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Haddonfield, Illinois is a town located in Warren County and is the main setting of the Halloween franchise.

The town today is a thriving community with a historical downtown area that offers residents tons of specialty shops, while large Victorian homes dot the rest of the area. Farms cover the outskirts of town. Haddonfield is located 150 miles from Smith's Grove Sanitarium.

Over the years, the town became synonymous with the infamous serial killer Michael Myers, who continuously stalked and killed people in the town for 40 years. In the 4-6 Timeline only, celebrating Halloween was banned in Haddonfield in 1989 due to the murders.

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Films that take place in Haddonfield[]

Notes and trivia[]

  • Haddonfield is named for Haddonfield, New Jersey, birthplace of Halloween producer and screenwriter Debra Hill.
  • Haddonfield also appears in the online-multiplayer game Dead by Daylight, where Michael Myers himself and Laurie Strode are both playable characters.
  • Clues sprinkled throughout the movies reveal that if Haddonfield really existed, it would be located near Pontiac right along Interstate 55.
    • Other hints suggest that it is something of a doppelgänger for Bloomington-Normal – from its geography to its midsized metro amenities.
  • “We were looking for a mythical, small-town America where this whole drama could play out. So we invented Haddonfield, Illinois,” said John Carpenter, who wrote and directed the 1978 film and has executive-produced the more recent films. “The name hit perfectly for us.”[1]

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