, I could bury the news 813 00:38:57,460 --> 00:38:58,920 and go on to the next market. 814 00:38:59,003 --> 00:39:01,262 So, stealthfully and silently, 815 00:39:01,338 --> 00:39:05,219 the film crept up on moviegoers five days before Halloween 816 00:39:05,300 --> 00:39:10,561 at an AMC in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1978. 817 00:39:10,639 --> 00:39:14,938 And I settled back that weekend and waited for the result. 818 00:39:15,018 --> 00:39:17,898 And by the end of the first day… 819 00:39:17,980 --> 00:39:21,190 You know, it wasn't great, but it was respectable. 820 00:39:21,275 --> 00:39:24,644 "Respectable." There you go. Take that, studio. 821 00:39:24,737 --> 00:39:26,856 But the next day, it was double. 822 00:39:27,530 --> 00:39:30,661 And the third day, exponentially double again. 823 00:39:31,242 --> 00:39:33,413 That means that everyone who saw that movie 824 00:39:33,496 --> 00:39:35,746 was on the phone when they got home. 825 00:39:35,831 --> 00:39:38,960 Halloween was going viral, late '70s style. 826 00:39:39,043 --> 00:39:41,802 So now that I knew I had a movie that people really wanted to see, 827 00:39:41,878 --> 00:39:44,298 I thought I'll take a chance and take it to a big city 828 00:39:44,382 --> 00:39:46,342 where I might get a decent review. 829 00:39:46,425 --> 00:39:49,175 Next, taking the movie to Chicago. 830 00:39:49,260 --> 00:39:53,391 Beat out every movie from every major studio and ran for two months. 831 00:39:53,474 --> 00:39:55,643 With rave reviews from Roger Ebert 832 00:39:55,726 --> 00:39:58,186 and Tom Allen from The Village Voice. 833 00:39:58,269 --> 00:40:00,860 More theaters got added, and then more theaters got added, 834 00:40:00,940 --> 00:40:03,690 and it just started turning into this monster. 835 00:40:04,818 --> 00:40:07,278 And, like The Shape, Halloween left audiences… 836 00:40:07,362 --> 00:40:08,992 Screaming. Laughing together. 837 00:40:09,072 --> 00:40:10,322 Talking to the screen. 838 00:40:10,407 --> 00:40:13,447 Can't you answer me? As if the third wall had broken down. 839 00:40:13,536 --> 00:40:16,706 "Don't go in there, you crazy woman! What are you doing?" You know? 840 00:40:16,789 --> 00:40:19,958 They weren't watching a movie. They were experiencing this movie. 841 00:40:20,708 --> 00:40:22,958 Without the big studios behind him, 842 00:40:23,045 --> 00:40:25,085 audiences had to wait their turn. 843 00:40:25,172 --> 00:40:27,172 It wasn't a hit right away. 844 00:40:27,257 --> 00:40:28,878 It sort of rolled out slowly, 845 00:40:28,967 --> 00:40:31,177 and just kept building and building. 846 00:40:31,262 --> 00:40:34,222 And perhaps the momentum may have fizzled 847 00:40:34,306 --> 00:40:36,726 if it hadn't been for one key detail. 848 00:40:36,809 --> 00:40:40,309 Identification with the holiday is what made this thing work. 849 00:40:40,396 --> 00:40:43,476 Yeah. Halloween comes 'round every year. 850 00:40:43,565 --> 00:40:46,146 If we had made this movie and called it "The Babysitter Murders," 851 00:40:46,235 --> 00:40:47,635 I don't think we'd be sitting here. 852 00:40:47,695 --> 00:40:50,815 So, by Halloween of 1979, 853 00:40:50,905 --> 00:40:53,405 The Shape resurfaced in theaters. 854 00:40:53,492 --> 00:40:57,751 Then again in 1980, and then in 1981… 855 00:40:57,829 --> 00:40:59,079 Halloween II. 856 00:40:59,164 --> 00:41:04,625 …came along, and by then, it had firmly cemented its status as a horror classic. 857 00:41:04,711 --> 00:41:08,092 Word of mouth. You can't buy it. By the end of its run, 858 00:41:08,173 --> 00:41:11,764 Halloween grossed over $70 million, 859 00:41:11,844 --> 00:41:17,603 which was just a little bit more than that $300,000 budget. 860 00:41:17,682 --> 00:41:20,063 It's like winning the Kentucky Derby, I suppose, 861 00:41:20,143 --> 00:41:22,903 or hitting a grand slam in the World Series, that's how it felt. 862 00:41:22,980 --> 00:41:24,519 It's a film that changed films. 863 00:41:24,606 --> 00:41:28,356 Halloween just puts it all together for the first time and becomes 864 00:41:28,443 --> 00:41:31,994 the root of, like, every slasher that would come after it. 865 00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:37,500 But the success of Halloween didn't just inspire imitation. 866 00:41:37,577 --> 00:41:40,998 Made lots of people raise hand and say, "I wanna do that." Including myself. 867 00:41:41,081 --> 00:41:45,090 And today, a whole new generation of fans-turned-filmmakers 868 00:41:45,668 --> 00:41:49,628 are keeping the sick and sordid saga of Michael Myers 869 00:41:49,715 --> 00:41:54,295 just as successful and relevant as it was over 40 years ago. 870 00:41:54,385 --> 00:41:57,175 A fun mythology to be invited into the world of. 871 00:41:58,139 --> 00:42:00,980 And as for the man who created that mythology, 872 00:42:01,059 --> 00:42:04,769 John Carpenter took the extraordinary success of Halloween 873 00:42:04,855 --> 00:42:07,224 and built it into a multi-decade career, 874 00:42:07,315 --> 00:42:12,735 directing over a dozen films including Escape from New York and The Thing, 875 00:42:12,820 --> 00:42:16,161 often collaborating with the same family of filmmakers 876 00:42:16,242 --> 00:42:18,742 that helped him make Halloween. 