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Actually there are many different versions of the halloween movies. That's because when the movies came to tv, they had to edit and do the time length thingy. So John Carpenter re-shot scenes for the tv versions of the said flicks...here's the list of alternate changes. Thanks to IMDB.com in advance.
Halloween vs. Halloween TV edition:
- The network version replaces 12 minutes of violent footage with less gory scenes. These scenes were shot simultaneously with "Halloween II" in 1981, and can be found in the LaserDisc version of the original film.
# In all UK video releases there are 12 seconds omitted involving a chase scene outside between Micheal & Laurie. There is no given reason for this by the BBFC and the UK terrestrial channel BBC2 always includes this scene.
# When aired on TV, the following scene was altered: When Sheriff Brackett and Loomis are talking, the sheriff names off what kids are doing, his line of "Getting high" was changed to "Acting sly."
# For the 20th Anniversary restoration, new sounds were added to the film's audio track under John Carpenter's approval. New thunder sounds were added to the Loomis car scene. Wind sounds were added as well.
# The television network-version (aka. Extended-Version) has a different climax: when 'Dr. Loomis' shoots 'Michael Myers' in the end, you can only hear the gun- shots from outside the house, while in the theatrical-version you can see how he shoots him. This alternate-scene was also used in the beginning of "Halloween II(1981)" during the flashback sequence, instead of using the original footage from the ending of the Theatrical-Version.
# Additional scenes were shot by director John Carpenter for the 1981 Television Network premiere. These include:
* a meeting between Dr. Loomis and two doctors from the mental (psychiatric) institution where Michael Myers is being kept
* a scene where a nurse leads Dr. Loomis to Michael's room, telling him who was supposed to have been watching the patients. Once they arrive in Michael's room, she tells him he must have broken the window glass with his bare hands. They then glance over on the wall, and see that he has written in blood the word "sister".
* a shot of Michael Myers sitting completely motionless in his cell
* a scene where Lynda visits Laurie Strodes at home and borrows a blouse just as Annie calls trying to borrow the same blouse.
# In 2000, a 'Limited Edition' DVD of "Halloween" was released from Anchor Bay. This was the Television Extended-Version which includes 12 minutes of extra-footage shot in 1981 while filming "Halloween II" and was available as a stand-alone or a two-disc (along with the theatrical cut). Later, in 2001 commemorating the 25th Anniversary DVD, Anchor Bay released yet another DVD of the theatrical cut. This DVD contains new special features, giving a brief look at the incredible "Halloween" Cast Re-union filmed on October 2000. It also had a new transfer approved by John Carpenter,which caused some controversy amongst fans, as he apparently adjusted the color quite severely, a radical departure from the previous transfer supervised by D.P. Dean Cundey.
# The 1998 restored "Collector's Edition" released on VHS, and DVD, were available on both 'Full-Frame' and 'Widescreen-Versions.' Both included the following features: theatrical trailers, radio spots, TV spots, and a documentary: "Halloween: Unmasked 2000" produced by Mark Cerulli. It also featured a hologram like cover which showed/displayed on one side -from one angle- 'Michael Myers' mask and from the other the knife and pumpkin image from the movie poster. The film has been digitally re-mastered in THX aswell.
Halloween II differences:
# The gruesome shot where a nurse gets a syringe in her temple was toned down in the German version. This however didn't stop the censors from banning the film.
# The Television version of the film is rarely shown, and contains an ending in which Jimmy (Lance Guest) survives with Laurie.
# The Spanish version is said to feature the alternate ending and several outtakes, including more conversations between the nurse and Laurie, the boy and Laurie, and many scary shots, such as the electricity going out, etc.
# Although the UK cinema version was unedited the video and initial DVD release were cut by 17 seconds by the BBFC to edit the scene of a woman being dunked in boiling water in a jacuzzi. All the cuts were waived for the 2002 DVD issue.
# When aired on Telemundo, the movie contained many more scenes that the regular release did not. Like the opening credits began before the recap of the end of the original Halloween. Included were many more scenes of the nurses and Dr. Mixter talking; More scenes of Jimmy and Laurie talking, in which he brings her the Coke he promised; the scene of Jimmy passing out in the car was cut and just showed Laurie climb out of it; Jimmy runs down the hall to where he finds Mrs. Alves dead; The very end features Laurie finding Jimmy in back of the ambulance with a neck brace on. Laurie exclaims "We made it."
# A scene scripted and shot, but not included in either the theatrical or TV version of the film, had Robert Mundey and the WWAR crew travelling to Haddonfield Memorial to try to interview Laurie on the events of the night. They are met, however, by a stern Mrs. Alves who warns them to leave before she calls security, while Janet, Jill and Jimmy watch on.
# In 2002 American Movie Classics aired the alternate version as part of their Monsterfest Film Festival. This was the first time since its broadcast back in 1984. Among changed/added footage:
* Jimmy never does find Mrs. Alves' body, and it is only implied that she died.
* Also, Dr. Mixter's body is never found. It is only hinted at that he dies.
* Janet's death is completely wiped out, and she tells Karen that she is leaving the hospital, and she gets away.
* Also, for Jill's death, it never shows Michael stabbing her in the back, it just shows him raising her in the air, and dropping her. While she is lying on the ground you hear her grumble in pain hinting that she survived as well.
* The ending shows Jimmy walking around the hospital while Laurie and Loomis fight Michael. Then when the explosion occurs, Jimmy slips and hits his head. The ending shows him in the ambulance with Laurie and they drive off into the sunset. This version has now been shown in subsequent "MonsterFest" Film Festivals and is actually their most played film around Halloween.
# The so-called "producer's cut" that is sometimes shown on syndicated stations contains the following differences from the theatrical cut:
* Many of the scenes have been time-compressed and run a lot faster than usual, and many scenes that were previously without music now have bits of soundtrack music added. The explicit violence has also been removed in all death scenes, and of course all the bad language has been re-dubbed or removed.
* The credits come at the very beginning of the film, directly after the Universal logo.
* The flashback to the first film contains additional sound effects, including a voice-over scream (supposedly from Laurie) when Loomis shoots Michael Myers
* A different shot of Loomis emerging from the house to find Myers' body gone.
* The lines "I've been trick-or-treated to death tonight" and "You don't know what death is!" have been eliminated, with an awkward voice-over from the neighbor saying "Is this a Halloween prank?".
* The theatrical cut goes straight to a scene where Myers steals a knife from a neighbor lady and kills a young woman in another house. This appears slightly later in the film and has been re-edited to suggest that Myers kills the old woman instead of the young girl.
* The voice-over announcements of the male TV reporter run slightly different, depending on when they appear over the extra scenes.
* An extra close-up shot of Laurie inserted before Jimmy and Bud bring her out of the house on the stretcher.
* A few extra lines of dialogue with the female reporter near the beginning of the film.
* After Ben Tramer is killed by the policeman's car in the explosion, the scene uses an alternate take depicting Loomis and Brackett's reactions and Hunt pulling up to tell Brackett Annie's body was discovered.
* The first view of Annie's corpse when Brackett identifies her has been deleted.
* A different take of the dialogue when Laurie arrives at the hospital. All shots of her being stuck with needles have been removed, and the scene is extended to include shots of Mrs. Alves, Dr. Mixter, and Jill leaning over her as her vision blurs. Then they begin to undress her as Mrs. Alves tells Jimmy and Bud to leave.
* The first scene that shows Lonnie with the razor blade in his mouth has been removed, with only the piece where they arrive at the ER and talk to Jill remaining.
* An extra scene where Janet talks to Jimmy about Laurie's injuries and tells him that Dr. Mixter gave her a "double bullet" sedative.
* An extra scene of Jill talking to Bud and Mr. Garrett while they listen to reports of the murders. Mr. Garrett says drugs are the obvious problem.
* An extra bit where a shaky Dr. Mixter reviews Laurie's medical procedures with Mrs. Alves.
* A voiceover reporter speaks over the clip of "Night of the Living Dead" to inform viewers that Michael Myers is believed to have burned to death.
* Extra dialogue between Mr. Garrett and Karen as he buzzes her in. He tells Karen the murders were committed because of drugs.
* Mrs. Alves tries to call Laurie's parents while she scolds Janet for not calling them immediately. Meanwhile Jimmy sneaks in to see Laurie, while Mrs. Alves tells him she'll give him two minutes and that's all, which explains why later she says "Time's up, Jimmy, let's go."
