Picking Nits
Premature boyfriend; repaired wagon window; tombstone theft; sheriff not warning his daughter; no TV or radio warning; conspicuous station wagon; slow hardware-store response; Loomis missing the wagon; phone-line cutting; Annie's butter strip; parents out on Halloween; extra knife
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- The teenage boyfriend finished fast, which saved his life.
- The wagon's passenger window, smashed to take Marion out, is intact again when he follows Tommy.
- Myers finds the graveyard and his sister's grave at night without a map and carries the heavy tombstone to his car.
- A mailbag reader's point: the sheriff never warns his own daughter about the maniac on the loose.
- Loomis rejects warning people via TV and radio because they would see him on every street corner.
- Myers drives a reported-stolen wagon with Illinois State Hospital tags around town all day, and no red flag is raised.
- The sheriff is still handling the hardware store break-in hours later.
- Loomis stakes out the Myers house for hours and never turns around to see the station wagon.
- Where did Myers learn to cut a phone line in the asylum? A joke imagines electives such as evasive driving and grave removal.
- Annie stripping in the kitchen over a little butter is a porn-movie setup to get her naked and vulnerable in the laundry room.
- All the parents are out on Halloween, as if at a key party; an indie movie from the parents' perspective is pitched.
- A knife is left downstairs after he takes one upstairs, likely an editing error. — Craig Horlbeck