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It makes no sense that the Scream movies exist in the Halloween Universe


We see Scream 2 playing on the tv in one scene in this movie and i always found it dumb as hell. Cause they are watching the original Halloween in the 1st Scream and talk about it several times, so the Halloween movies exist in the Scream universe and the Scream movies exist in the Halloween universe? huh?

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It was supposed to be some other movie on TV, but some producer told the filmmakers to put a scene from Scream 2 in there, not knowing the confusion it would cause.

Although, Halloween III takes place in a universe where the first film, and possibly Halloween II is fictional. So, what would Halloween III in...Halloween III be?

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Halloween in Halloween III makes much more sense. The series was going to become an anthology series with a completely different story told in each subsequent sequel. Because the masses were too stupid to accept a Halloween movie without Michael Myers, the idea was scrapped.

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Austin Powers was supposed to be the movie on screen (Mike Myers, hahahaha).

Stop thinking about this. You're just going to hurt your brain. Let it go. Just don't think about it anymore.

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Was it Halloween? I always thought it was some other franchise.

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Yeah, it made no sense. I think people already pointed this out back in the day. I also thought it was rather disrespectful. Don't get me wrong, I love Scream, moreso than Halloween, but Halloween came first and served as a inspiration for Scream. It doesn't need anything like that.

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I just looked on it as the makers of H2O 'returning the favour' so to speak, Scream 2 having come out the previous year. But you're right, it makes absolutely no sense at all.

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I think you're overthinking it

The version of Scream that existed in this universe may have had a different movie playing in the party scene in Scream 1

There are a million potential BS explanations that could eliminate this plot hole

But that's not necessary cause it was just a little Easter egg that didn't affect the story

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I can never tell if people on here are being serious or not.

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Why can't 2 things be real in the same universe?

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