Discover Your ‘Halloween’ Horror Score

Curtis, the 19-year-old daughter of Psycho star Janet Leigh, only had a few TV credits to her name when she was cast as babysitter Laurie Strode. She would star in hit movies like Trading Places and True Lies before returning to the Halloween franchise in the late 1990s.

Carpenter cowrote, directed and scored the independent film himself.

The movie was on a tight budget, and production designer Tommy Lee Wallace picked out the Captain Kirk mask at a Hollywood costume shop and modified it himself. William Shatner later confirmed that Myers’ face covering was a copy of a death mask that had been made for Star Trek: The Original Series. He was a good sport about it, even wearing one when he took his kids trick-or-treating once.

Myers was only 6 years old when he stabbed his teenage sister, Judith, to death on Halloween night in 1963. Why? Instead of taking him trick-or-treating, she invited her boyfriend over to fool around instead. Michael then spent 15 years in a psychiatric hospital — during which time he never spoke — before he escaped.

Myers returned to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, after escaping from the psychiatric hospital.