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Fifteen years later, Dr. Loomis, who has since written a book about his unsuccessful treatment of Michael, titled ''The Devil's Eyes'', is forced to resign from the hospital staff. That night, Michael is to be transferred to a new cell, but escapes, killing several guards including one who had befriended Michael since his incarceration (''[[Danny Trejo]]''). Michael goes to a truck station and confronts trucker Joe Grizzley . Grizzely taunts Michael for facing him before he is rushed into a bathroom stall and killed with his own knife. (''[[Ken Foree]]'') and steals his boilersuit. Loomis is called and informed that Michael has escaped, and knows immediately that Michael will return to Haddonfield. Michael does indeed travel to his old home and retrieves his knife, and an old mask his sister's boyfriend was wearing from underneath the floorboards where he evidently hid them. He then hears Laurie Strode outside bringing a key to the front door to his old home. It is here he figures out that Laurie is his younger sister—-the one he's looking for. |
Fifteen years later, Dr. Loomis, who has since written a book about his unsuccessful treatment of Michael, titled ''The Devil's Eyes'', is forced to resign from the hospital staff. That night, Michael is to be transferred to a new cell, but escapes, killing several guards including one who had befriended Michael since his incarceration (''[[Danny Trejo]]''). Michael goes to a truck station and confronts trucker Joe Grizzley . Grizzely taunts Michael for facing him before he is rushed into a bathroom stall and killed with his own knife. (''[[Ken Foree]]'') and steals his boilersuit. Loomis is called and informed that Michael has escaped, and knows immediately that Michael will return to Haddonfield. Michael does indeed travel to his old home and retrieves his knife, and an old mask his sister's boyfriend was wearing from underneath the floorboards where he evidently hid them. He then hears Laurie Strode outside bringing a key to the front door to his old home. It is here he figures out that Laurie is his younger sister—-the one he's looking for. |
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The story shifts to Michael stalking his sister Laurie (''[[Scout Taylor-Compton]]''), who was adopted by the Strode family. On Halloween night, Michael managed to successfully kill Laurie's adoptive parents, Lynda van der Klok (''[[Kristina Klebe]]''), her two best friends' boyfriends, and mortally wound Annie Brackett (''[[Danielle Harris]]''). Near the end of the film, Laurie is taken off to the Myers' abandoned house where he shows her a picture given to him earlier in the film. She then buys some time and talks to him only to stab him with his knife and flees. As she flees, she falls into an empty swimming pool. As Michael approaches to finish her off, Loomis appears and shoots him down. He takes Laurie into his car and she utters the classic "Was that the Boogie Man?" line before Michael punches through the window and drags her out. Loomis convinces Michael to spare Laurie |
The story shifts to Michael stalking his sister Laurie (''[[Scout Taylor-Compton]]''), who was adopted by the Strode family. On Halloween night, Michael managed to successfully kill Laurie's adoptive parents, Lynda van der Klok (''[[Kristina Klebe]]''), her two best friends' boyfriends, and mortally wound Annie Brackett (''[[Danielle Harris]]''). Near the end of the film, Laurie is taken off to the Myers' abandoned house where he shows her a picture given to him earlier in the film. She then buys some time and talks to him only to stab him with his knife and flees. As she flees, she falls into an empty swimming pool. As Michael approaches to finish her off, Loomis appears and shoots him down. He takes Laurie into his car and she utters the classic "Was that the Boogie Man?" line before Michael punches through the window and drags her out. Loomis convinces Michael to spare Laurie, taking the blame for Michael's mental state, claming he "failed" Michael. Michael lets her go, then kills Loomis by crushing his skull. Laurie runs into the Myers home and hides in the attic. Michael finds her and attempts to get her. She finally falls out and stands to find him facing her. Michael then charges at her, and they both fall off the balcony. The next scene is Laurie lying on a bloodied Michael; she picks up Loomis's gun that she got from the doctor's coat, and attempts to shoot Michael. She tries to fire three times but it doesn't fire. Just then, he grabs Laurie's wrist and the fourth shot fires. The film ends with Laurie screaming in terror of what had just happened and goes to credits with home videos of Michael when he was a child with his family. |
