40 Unmasked Facts About The Halloween Film Franchise

If you’re babysitting home alone, you may want to wait to read this list of facts about the Halloween franchise! It’s been a long journey for Michael Myers since his debut in John Carpenter’s Halloween, released in 1978, and the iconic character is far from done: Carpenter confirmed that the next chapter in the franchise will hit theatres on October 19th, 2018, so you have a whole year to brush up on the Halloween series.

40. Scariest Day Of The Week

The majority of the original Halloween takes place on October 31, 1978. It was a Tuesday.

39. Morning After

Halloween II is the only Halloween film to show the morning after the 31st; every other movie ends on Halloween night.

38. Family Connection

Carpenter considered the choice to hire Jamie Lee Curtis to play the heroine in Halloween to be a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock’s Psycho starred Janet Leigh in one of cinema’s greatest horror movie performances; Leigh is Jamie Lee Curtis’ mother!

Psycho.

37. Holiday Magic

The film was originally titled The Babysitter Murders. On the suggestion of Executive Producer Irwin Yablans, the film was modified to take place around the holiday, and the title was changed.

Halloween 1, 1978