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« Reply #60 on: October 31, 2007, 05:43:26 pm »



•   John Carpenter was originally in the running to be the director for this particular follow-up since Jamie Lee Curtis wanted to reunite the cast and crew of the original to have active involvement in it. Carpenter, himself, opted out since he wanted no active part in the sequel.
•   Jamie Lee Curtis' mother has a role in the movie as Norma, the secretary of Curtis' character. Originally the character, Norma Watson, was to be played by P. J. Soles, who was featured in the original Halloween as Lynda. Soles also played a character named Norma Watson in the film Carrie, and the role was conceived as an in-joke referencing the two films. However, Soles (or her agent) never accepted the role, and instead the *producers brought in Janet Leigh. The name "Norma" also worked as a nod to Leigh's role in Psycho. In Norma's final scene in the movie, the theme from Psycho can be heard as she walks over to a car which is an exact duplicate of the car she drove in the Alfred Hitchcock film.
•   The original music score was composed by John Ottman , but some music from Scream was added to the chase scenes later. John Ottman expressed some displeasure about this in an interview featured on the Halloween: 25 Years of Terror DVD released in 2006. Ottman's score was supplemented with music from Scream, Scream 2, and Mimic by a team of music editors as well as new cues written by Marco Beltrami during the final days of sound mixing on the film. Dimension Films chief Bob Weinstein demanded the musical changes after being dissatisfied with Ottman's score.
•   There was much controversy on-set over Michael Myers' mask. There are no-less than 4 different masks in the film.
•   There are various clues throughout the film that are similar to the Scream films: In Molly and Sarah's dorm room, they are watching Scream 2 before School Counselor Mr. Brennan stops by to check on them. The scene showing on their television set is when Cici, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, is talking on the phone with the killer thinking it's her boyfriend. This actually creates an ironic and somewhat puzzling, metaphysical dilemma, as a clip from the original Halloween is shown on a TV in Scream.
•   Originally Halloween: H20 was to be a direct sequel to Halloween 6. It was unsure which storyline it would follow as there are two versions of Halloween 6. In the end, it was decided to exclude Halloween 3-6, and be a direct sequel to Halloween 2.
•   Although Halloween: H20 never acknowledges Halloween 3-6, it does not disregard them either. Nevertheless, due to elements that are crucial to the story of Halloween: H20 it strongly encourages fans as well as the audience to infer that the movie omits the sequels 3 through 6 due to the references by Josh Hartnet's character John Tate as well as the homicide detective that Myers' body has never been found; however, in Halloween 4, Michael was under custody of Richmond Federal Pen Rehab Hospital for 10 years (1978-1988) while Michael was in a coma and the events following his escape would not have been missed by the media.
•   During the prologue credits, Dr. Samuel J. Loomis' dialogue from the first Halloween about Michael's incarceration is spoken. The studio, instead of opting to get the original audio, decided to use a sound-alike actor named Tom Kane to provide the voice over.
•   During the dedication message, Donald Pleasence is spelled incorrectly as "Pleasance"
•   The total body count onscreen and off is 6 (Not including the Paramedic that Laurie supposedly depacitated in the end- Thus Halloween: Resurrection)
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