Halloween | 1978

Halloween filming location: Orange Grove Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles

Halloween location: the scene of the murders: Orange Grove Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles

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Los Angeles, California

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John Carpenter

John Carpenter’s 1978 original, and best, stalk’n’slash, with more scary stalking than gratuitous slashing, is set in the fictitious Illinois suburb of ‘Haddonfield’ (producer Debra Hill grew up in Haddonfield, New Jersey), the movie blends locales in Hollywood and South Pasadena into one neighbourhood.

Halloween filming location: Oxley Street, South Pasadena, Los Angeles

Halloween location: the home of Laurie Stode: Oxley Street, South Pasadena, Los Angeles

The house of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) is 1103 Fairview Avenue at Oxley Street in South Pasadena. As ever, I have to stress that these locations are private homes so please, take a photo but don't do anything to disturb residents. We locationeers are better than that.

Halloween filming location: South Pasadena High School, Lyndon Street, South Pasadena

Halloween location: ‘Haddonfield High’: South Pasadena High School, Lyndon Street, South Pasadena | Photograph Peter Paulsen

‘Haddonfield High’ is South Pasadena High School, Lyndon Street at Fremont Avenue. The school has found screen fame again, with its gym appearing Greta Gerwig's acclaimed Lady Bird.

Halloween filming location: Pioneer Cemetery, East Sierra Madre Boulevard, Sierra Madre

Halloween location: 'Haddonfield Cemetery': Pioneer Cemetery, East Sierra Madre Boulevard, Sierra Madre | Photograph Peter Paulsen

'Haddonfield Cemetery' is Pioneer Cemetery, 553 East Sierra Madre Boulevard, in Sierra Madre, a few miles east of Pasadena.

This was previously seen as 'Barlow Creek Cemetery', where George (Bruce Dern) discovers the graves of the Shoebridge family in 1976's Family Plot, the final film of Alfred Hitchcock.

Halloween filming location: Mission Street, South Pasadena, Los Angeles

Halloween location: ‘Nichol’s Hardware Store’: Mission Street, South Pasadena | Photograph Peter Paulsen

‘Nichol’s Hardware Store’, robbed by Michael Myers (“just some rope, a knife and a Halloween mask... must be kids”) was The Frame Shop. The property has been through various incarnations over the years but currently houses Indian restaurant Radhika, 966 Mission Street at Meridian Avenue in South Pasadena.

Halloween filming location: The Myers house: Mission Street, South Pasadena, Los Angeles

Halloween location: The Myers house: Mission Street, South Pasadena | Photograph Peter Paulsen

And on the opposite corner of Meridian is Century House, 1000 Mission Street, the now-bright-and-renovated Myers house. If the angle of the house looks a little odd, that’s because the entire building was moved from its former position around the corner at 707 Meridian Avenue.

Halloween location: Laurie Strode babysits at the Doyle house: South Orange Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles

The Doyle and Wallace houses can be found in Hollywood, on the 1500 block of Orange Grove Avenue between Sunset Boulevard and Selma Avenue. The Doyle house, where Laurie babysits, is 1530 Orange Grove Avenue, and the Wallace house, scene of the murders, is across the street at 1537 Orange Grove Avenue.

• Many thanks to Peter Paulsen for help with this section.

Halloween | 1978

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