Plot SynopsisThe credits are played, with Charles Previn's upbeat music, over a sketched, art-deco drawing of a cityscape [New York] next to a river.Its sole Academy Award nomination was for Best Song, by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer (lyrics).The film's mood was captured in the film's tagline displayed on posters:"You can expect the unexpected when they play...He's been here once tonight.I think he'll come back.I'm gonna wait for him."One by one that evening, Michael Myers murdered Laurie's two girlfriends, and one of their boyfriends:sheriff's daughter and baby-sitter Annie Brackett (Nancy Kyes) (by strangulation, and then by slitting her throat from the backseat of her car)(# 3 death)after she had planned to forgo her babysitting duties for Lindsey Wallace (Kyle Richards), and was preparing to leave he house (across the street from where Laurie was babysitting Tommy) and drive to her boyfriend Paul's place to make love); Tommy witnessed a Shape carrying Annie's corpse into the Wallace house after murdering her, thinking it was the BoogeymanLynda's boyfriend Robert "Bob" Simms (John Michael Graham) (by strangulation and stabbing with a kitchen knife - pinning him into the wall)(# 4 death)in the empty Wallace house where Annie had been babysittingLynda Van Der Klok (P.With a production budget of approximately $30 million, and box-office gross receipts of $122 million (domestic) and $200 million (worldwide).