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If you would like to contribute to my Patreon please visit   / scottontape   Watch my other Halloween 1978 filming locations video here    • Halloween 1978 Filming Locations Then and ...   Halloween is a 1978 American slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. The plot tells about a mental patient who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween night when he was six years old. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his hometown, where he stalks a female babysitter and her friends, while under pursuit by his psychiatrist. Halloween was filmed in 20 days over a four-week period in May 1978. Much of the filming was completed using a Steadicam, a then-new camera that allowed the filmmakers to move around spaces smoothly. Filming locations included South Pasadena, California; Garfield Elementary School in Alhambra, California; and the cemetery at Sierra Madre, California. An abandoned house owned by a church stood in as the Myers house. Two homes on Orange Grove Avenue (near Sunset Boulevard) in Hollywood were used for the film's climax, as the street had few palm trees, and thus closely resembled a Midwestern street.Some palm trees, however, are visible in the film's earlier establishing scenes.The crew had difficulty finding pumpkins in the spring, and artificial fall leaves had to be reused for multiple scenes.Local families dressed their children in Halloween costumes for trick-or-treat scenes.