The film won only one award - Best Director.The Oscar-nominated screen adaptation by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry (who appears as the hotel""s desk clerk) was based on the novel of the same name by Charles Webb (a recent graduate of the East Coast""s Williams College when he wrote his first novel)...that""s not her?" Jake almost wishes to hear that Joey bedded down Vickie:Joey: She ain""t the kind of girl you just f--k and forget about, this girl.He""ll never break into Biocyte from the bottom where security is heaviest...Hunt will prefer to enter Biocyte somewhere from the top where security is minimal.He""ll undoubtedly engage in some aerobatic insanity before he""ll risk harming a hair on a security guard""s head.A echnician named Bucky (Harlow Marks) was at the town""s power station, where he lost his life when the masked Myers threw him into an electrical transformer and he was electrocuted(# 7 death)in a shower of sparks.