Wynn is revealed to have been manipulating Michael all along and was his mysterious savior in Halloween 5. However, Laurie has no memory of Michael and is terrified of him, ultimately shooting him in the head in self-defense after he kills her friends and adoptive parents. [6], Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) has no continuity relation to the other films, although Michael briefly appears in a television advertisement for the first film. In fact, the mysterious Man In Black had taken them and had hidden them away in an unknown building, and now had impregnated Jamie. And it's up to Tommy Doyle, the boy from Halloween, and Dr. Loomis, to stop them all. Michael was in fact still alive and decided that Halloween, 1998 would be the night for a family reunion with Laurie because it would also be the 17th birthday of Laurie's son, John Tate. "[37], Daniel Farrands, writer of The Curse of Michael Myers, describes the character as a "sexual deviant". You know, someone who just kind of appears and, you know [mimics stabbing noise from Psycho] instead of an actual human who you think you can talk to. [2], Dominique Othenin-Girard attempted to have audiences "relate to 'Evil', to Michael Myers' 'ill' side". An example of Michael using this teleportation would be in Halloween and his escape from the "cage" that Laurie Strode had trapped him in. [3] By 1963, when Michael was six-years-old, he claimed to have suffered from bizarre, inexplicable nightmares and heard a "voice" in his head that would tell him to do things. He's supernatural. [50] Michael was one of several horror icons to be included in the 2009 version of Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights event, as a part of a maze entitled Halloween: The Life and Crimes of Michael Myers[51] Pop artist Eric Millikin created a large mosaic portrait of Michael Myers out of Halloween candy and spiders as part of his "Totally Sweet" series in 2013. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is a 1995 American slasher film directed by Joe Chappelle and written by Daniel Farrands. [12], A new version of Michael Myers appears in Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007), a reboot of the franchise. Amelia is the only relative Michael would never kill and he tried everything that Amelia growing up as a normal girl, with success. When they awoke, Tommy and Loomis tracked the cult down to the Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Michael (Dick Warlock) follows Laurie to the local hospital and kills the staff one by one throughout the night. Michael Myers appears in all of the Halloween films except Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which did not feature any elements from the preceding two films. Michael lunged at his sister, catching her on the arm with his knife, and she ran for help. As the photographer, Carter, follows Dr. Loomis; he begins to take on Loomis's obsession himself, until finally meeting Michael Myers in person, which results in his death. Michael murdered John's friends Charlie and Sarah before attacking John and his girlfriend, Molly. Michael dangled over the edge of the roof and Laurie mockingly told him she was no longer afraid of him. I don't see how moms of two or more kids keep up with their blogs - they are my heroes!! Zombie explained that this version was not used because he was afraid having the character talk at that point would demystify him too much, and because the act of Michael handing Laurie the photograph of them together was enough. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is a 1995 film directed by Joe Chappelle. American metalcore band Ice Nine Kills wrote and performed âStabbing in the Dark,â a song about Halloween (1978) that focuses predominantly from Myersâ perspective. Traveling to Haddonfield, Michael returned to his childhood home. Carpenter tried to keep the audience guessing as to who Michael Myers really isâhe is gone, and everywhere at the same time; he is more than human; he may be supernatural, and no one knows how he got that way. All of the murders we see happen in the … Laurie shoots Michael in the eyes, blinding him, and Loomis causes an explosion in the operating theater, allowing Laurie to escape. Michael was rated highest among the characters in the "monster is an outcast" category. And it's up to Tommy Doyle, the boy from Halloween, and Dr. Loomis, to stop them all. In the Final Timeline, he is able to withstand severe injuries such as multiple gunshot wounds. That night, as Laurie and Annie were babysitting across the street from each other, Michael watched them from the shadows. After calling a radio station to alert Dr. Loomis that Michael was after her, Jamie hid her baby at a