The Halloween movie Canon Jigsaw Part 2: How the original Halloween was alterd when it was brought to TV to set up Halloween 2 and that movies place in the universes canon.

The first Halloween was soon followed up by Halloween II. I ended my last Halloween blog post by saying that I would be talking about how the original Halloween was altered when it came to TV and that it was altered in order to add a few facts that they wanted to slip into the canon before the sequel so this is what I shall do now.

It was scenes added to the TV version of Halloween which introduced the twist that babysitter Laurie Strode, was Myer's long-lost sister.  So how and why did this come about? Well in 1980, the television rights to Halloween were sold to NBC for $4 million and apparently they wanted a few scenes to be censored to one degree or another. When Halloween appeared on television for the first time in October 1981 not only had bits been censored but Carpenter had also filmed twelve minutes of additional material and inserted it in to the movie. This stuff was filmed during the production of Halloween II and included a scene with Dr. Loomis at a hospital board review of Michael and with Dr. Loomis talking to a 6 year old Michael telling him that even if he has the board fooled he hasn't managed to fool him. Another scene featuring Dr. Loomis at Smith's Grove shows him examining Michael's abandoned cell just after his escape and seeing the word "Sister" scratched into the door.
The last scene added was one in which Lynda comes over to Laurie's house to borrow a silk blouse before Laurie leaves to babysit, just as Annie telephones asking to borrow the same blouse.To be honest as far as my memory goes Laurie was always Michael's sister so maybe the first ever version I saw must have been the altered one. also in my opinion any version with more Loomis is a good version as for me he is quite simply the best thing about the Halloween films.

OK so with that out of the way Halloween 2 was basically to the best of my knowledge pretty much always considered part of the Halloween canon with even Halloween H20 the film which came along and ignored every film after 2 considering the TV the events of Halloween 2 to have all happened within the cinematic universe.

 So what about the new upcoming film Halloween 2018 for want of a better title, well this is actual the first film to ignore Halloween 2, in this new upcoming movie nothing is cannon apart from the first Halloween movie, but its not even clear as far as I know which version of the origianl it is set to follow, so will it follow the Theatrical cut or the Television cut? Will Laurie and Michael be brother and sister or will he simply be some guy with her being just some random person he tried to kill? I guess we will have to just wait and see.