Aykroyd had been a cast member himself from 1975-1979 onSNL, and took one of he major film roles.Although scripted, the film was noted for numerous ad-libs and script modifications.Columbia Pictures took a risk with the supernatural sci-fi comedy involving the paranormal by financing the film""s extensive special effects, involving techniques such as miniatures, stop-motion, puppetry, rotoscoping, and cel animation.[Later, at the Empire Hotel, Judy similarly stands in a second-floor window.] He is puzzled by her strange, mysterious wanderings and rance-like behavior.Scottie enters the Hotel to follow the ethereal woman - he looks up the stairs past a magnificent, suspended hanging chandelier with crystal pendants.They""re rying to steal your money.Yeah, I said steal.The County Commissioners rejected the low bid on the schoolhouse.Why? Well, they""ll tell ya the reason is the job will be done better.The County Commissioners would have you believe that they""re interested in public welfare.They""re interested in welfare, sure, but it""s their own.Stark is pressured to break up his assembly in the one-street town by the Sheriff (A.C.Tillman) due to an ordinance selectively enforced by the local authorities to deliberately disrupt he proceedings and prevent the passing out of handbills - the law prohibited five or more people from assembling together.A few minutes later, Nancy phoned Glen to keep him from falling asleep, but his over-protective parents (who suspected she was a ""lunatic"") answered the phone and forbid her to talk to him, and then took the phone off the hook.He was also told that a "kill-list" transmission was intercepted from Skynet warning that all Resistance leaders would be dead in 4 days - Connor was # 2 on the list, and an unknown civilian named Kyle Reese was # 1.