Me and my partner, Sourdough, live fifteen miles from your cousin." A bit apprehensive by the appearance of the two scruffy men, Letty fled back into Roddy""s arms for reassurance, and the urbane cattle rancher promised to check on her: "I""ll stop off on my way back to see how you""re makin"" out - ".The big-budget horror film grossed about $33.4 million (on a budget of $2.3 million), and received two Academy Award nominations: one for Polanski""s Best Adapted Screenplay, and Ruth Gordon won the Best Supporting Actress award for her performance as one of the well-meaning, ""normal"" NYC neighbors.Balthazar eviscerated Takmet""s mid-section with his sword, claiming: "For your father." Atop the palace roof after a vicious fiery sword-fight against Memnon, Mathayus was shot in the back with an arrow (while shielding the Sorceress), but he recovered, painfully pulled the arrow from his wound, and put it in his own bow to shoot at Memnon ("Catch this!") - the torpedo-like force of the arrow""s hit in Memnon""s mid-section propelled him off the roof to his death below.This was the first film without the deceased Donald Pleasence, who had appeared in all of the previous Halloween films (except the third one).[The song was an effort to reprise Hayworth""s sultry singing ofPut the Blame on MameinGilda (1946)].The hallucinatory nature of the film is confirmed by O""Hara - he ponders about quitting.He also asks himself whether he is insane or whether the other characters are the crazy ones:Talk of money and murder.