More Halloween Trivia:
The kids are also watching The Thing From Another World on TV, Carpenter remade that in 1982 as The Thing. (duh)
Michael Myers was named after a man who helped promote Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 in the UK when it was released over there.
The little girl who plays Lindsay in Halloween also had a role in Tobe Hooper’s low budget horror film Eaten Alive.
You can spot Dana Carvey as a reporter in the opening of Halloween II.
Random movie trivia:
- Rio Bravo was Howard Hawks and John Wayne’s answer to High Noon.
- Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 was a modernized remake of Rio Bravo.
- Mr Han’s (Shih Kien) voice in Enter The Dragon was dubbed by Keye Luke aka Master Po on the TV series Kung Fu.
- Hitchcock’s Psycho was influenced in part by Welles’ Touch of Evil. From the lengthy opening tracking shot to the deserted hotel with the crazy manager (Dennis Weaver) to Janet Leigh starring as the lead actress.
- There is a scene in the original cut of Scarface in which Tony and Manny watch John Huston’s Treasure of The Sierra Madre in the detainee camp, which was a big inspiration for the story and the Tony Montana character who was partly inspired by Bogart’s Fred C. Dobbs. Montana gets his “cockaroachez” line from Fred C. Dobbs in this film as well.
- Brian DePalma made his thriller Body Double in response to the controversy over his status as a misogynist and violent director.
- The end of the Special Edition of Blade Runner contains outtake aerial footage from the beginning of Kubrick’s The Shining.
- The prayer Greg Focker says at the table in Meet The Parents is the lyrics to the song playing at the Oyster Bay Drug N Sundry on the speaker system.