-A suspicious murder-suicide in the emergency room of a hospital forces an on-call doctor to investigate it. It leads him to a predominantly Irish town in California where the owner of a toy company is trying to kill as many people as possible using Halloween masks and through a stone stolen from Stonehenge as part of an ancient Celtic ritual
-Tom Atkins: Dr. Daniel Challis
-Stacey Nelkin: Ellie Grimbridge
-Dan O'Herlihy: Conal Cochran
-Michael Currie: Rafferty
-Ralph Strait: Buddy Kupfer
-Jadeen Barbour: Betty Kupfer
-Brad Schacter: Little Buddy
-Nancy Kyes: Linda Challis
-Garn Stephens: Marge Guttman
Did You Know?
-The only reason that Michael Myers did not appear in this movie is because this movie underperformed at the box office. So John Carpenter brought Michael Myers back in the other Halloween movies
-"London Bridge is Falling Down" was chosen as the official theme of the Silver Shamrock company because it was in the public domain, which means there is no copyrights or anything saying it can't be used
-When Ellie and Daniel register at the motel, looking for any trace of Ellie's dad staying there, the rest of the names are the crew members
-For the location of the Silver Shamrock factory, a milk factory was used
-The voice going over the intercom warning Santa Mira residents of the approaching curfew is none other than Jamie Lee Curtis
-Tom Atkins, who plays Daniel Challis and Garn Stephens, who plays Marge Guttman, were actually married at the time of the movie
-The actors who plays Cochran's robotic henchmen were found through looking for movie extras. Writer/director Tommy Lee Wallace wanted to cast redheads as the henchmen to keep in tune with the predominantly Irish theme of the movie
-Nancy Kyes, who plays Challis' ex-wife here, was pregnant with her first child during filming
-The building used as The Dublin Inn was destroyed due to a fire in the 1980s
-Ellie's father, Harry Grimbridge, checked into room 13, the most unlucky number
-When Harry Grimbridge was admitted to the hospital, he was prescribed the same drug as Dr. Loomis mentioned to Nurse Chambers in the first film. It was Thorazine, a narcotic used by medical staff to suppress mental, mood and psychotic disorders
-Nancy Kyes, who plays Challis' ex-wife and mother of his two kids, also plays Annie Brackett in the first Halloween film
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