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Contents 1 Movie shot two times 2 Urban Legend tag 3 Lead paragraph 4 Organization of the article

[edit] Movie shot two times

This sounds interesting: "Carpenter shot the movie almost two times, because he was not satisfied with the original result".

Could be something good to elaborate on if someone knows details. Like, did they go back and do extensive reshoots much later, or did they just keep doing multi retakes. Which particular sections were reshot? Precinct13 00:32, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

As I understand it, the reshoots were done after a rough cut of the film was put together and was deemed a disappointment and not scary enough by both Carpenter and the studio. Reshoots were scheduled and had to be completed quickly in order for the film to make its release date. The opening campfire sequence was a new addition, the scene early in the film in which the town is beseiged by poltergeist-like activity was newly conceived, and gorier inserts were shot and edited into many of the murders to make the deaths more graphic.12.162.189.80 20:19, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Urban Legend tag

This is tagged as part of the category "Films from urban legends," but I've never heard of an urban legend similar to the plot of this movie. If someone knows of this urban legend, I'd suggest putting some information on it on the page (at the bottom, in a separate section). Otherwise, I think we might want to remove that category.

I think the category should be removed. Carpenter said that part of his inspiration for this film came from reading about actual shipwrecks off the California coast, not from an urban legend. He specifically mentioned one incident near Goleta, California in which a ship was lured toward rocks with a false beacon and then plundered after it crashed.

Actually, I'm surprised that nobody has nominated "Films from urban legends" for deletion. A surprising number of the movies listed in this category don't appear to be based on urban legends. People seem to be padding it out with random (mostly) horror films, or they don't seem to understand what an "urban legend" is. For example, I have no idea what urban legends Caspar the Friendly Ghost or Maximum Overdrive are supposed to based on, either. Sullenspice 22:52, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lead paragraph

I reverted the edit by Nreive because it included redundant info and an unnecessary reference to the 2005 remake. As it is, there are already too many references to the remake. Let's not forget that the focus of this article is the original 1980 film. Sullenspice (talk) 16:20, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Organization of the article

I've tried to shape the article, although much more work needs to be done. There was far too much redundant content. I'm still not completely happy with the "Inspiration" and "Analysis" sections--perhaps they can be combined into a single section--but at this point it is more clearly divided into different thematic section than it was before.

Also, people really need to stop peppering this article with references to the remake. There is an entire section devoted to it here, AND it has a separate article. There is absolutely no reason to keep mentioning it in the introductory paragraph. Sullenspice (talk) 21:31, 10 April 2008 (UTC)