Annie""s incantations of the passages from the Necronomicon were designed to create a rift in time and space o suck up all the dark forces.Simms announced that their next night""s show would be broadcast live from Haddonfield at the Halloween Harvest Fair, where Halloween had been banned since 1989, "when infamous serial killer Michael Myers and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, and about a dozen cops were killed in an explosion." Early in the film (at about the 27 minute mark), one of the secondary characters, a police detective, commented with foreboding caution about the hot-house atmosphere of the summer""s heat-wave that was inspiring more crimes to be committed:"When it gets hot, people try to kill each other.Burning hamburger and a romance." He asks Marny about Bailey, intuitively thinking he might know him: "I often wondered what happened to him.