Halloween H20: 20 Years Later - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[camila]

The line "everyone is entitled to one good scare" is said by Norma to Laurie. Sheriff Brackett (Charles Cyphers) originally said it in the first Halloween (1978).

[sylvia]

Production designer John Willett used Michael Myers' mask to inspire the sets. Willett wanted the exterior of Hillcrest to be calm, "while inside it's totally crazy, just whacko."

[duane]

A subplot involving two Detectives (one male, one female) tracking Michael for the murder of Nurse Stephens was completely cut from the script. Remnants of the characters remain at the start of the picture, when two random detectives are talking in the home office of Stephens's home.

[morris]

One of the biggest sources of tension between the filmmakers was the issue of the film's ending. Kevin Williamson's treatment had the Shape being cut in half by a helicopter rotor while early drafts of the script had Laurie stabbing him through the heart with a javelin while he was pinned between the two pieces of a retractable gym floor. Moustapha Akkad wanted the Shape to live at the end so he could produce more Halloween films while Bob Weinstein at Dimension Films wanted the Shape to die. Weinstein instructed screenwriter Robert Zappia to write two endings and send the ending with the Shape surviving to Akkad while they would actually shoot the ending where the Shape died. Zappia refused, much to Weinstein's annoyance. According to Zappia, Kevin Williamson concocted the film's ending where the Shape is "killed," as well as the twist shown in Halloween: Resurrection (2002) where it is revealed that the Shape had switched clothes with a paramedic. This solution managed to appease both parties. According to screenwriter Matt Greenberg, it was Weinstein who suggested that Laurie Strode decapitate the Shape with an ax.

[francisco]

Tony says to Marion Chambers regarding her smoking habit "hasn't anyone told you second hand smoke kills" to which she replies "Yeah but they're all dead" foreshadows when Michael kills Jimmy, Tony and Marion.

[liam]

When Molly is in the classroom, she spots Michael outside the school and gets interrupted by the teacher, and when she looks again he is gone, just like Jamie Lee Curtis did in Halloween (1978).

[kylie]

The teenagers at the beginning are watching Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959).

[claude]

This is Josh Hartnett's debut, and they recall having to choose between him and "Steve the director's son." They can't actually recall his name, but Miner is adamant that he's now a big star.

[jesse]

Laurie teaches in class Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein and Molly, one of the students, responds to a question about the book and fate with this: "I think that Victor should have confronted the monster sooner. He's completely responsible for Elizabeth's death. He was so paralyzed by fear that he never did anything. It took death for the guy to get a clue." She goes on to say that Victor finally confronts the monster because he "had reached a point in his life where he had nothing left to lose. I mean, the monster saw to that by killing off everybody that he loved. It was about redemption. It was his fate." This foreshadows the final scenes in the movie where Laurie finally decides to stop running from Michael Myers and confront her monster. After twenty years of living in fear and seeing her loved ones murdered, she had nothing more to lose. It was time to face her fears and end the nightmare.

[wallace]

In certain scenes, Michael can be seen wearing two different masks. The director decided well into production, to go with a different mask, so certain scenes were re-shot. Some scenes with the original mask can still be seen, and in one shot it had to be altered with CGI to replace Michael's old mask with the new one.

[bryan]

Chris Durand was born in 1963, the same year his character killed his older sister Judith.

[carla]

LL Cool J's line, "Comb your hair!" was ad-libbed, inspired by Josh Hartnett's messy haircut.

[darrell]

During the credits in the prologue, Dr. Samuel J. Loomis' dialog from the first film about Michael's incarceration is heard. The studio, instead of recovering the original audio from the original scene, decided to use a sound-alike actor named Tom Kane to provide the voice-over.

[bryan]

Michelle Williams survives a serial killer trying to murder his own sister and nephew. Fast forward to Shutter Island where she herself is the victim of a serial killer. But it turns out she herself was the killer - and drowned her three children.

[elmer]

Before he knew Jamie Lee Curtis was involved, Josh Hartnett wasn't sure he wanted to audition. "Halloween 7? Is that going straight to video, or is that going straight to hell?"

[mathew]

When asked if they gave any thought to who John's (Hartnett) father was, both Steve Miner and Jamie Lee Curtis say it doesn't matter.

[sylvia]

During the scene where Norma is leaving, she stands in front the car from Psycho (1960). The music playing in the background at this part is also from Psycho. Janet Leigh, who plays Norma, played Marion in Psycho. The license plate on the car is also the same as the second car Marion buys in Psycho, NFB 418, which are Norman Bates' initials.

[ethel]

There was at one time a plan for Michael Myers to speak a single line at the end of the movie. He was to have said "Laurie" just before being beheaded by Jamie Lee Curtis. This idea was dropped from the final script.

[wesley]

After the secretary (Janet Leigh) speaks to Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) about scaring her. she walks away to leave in her car, right to the same type of car she drove in Psycho after escaping Phoenix and trading in her car- hard to be sure though, since it was black and white and the color is unknown.