bus station and fled back to Haddonfield. As news of the murders spread, chaos erupted in Haddonfield, with citizens rioting and teenager Bennett Tramer being killed in the confusion. The Myers House is a significant location in the Halloween franchise. Schickel considered this the "definition of a good monster", by making the character appear "less than human", but having enough intelligence "to be dangerous". The next year, Michael kills the hermit and returns to Haddonfield to find Jamie (Harris) again, chasing her through his childhood home in a trap set up by Loomis (Pleasence). He's mythical. [23] The Old Myers Place is the second novel, released 1 December 1997, and focuses on Mary White, who moves into the Myers house with her family and takes up residence in Judith Myers' former bedroom. As he drove across Illinois, Michael stopped to murder a truck driver to steal his boiler suit. [30] He also suggests that Michael Myers' hometown of Haddonfield is the cause of his behavior, likening his situation to that of Jack the Ripper, citing Myers as a "product of normal surburbia - all the repressed emotion of fake Norman Rockwell smiles". On Halloween 1963, Michael and Laurie were left in the care of Minnie Blankenship, a neighbor who lived across the street from the Myers family, while Mr. and Mrs. Myers went out. Getting her son to safety, Laurie willingly goes back to face Michael, and decapitates him, finally killing him. The next day on, Halloween, a teenaged Laurie Strode dropped off a key at the Myers house for her realtor father and was immediately recognized by her brother. As a six-year-old child, Michael was admitted into a psychiatric hospital for murdering his older sister, Judith Myers. Michael Myers from "Halloween" went on to inspire other future horror movie icons. In the end, Michael frames Ryan for the murders and buries Lisa alive. He usually ends up outpacing people even though he only walks, and can also catch up to people by appearing to them without expending any effort. The white-washed Victorian residence was last owned by Donald and Edith Myers. [21], Over a four-month period, Berkley Books published three young adult novels written by Kelly O'Rourke; the novels are original stories created by O'Rourke, with no direct continuity with the films. As Keri struggled with the twenty-year-old memories of her brother, and John grew increasingly impatient with her paranoia and over-protectiveness, Michael snuck into the school grounds and stalked his family on Halloween. Meanwhile, a new family had recently moved into the Myers house, relatives of the couple who adopted Laurie Strode. When Loomis went to check the body, Michael had vanished. The youngest, Danny Strode, was hearing voices telling him to kill, much like Michael had as a child. As Tommy, Kara, and the children prepared to leave Smith's Grove for safety, Dr. Loomis decided to stay to attend to some "business". The film's poster. The family resided in a two-story house at 45 Lampkin Lane in the suburban town of Haddonfield, Illinois. Back inside the building, Michael's mask is seen on the floor and Dr. Loomis is heard screaming in the background, leaving the fate of both characters unknown. However, it is supported by Samuel Loomis when he declares that Hell will not accept Michael, meaning that Michael cannot die, be killed or enter the afterlife in any way. Halloween: Michael is shot in the jaw and stabbed 3 times before falling into a cage and being set on fire. However, a mysterious person in black enters the building and machine-gunned every officer in the building before disappearing with both Michael and Jamie. Rob Zombie originally planned to have the adult Michael speak to Laurie in the film's finale, simply saying his childhood nickname for her, "Boo". Richard Schickel, film critic for TIME, felt Michael was "irrational" and "really angry about something", having what Schickel referred to as "a kind of primitive, obsessed intelligence". Michael Myers clearly has a tortured relationship with sex. He followed Jamie downstairs, where Loomis shot him with tranquilizers before finally beating him unconscious with a plank of wood. Judith Myers (originally portrayed by Sandy Johnson) first appeared in the film Halloween (1978) which was directed by John Carpenter. Essentially, Michael appears when the Thorn constellation appears in the sky which just so happens to take place during Halloween. Michael murdered the teenagers, and Marion herself, before escaping with files regarding Laurie Strode. Michael Audrey Myers is the central character and the main antagonist of the Halloween franchise. He has been known to be able to lift a large tombstone out of the ground and carry it for long