Lonesome Ghosts is a Disney animated cartoon, released three days after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). The short features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy as members of The Ajax Ghost Exterminators.

George Renninger, a candy maker at the Wunderle Candy Company of Philadelphia in the 1880s, invented Candy Corn which he originally called "chicken feed" because corn was commonly used to feed livestock. After World War II, advertisers began marketing it as a special Halloween treat due to its colors that match those of the fall harvest.

Oogie Boogie was the main antagonist of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. He was a burlap sack filled with insects, spiders and a snake for a tongue.

Lon Chaney, Jr. would reprise his classic role as "The Wolf Man" in four sequels, beginning with Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man in 1943.

The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a parasitic extraterrestrial lifeform that assimilates other organisms.

Michael Myers is the primary antagonist in the Halloween films, except Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which is not connected in continuity to the rest of the films.

Craven's first feature film as director was The Last House on the Left, which was released in 1972.

The Sanderson sisters (Winifred, Sarah and Mary) are played by Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy & Sarah Jessica Parker.

Halloween has its origins in Samhain, a Gaelic festival celebrated in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Samhain marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year.

The Shining (1980) was produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.