"Halloween" was a huge success for John Carpenter, then he and co-writer Debra Hill thought of a sequel with the final girl, Laurie Strode, in a high-rise apartment.
The abandoned Dennis Etchison draft had Michael Myers killing drive-in attendees, growing 12 feet tall, and burning up in an unexplained inferno at the end.
Michael Jacobs's "Halloween 5: The Killer Inside Me" script had Jamie turn evil. Director Dominique Othenin-Girard hated it, going so far as to throw it in the trash.
Robert Zappia's school-set slasher has plenty of stellar scenes, like a pool massacre but there were no returning characters — then Jamie Lee Curtis wanted to come back.