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* [[Name's the Same]]: Michael Myers. And we don't mean comedian [[Austin Powers|Mike]] [[Wayne's World|Myers]]!
** Sam Loomis, the [[Badass]] psychologist, has the same name as Marion Crane's lover in ''[[Psycho]]''. Considering all the parallels the two movies have, it was probably a deliberate [[Shout-Out]].
* [[No Budget]]: Only $200,000 was spent for this film, which is pretty amazing considering that it made $35,000,000.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: [[Donald Pleasence]] had been primarily playing villains (most famously as [[You Only Live Twice|Ernst Stavro Blofeld]]) up until this point. Also, the remake had Danny Trejo, mostly known for playing badasses, crooks, gangsters and assassins as the kindly janitor in the asylum holding Michael.
* [[Re Cut]]: The ''Halloween'' films had many TV Cuts made:
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* [[Shout-Out]]: A large number of them in the first film. To give but one example, Sam Loomis was the name of a character in ''[[Psycho]]''.
** By coincidence (or perhaps not), Jamie Lee Curtis is [[Psycho|Marion Crane's daughter]]. In fact, Janet Leigh has a cameo in the seventh film playing a character named "Norma".
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** Christopher Lee turned down the role of Dr. Loomis and said it was biggest mistake he ever made in his career.
** Before the "Cult of Thorn" plot was fleshed out, the writers of ''Part 6'' toyed with the idea of having the Man in Black be revealed to be Michael's father.
** Donald Pleseance died during the shooting of ''The Curse of Michael Myers'', so we never got to see his personal confrontation with Michael.
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