distances by hand, penetrate an adult human skull with his thumb easily, lift, hold and strangle an adult human male with one arm effortlessly, impale an adult human male through a solid wooden door with a blunt object, and rip apart a human male limb by limb with his bare hands, among other feats. Michael's weapons consist of: Kitchen Knife, Hammer, Mowing Scythe, Cords/Rope, and various others. At the same time, Dr. Loomis and Nurse Marion Chambers were arriving at the facility to transfer Myers for his court hearing. [3][4] LA weekly ranked him as the greatest slasher movie villain of all time. [1], Michael in Halloween II after getting his eyes shot by Laurie, The injured Michael fled into the back alleys of Haddonfield. Michael (Brad Loree) tracks down an institutionalized Laurie and kills her. [14] Zombie's story is continued in the sequel, Halloween II (2009), which picks up right where the remake leaves off and then jumps ahead one year. The character is the primary antagonist in the Halloween film series, except Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which is not connected in continuity to the rest of the films. The crew is quickly confronted by Michael Myers. Michael (George P. Wilbur) is revealed to have been in a comatose state since the explosion. Marion came home to discover the break-in, and was aided by her neighbors Jimmy Howell and Tony Allegre. He can survive injuries that would result in death for a normal human, such as being shot and or stabbed multiple times in internal organs (brain and heart included), along with any other form of impalement, high voltage electrocution, or severe scalds over his body. [4], On October 31, 1963, Michael committed his first act of murder. The Myers family is one of the most known families in all the horror films like the Hewitt family. As the confused paramedic regained consciousness in the back of the van, Keri deliberately crashed the vehicle, sending them both crashing down a hill and trapping the man underneath the van. Myers lay unconscious, but Laurie was prevented from finishing him off by Ronald Jones, the school security guard, who dragged her from her brother's body. He's supposed to be a force of nature. Jamie went over to check her uncle's body, and as he rose once again, Meeker and a team of armed police showed up and shot him relentlessly until he fell down a nearby mine shaft. The boy gave this "schizophrenic stare", "a real evil stare", which Carpenter found "unsettling", "creepy", and "completely insane". Girard explains, "Again, to humanize him, to give him a tear. The family house where the murder took place has sat abandoned all these years, the source of endless tales about "The Boogeyman" Michael Myers. Michael possesses superhuman strength, stealth, endurance, and durability of an unknown limit. Michael is ultimately trapped in Laurie's burning house by Laurie, her daughter Karen (Judy Greer), and her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak). She re-entered the school and confronted him head-on, stabbing him multiple times and pushing him off a balcony. Fifteen years later, Michael (Nick Castle) escapes Smith's Grove Sanitarium and returns to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois. The curse is a highly-complicated explanation of why Michael Myers possesses supernatural physical abilities as well as a penchant for slaughtering all the remaining members of his family bloodline. Written by Stefan Hutchinson and artwork by Marcus Smith and Nick Dismas, the story is about a photographer assigned to take pictures of Michael Myers. Michael was taken into custody at the Haddonfield Police Station, and Meeker made preparation for him to be transferred to a maximum security facility. Enjoy the cool weather and soak up some Vitamin D while enjoying beautiful fall … Go on a Fall Hike. After the vehicle crashed off a bridge, Michael escaped and began his journey back to Haddonfield. As Michael rose to resume his attack on Laurie, only to get his mask yanked off and giving her a chance to see his face, Dr. Loomis appeared and shot him six times, causing him to fall off the balcony. