Halloween deleted scenes: Chilling Michael Myers moment SCRAPPED – here’s why

The new horror has been critically acclaimed ahead of its release, which comes 40 years after its predecessor of the same name.

In early drafts of the script, fearsome killer Michael Myers was going to be seen getting arrested, back in 1978.

However that moment never made it to the screen – due to the cost of replicating the first film’s set being too expensive.

Director David Gordon Green explained to Digital Spy: “When I was talking to [John] Carpenter [first film’s director] about these frustrations, he said, ‘You don’t need [that scene].

“‘The audience are going to pick it up, and they’re going to understand what’s happening. Just give one line, and save yourself the time and money’.

“But it was more about acknowledging that Michael had been apprehended, rather than just that it happens off-camera.”

The upshot was that the half-built original set ended up being used later in the movie, during a scene in Laurie’s house.

Green explained: “The real bedroom at the house that we were shooting was so small, we could’t move the camera around too much.

“So we said, ‘Why don’t we just use that set? And we’ll put [tailoring] on the walls so that it matches the house’.

“And so, if you look at it closely, her bedroom is an exact recreation of the climax from the original film. And that was not the original intent, but a beautiful example of when a financial obstacle can become a creative opportunity.”

Halloween is expected to get a huge reaction at the box office when it opens over the weekend.

In fact, the record for the highest-ever October opening in the US – which Venom broke just weeks ago – could potentially be broken.

Jamie Lee Curtis reprises the role of Laurie, and said she’s happy for the Halloween films to be what she’s best-known for.

“I must tell you, the fans of this genre have given me my creative life,” she said.

“I’ve had opportunities to do other stuff, but far and away, when I’m dead and gone, it will be ‘Halloween Actress Dies,’ and I will be proud that that is in the paper.”

Halloween is out now.