* Karen and Jimmy discuss whether Michael Myers really burned to death in the accident, while Michael lurks in the shadows behind them.
* Different sound effects of the babies in the maternity ward as Michael lurks among them.
* Extended scene showing Jimmy bringing Laurie the Coke he promised her.
* When Mr. Garrett goes to check the phones, an added voice-over line where he explains he's going to check the phone box in the storage room.
* As Mr. Garrett looks in the storage lockers directly before his death scene, extra shots of Michael Myers have been inserted to make it appear as if Myers is slowly approaching, attracted by the noise Garrett makes when he knocks the boxes over.
* An added scene where Jill is on the phone (AFTER the phones are supposedly taken out!) and Jimmy sneaks by her to go into Laurie's room to tell Laurie Michael Myers is dead. Instead of being relieved, Laurie panics and says she has to get out of there, and Mrs. Alves, Jill, and Janet all come in to help sedate Laurie. While they are working on her, the lights in the hospital go out and the emergency generator kicks on, which explains why the hospital is so dim for the rest of the film.
* A different take of the scene where Loomis examines the charred remains of the man they think may have been Michael Myers. The scene also extends to include a scene of Loomis and Hunt walking outside the morgue to get in an elevator, where Loomis explains that he believes the wounded Myers might try and go "home" to nurse his injuries.
* An extra voice-over in the scene where neighborhood kids throw rocks at the Myers house. Graham is heard telling the mob "Michael Myers isn't here, we've checked the entire house!".
* An extra scene of Loomis and Hunt approaching the house while Hunt yells at people to go home.
* A scene where Janet talks to Karen and tells her how creepy it is that the lights went out and how Laurie was screaming about Michael Myers coming to get her.
* Extra dialogue in the scene where Bud tries to convince Karen to have sex with him in the therapy room.
* The dialogue between Bud and Karen cuts immediately to a shot of Karen entering the therapy room, where Bud is already naked in the therapy tub. The scene also includes extra shots of the temperature gauge slowly rising and Michael Myers' hand turning it up. There is an alternate take of Karen talking to who she thinks is Bud standing behind her, turning around to see that it's Michael Myers. The scene concludes with just one shot of her being shoved down into the scalding water.
* The scenes where Marion arrives are directly connected to when she leaves with Dr. Loomis in the Marshall's car.
* When Jimmy discovers Laurie in the chemically-induced state of shock, there is extra dialogue as Jimmy and Jill wait for Dr. Mixter to respond to their call. In the theatrical version, this is where Janet runs to get Mixter and discovers his body and is killed. That entire sequence has been removed and Jimmy finally gets restless and says he's going to find Mrs. Alves.
* There is an added scene of Jimmy looking for Mrs. Alves and finding the ladies lounge empty.
* Laurie's dream is placed differently and features a new voice-over of a "little-girl" voice saying "Please don't hurt me Michael, I'm your sister!"
* When Michael goes into Laurie's hospital room, he doesn't have a scalpel in his hand, and there is an extra scene of him closing the door behind himself as he leaves.
* When the drugged Laurie grabs the phone in the empty hospital room, she tries to speak and cries into the phone "Mama, he won't die! He won't go away!"
* Extra dialogue between Jimmy and Jill where they wonder why the hospital is now empty and Jill asks if someone could be in there with them.
* Extra shots of Jimmy exploring the hospital looking for other people.
* Jill's death scene has been softened. The shot of Michael stabbing her in the back with the scalpel has been removed and now it appears as if he simply grabs Jill and drops her. Additional sound effects of Jill groaning as she is dropped suggest that she survives.
* An extra shot of Loomis and Marion in the back of the Marshall's car and extra shots of the car driving through Haddonfield are inserted.
* Jimmy's collapse in the car has been cut out since he's supposed to be looking for others during the entire climax of the film.
* Loomis only shoots Michael two times when he bursts through the glass door.
* The Marshall's death scene is less gruesome, with Michael jumping up and pulling the Marshall with him, apparently stabbing him from behind.
* Different angles in the operating room as the blinded Michael slashes out with his scalpel.
* The different editing makes it appear as if Jimmy's fall is caused by the explosion.
* Graham's dialogue is altered in the final scenes where Hunt asks him the body count.
* When Laurie is placed in the ambulance at the end, someone is in there with her. There is a final scare as the figure sits up, covered by a sheet, and the sheet falls away revealing Jimmy with a bandage on his head. Laurie cries in relief and says "We made it!" They hold hands and "Mr. Sandman" begins to play over an exterior scene of the ambulance pulling out of the hospital's parking lot.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch differences:
# The UK MIA DVD is completely uncut. The UK version was uncut during its theatrical exhibition. The video release in 1986 was cut by 2 minutes 6 secs before the video was submitted for a certificate and has all the violent scenes cut out. For instance: When Harry Grimbridge is killed, the gruesome killing of him is cut out. We see the fingers poised and the feet and Halloween mask moving, and then immediately it shows the assassin wiping his blood covered gloves on the curtain. When Starker gets decapitated, this scene including the fountain of blood is cut out. When Marge Guttman's face explodes, the gruesome insect scene is cut and it just shows her quivering hands move slowly down her face then it fades out. Although the UK MIA DVD release in 2000 restored all of the cut scenes the recent 2002 release on the Sanctuary label has once again removed them.
# In Germany the uncut version was released on DVD but not shown on TV. There are two different TV versions which were both cut. The longer cut version includes the complete original title in the opening sequence and the shortest version only includes "Halloween III" as title.
# The Spanish version has some added scenes and others deleted. The added scenes include: When Dan Chaliss's kids are watching the Silver Shamrock commercial and Linda says "Turn that down", here we don't hear her voice over, there's a shot of her saying it. When the Kupfers are being murdered and bugs galore are coming out of Little Buddy's head, the Spanish version doesn't show the snakes, just continuous bugs so it doesn't show Buddy getting bitten by a rattlesnake. The scene right before Buddy Kupfer drops dead, there's an added scene of him through the serveilence camera reaching for help before he dies. At the beginning when the assassin droid is strangling Harry Grimbridge at a used car lot and Harry causes another car to crunch the assassin, well when it happens, it doesn't make that 'Eeeeeeee' sound it did in the regular version, instead there's the crush sound and the assassin keeling back.
# In the Spanish version, the following changes were made: When the gas station attendant is watching the news on the thieving of one of Stone Henge's rocks, what followed before the Silver Shamrock commercial was a: "When we come back..." ad, but it isn't played in this version. When the commercial is playing at the gas station and the power goes out, the scene of the attendant looking behind him isn't shown. Just him beginning to get up.
# Also in the Spanish version, the scene of Marge Guttman's face exploding was shortened. It shows the macabre scene but it cuts out the Jerusalem cricket crawling out her mouth.
# Originally released uncut on video in Australia in the mid 80s by Thorn EMI; the recent DVD release by Infogrames features a cut version of the film.
# Cuts on the Infogrames Australian DVD release include: During the scene where Harry Grimbridge is murdered, the assassin enters the room and poises his fingers above his head, before using them to kill him. Only a couple of seconds of his death is shown, before it cuts to the mask laying on the floor. When Starker is killed, they do not show the second shot of the assassin's face after the fountain of blood sprays from Starker's neck. It cuts straight to Ellie jumping in shock after Marge accidentally hits her car horn, and is missing the scene where she is walking through the parking lot. Similarly, when Marge is killed, only a quick shot of her hands covering her face is shown, before it fades out. During the Halloween montage towards the end of the movie, the scene showing the trick-or-treaters in Phoenix, Arizona, is cut out, and goes straight from the shot of the Silver Shamrock van in Seattle to the aerial view of Phoenix at the end of the scene. Again, when Teddy is killed, the scene is cut. It shows the assassin forcing the drill into her face, but cuts out the part at the end where it gets up and walks off. A final change occurs at the hospital when Harry Grimbridge is admitted. Some of the dialogue between Walter Jones and Challis is missing. When we see the shot of Grimbridge on the stretcher in front of the TV, the lines "Hey, can I leave now?", and "Sure, I don't see why not" are missing, and cuts straight to Challis shaking Walter's hand and saying, "Thanks a lot for bringing him."
