Character origins

Carpenter filled his script with inside references.

Michael Myers was named after a British distributor who helped release Assault on Precinct 13, while Laurie Strode came from one of Carpenter’s ex-girlfriends.

Dr. Sam Loomis was named after a character from Sir Alfred Hitchcock’s legendary 1960 horror Psycho, which famously starred Curtis’s real-life mother, Janet Leigh.