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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) More at IMDbPro »

• 'Howard Stern' was originally offered the role as radio "shock jock" Barry Simms, but turned it down.
  
  
• Debra and John Strode were named after John Carpenter and Debra Hill who produced the first two films of the series.
  
  
• The name of Mrs. Blankenship is a reference to Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), in which Ellie says her father had an appointment with Minnie Blankenship.
  
  
• Danielle Harris wanted to reclaim her role as Jamie, but turned it down when Dimension Films refused to pay her the $5,000 she wanted.
  
  
• The script went through eleven different drafts.
  
  
• In the original draft of the movie, when John came home from work, he turned on the TV and the scene of the boy dying from the mask in Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) was shown.
  
  
• Although the infamous Producer's Cut of the film was never officially released, bootleg versions were made available a few months after the film's release.
  
  
• Denise Richards was considered and turned down for the role of "Beth."
  
  
• The original conception of the "Thorn" cult apparently was much more in the vein of Roman Polanski's vision of the Satanists in Rosemary's Baby (1968), more mundane and real-life, as opposed to what Daniel Farrands has called "the Temple of Doom version" in the final film, with underground lairs, altars, and robes and hoods.
  
  
• The original director was to be Fred Walton, who directed the original When a Stranger Calls (1979).
  
  
• When Michael was chasing Tommy, Kara, Danny and baby Stephen down the hallway, Michael was played by A. Michael Lerner. The Smith's Grove Doctor running from Michael also was A. Michael Lerner's real life father.
  
  
• Joe Chappelle wrote the ending for the theatrical version of the film.
  
  
• Many of Donald Pleasence's scenes were edited out of the film because Joe Chappelle found him "boring".
  
  
• As a result of Donald Pleasence's death, as well as creative differences between Joe Chappelle and the producer, and an allegedly bad test screening of the original work (the famous producer's cut) re-shoots were done as well as lots of editing, to the anger of most of the cast and crew. Many vowed never to make another Halloween movie again after all the changes.
  
  
• The producers of the movie wanted Brian Andrews to reprise his role as Tommy Doyle from the original Halloween. However, Andrews did not have an agent, so they could not get in contact with him. He regrets missing the opportunity.
  
  
• At one time Scott Spiegel was going to direct and his friend Quentin Tarantino produce.
  
  
• This was the first Halloween film to be produced under the production company Dimension. The previous two Halloween films, along with the first Halloween (1978) were all produced by Anchor Bay, an affiliate of Universal Studios. Universal produced Halloween II (1981). However, the rest of the movies onward were all from Dimension films, as they bought the rights from Anchor Bay.
  
  
• 'Donald Pleasance''s final film.
  
  
• The movie that Mrs. Blankenship is watching is The Phantom of the Opera (1925).
  
  

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