# AMC TV version makes the following changes: Walter Jones' line of "I swear to God" is changed to "I swear to you" when he brought Harry to Dan Chaliss's hospital; When Buddy Kupfer tells Dan about Conal Cochran, his line of "sticky toilet paper" is changed to "sticky dwarf toys"; The murders of Harry Grimbridge, Starker and Marge aren't as graphic; Marge's line of "screwed up" is changed to "messed up"; other obscenities are cut as well as the scene where Dan calls Teddy on the morning of the 30th.
# 1998 Goodtimes DVD release omits several sound effects for some unknown reason, including the stinger when the assassin appears to watch Ellie and Challis enter the factory, and the dial tone when Challis and Teddy are on the phone to each other before the above scene.
# An extension of the scene where Ellie gets out of the shower was filmed but cut. It showed her, still wrapped in the blanket, taking one of Challis' cigarettes and lighting it up, before sitting down on the bed to wait for him.
# The version on television is as follows: The opening sequence is in a letterbox format, as well as the first shot of Harry Grimbridge running out of the tunnel; the music from the TV is somewhat mismatched from the dialogue as Walter Jones watches; an additional line from the Silver Shamrock masks from the commercials that tells people to watch the big giveaway is heard before the power goes out; all uses of God's name in vain is removed; Marge's line of "They got their orders all screwed up" is changed to "all messed up"; Marge Guttman's misfire accident is violence-trimmed, so the music is mismatched to the scene and it edits a few moments of footage; Buddy Kupfer's line of, "Sticky toilet paper" is changed to "sticky dwarf toys"; the shot of snakes coming out of Little Buddy in Test Room A is removed so the deaths of Buddy and Betty are mysterious.
# There were two cuts for the "R" rating. There was more gore to the head-popping scene and when the girl gets fried by the Silver Shamrock pin. There is a bootleg version in letterboxed format that has all the gore.
Halloween IV: Return of Micheal Myers:
# The German version of this not-so violent film was cut during the gore scenes to get a 16 rating.
# The scene in which Michael kills the mechanic was originally on-screen. The footage showed Michael stabbing the mechanic in the throat with the crowbar.
# Swedish version is heavily cut.
Halloween V: The revenge of Micheal Myers:
# The scene in which the cop (Fenton Quinn) is killed outside of the Myers' house was shortened considerably. In the original version, as Michael is bashing his head into the glass on the windshield, there was a shot where you could see the glass embedded into his face.
# The shot of Mikey (Jonathan Chapin) quivering on the ground was shortened to avoid an "X" rating. You can still notice the abrupt jump in the shot before he is dragged away by Michael.
# The German theatrical version was cut to get a "16" rating. On video, two versions were released, the "16"-one for sell-thru and an uncut "18"-rated version for the rental release.
# Some dialogue and gore was cut from the U.S. release, the latter to obtain an "R" rating.
# In the documentary "Inside Halloween 5" a cut scene is shown of a man removing Michaels mask and looking at it weirdly. Another scene cut was removed because it was considered too graphic. As Jamie is trying to climb back up in the laundry chute Michael stabs Jamie through her ankle. When Jamie emerges from the laundry chute you can see her ankle wounded and bleeding.
Halloween VI: The curse of Micheal Myers:
# In the original ending, the cult of Thorn kidnaps Kara and Danny Strode, intending to curse Danny with the sign of Thorn just like Michael Myers was as a child and make him kill his mother in a blood sacrifice. Kara is tied to a sacrificial altar in the bowels of Smith's Grove Sanitarium. They're saved by Tommy, who eventually stops Michael's pursuit of them with the carved stones he calls "the runes of light," which he explained to Kara in an earlier, also deleted scene as being the bane of the sign of Thorn. These rune stones are arranged in the Shape's path by Tommy, and when he steps within their circle, the Shape is frozen in place, like a mystical ward. Tommy then escapes with Danny and Kara, leaving Dr. Loomis to return, and face Michael and Dr. Wynn in the final scene.
# In the full-screen version, you can see that Mrs. Blankenship has a Thorn rune tattoo on her wrist when she holds up the knife. This isn't visible in any wide-screen versions.
# There is a version of this sixth Halloween film which has many scenes not shown in the theatrical release, as well as a different title/logo, different character developments, and a different ending. This "Producer's Cut"'s most noticeable differences are:
# The movie begins with a flashback to 1989 in which Jamie is kidnapped by the Man in Black before the police station explodes.
# Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) does the voice-over narration at the beginning of the movie, not Tommy Doyle (Paul Michael Rudd).
# Michael Myers does not kill Jaimie Lloyd right away; she lingers in a hospital for half the movie, and is eventually shot by the Man In Black.
# There is a very different ending to the movie which replaces everything after the scene in which Kara is captured by the cult members.
# In the home video version, when the father is killed by Michael Myers in the basement, the massive dose of electricity his body takes causes his head to explode. In the alternate cut, for some reason, this is not shown.
# According to the official Halloween website under the FAQ section, some scenes from the producers cut are shown in the television cut for the UPN network.
# The "strobe light/operating room" scene (only seen in the Theatrical version) was originally going to be longer, and feature more blood and gore. Examples include a shot of a nurse being gutted and Dr. Wynn being beheaded. Wynn's death was cut out of the film, so that his character could return in future films.
# Producer's Cut also expands on certain scenes in the movie. This includes the following:
* There are no "flashes" to previous / upcoming scenes throughout the movie, as with the theatrical release.
* More dialogue between Loomis and Wynn when Wynn visits Loomis at his house. Wynn asks Loomis why he is "listening to this jerk" Barry Simms, and Loomis says he's recording it because it's a program about Haddonfield. He then goes on to say that he recently had plastic surgery, to remove some of the scarring on his face and "not frighten little children anymore". Then Wynn announces his plan to retire, thus bringing on the toast to "old friends".
* More dialogue playing over the radio during this scene. There are also a number of different callers than in the theatrical release.
* Kara performs a "chant" for Danny when he has his nightmare. She warns the "evil spirits" to stay away and reminds them that they "know the rules".
* An extra scene of Debra and John watching Kara through the window as she leaves for college. Debra says "it's not about her, John... it's about you", and that she doesn't care what Kara has done in the past because she's their daughter. John replies by saying that Kara is no longer his daughter.
* The scene with Dawn (Wynn's secretary) telling Loomis and Wynn that Jamie Lloyd's body has been found is extended. Wynn tells her to put the sanitarium on a "Code Red Lock-down" for 24 hours, and then says to Loomis that if Michael is alive, he plans on "bringing him back to Smith's Grove".
* The scene where Loomis and Wynn drive to the farm is also extended. Because Jamie survives Michael's initial attack in this version, she is taken to hospital, and Loomis blames himself for everything as she is wheeled to an ambulance. He also has an encounter with the new Sheriff, who tells him that he and Wynn have "no business in Haddonfield", and to go back to their "loony bin".
* There are a few alternate angles during the scene where Debra finds out whose house they are really living in. Loomis goes into more detail about Michael, and when Debra is on the phone to John, there are again some alternate angles. Also, when she drops the phone, the dial tone can be heard, whereas it can't in the theatrical release.
* Barry Simms' death is also done slightly different. There a couple of alternate angles, and a scene after he is stabbed with the camera panning away to show another van parked nearby with the words "WKNB Radio" on the hood.
* There are more alternate angles when Tommy finds Barry's body. The little girl dancing under the tree also sings "it's raining red" instead of saying it.
* The ending credits are also completely different, with a few changes to the cast list as well.
# Deleted scenes seen only in the Producer's Cut: Michael is shown impregnating Jamie in a black and white flashback, it shows the man in black forcing Michael to do it. In the finale Kara is tied up to an altar while the Thorn cult performs a ritual, Kara says "The baby is yours isn't it Michael?!" and the man in black turns and yells "Michael!." Originally this was the setup for Michael to kill the members of the Thorn cult.
# The theatrical version ends with Loomis re-enterting the asylum, and we see Michael's body is gone and we hear Loomis scream, suggesting Michael killed him. In the producer's cut, we see Loomis come across Michael's body, suddenly the mask is pulled off to reveal it is Wynn, who passes on his curse of being Michael's guardian to Loomis before he dies. As the rune of thorn appears on Loomis' arm he screams, and the final image is of Michael disguised as the man in black leaving the asylum.
# Because of the very different ending in the producer's cut, the dialogue between Wynn and Loomis in Smithsgrove is different, Wynn's outfit was also changed. The theatrical version simply uses Loomis's reaction shots and had Mitch Ryan reading new lines.
