"See You Next Wednesday"

In the movie theatre scene, where the hero encounters his dead friend and all of his victims, the title on the marquee outside is "See you next Wednesday", a tribute by director John Landis to his idol Stanley Kubrick. This is referring to a line in Kubrick's "2001, A Space Odyssey" (a throw-away line found in the space shuttle scene by one of the characters talking to his young daughter on a space phone), which Landis has managed to work into all of his films via posters on walls, graffiti in pay phones, etc.

Locations

Hay Bluff , Hereforshire, UK Location used for the Yorkshire moors prior to entering the Slaughtered Lamb
Crickadarn, Wales, UK The Slaughtered Lamb (external) and the fictional village of East Proctor
The Black Swan, Effingham, Nr Leatherhead, Surrey, UK The Slaughtered Lamb pub (interior)
Windsor Great Park, Windsor, Berkshire, UK Yorkshire moor attack scenes (after leaving pub)
Princess Beatrice Maternity Hospital, Kensington, London, UK Used for all the hospital scenes in the movie (now a homeless clinic)
Redcliffe Square, South Kensington, London, UK Location of Jennys flat and the transormation scene.
Tottenham Court Road Underground Station, London, UK David chases Gerald Bringsley through the tube
Aldwych Underground Station, London, UK David kills Gerald Bringsley on the tube escalator
UK London Zoo, Regent's Park, London, UK David wakes up after committing his first attacks
Tower Bridge, London, UK David stalks and murders the tramps
Trafalgar Square, London, UK David pleads to be arrested before he kills again
Piccadilly Circus, London, UK David phones his sister then see's Griffin Dunne's character enter the Sex Cinema opposite
Winchester Walk and The Clink, London, UK David is chased by police and finally killed here

Other Trivia

• All the songs in the soundtrack to the film have "moon" in the title, check the downloads page for the soundtrack.

• The Budget for the movie was just $10,000 of which a large part went to special effects for which Rick Baker won an Oscar.

• The screenplay was written in 1969 whilst Landis was on location in Yugoslavia working as a runner on the set of “Kelly’s Heroes” Landis was just 19 years old.

• At the close of the credits is a congratulatory message for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.

• John Landis originally wanted two other songs to add to the soundtrack, Cat Stevens' "Moonshadow" and Bob Dylan's version of "Blue Moon", but they both declined as they had just found God!

• The legal disclaimer in the closing credits reads, "Any resemblance to any persons living, dead, or undead is coincidental"

• David Naughton was cast because John Landis had seen him in a television commercial for Dr. Pepper and Landis was a “Pepper” (a Doctor Pepper Drinker)

• John Landis appears briefly near the end of the film. He is the bearded man who gets hit by a car and thrown through the plate glass window in Piccadilly Circus, on the DVD you can see this clearly on the behind the scenes section.