877 00:42:18,827 --> 00:42:22,536 Tommy and Nick would go on to direct their own movies, 878 00:42:22,623 --> 00:42:26,672 and Debra Hill became one of the top producers in Hollywood. 879 00:42:26,751 --> 00:42:28,592 She was head of production at Paramount. 880 00:42:28,670 --> 00:42:31,590 Producing hits like Clue and The Fisher King. 881 00:42:32,382 --> 00:42:33,382 And… 882 00:42:34,260 --> 00:42:35,639 Man, then she passed away. 883 00:42:36,302 --> 00:42:39,353 And while her life was tragically cut short, 884 00:42:39,431 --> 00:42:43,440 her legacy lives on in those characters she brought to life. 885 00:42:43,518 --> 00:42:45,938 The success of the characters, 886 00:42:46,021 --> 00:42:48,320 especially the female characters in the movie, 887 00:42:48,398 --> 00:42:50,478 could really be attributed to Debra Hill. 888 00:42:50,568 --> 00:42:52,898 Not only female film characters, 889 00:42:52,987 --> 00:42:55,237 but female filmmakers. 890 00:42:55,322 --> 00:42:59,661 Debra was especially conscious of women's role in filmmaking, 891 00:42:59,742 --> 00:43:03,663 helping women step up and get more opportunity. 892 00:43:03,746 --> 00:43:05,827 And while the passage of time 893 00:43:05,916 --> 00:43:08,746 has spread the Halloween family far and wide, 894 00:43:08,835 --> 00:43:12,585 the house where it all began keeps the memories alive. 895 00:43:12,672 --> 00:43:17,762 Here, in South Pasadena, where every day is Halloween. 896 00:43:21,556 --> 00:43:26,556 Especially when The Shape himself returns to haunt the grounds, 897 00:43:26,644 --> 00:43:31,894 and who to this day is still armed with his razor-sharp… 898 00:43:32,610 --> 00:43:33,650 memory? 899 00:43:33,735 --> 00:43:36,485 This was Judith Myers's room. 900 00:43:36,989 --> 00:43:38,989 This original Halloween house 901 00:43:39,074 --> 00:43:42,414 has been preserved as a California Registered Landmark, 902 00:43:42,494 --> 00:43:44,914 including a small museum out the back. 903 00:43:44,996 --> 00:43:46,496 Let's go see what it's like. 904 00:43:47,123 --> 00:43:49,793 It's locked. Probably for the best. 905 00:43:49,876 --> 00:43:51,496 It happened in here. 906 00:43:52,003 --> 00:43:54,173 I'm sure that you get a lot of fans out here. 907 00:43:55,923 --> 00:43:57,224 Hey, guys. 908 00:43:58,217 --> 00:44:01,967 What's going on? Please, please, up, up. No! 909 00:44:02,472 --> 00:44:04,273 I've done a lot of movies on my own, 910 00:44:04,349 --> 00:44:06,639 but this is the one I'll be remembered for, 911 00:44:06,726 --> 00:44:08,516 being behind a mask. 912 00:44:08,603 --> 00:44:11,193 And it's just... That's the way it goes in Hollywood. 913 00:44:11,773 --> 00:44:13,233 They kept it pretty good? 914 00:44:14,860 --> 00:44:18,409 But even before The Shape first stalked these halls… 915 00:44:18,489 --> 00:44:19,778 Many moons ago. 916 00:44:19,864 --> 00:44:22,235 …there was one guy, following his dream. 917 00:44:22,326 --> 00:44:24,996 "If you know about making movies, why don't you make 'em?" 918 00:44:25,079 --> 00:44:29,539 Who rolled up his sleeves, put on his shorts, and got it done. 919 00:44:29,625 --> 00:44:33,954 Look, my whole life, in a sense, could be defined by Halloween now. 920 00:44:34,045 --> 00:44:38,876 It enabled me to move on to other things and make more movies. 921 00:44:38,967 --> 00:44:42,597 And, in fact, it did the same for everyone. 922 00:44:43,514 --> 00:44:47,273 It gave careers to people like John Carpenter, Debra Hill, 923 00:44:47,351 --> 00:44:52,061 and that whole host of brigands, those wonderful kids that made that movie. 924 00:44:52,146 --> 00:44:54,016 This was our big break. 925 00:44:54,108 --> 00:44:58,648 And the fact that we got it and it turned out to be a good fucking movie 926 00:44:58,737 --> 00:45:00,527 is just icing on the cake. 927 00:45:00,614 --> 00:45:04,373 From their microscopic budget to a pumpkin shortage, 928 00:45:04,451 --> 00:45:07,661 the team that made Halloween weren't handed much. 929 00:45:07,746 --> 00:45:12,835 It took so many things to go right with that movie to make it what it was. 930 00:45:12,918 --> 00:45:16,338 But when you combine a great group of friends 931 00:45:16,422 --> 00:45:18,342 with some scary costumes, 932 00:45:18,423 --> 00:45:20,514 maybe a few bottles of wine, 933 00:45:20,592 --> 00:45:24,891 well, that's all you need for a perfect Halloween. 934 00:45:24,972 --> 00:45:28,561 Fifty Halloweens from now, people will be watching this movie. 935 00:45:28,641 --> 00:45:32,061 "Fade to black. Roll end titles. The end." 77090

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