Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Paul Rudd's film debut; it was filmed before Clueless (1995), his first big-screen appearance.

When Mrs. Strode is cleaning up her porch she is wearing Nike Air shoes. When she goes into the house, into the basement we see a close-up of her shoes and they've changed completely; to Saucony brand shoes. When she discovers Michael in her house whilst on the telephone, she is wearing the Saucony sneakers, then as she runs into her yard, once out of the house the Nike Air shoes reappear.

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.

Featured in Halloween: 25 Years of Terror (2006)