Halloween: 20 years later (aka H20)
# An early workprint version had a different score and an altered opening credits montage, as well as a slightly different version of of the dorm room scene, where the girls have "So I Married An Ax Murderer" playing on the TV instead of in the final version where they have on "Scream 2."
# On the FX Network Premire, there are several additonal scenes added for running time, and a lot has been edited.
* In the opening, there are several extra shots of a goal post and interiors of Marion's house while Jimmy is checking it out.
* Marion's death is totally different and there are extra policeman shots and Marion breaks the window and then is shown dying from the far away outside window P.O.V.
* Sara's death is not shown and her body is never found.
* There is an extra scene of Will carving a pumpkin and talking about his family.
* There is a stalk P.O.V. shot of Micheal looking at thw people at the rest stop.
* There is also a extra scene of Charlie and John walking downtown.
# The above version on FX also edits the following:
* The decapitation at the end of the movie. It cuts to the credits and Halloween music right after she swings the axe.
* The scene of Michael gettng pinned by the van against the tree has been cut out. It cuts to the van catching on fire. This becomes a goof though, as when Laurie looks at the van, there is no fire, but it starts up again.
* The sequence where Laurie is driving down the road with Michael in the body bag in the back has been lengthened. It uses some shots of the van driving down the road twice.
* The scene where Michael chases after John and Molly cuts out the shot of the knife going into John's leg when Michael stabs him.
* Will's death has been edited. It only shows Michael go up behind him, then cuts to a shot of Laurie looking at him. His body is then thrown down on the floor.
* Scenes with the f-word and/or s-word have been dubbed over, or taken out completely.
# The FX televison cut includes the following:
* A Micheal POV shot of the kid trying to grab the corkscrew from the drain
* The FX televison cut removes the following:
* The entire "pierce my nipples" line from Will(the counselor) is cut along with the "date-rape" response. The scene is edited as if the conversation never took place.
# On October 26, 2003 an alternate version was shown on FX with these additions:
* Marion looking around her house is extended.
* Jimmy taking a look around Marion's house is extended.
* Michael stalking Marion is extended.
* Cops are shown bumbling around outside while Marion is chased by Michael.
* Intro to Laurie is differently Paced.
* a quick view of the town and school is shown before Laurine and John have breakfast.
* a reference joke to Psycho made by Charlie is shown as he walks with John to school.
* Michael is shown watching the Mother and little girl during the restroom scene.
* Charlie and John are shown talking while they walk the California town outside the school and Michael follows them in his car.
* Molly is shown walking through the school halls after getting the roses off the dish lift.
* Laurie is shown watching the buses leave while on the telephone before the Psycho homage with Norma.
* Laurie walking the school halls at night and walking the school grounds.
* Adam Arkin chasing the Shape is slightly different.
* John, Charlie and Molly are shown sneaking in through the kitchen window and get stuck while John sees Michael coming into the school.
* Adam Arkin carves a pumpkin while he opens up to Laurie about his past; lead in for Laurie to open up to him about Michael.
* Michael and Laurie stalking each other at the finale is extended.
* Extended ending shows Michael's car following far behind Laurine but ends where Laurie chops off the guy's head.
Halloween: Resurrection:
# Nora Winston's (Tyra Banks) death was originally an on-screen kill. You can see photos of this from publicity stills in which Michael can be seen standing behind Nora preparing to strangle her.
# Jen is online and enters herself, Sara, and Rudy in the contest to spend the night in the childhood home of Michael Myers, only to be attacked by Michael. Following this scene Sara is seen getting out of the shower. She hears a noise and goes out of the bathroom but sees nothing. She returns to the bathroom and brushes her hair, only for Michael to set up in the bathtub. It turns out to be Rudy, dressed as Michael, who was playing a prank on Sara and Jen. This scene was cut because the producers felt it was "too goofy". Jen's encounter with Michael before she is killed was originaly longer. After finding Bill's body she runs into a room and backs against the wall--only for Michael to come crashing through the wall. She then runs through the house until she meets up with the other survivors as in the final cut.
# Scenes that appear in the previews but not the film include:
* Bill looks in the mirror and sees Michael's reflection then turns to see he is not there before Michael jumps through the glass.
* Jen stands against a wall and Michael's arms burst through it grabbing her.
* Michael rising out of the bathtub behind Sara while she combs her hair.
* Nora (Tyra Banks) standing on the front porch of Michael's house and yelling "Get out of the house!" (This one was most likely shot for promotional purposes only).
# An extended version of the scene where Michael grabs Bill through the mirror appears in the original trailer. In the extended version Bill looks in the mirror, sees Michael standing behind him in the reflection and he turns around only to see that nobody is there. When he turns back around and looks into the mirror again Michael breaks through it and grabs him.
# In the trailer, there is a scene showing Sara sitting down and brushing her hair in the bathroom, and Michael rising out of a water filled tub behind her. Though this scene is in the trailer, it is not in the theatrical release.
# The original ending was alot less scary. After Freddy busts the cameraman, the CSI team investigates the scene. As a CSI women look down a hole where Michael slept, he jumps out and gets her. The theatrical endin was scarier and showed a coroner examining Michael's burnts face. His eyes then pop open as she screams. Also, the theatrical version seems to have longer shots of any death or gore than the original version.
# In the rough cut screened in August 2001, the opening credits were different. The film's original opening featured footage from a home video of the Myers', featuring Peter and Margaret Myers in 1962 with their three children, Judith, Michael, and a new-born Laurie, having fun in the back yard of their house. Michael can be seen in the clips trying to divert the camera away from him, as he does not want to be filmed. However, Peter manages to get him to face the camera, and zooms in on Michael's face. The shot continues zooming through Michael's "black" eyes and opens up in the sanitarium hallway. This whole sequence is to the tune of an old fifties song "Darling Angel". Also, the ending was different. Instead of taking Michael to the morgue, a woman CSI starts to investigate in the ruins of the Myers house. She leans down and shines her flashlight down into a dark crevice and Michael jumps up at her. She screams and the credits start rolling.
# In the original script, while Rudy and Michael are fighting, Michael grabs Rudy by his head and crushes it with the oven door. There was also a lot less fighting between the two. The producers changed this due to a longer fight scene.
# Originally, there was a line of cut dialogue in the beginning of the film where Laurie Strode says to Michael "You will never find my son."
# In the version labelled Halloween: The Homecoming, the film did include the beginning sequence of a Myers' family home video and also the CSI woman's murder at the end. However, it also had no opening credit sequence, the title only appears when Michael leaves the sanitorium. Also, when Jim flirts with Donna and she gives him the finger, the dialogue "Would that be one o'clock?" is not present. The soundtrack on this version consists of music from the original Halloween (1978), Profondo Rosso (1975) and The House on Haunted Hill (1999) and Halloween H20 (1998). It also featured a rap track over the end credits, different music for the scene where Jen and Sara visit Rudy, and Janet Jackson's "All For You" in the scene where Nora makes coffee. This version was probably created as a "rough cut" or test screening, and edited before Danny Lux's score was complete. The Halloween H20 music is also still present in some of the early scenes, mostly in the sanitorium.
# There were aporximately three alternate endings.
* The first alternate ending is where Sarah is in the burning tool shed, and Scott comes in, and pulls her out.
* An alternate version of the final ending where Freddie is talking to a "dead" Michael in a body bag. Micheal's eyes pop open, and he grabs Freddie's throat. Sarah grabs an axe from the fire truck, and slams it down on Michael's face.
* The third alternate ending consists of a CSI agent looking for the body of Michael Myers after the fire. She looks into a manhole, and Micheal pops up, and grabs her.
# There was a scene cut from the film, in which Sarah finds a photo album containing pictures of Michael Myers when he was a child. The scene can be accessed on the DVD.
# The "Halloween: Resurrection" title card appears at a different spot in the video/DVD release. It is seen as Michael leaves the asylum after the first murders. During the film's theatrical run, the "Halloween: Resurrection" title card appeared in different places. In some prints, it appeared after Michael gives Harold the bloody knife and in others, it appeared just before Busta Rhymes' name in the opening credits).
# On the DVD version of the film, watch for brief flashes of Michael Myers between frames. For example, when Bill sneaks up behind Jenna early on in the house and scares her, if you advance through that part frame-by-frame, you can see two frames of Michael Myers. This happens a few more times throughout the film.
# Nora Winston's (Tyra Banks's) death scene involved Michael stringing her up with electrical wire and him viciously stabbing her in the abdomen as she struggled. The scene was later cut because as Brad Loree, the stuntman who played Michael, stated "Every horror movie has to have a character find the body of someone you didn't know was dead."
