JOHN CARPENTER'S HALLOWEEN- HALLOWEEN II-BEHIND THE SCENES

John Carpenter and Debra Hill were enlisted to create one of the first slasher sequels. After first approaching Tommy Lee Wallace to direct, they enlisted Rick Rosenthal to take the helm on the picture. "I think that people will imagine more in their own minds than any filmmaker will ever show them," Hill said in a Fangoria interview in 1981. Hill also stated that there were no circum- stances under which John Carpenter would direct the sequel, although it has been confirmed that Carpenter came in and directed a few sequences to clean up some of Rosenthal's work. "I had made that film once and I really didn't want to do it again," Carpenter told Famous Monsters magazine. Rosenthal and Carpenter seemed to have clicked..."We seemed pretty philosophically compatible regarding suspense and horror," Rosenthal said in the same interview."On HALLOWEEN II," Debra Hill told Fangoria, "we have total, 100% control. The only way they could do the deal was to grant us that control." Hill continued to say that an interesting possibility for HALLOWEEN II was thought about, although not used. "We investigated a number of 3-D processes for HALLOWEEN, but they were far too expensive for this particular project. Also, most of the projects we do involve a lot of night shooting - evil lurks at night. It's hard to do that in 3-D."Originally, the plot of the film centered on Laurie Strode, who lived in a high-rise apartment building. Much of the film was shot in a wing of the Morningside Hospital in Inglewood, CA, with other scenes filmed at the Pasadena Community Hospital. Perhaps one of the most difficult scenes to shoot was the final explosion. Dick Warlock, who played Michael Myers, remembered, "There was a lot of preparation for that scene, and then the fire did not turn out like the director wanted, so we had to shoot it again."A small controversy surrounded the film after its release. Richard Delmer Boyer, of Fullerton, CA, murdered an elderly couple while on drugs. In court, he claimed that the drugs caused him to flashback to HALLOWEEN II, and thus commit the murder. It became known around Fullerton as the "HALLOWEEN II" murders, according to TNT Monstervision host Joe Bob Briggs. Facts- The part of Myers for this film was played by stuntman Dick Warlock, although he got the part quite by accident. Whilst visiting John Carpenters office about another film, he put on a Micheal Myers mask (that he had in his office) and wandered down the hall to give the office girls a scare. John Carpenter liked it so much he offered him the part. Dick Warlock, who is considerably shorter than his predecessor Nick Castle, apparently had to have supports put into his boots to make him look taller. He also featured in the film breifly, as one of the police officers. In the scene where Ben Tramer, who is wearing a mask like Micheal Myers, is run down by a police car, the officer that falls out of the car just before it explodes is Dick Warlock. Jamie Lee Curtis's was actually wearing a wig in this film, so that her hair looked the same as it did in part 1. Dana Carvey who plays Garth Algar in the hit 1992 Comedy Wayne's World  Wayne's World 2 stars in Halloween II, If  you look you  can see him in the background.He can be seen receiving instructions from a blond reporter in front of the Doyle house.