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The script is said to have been rushed in13 days before a strike, explaining thin family-story decisions.

The forehead finger kill, Brady’s jaw crush and the truck driver’s face being torn off are separate favorites.

The hitchhiking religious man

Kelly, acting in a sex comedy while everyone else faces Myers

Back for More Cash and Ten Years Later are proposed; the latter is not necessarily better than Return of Michael Myers.

Kelly’s warning to wise up to what men want is the favorite quotation.

Myers is called the hero: a natural-selection force removing foolish victims.

Pleasence is reported to have four marriages and five daughters, to drink two bottles of wine before a scene, and to be described as impaired in the S&L oral history (observed transcription); these allegations are unverified.

Carpenter’s script with Joe Dante attached was reportedly rejected; Carpenter and Hill sold their ownership, with later involvement and payment uncertain.

No: a Black family would leave Haddonfield, and a comic departure scene is imagined.

Bo Starr as the sheriff

The sheriff’s daughter is favored; observed Richard Stay as Wade, aggressively flirting in the store, is another candidate.