This is some really interesting trivia on the original Halloween movie I came across by accident on the BBC website while reading about the new one:
In 1980, when the movie was sold to NBC, the network's Standards & Practices decided certain scenes had to be cut (go figure!). But they needed scenes to bridge the gaps and maintain some semblance of continuity and stretch it out to fit into the two-hour TV timeslot.
Using the crew of Halloween II, John Carpenter got Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance and shot 12 minutes of alternate footage over three days. These new scenes were then added to the original.
When originally released, Halloween broke records for an independent film. As I have mentioned before, it is often credited for the "groundbreaking" "Killer's POV cinematography (now often known as "first-person" after the popular shooting video games), but another holiday-themed movie that predates Halloween was actually responsible for that: Black Christmas, by Porky's and A Christmas Story director, the late Bob Clark.
In 1980, when the movie was sold to NBC, the network's Standards & Practices decided certain scenes had to be cut (go figure!). But they needed scenes to bridge the gaps and maintain some semblance of continuity and stretch it out to fit into the two-hour TV timeslot.
Using the crew of Halloween II, John Carpenter got Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasance and shot 12 minutes of alternate footage over three days. These new scenes were then added to the original.
When originally released, Halloween broke records for an independent film. As I have mentioned before, it is often credited for the "groundbreaking" "Killer's POV cinematography (now often known as "first-person" after the popular shooting video games), but another holiday-themed movie that predates Halloween was actually responsible for that: Black Christmas, by Porky's and A Christmas Story director, the late Bob Clark.
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