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Halloween vs. Halloween TV edition:
- The network version replaces 12 minutes of violent footage with less gory scenes. These scenes were shot simultaneously with "Halloween II" in 1981, and can be found in the LaserDisc version of the original film.
# In all UK video releases there are 12 seconds omitted involving a chase scene outside between Micheal & Laurie. There is no given reason for this by the BBFC and the UK terrestrial channel BBC2 always includes this scene.
# When aired on TV, the following scene was altered: When Sheriff Brackett and Loomis are talking, the sheriff names off what kids are doing, his line of "Getting high" was changed to "Acting sly."
# For the 20th Anniversary restoration, new sounds were added to the film's audio track under John Carpenter's approval. New thunder sounds were added to the Loomis car scene. Wind sounds were added as well.
# The television network-version (aka. Extended-Version) has a different climax: when 'Dr. Loomis' shoots 'Michael Myers' in the end, you can only hear the gun- shots from outside the house, while in the theatrical-version you can see how he shoots him. This alternate-scene was also used in the beginning of "Halloween II(1981)" during the flashback sequence, instead of using the original footage from the ending of the Theatrical-Version.
# Additional scenes were shot by director John Carpenter for the 1981 Television Network premiere. These include:
* a meeting between Dr. Loomis and two doctors from the mental (psychiatric) institution where Michael Myers is being kept
* a scene where a nurse leads Dr. Loomis to Michael's room, telling him who was supposed to have been watching the patients. Once they arrive in Michael's room, she tells him he must have broken the window glass with his bare hands. They then glance over on the wall, and see that he has written in blood the word "sister".
* a shot of Michael Myers sitting completely motionless in his cell
* a scene where Lynda visits Laurie Strodes at home and borrows a blouse just as Annie calls trying to borrow the same blouse.
# In 2000, a 'Limited Edition' DVD of "Halloween" was released from Anchor Bay. This was the Television Extended-Version which includes 12 minutes of extra-footage shot in 1981 while filming "Halloween II" and was available as a stand-alone or a two-disc (along with the theatrical cut). Later, in 2001 commemorating the 25th Anniversary DVD, Anchor Bay released yet another DVD of the theatrical cut. This DVD contains new special features, giving a brief look at the incredible "Halloween" Cast Re-union filmed on October 2000. It also had a new transfer approved by John Carpenter,which caused some controversy amongst fans, as he apparently adjusted the color quite severely, a radical departure from the previous transfer supervised by D.P. Dean Cundey.
# The 1998 restored "Collector's Edition" released on VHS, and DVD, were available on both 'Full-Frame' and 'Widescreen-Versions.' Both included the following features: theatrical trailers, radio spots, TV spots, and a documentary: "Halloween: Unmasked 2000" produced by Mark Cerulli. It also featured a hologram like cover which showed/displayed on one side -from one angle- 'Michael Myers' mask and from the other the knife and pumpkin image from the movie poster. The film has been digitally re-mastered in THX aswell.
Halloween II differences:
# The gruesome shot where a nurse gets a syringe in her temple was toned down in the German version. This however didn't stop the censors from banning the film.
# The Television version of the film is rarely shown, and contains an ending in which Jimmy (Lance Guest) survives with Laurie.
# The Spanish version is said to feature the alternate ending and several outtakes, including more conversations between the nurse and Laurie, the boy and Laurie, and many scary shots, such as the electricity going out, etc.
# Although the UK cinema version was unedited the video and initial DVD release were cut by 17 seconds by the BBFC to edit the scene of a woman being dunked in boiling water in a jacuzzi. All the cuts were waived for the 2002 DVD issue.
# When aired on Telemundo, the movie contained many more scenes that the regular release did not. Like the opening credits began before the recap of the end of the original Halloween. Included were many more scenes of the nurses and Dr. Mixter talking; More scenes of Jimmy and Laurie talking, in which he brings her the Coke he promised; the scene of Jimmy passing out in the car was cut and just showed Laurie climb out of it; Jimmy runs down the hall to where he finds Mrs. Alves dead; The very end features Laurie finding Jimmy in back of the ambulance with a neck brace on. Laurie exclaims "We made it."
# A scene scripted and shot, but not included in either the theatrical or TV version of the film, had Robert Mundey and the WWAR crew travelling to Haddonfield Memorial to try to interview Laurie on the events of the night. They are met, however, by a stern Mrs. Alves who warns them to leave before she calls security, while Janet, Jill and Jimmy watch on.
# In 2002 American Movie Classics aired the alternate version as part of their Monsterfest Film Festival. This was the first time since its broadcast back in 1984. Among changed/added footage:
* Jimmy never does find Mrs. Alves' body, and it is only implied that she died.
* Also, Dr. Mixter's body is never found. It is only hinted at that he dies.
* Janet's death is completely wiped out, and she tells Karen that she is leaving the hospital, and she gets away.
* Also, for Jill's death, it never shows Michael stabbing her in the back, it just shows him raising her in the air, and dropping her. While she is lying on the ground you hear her grumble in pain hinting that she survived as well.
* The ending shows Jimmy walking around the hospital while Laurie and Loomis fight Michael. Then when the explosion occurs, Jimmy slips and hits his head. The ending shows him in the ambulance with Laurie and they drive off into the sunset. This version has now been shown in subsequent "MonsterFest" Film Festivals and is actually their most played film around Halloween.
# The so-called "producer's cut" that is sometimes shown on syndicated stations contains the following differences from the theatrical cut:
* Many of the scenes have been time-compressed and run a lot faster than usual, and many scenes that were previously without music now have bits of soundtrack music added. The explicit violence has also been removed in all death scenes, and of course all the bad language has been re-dubbed or removed.
* The credits come at the very beginning of the film, directly after the Universal logo.
* The flashback to the first film contains additional sound effects, including a voice-over scream (supposedly from Laurie) when Loomis shoots Michael Myers
* A different shot of Loomis emerging from the house to find Myers' body gone.
* The lines "I've been trick-or-treated to death tonight" and "You don't know what death is!" have been eliminated, with an awkward voice-over from the neighbor saying "Is this a Halloween prank?".
* The theatrical cut goes straight to a scene where Myers steals a knife from a neighbor lady and kills a young woman in another house. This appears slightly later in the film and has been re-edited to suggest that Myers kills the old woman instead of the young girl.
* The voice-over announcements of the male TV reporter run slightly different, depending on when they appear over the extra scenes.
* An extra close-up shot of Laurie inserted before Jimmy and Bud bring her out of the house on the stretcher.
* A few extra lines of dialogue with the female reporter near the beginning of the film.
* After Ben Tramer is killed by the policeman's car in the explosion, the scene uses an alternate take depicting Loomis and Brackett's reactions and Hunt pulling up to tell Brackett Annie's body was discovered.
* The first view of Annie's corpse when Brackett identifies her has been deleted.
* A different take of the dialogue when Laurie arrives at the hospital. All shots of her being stuck with needles have been removed, and the scene is extended to include shots of Mrs. Alves, Dr. Mixter, and Jill leaning over her as her vision blurs. Then they begin to undress her as Mrs. Alves tells Jimmy and Bud to leave.
* The first scene that shows Lonnie with the razor blade in his mouth has been removed, with only the piece where they arrive at the ER and talk to Jill remaining.
* An extra scene where Janet talks to Jimmy about Laurie's injuries and tells him that Dr. Mixter gave her a "double bullet" sedative.
* An extra scene of Jill talking to Bud and Mr. Garrett while they listen to reports of the murders. Mr. Garrett says drugs are the obvious problem.
* An extra bit where a shaky Dr. Mixter reviews Laurie's medical procedures with Mrs. Alves.
* A voiceover reporter speaks over the clip of "Night of the Living Dead" to inform viewers that Michael Myers is believed to have burned to death.
* Extra dialogue between Mr. Garrett and Karen as he buzzes her in. He tells Karen the murders were committed because of drugs.
* Mrs. Alves tries to call Laurie's parents while she scolds Janet for not calling them immediately. Meanwhile Jimmy sneaks in to see Laurie, while Mrs. Alves tells him she'll give him two minutes and that's all, which explains why later she says "Time's up, Jimmy, let's go."
* Karen and Jimmy discuss whether Michael Myers really burned to death in the accident, while Michael lurks in the shadows behind them.