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers is a 1988 slasher film and the fourth installment of the Halloween film series, directed by Dwight H. Little and written by Alan B. McElroy. [5] Halloween II (1981) picks up directly where the original ends, with Dr. Loomis still looking for Michael. It's the curse of Thorn that Michael is possessed by that makes him kill his family. [39], Describing aspects of Michael Myers which he wanted to explore in the comic book Halloween: Nightdance, writer Stefan Hutchinson mentions the character's "bizarre and dark sense of humor", as seen when he wore a sheet over his head to trick a girl into thinking he was her boyfriend, and the satisfaction he gets from scaring the characters before he murders them, such as letting Laurie know he is stalking her. [29] To celebrate the anniversary of the Halloween series, Devil's Due released a one-shot comic entitled Halloween: 30 Years of Terror in August 2008, written by Hutchinson. Dr. Loomis continued to track Myers' possible movements until he passed away in the mid-nineties, while Laurie Strode faked her death in a car accident in case her brother ever came after her again. He thinks he could cure Michael through his feelings. As Loomis confronted Wynn about his role in all of this, Wynn congratulated Loomis on being the first to recognize the unique power of Michael's evil. When taken shopping for Halloween costumes by her adoptive sister, Rachel Carruthers, she briefly saw him as he was stealing a new mask from the discount store. However, upon hearing that his sister Laurie Strode had died and her daughter Jamie Lloyd â his niece â lived in Haddonfield, he woke up from his coma and murdered those with him in the ambulance. The family resided in a two-story house at 45 Lampkin Lane in the suburban town of Haddonfield, Illinois.By 1963, when Michael was six-years-old, he claimed to have suffered from bizarre, inexplicable nightmares and heard a \"voice\" in his head that would tell him to do things. Loomis, realizing why Michael had come home, tracked him down to the hospital and saved Laurie's life a second time. The main character in the comic is Lindsey Wallace, the young girl who first saw Michael Myers alongside Tommy Doyle in the original 1978 film. During the film's climax, Laurie kills Michael by stabbing him repeatedly in the chest and face with his own knife, with the final scene suggesting that she has taken on her brother's psychosis as she dons his mask. The film ends with Michael's mask lying on the floor of the lab room and Loomis screaming in the background, leaving the fate of both men unknown. He stopped at Penney's gas station and murdered the employees, stealing new overalls from one of the mechanics. Michael Myers is characterized as pure evil, both directly in the films, by the filmmakers who created and developed the character over nine films, and by random participants in a survey. Remake Timeline: applies to the Halloween remake and its sequel. Michael Myers' body was never found, although many simply assumed him dead. He illustrated these feelings with a scene where Michael removes his mask and sheds a tear. He murdered Annie first, strangling her in her car as she left to meet her boyfriend, before slitting her throat. Loomis shoots Michael six times, knocking him off the balcony; when Loomis goes to check Michael's body, he finds that he has disappeared. The importance of the creation of Michael Myers, one of the most iconic slashers of all time, can't be overstated. The 2007 remake reboots the series continuity altogether, starting the timeline afresh. He returns to Haddonfield, where one year later, he finds and kills a group of college students filming an internet reality show inside his childhood home. He might have a healing factor that would enable him to regenerate tissue and even vital organs, such as his skin and eyes. He dreamed of a disfigured fifteen-year-old boy named Enda who, after being rejected by his true love Deirdre, brutally murdered her during the feast of Samhain, on what would later be called Halloween night. Michael speaks as a child during the beginning of the film, but while in Smith's Grove he stops talking completely. In a bizarre moment of humanity, Michael removed his mask and began crying, but when Jamie tried to wipe his tears, he recoiled in a rage. Among those patients was a young boy around 12 to 13 years old. [25], The character's first break into comics came with a series of comics published by Brian Pulido's Chaos! Halloween 6 (1995) [edit | edit source] There is some contradiction between what was revealed in this movie and what was shown in the first movie. [15], Halloween (2018) is a direct sequel to the original film, thus retconning Michael and Laurie's sibling relationship. Michael's future in each timeline is not revealed. The character Judith Myers reappeared in the remake of the original film which was also titled Halloween (2007) and was directed by Rob Zombie. [38], Michael does not speak in the films; the first time audiences ever hear his voice is in the 2007 Rob Zombie reboot. Here he comes face-to-face again with Laurie Strode (once again played by Curtis), who has been living in fear of his return. Police speculated that Michael Myers may have been responsible for the killings and made a call to Haddonfield to be on the alert. The first issue includes backstory on Michael's childhood, while the third picks up after the events of the film Halloween H20. Michael took advantage of this indecision, grabbing his sister and stabbing her in the back. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis had followed Michael to Haddonfield and warned town sheriff Leigh Brackett of the danger he posed.[1]. She prepared to finish Michael Myers off once and for all, and after pausing momentarily when the masked man showed a glimpse of humanity, mercilessly chopped his head off with an ax. Meanwhile, the family that adopted Laurie Strode is living in the Myers house and are being stalked by Myers. Michael's charred body was recovered and taken to the morgue, where he regained consciousness. Learning Laurie's location from a news report, Michael resumed his search for her at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she had been taken for her shoulder wound. He also released the other patients from their rooms. This may indicate that such a scene was in the original script. [8] Michael Myers appears in all of the Halloween films except Halloween III: Season of the Witch, which did not feature any elements from the preceding two films. HALLOWEEN (2007) In Haddonfield, nine year old Michael Myers is being raised by a dysfunctional family. An anthology collection inspired by John Carpenter's original film, Michael appears in various stories, tampering with Halloween candy, decapitating a beauty queen, tormenting Laurie Strode, and killing a school teacher. Luckily, screenwriter Daniel Farrands was an avid, even obsessive, fan of the Halloween series. As Michael was about to kill Sara, Freddie, wounded, arrives and electrifies Michael, and the house went up in flames with Michael inside. As the medical examiner begins to inspect Michael's body, he awakens. And it's up to Tommy Doyle, the boy from Halloween, and Dr. Loomis, to stop them all. [6], A year later, Michael awoke from his coma, killed the hermit, and continued searching for his niece. It seems possible that fire or decapitation could kill him. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis, who had heard of Myers' escape and was tracking him once more, encountered him at the diner and begged him to leave the people of Haddonfield alone. Dr. Loomis theorizes that he learned these skills from another inmate. Carpenter's experience would inspire the characterization that Loomis would give of Michael to Sheriff Brackett in the original film. Nevertheless, when writing Curse, Farrands was tasked with creating a mythology for Michael which defined his motives and why he could not be killed. The voices \"tell me to say I hate people\", says Mi… The local children believe the house is haunted.. they may be right. Michael returned to Haddonfield and began stalking Rachel, sneaking into her house and stabbing her with a pair of scissors. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers characters, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers characters, https://halloweenmovie.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Myers?oldid=61266, The Shape, The Boogeyman, Evil on Two Legs, Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills, Halloween Ends, Sheriff Meeker : Shot by the Man in Black, Officer Richards: Throat cut, Stabbed in the head with pen-knife. [8] Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) begins immediately after the fourth film ends, with Michael Myers (Donald L. Shanks) escaping the mine shaft and being nursed back to health by a local hermit. I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes; the devil's eyes [...] I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply...evil. He then proceeds to kill the host. Loomis told Michael, who was lurking in the woods, to meet him at the Myers house. First of all - Owen was old enough to trick-or-treat. In the original Halloween, the adult Michael Myers, referred to as The Shape in the closing credits, was portrayed by Nick Castle for most of the film and substituted by Tony Moran and Tommy Lee Wallace in the final scenes. He also displays extreme durability: He is shot in the shoulder by a handgun, shot by a rifle in the neck, struck across the head with a crowbar, hit by a SUV at full speed, and gets his fingers blown off, but still continues unabated. Stephen Hutchinson (w), Daniel Zezelj, Jim Daly, Brett Weldele, Jeffrey Zornow, Lee Ferguson, Tim Seeley (p), Nick Bell, Rob Buffalo, Jeffrey Zornow, Elizabeth John (i).