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| Michael Myers | |
| Classification: | Serial killer |
| Signature weapon | Kitchen knife |
| Location | Haddonfield, Illinois |
| Created by: | John Carpenter Debra Hill |
| Family (original series): | Donald "Don" Myers (father) Edith (Nordstrom) Myers (mother) Judith Margaret Myers (older sister) Laurie Ann (Myers) Strode/ Kerry Tate (younger sister) Jamie Lloyd (niece) John Tate (nephew) Stephen Lloyd (pressumed son/ great-nephew) |
| Enemies: | Dr. Sam Loomis Laurie Strode Jamie Lloyd Tommy Doyle Freddie Harris |
| Portrayed by: | Nick Castle (masked) Tony Moran (unmasked) Will Sandin (child) (Halloween 1978) Dick Warlock Adam Gunn (child) (Halloween II) George P. Wilbur (Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers - Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers) Don Shanks (Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers) Chris Durand (Halloween H20: 20 Years Later) Brad Loree (Halloween: Resurrection) Tyler Mane Daeg Faerch (child) (Halloween 2007) |
Michael Myers is a fictional character from the Halloween film series. The character has appeared in eight of the nine Halloween films, as well as in several comic books and other media forms.
One of the first slasher villains, his murders occur on Halloween, with some films depicting him active in the preceding day or so, targeting family members, but willing to kill everyone that comes in his way. Michael Myers is absent from Halloween III: Season of the Witch, although he makes a small appearance on a TV screen at a bar that the main character goes to.
Some fans and even cast and crew of the films sometime call the character The Shape, which is what some of the actors playing the character are credited as. This dates back to the script for the first film in which Michael Myers is referred to by name only twice, in the beginning and end scenes; at all other times, with the exception of dialogue, he is simply referred to as a "shape" due to his face not being visible.
The character was named Michael Myers after the head of Miracle Films, a now defunct distribution company that helped release John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 in the U.K.
Early life (1957-1963)
Michael Audrey Myers was born in October 19, 1957 as the only son and middle child of Donald and Edith Myers (Donald and Deborah in remake). Michael had two sisters, Judith Margaret (the eldest) and Laurie Ann (the youngest). The family resided in a two story house in the mid-west suburban town of Haddonfield, Illinois.
Michael experienced typical child development up until his sixth birthday. As a child he was considered bright. He learned to speak rather quickly and read at a very advanced pace for his age, that is until his fifth year where he started to quickly lose some speech and began to show some stereotypical autistic behavior (preoccupation with parts of objects, staring off into space). He also started showing signs of psychosis at a young age.
Michael was taken to be put under psychiatric care by Dr. Sam Loomis. Dr. Loomis was the assistant of Dr. Wynn, head of Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Loomis spent years trying to learn why Michael would commit a murder at such a young age while no signs of motivation were present. Michael never spoke a word, instead waiting patiently, never talking or crying.
Michael was visited occasionally by his parents who hoped for Loomis to get through to him. Michael's other sister, Laurie, also met Michael in the facility for the first time since the murder of her sister, but Michael began violently grinding his teeth at the sight of her. When Donald and Edith later died in a car accident, Laurie was put up for adoption. This left her as the only family member left for Michael to kill. After his years of extensive methods and exhaustive effort to get through to Michael proved futile, Loomis finally reached a conclusion that had no medical precedent: Michael was evil, pure and simple. After all his years of evaluation, there was no evidence of remorse for the crime Michael committed at six years old. Loomis then spent the next seven years trying to get Michael placed in a federal prison as he feared that the current facility would not be able to hold Michael much longer.
The head of the facility believed Michael was not capable of further murders as he had not shown any signs of behavior that could be attributed to that characterization. Loomis tried to convince them that Michael was simply using his calmness to fool everyone until he could escape. Eventually, Loomis had to bring Michael to a court hearing to learn if Michael would remain in the facility or be transferred to a more secure prison.