* Different sound effects of the babies in the maternity ward as Michael lurks among them.
* Extended scene showing Jimmy bringing Laurie the Coke he promised her.
* When Mr. Garrett goes to check the phones, an added voice-over line where he explains he's going to check the phone box in the storage room.
* As Mr. Garrett looks in the storage lockers directly before his death scene, extra shots of Michael Myers have been inserted to make it appear as if Myers is slowly approaching, attracted by the noise Garrett makes when he knocks the boxes over.
* An added scene where Jill is on the phone (AFTER the phones are supposedly taken out!) and Jimmy sneaks by her to go into Laurie's room to tell Laurie Michael Myers is dead. Instead of being relieved, Laurie panics and says she has to get out of there, and Mrs. Alves, Jill, and Janet all come in to help sedate Laurie. While they are working on her, the lights in the hospital go out and the emergency generator kicks on, which explains why the hospital is so dim for the rest of the film.
* A different take of the scene where Loomis examines the charred remains of the man they think may have been Michael Myers. The scene also extends to include a scene of Loomis and Hunt walking outside the morgue to get in an elevator, where Loomis explains that he believes the wounded Myers might try and go "home" to nurse his injuries.
* An extra voice-over in the scene where neighborhood kids throw rocks at the Myers house. Graham is heard telling the mob "Michael Myers isn't here, we've checked the entire house!".
* An extra scene of Loomis and Hunt approaching the house while Hunt yells at people to go home.
* A scene where Janet talks to Karen and tells her how creepy it is that the lights went out and how Laurie was screaming about Michael Myers coming to get her.
* Extra dialogue in the scene where Bud tries to convince Karen to have sex with him in the therapy room.
* The dialogue between Bud and Karen cuts immediately to a shot of Karen entering the therapy room, where Bud is already naked in the therapy tub. The scene also includes extra shots of the temperature gauge slowly rising and Michael Myers' hand turning it up. There is an alternate take of Karen talking to who she thinks is Bud standing behind her, turning around to see that it's Michael Myers. The scene concludes with just one shot of her being shoved down into the scalding water.
* The scenes where Marion arrives are directly connected to when she leaves with Dr. Loomis in the Marshall's car.
* When Jimmy discovers Laurie in the chemically-induced state of shock, there is extra dialogue as Jimmy and Jill wait for Dr. Mixter to respond to their call. In the theatrical version, this is where Janet runs to get Mixter and discovers his body and is killed. That entire sequence has been removed and Jimmy finally gets restless and says he's going to find Mrs. Alves.
* There is an added scene of Jimmy looking for Mrs. Alves and finding the ladies lounge empty.
* Laurie's dream is placed differently and features a new voice-over of a "little-girl" voice saying "Please don't hurt me Michael, I'm your sister!"
* When Michael goes into Laurie's hospital room, he doesn't have a scalpel in his hand, and there is an extra scene of him closing the door behind himself as he leaves.
* When the drugged Laurie grabs the phone in the empty hospital room, she tries to speak and cries into the phone "Mama, he won't die! He won't go away!"
* Extra dialogue between Jimmy and Jill where they wonder why the hospital is now empty and Jill asks if someone could be in there with them.
* Extra shots of Jimmy exploring the hospital looking for other people.
* Jill's death scene has been softened. The shot of Michael stabbing her in the back with the scalpel has been removed and now it appears as if he simply grabs Jill and drops her. Additional sound effects of Jill groaning as she is dropped suggest that she survives.
* An extra shot of Loomis and Marion in the back of the Marshall's car and extra shots of the car driving through Haddonfield are inserted.
* Jimmy's collapse in the car has been cut out since he's supposed to be looking for others during the entire climax of the film.
* Loomis only shoots Michael two times when he bursts through the glass door.
* The Marshall's death scene is less gruesome, with Michael jumping up and pulling the Marshall with him, apparently stabbing him from behind.
* Different angles in the operating room as the blinded Michael slashes out with his scalpel.
* The different editing makes it appear as if Jimmy's fall is caused by the explosion.
* Graham's dialogue is altered in the final scenes where Hunt asks him the body count.
* When Laurie is placed in the ambulance at the end, someone is in there with her. There is a final scare as the figure sits up, covered by a sheet, and the sheet falls away revealing Jimmy with a bandage on his head. Laurie cries in relief and says "We made it!" They hold hands and "Mr. Sandman" begins to play over an exterior scene of the ambulance pulling out of the hospital's parking lot.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch differences:
# The UK MIA DVD is completely uncut. The UK version was uncut during its theatrical exhibition. The video release in 1986 was cut by 2 minutes 6 secs before the video was submitted for a certificate and has all the violent scenes cut out. For instance: When Harry Grimbridge is killed, the gruesome killing of him is cut out. We see the fingers poised and the feet and Halloween mask moving, and then immediately it shows the assassin wiping his blood covered gloves on the curtain. When Starker gets decapitated, this scene including the fountain of blood is cut out. When Marge Guttman's face explodes, the gruesome insect scene is cut and it just shows her quivering hands move slowly down her face then it fades out. Although the UK MIA DVD release in 2000 restored all of the cut scenes the recent 2002 release on the Sanctuary label has once again removed them.
# In Germany the uncut version was released on DVD but not shown on TV. There are two different TV versions which were both cut. The longer cut version includes the complete original title in the opening sequence and the shortest version only includes "Halloween III" as title.
# The Spanish version has some added scenes and others deleted. The added scenes include: When Dan Chaliss's kids are watching the Silver Shamrock commercial and Linda says "Turn that down", here we don't hear her voice over, there's a shot of her saying it. When the Kupfers are being murdered and bugs galore are coming out of Little Buddy's head, the Spanish version doesn't show the snakes, just continuous bugs so it doesn't show Buddy getting bitten by a rattlesnake. The scene right before Buddy Kupfer drops dead, there's an added scene of him through the serveilence camera reaching for help before he dies. At the beginning when the assassin droid is strangling Harry Grimbridge at a used car lot and Harry causes another car to crunch the assassin, well when it happens, it doesn't make that 'Eeeeeeee' sound it did in the regular version, instead there's the crush sound and the assassin keeling back.
# In the Spanish version, the following changes were made: When the gas station attendant is watching the news on the thieving of one of Stone Henge's rocks, what followed before the Silver Shamrock commercial was a: "When we come back..." ad, but it isn't played in this version. When the commercial is playing at the gas station and the power goes out, the scene of the attendant looking behind him isn't shown. Just him beginning to get up.
# Also in the Spanish version, the scene of Marge Guttman's face exploding was shortened. It shows the macabre scene but it cuts out the Jerusalem cricket crawling out her mouth.
# Originally released uncut on video in Australia in the mid 80s by Thorn EMI; the recent DVD release by Infogrames features a cut version of the film.
# Cuts on the Infogrames Australian DVD release include: During the scene where Harry Grimbridge is murdered, the assassin enters the room and poises his fingers above his head, before using them to kill him. Only a couple of seconds of his death is shown, before it cuts to the mask laying on the floor. When Starker is killed, they do not show the second shot of the assassin's face after the fountain of blood sprays from Starker's neck. It cuts straight to Ellie jumping in shock after Marge accidentally hits her car horn, and is missing the scene where she is walking through the parking lot. Similarly, when Marge is killed, only a quick shot of her hands covering her face is shown, before it fades out. During the Halloween montage towards the end of the movie, the scene showing the trick-or-treaters in Phoenix, Arizona, is cut out, and goes straight from the shot of the Silver Shamrock van in Seattle to the aerial view of Phoenix at the end of the scene. Again, when Teddy is killed, the scene is cut. It shows the assassin forcing the drill into her face, but cuts out the part at the end where it gets up and walks off. A final change occurs at the hospital when Harry Grimbridge is admitted. Some of the dialogue between Walter Jones and Challis is missing. When we see the shot of Grimbridge on the stretcher in front of the TV, the lines "Hey, can I leave now?", and "Sure, I don't see why not" are missing, and cuts straight to Challis shaking Walter's hand and saying, "Thanks a lot for bringing him."
# AMC TV version makes the following changes: Walter Jones' line of "I swear to God" is changed to "I swear to you" when he brought Harry to Dan Chaliss's hospital; When Buddy Kupfer tells Dan about Conal Cochran, his line of "sticky toilet paper" is changed to "sticky dwarf toys"; The murders of Harry Grimbridge, Starker and Marge aren't as graphic; Marge's line of "screwed up" is changed to "messed up"; other obscenities are cut as well as the scene where Dan calls Teddy on the morning of the 30th.
