From the mask to the original title, Yahoo! details the many changes that John Carpenter’s Halloween underwent to make it the classic it is today.
“John Carpenter’s Halloween is on every horror fan’s must-watch list come October – but it almost wasn’t a Halloween movie at all!
The defining film of the slasher genre was originally titled The Babysitter Murders and took place over three days, rather than a single terrifying night. Yahoo! explores this and other little-known trivia about the 1978 horror classic in our latest video, “Halloween: What Could Have Been.”
Jamie Lee Curtis, who made her film debut in Halloween, was almost passed over – until Carpenter found out that she had horror cinema in her blood. A then-unknown Dennis Quaid turned down a role, as did scary-movie veteran Christopher Lee. And those unmistakable opening credits, with the ominous jack o’ lantern? They were almost something else entirely.”