• Fanedit Title: Halloween - One Good Scare

• Original Movie Title Halloween/Halloween II

• Original Release Date: October 25, 1978/October 30, 1981

• Original Runtime: 3 hours, 2 minutes

• Fanedit Release Date: October 28, 2025

• Fanedit Running Time: 2 hours, 27 minutes

• Time Added/Removed:  35 Minutes

• Synopsis: Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill again.

• Intentions:  The prospect of fanedting the original 1978  Halloween is challenging for two reasons - one, because the film is widely considered a classic, and two, because fanedits of the film are already plentiful. That said, I have an idea for an experimental edit that I'll detail later, but this project would require me to tie Halloween together with it's first sequel, Halloween II (the 1981 film called Halloween II, specifically) 

Before editing the films together, I color graded the footage to minimize green tones and increase reds, hopefully making the film look more like the midwest in Autumn rather than California, where they were originally filmed. Then I only trimmed a few sections of Halloween 1978 - mainly where shots linger a little too long, like with Annie's and Lynda's death scenes. I ultimately cut 6 minutes, but ended up adding a 5 minute scene from the TV cut of the film, featuring Dr. Loomis speaking to the board at Smith's Grove about Michael Myer's imprisonment, including an added snippet of the film's score playing over Loomis's conversation with the young Michael. 

From Halloween II, I cut just over a half hour of footage, honing in on the plots        surrounding Dr. Loomis, Laurie, and Michael, but eliminating some plot points and characters (Lance Guest) entirely. 

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