Halloween (1978)
"I met him fifteen years ago; I was told there was nothing left: no reason, no conscience, no understanding; not even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six year old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face and the blackest eyes; the Devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven years trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil. - Dr. Sam Loomis
In 1978, Michael hijacked the car meant for his court transfer. The car was driven by Loomis's medical colleague and assistant nurse, Marion Chambers. After attempting to attack Marion, Michael got into the car and drove away quickly. His destination was his hometown of Haddonfield. When the sun rose, he pulled over, killed a tow truck driver, and then stole his clothes. He had, however, dropped a book of matches, originally belonging to Chambers, giving Loomis the vital clue that he had indeed been there.
On the following day, October 31, Michael returned to his childhood home, which was now vacant, run-down, and on the market under Strode Realty. Moments later, he heard voices and investigated, thus finding his target. He followed the young woman named Laurie Strode while she was in school, while she walked home from school, and when she went to baby-sit in another neighborhood along with her friend, Annie Brackett. Laurie was babysitting for Tommy Doyle while Annie was watching Lindsey Wallace. Later that night, Annie received a telephone call from her boyfriend Paul explaining that he needed to be picked up. Lindsey was soon thereafter taken across the street to continue watching The Thing from Another World with Tommy and Laurie. When Annie got to her car, she discovered it was locked, and returned to the house to get her keys. Annie then returned to the car, failing to notice that the door was now unlocked. After getting inside, she noticed that the windshield was fogged over. As she puzzled over this, Myers emerged from the backseat and began strangling her. Michael then slit her throat and carried her back inside the house.
Later on, Annie's other friend, Linda, and her boyfriend, Bob, showed up at the Wallace residence, where they had sex in the empty house. Afterwards, Bob went downstairs for beer and discovered the back door hanging open. Thinking it was a prank by Linda and Paul, he searched the kitchen only to find Michael hiding inside the closet. Michael lifted Bob up by the throat and then stabbed him through the chest, pinning him to the wall. He then put a sheet over himself and placed Bob's glasses on top of the sheet. After creeping up the stairs, he approached Linda, who believes he is Bob playing a practical joke. She attempted to call Lindsey, just as Michael made his move. He violently strangles Linda with the phone cord. Once she was dead, he props the bodies of the three deceased teenagers in the upstairs bedroom.
After receiving the strange call from Linda, Laurie decided to go across the street and investigate. When she arrived, she thought her friends were playing pranks on her. To her horror she discovered the gruesome display of her brother's victims and her sister's headstone. When Michael was within reach of Laurie, he stabbed her in the left shoulder and she fell down the stairs. Laurie fled and Michael pursued her. Once outside Laurie attempted to gain attention from the neighbors, only to have them think of it as another Halloween prank. Laurie finally made it back to the Doyle's house and was able to alert Tommy. He came downstairs and let her inside.
Michael stalked her all the way to the Doyle residence. Once inside, Laurie noticed one of the side windows was missing. They fought each other in the house, and Laurie eventually stabbed him in the eye with a coat hanger, thinking he's dead. Laurie then instructed Tommy and Lindsey to call the police from a neighbor's house. After they took off, Michael rose once again and went after Laurie, now attempting to strangle her. She fought back and pulled off his mask. Michael's face is revealed. Meanwhile Loomis, who had been on his patient's path the whole day, appeared in time and shot Michael six times at point-blank range. Michael then fell from the second-story balcony. Despite his seemingly fatal injuries, he was nowhere to be found on the lawn when Loomis looks moments later.
Halloween II (1981)
Continuing on the night of Tuesday, October 31, 1978, Dr. Loomis exits the Doyle house and walks onto the front lawn. He inspects the spot where Michael had landed and finds a patch of blood. Before others suffer the fate of death at the wrath of his patient, Dr. Loomis resumes his relentless search for Michael along with Sheriff Leigh Brackett. The traumatized Laurie Strode is taken, by ambulance, to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital for the injuries she obtained during Michael's attacks. During this time, nearly a block away, Michael had obtained another knife and murdered a girl inside her own house.