Â, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, "Halloween Producer Wants William Shatner to Appear in the Franchise", "Why 'Halloween III: Season of the Witch' Didn't Feature Michael Myers and Why We Should Give It Another Chance", "Halloween's post-credits "scene," explained", "Halloween 2018's After-Credits Sequel Tease Explained", "What Actually Happens to Michael Myers at the End of the New Halloween Movie? Michael Myers, a little worn but just as destructive, in 2018's "Halloween." In 1990 Haddonfield, Illinois, the then-ten-year-old Michael Myers decimated his entire family, save for his baby sister, Laurie Strode. John Carpenter's 1978 film Halloween is one of the most important and beloved horror movies ever made. Since the H20 Timeline ignores the Curse of Thorn and the Cult, his ability to withstand injuries is never really explained. In it, Family Guys’ main character Peter Griffin is excited to find that Quahog’s local TV news anchor Tom Tucker is actually Halloween actor and stuntman George P. Wilbur, who portrayed the character of Michael Myers in Griffin’s “favorite movie ever,” Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. He spent fifteen years with Doctor Loomis, barely moving, never speaking a word. Unbeknownst to the participants, Harris rigged the house with false evidence that Michael had been physically and psychologically abused as a child. An adaptation of the events in Halloween and Halloween II, this timeline has no direct connection to the previous ones. Unlike the 2007 incarnation of him, this Michael does not have a Social Security Number. An evil force that's loose," a force that is "unkillable". [9], As the police arrived at Hillcrest, Michael awoke and attacked the paramedic who was about to move his body. Later in the story, Michael's stalking of Laurie and her friends is depicted as more explicitly sexual than was apparent in the film, with several references to him having an erection. [29] Hutchinson explains that Nightdance was an attempt to escape the dense continuity of the film series and recreate the tone of the 1978 film; Michael becomes inexplicably fixated on Lisa, just as he did with Laurie in the original Halloween, before the sequels established that a sibling bond was actually his motivation for stalking her. Here, Michael (Mane) is presumed dead but resurfaces after a vision of Deborah informs him that he must track Laurie down so that they can "come home." He then runs into Dr. Loomis at the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital and warns the Strode family that they were in danger. She eventually ran upstairs to the attic, where she discovered a child's coffin laid out ready for her. Loomis learns that Laurie is Michael's younger sister and rushes to the hospital to find them. It is established that Michael (James Jude Courtney) was arrested following his killing spree in 1978, spending 40 years in Smith's Grove Sanitarium before escaping again and returning to Haddonfield for another killing spree. No characters from the films are specifically named, with the goal of the game focusing on the player, who is a babysitter, protecting children from a "homicidal maniac [who] has escaped from a mental institution". The two teenagers managed to fend him off long enough for Laurie and her boyfriend Will Brennan to come to the rescue. [30] He was further characterised in the video game Dead by Daylight as "infused with a distilled and pure form of evil... For Michael, he had to kill to find some inner peace. He also employs a rope for strangling people and hanging their bodies on display. Michael's mother Deborah (Sheri Moon Zombie) commits suicide after witnessing him killing a nurse. "[41], In 2005, a study was conducted by the Media Psychology Lab of California State University, Los Angeles on the psychological appeal of movie monstersâvampires, Freddy Krueger, Frankenstein's monster, Jason Voorhees, Godzilla, Chucky, Hannibal Lecter, King Kong, the Alien, and the shark from Jawsâwhich surveyed 1,166 people nationwide (United States), with ages ranging from 16 to 91. Contestant Sara Moyer (Bianca Kajlich) and show producer Freddie Harris (Busta Rhymes) escape by electrocuting Michael. As an adult, Michael (Tyler Mane) returns to Haddonfield to reunite with his younger sister Laurie (Scout Taylor-Compton), the only person he has ever loved. Amelia Myers is the daughter of the serial killer Michael Myers and his wife Katie Higgins Myers. [10], Ignoring the events of the previous three films, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) establishes that Michael Myers (Chris Durand) has been missing for twenty years since the explosion in 1978. In 2002, however, his childhood home was invaded by an entrepreneur named Freddie Harris, who planned to host an internet reality show in the legendary Myers house.
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