For years, he was locked up in Smith's Grove Sanitarium, but he escaped.And suddenly, Halloween became another word for mayhem! One by one, he killed his entire family, until his nine-year-old niece, Jamie Lloyd, was the only one left alive.The screenplay for director Ridley Scott's film (only his second feature film followingThe Duellists (1977), although Walter Hill was originally to be the director) was written by Dan O'Bannon, who based the script upon a story (originally titledStar Beast) that he had written with partner Ronald Shusett.She was the only child and daughter of a wealthy, arrogant, imperiously abusive, respectable and domineering patriarchal physician Dr.He finally was able to apprehend the driver Sytsevich and constrained him in a web-straitjacket, and then grabbed the last of the vials before strolling away.