20 Things You Didn't Know About Halloween (1978)

20. The Trees In Autumn

Halloween (the event) occurs every autumn and, therefore, it is quite usual to see the trees shedding their leaves over roads and pavements during the course of the film of the same name. Added to this, the film takes place in the fictional town of Haddonfield in Illinois.

However, if audiences watch the film carefully, they will see that the majority of the trees in Haddonfield still bear very green leaves, even though there are plenty of dead ones littering the streets, and there are even palm trees seen in and around the town.

This is because Halloween was largely filmed in and around Los Angeles California, in May 1978. Owing to the shortage of dead leaves, the cast and crew would all pitch in to decorate the streets with pieces of paper cut and painted to look like leaves; even a pre-Freddy Krueger Robert Englund stopped to help out! After each scene had been shot, the cast and crew would then have to collect all of the faux leaves, not only to avoid littering, but also because the "leaves" would be required in later scenes.

In one of the film's many demonstrations of the power of suggestion, Carpenter manages to convince audiences that a Californian summer is actually an Illinois autumn.