# 1998 Goodtimes DVD release omits several sound effects for some unknown reason, including the stinger when the assassin appears to watch Ellie and Challis enter the factory, and the dial tone when Challis and Teddy are on the phone to each other before the above scene.
# An extension of the scene where Ellie gets out of the shower was filmed but cut. It showed her, still wrapped in the blanket, taking one of Challis' cigarettes and lighting it up, before sitting down on the bed to wait for him.
# The version on television is as follows: The opening sequence is in a letterbox format, as well as the first shot of Harry Grimbridge running out of the tunnel; the music from the TV is somewhat mismatched from the dialogue as Walter Jones watches; an additional line from the Silver Shamrock masks from the commercials that tells people to watch the big giveaway is heard before the power goes out; all uses of God's name in vain is removed; Marge's line of "They got their orders all screwed up" is changed to "all messed up"; Marge Guttman's misfire accident is violence-trimmed, so the music is mismatched to the scene and it edits a few moments of footage; Buddy Kupfer's line of, "Sticky toilet paper" is changed to "sticky dwarf toys"; the shot of snakes coming out of Little Buddy in Test Room A is removed so the deaths of Buddy and Betty are mysterious.
# There were two cuts for the "R" rating. There was more gore to the head-popping scene and when the girl gets fried by the Silver Shamrock pin. There is a bootleg version in letterboxed format that has all the gore.
Halloween IV: Return of Micheal Myers:
# The German version of this not-so violent film was cut during the gore scenes to get a 16 rating.
# The scene in which Michael kills the mechanic was originally on-screen. The footage showed Michael stabbing the mechanic in the throat with the crowbar.
# Swedish version is heavily cut.
Halloween V: The revenge of Micheal Myers:
# The scene in which the cop (Fenton Quinn) is killed outside of the Myers' house was shortened considerably. In the original version, as Michael is bashing his head into the glass on the windshield, there was a shot where you could see the glass embedded into his face.
# The shot of Mikey (Jonathan Chapin) quivering on the ground was shortened to avoid an "X" rating. You can still notice the abrupt jump in the shot before he is dragged away by Michael.
# The German theatrical version was cut to get a "16" rating. On video, two versions were released, the "16"-one for sell-thru and an uncut "18"-rated version for the rental release.
# Some dialogue and gore was cut from the U.S. release, the latter to obtain an "R" rating.
# In the documentary "Inside Halloween 5" a cut scene is shown of a man removing Michaels mask and looking at it weirdly. Another scene cut was removed because it was considered too graphic. As Jamie is trying to climb back up in the laundry chute Michael stabs Jamie through her ankle. When Jamie emerges from the laundry chute you can see her ankle wounded and bleeding.
Halloween VI: The curse of Micheal Myers:
# In the original ending, the cult of Thorn kidnaps Kara and Danny Strode, intending to curse Danny with the sign of Thorn just like Michael Myers was as a child and make him kill his mother in a blood sacrifice. Kara is tied to a sacrificial altar in the bowels of Smith's Grove Sanitarium. They're saved by Tommy, who eventually stops Michael's pursuit of them with the carved stones he calls "the runes of light," which he explained to Kara in an earlier, also deleted scene as being the bane of the sign of Thorn. These rune stones are arranged in the Shape's path by Tommy, and when he steps within their circle, the Shape is frozen in place, like a mystical ward. Tommy then escapes with Danny and Kara, leaving Dr. Loomis to return, and face Michael and Dr. Wynn in the final scene.
# In the full-screen version, you can see that Mrs. Blankenship has a Thorn rune tattoo on her wrist when she holds up the knife. This isn't visible in any wide-screen versions.
# There is a version of this sixth Halloween film which has many scenes not shown in the theatrical release, as well as a different title/logo, different character developments, and a different ending. This "Producer's Cut"'s most noticeable differences are:
# The movie begins with a flashback to 1989 in which Jamie is kidnapped by the Man in Black before the police station explodes.
# Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasance) does the voice-over narration at the beginning of the movie, not Tommy Doyle (Paul Michael Rudd).
# Michael Myers does not kill Jaimie Lloyd right away; she lingers in a hospital for half the movie, and is eventually shot by the Man In Black.
# There is a very different ending to the movie which replaces everything after the scene in which Kara is captured by the cult members.
# In the home video version, when the father is killed by Michael Myers in the basement, the massive dose of electricity his body takes causes his head to explode. In the alternate cut, for some reason, this is not shown.
# According to the official Halloween website under the FAQ section, some scenes from the producers cut are shown in the television cut for the UPN network.
# The "strobe light/operating room" scene (only seen in the Theatrical version) was originally going to be longer, and feature more blood and gore. Examples include a shot of a nurse being gutted and Dr. Wynn being beheaded. Wynn's death was cut out of the film, so that his character could return in future films.
# Producer's Cut also expands on certain scenes in the movie. This includes the following:
* There are no "flashes" to previous / upcoming scenes throughout the movie, as with the theatrical release.
* More dialogue between Loomis and Wynn when Wynn visits Loomis at his house. Wynn asks Loomis why he is "listening to this jerk" Barry Simms, and Loomis says he's recording it because it's a program about Haddonfield. He then goes on to say that he recently had plastic surgery, to remove some of the scarring on his face and "not frighten little children anymore". Then Wynn announces his plan to retire, thus bringing on the toast to "old friends".
* More dialogue playing over the radio during this scene. There are also a number of different callers than in the theatrical release.
* Kara performs a "chant" for Danny when he has his nightmare. She warns the "evil spirits" to stay away and reminds them that they "know the rules".
* An extra scene of Debra and John watching Kara through the window as she leaves for college. Debra says "it's not about her, John... it's about you", and that she doesn't care what Kara has done in the past because she's their daughter. John replies by saying that Kara is no longer his daughter.
* The scene with Dawn (Wynn's secretary) telling Loomis and Wynn that Jamie Lloyd's body has been found is extended. Wynn tells her to put the sanitarium on a "Code Red Lock-down" for 24 hours, and then says to Loomis that if Michael is alive, he plans on "bringing him back to Smith's Grove".
* The scene where Loomis and Wynn drive to the farm is also extended. Because Jamie survives Michael's initial attack in this version, she is taken to hospital, and Loomis blames himself for everything as she is wheeled to an ambulance. He also has an encounter with the new Sheriff, who tells him that he and Wynn have "no business in Haddonfield", and to go back to their "loony bin".
* There are a few alternate angles during the scene where Debra finds out whose house they are really living in. Loomis goes into more detail about Michael, and when Debra is on the phone to John, there are again some alternate angles. Also, when she drops the phone, the dial tone can be heard, whereas it can't in the theatrical release.
* Barry Simms' death is also done slightly different. There a couple of alternate angles, and a scene after he is stabbed with the camera panning away to show another van parked nearby with the words "WKNB Radio" on the hood.
* There are more alternate angles when Tommy finds Barry's body. The little girl dancing under the tree also sings "it's raining red" instead of saying it.
* The ending credits are also completely different, with a few changes to the cast list as well.
# Deleted scenes seen only in the Producer's Cut: Michael is shown impregnating Jamie in a black and white flashback, it shows the man in black forcing Michael to do it. In the finale Kara is tied up to an altar while the Thorn cult performs a ritual, Kara says "The baby is yours isn't it Michael?!" and the man in black turns and yells "Michael!." Originally this was the setup for Michael to kill the members of the Thorn cult.
# The theatrical version ends with Loomis re-enterting the asylum, and we see Michael's body is gone and we hear Loomis scream, suggesting Michael killed him. In the producer's cut, we see Loomis come across Michael's body, suddenly the mask is pulled off to reveal it is Wynn, who passes on his curse of being Michael's guardian to Loomis before he dies. As the rune of thorn appears on Loomis' arm he screams, and the final image is of Michael disguised as the man in black leaving the asylum.
# Because of the very different ending in the producer's cut, the dialogue between Wynn and Loomis in Smithsgrove is different, Wynn's outfit was also changed. The theatrical version simply uses Loomis's reaction shots and had Mitch Ryan reading new lines.
Halloween: 20 years later (aka H20)
# An early workprint version had a different score and an altered opening credits montage, as well as a slightly different version of of the dorm room scene, where the girls have "So I Married An Ax Murderer" playing on the TV instead of in the final version where they have on "Scream 2."
