Lindsey Wallace

Lindsey Wallace is a character featured in both the original 1978 film Halloween by director John Carpenter, as well as the 2007 remake by Rob Zombie. In the original film, Lindsey Wallace is played by actress Kyle Richards. In the remake, she is played by Jenny Gregg Stewart.

Halloween (1978)
Lindsey Wallace was a nine-year-old girl who grew up in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. She lived directly across the street from the Doyle family, whose son, Tommy, was the same age as Lindsey.

On Halloween night, 1978, high school student Annie Brackett was hired to babysit young Lindsey. To keep Lindsey occupied, she sat her down and had her watch scary movies. Lindsey was engrossed with the film and paid little attention to Annie, who was having problems of her own, after spilling popcorn butter all over herself. While Annie was attending to her soiled clothes in an adjacent laundry hut, Lindsey received a telephone call from Annie's boyfriend Paul. She hung up on the boy after receiving his message and went out to the laundry hut to tell Annie that he called. She found Annie locked inside the room, her body stuck inside a window. She helped free her babysitter and went back into the house. Annie finally contacted Paul and the two arranged to go out on a date.

No longer wishing to deal with Lindsey, Annie brought her to the Doyle residence where her friend Laurie Strode was babysitting Tommy Doyle. Lindsey brought a large bowl of popcorn with her and Tommy and she watched old horror movies together. Tommy tried to scare Lindsey by hiding behind a curtain, but received an even larger scare when he looked out the window and witnessed the "Boogey Man" carrying Annie Brackett's corpse into the Wallace house.

As the evening wore on, Laurie put both of the children to bed. Soon after however, Laurie ran afoul of the true Boogey Man, which turned out to be escaped mental patient Michael Myers. Myers attacked Laurie inside the Doyle home, and Laurie bravely protected the children and helped to get them outside. Buying some time for herself, Laurie told Lindsey and Tommy to go down to the McKenzie house. They ran out of the house screaming and sought safe refuge.

Notes & Trivia

 * Scenes of Lindsey Wallace from Halloween were edited into the prologue for the film's sequel, Halloween II.