In the minds of many fans, a lot of the early slasher flicks are movies that are inexorably connected. When you think of Halloween it’s hard not to think of Friday the 13th, and when you think of Friday the 13th, it’s hard not to think of A Nightmare on Elm Street. The three franchises may be relatively different in terms of their overall mythology, but they all pioneered the slasher genre, and are therefore inexorably linked in our minds.

We know that Elm Street and Friday the 13th are both linked by their eventual crossover, Freddy vs. Jason, but how do we connect them to Halloween? Well, we have something for you, and it has to do with A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise star Robert Englund. As it turns out, he had an oh-so-minor role in bringing that first film to life (emphasis on minor). Here’s what he had to say to Access Hollywood.

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“It’s so funny, I actually had a roommate, back when they did the original Halloween… the John Carpenter one. And he conned me into going to Pasadena one day, with garbage bags full of dead leaves. And we were working on the set of the original Halloween, throwing the dead leaves around. So it looked like Autumn… it looked like Fall back in the Midwest.”

Think back to all those leaves you saw scattered across the street in that film and imagine a younger Freddy Krueger being partially responsible for said leaves. Sure, it’s not groundbreaking, but it’s still kind of cool!

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SOURCE: Access Hollywood (via CinemaBlend)