The Babysitter Murders
Once Sheriff Hawkins investigates the bus crash, he realizes that one of the escaped institution inmates is Michael Myers. To jog his colleague Barker’s memory of the name, he says “The Babysitter Murders, 1978.” Clearly, this was the name given to the incident on Halloween night that year. It’s also a neat nod to the original working title of the first film.
Producer Irwin Yablans initially came up with the concept for the 1978 movie, pitching the idea to John Carpenter as The Babysitter Murders. He later changed the name of the production after he realized that the much snappier title of Halloween had miraculously never been used by another film. “The thing that baffled me,” he later told the Times, “is that in 75 years of moviemaking, nobody had ever used the title Halloween for a picture.”