# On the FX Network Premire, there are several additonal scenes added for running time, and a lot has been edited.
* In the opening, there are several extra shots of a goal post and interiors of Marion's house while Jimmy is checking it out.
* Marion's death is totally different and there are extra policeman shots and Marion breaks the window and then is shown dying from the far away outside window P.O.V.
* Sara's death is not shown and her body is never found.
* There is an extra scene of Will carving a pumpkin and talking about his family.
* There is a stalk P.O.V. shot of Micheal looking at thw people at the rest stop.
* There is also a extra scene of Charlie and John walking downtown.
# The above version on FX also edits the following:
* The decapitation at the end of the movie. It cuts to the credits and Halloween music right after she swings the axe.
* The scene of Michael gettng pinned by the van against the tree has been cut out. It cuts to the van catching on fire. This becomes a goof though, as when Laurie looks at the van, there is no fire, but it starts up again.
* The sequence where Laurie is driving down the road with Michael in the body bag in the back has been lengthened. It uses some shots of the van driving down the road twice.
* The scene where Michael chases after John and Molly cuts out the shot of the knife going into John's leg when Michael stabs him.
* Will's death has been edited. It only shows Michael go up behind him, then cuts to a shot of Laurie looking at him. His body is then thrown down on the floor.
* Scenes with the f-word and/or s-word have been dubbed over, or taken out completely.
# The FX televison cut includes the following:
* A Micheal POV shot of the kid trying to grab the corkscrew from the drain
* The FX televison cut removes the following:
* The entire "pierce my nipples" line from Will(the counselor) is cut along with the "date-rape" response. The scene is edited as if the conversation never took place.
# On October 26, 2003 an alternate version was shown on FX with these additions:
* Marion looking around her house is extended.
* Jimmy taking a look around Marion's house is extended.
* Michael stalking Marion is extended.
* Cops are shown bumbling around outside while Marion is chased by Michael.
* Intro to Laurie is differently Paced.
* a quick view of the town and school is shown before Laurine and John have breakfast.
* a reference joke to Psycho made by Charlie is shown as he walks with John to school.
* Michael is shown watching the Mother and little girl during the restroom scene.
* Charlie and John are shown talking while they walk the California town outside the school and Michael follows them in his car.
* Molly is shown walking through the school halls after getting the roses off the dish lift.
* Laurie is shown watching the buses leave while on the telephone before the Psycho homage with Norma.
* Laurie walking the school halls at night and walking the school grounds.
* Adam Arkin chasing the Shape is slightly different.
* John, Charlie and Molly are shown sneaking in through the kitchen window and get stuck while John sees Michael coming into the school.
* Adam Arkin carves a pumpkin while he opens up to Laurie about his past; lead in for Laurie to open up to him about Michael.
* Michael and Laurie stalking each other at the finale is extended.
* Extended ending shows Michael's car following far behind Laurine but ends where Laurie chops off the guy's head.
Halloween: Resurrection:
# Nora Winston's (Tyra Banks) death was originally an on-screen kill. You can see photos of this from publicity stills in which Michael can be seen standing behind Nora preparing to strangle her.
# Jen is online and enters herself, Sara, and Rudy in the contest to spend the night in the childhood home of Michael Myers, only to be attacked by Michael. Following this scene Sara is seen getting out of the shower. She hears a noise and goes out of the bathroom but sees nothing. She returns to the bathroom and brushes her hair, only for Michael to set up in the bathtub. It turns out to be Rudy, dressed as Michael, who was playing a prank on Sara and Jen. This scene was cut because the producers felt it was "too goofy". Jen's encounter with Michael before she is killed was originaly longer. After finding Bill's body she runs into a room and backs against the wall--only for Michael to come crashing through the wall. She then runs through the house until she meets up with the other survivors as in the final cut.
# Scenes that appear in the previews but not the film include:
* Bill looks in the mirror and sees Michael's reflection then turns to see he is not there before Michael jumps through the glass.
* Jen stands against a wall and Michael's arms burst through it grabbing her.
* Michael rising out of the bathtub behind Sara while she combs her hair.
* Nora (Tyra Banks) standing on the front porch of Michael's house and yelling "Get out of the house!" (This one was most likely shot for promotional purposes only).
# An extended version of the scene where Michael grabs Bill through the mirror appears in the original trailer. In the extended version Bill looks in the mirror, sees Michael standing behind him in the reflection and he turns around only to see that nobody is there. When he turns back around and looks into the mirror again Michael breaks through it and grabs him.
# In the trailer, there is a scene showing Sara sitting down and brushing her hair in the bathroom, and Michael rising out of a water filled tub behind her. Though this scene is in the trailer, it is not in the theatrical release.
# The original ending was alot less scary. After Freddy busts the cameraman, the CSI team investigates the scene. As a CSI women look down a hole where Michael slept, he jumps out and gets her. The theatrical endin was scarier and showed a coroner examining Michael's burnts face. His eyes then pop open as she screams. Also, the theatrical version seems to have longer shots of any death or gore than the original version.
# In the rough cut screened in August 2001, the opening credits were different. The film's original opening featured footage from a home video of the Myers', featuring Peter and Margaret Myers in 1962 with their three children, Judith, Michael, and a new-born Laurie, having fun in the back yard of their house. Michael can be seen in the clips trying to divert the camera away from him, as he does not want to be filmed. However, Peter manages to get him to face the camera, and zooms in on Michael's face. The shot continues zooming through Michael's "black" eyes and opens up in the sanitarium hallway. This whole sequence is to the tune of an old fifties song "Darling Angel". Also, the ending was different. Instead of taking Michael to the morgue, a woman CSI starts to investigate in the ruins of the Myers house. She leans down and shines her flashlight down into a dark crevice and Michael jumps up at her. She screams and the credits start rolling.
# In the original script, while Rudy and Michael are fighting, Michael grabs Rudy by his head and crushes it with the oven door. There was also a lot less fighting between the two. The producers changed this due to a longer fight scene.
# Originally, there was a line of cut dialogue in the beginning of the film where Laurie Strode says to Michael "You will never find my son."
# In the version labelled Halloween: The Homecoming, the film did include the beginning sequence of a Myers' family home video and also the CSI woman's murder at the end. However, it also had no opening credit sequence, the title only appears when Michael leaves the sanitorium. Also, when Jim flirts with Donna and she gives him the finger, the dialogue "Would that be one o'clock?" is not present. The soundtrack on this version consists of music from the original Halloween (1978), Profondo Rosso (1975) and The House on Haunted Hill (1999) and Halloween H20 (1998). It also featured a rap track over the end credits, different music for the scene where Jen and Sara visit Rudy, and Janet Jackson's "All For You" in the scene where Nora makes coffee. This version was probably created as a "rough cut" or test screening, and edited before Danny Lux's score was complete. The Halloween H20 music is also still present in some of the early scenes, mostly in the sanitorium.
# There were aporximately three alternate endings.
* The first alternate ending is where Sarah is in the burning tool shed, and Scott comes in, and pulls her out.
* An alternate version of the final ending where Freddie is talking to a "dead" Michael in a body bag. Micheal's eyes pop open, and he grabs Freddie's throat. Sarah grabs an axe from the fire truck, and slams it down on Michael's face.
* The third alternate ending consists of a CSI agent looking for the body of Michael Myers after the fire. She looks into a manhole, and Micheal pops up, and grabs her.
# There was a scene cut from the film, in which Sarah finds a photo album containing pictures of Michael Myers when he was a child. The scene can be accessed on the DVD.
# The "Halloween: Resurrection" title card appears at a different spot in the video/DVD release. It is seen as Michael leaves the asylum after the first murders. During the film's theatrical run, the "Halloween: Resurrection" title card appeared in different places. In some prints, it appeared after Michael gives Harold the bloody knife and in others, it appeared just before Busta Rhymes' name in the opening credits).
# On the DVD version of the film, watch for brief flashes of Michael Myers between frames. For example, when Bill sneaks up behind Jenna early on in the house and scares her, if you advance through that part frame-by-frame, you can see two frames of Michael Myers. This happens a few more times throughout the film.
# Nora Winston's (Tyra Banks's) death scene involved Michael stringing her up with electrical wire and him viciously stabbing her in the abdomen as she struggled. The scene was later cut because as Brad Loree, the stuntman who played Michael, stated "Every horror movie has to have a character find the body of someone you didn't know was dead."
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