Brackett’s police deputy, Gary Hunt, quickly arrives on the scene of a car accident to confirm to Brackett and Loomis that there are three youths found dead across the street from the Doyle house. He believes that one of the teenagers is the sheriff’s own daughter, Annie. When Brackett discovers it was Annie and returns to Memorial Hospital.
It is not long after that Michael arrives at the hospital. Jimmy Lloyd, an EMT and a student at a local college, reveals to Laurie that the radio and television broadcasts have identified her attacker: Michael Myers. She is initially confused in the presence of her new friend as to why the man who was "that little kid who killed his sister" would be after her at all. Later on, Laurie dreams about a moment she experienced seven years earlier. When Laurie was ten years old, she visited Michael at the mental institution where he was being held. She also remembered the day her adoptive mother, Pamela Strode, confessed she was not her biological mother. Laurie then has flashbacks of her real family and remembers she once had an older sister who was killed by her younger brother, then a six-year-old. She realizes that it is her own brother who is after her. Laurie is clued in to the presence of her feared tormentor when the hospital goes dark and the staff are not around. Since the telephone in her room was not working, she decides to search for a working phone and then try escaping on foot.
Deputy Hunt later instructs his associate patrolman that all police officials do a sweep of the city from Chestnut Avenue to the Bypass checking every street, house, and backyard for Michael Myers after a dentist confirmed that the man wearing a similar mask to Michael Myers was killed in the car accident earlier in the film.
At the hospital, Michael has killed almost the entire hospital staff, and is now after Laurie once again, chasing her through the hospital, nearly catching her on several occasions. Marion and Dr. Loomis arrive and rescue her. Loomis shoots Michael five times, rendering him momentarily incapacitated. The marshal sees Michael’s body collapse, honestly believing Loomis has succeeded in killing him, but is later killed when he got too close to the body. Meanwhile, Marion is calling for help on the marshal's radio. Dr. Loomis and Laurie take off in the darkened hospital, hoping to find a good hiding place, only to discover Michael has systematically locked all the doors leading to a series of rooms used for surgery.
Loomis and Laurie take refuge in one of the darkened rooms, and Loomis insists that Laurie take one of his guns for protection. Michael locates the pair and stabs Loomis in the chest. As Michael approaches Laurie, she tells him to stop. He pauses and stares at her for a moment, but soon begins advancing on her once again. Laurie then fires two bullets into his face. While Michael is blinded by the bullets, Dr. Loomis and Laurie fill the room with fresh oxygen and ether by turning on nearby oxygen tanks. Dr. Loomis frees Laurie from the room before he ignites a cigarette lighter. Laurie takes refuge just as the room explodes. After a moment, she stares in horror as Michael slowly emerges from the fiery room, completely engulfed in flames. He takes a few steps, and then finally falls, seemingly dead (though we later find out that he was only in a coma).
Until twenty years later, watching Michael lying on the floor in flames is Laurie’s last memory of him. For the next several years, she hoped that Michael had died from his injuries. On the following morning of Wednesday November 1st, Laurie is pushed in a wheelchair by Nurse Marion to an ambulance. Laurie is to be taken to a bigger hospital for further treatment.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Loomis and Michael survived the explosion at the hospital. Loomis has been scarred and walks with a cane, while Michael had spent an entire decade in a coma. On October 30, 1988, two Smith's Grove medical attendants were tasked with transferring Michael from Ridgemont Federal Sanitarium in Ridgemont, Illinois, back to Smith's Grove. Soon after, while in the back of the ambulance, the male attendant declared that Michael has one living relative, a niece, residing in his hometown of Haddonfield. Upon hearing this news, Michael suddenly awakened, killed the two attendants and caused the driver to crash into a river.
Later on, Loomis rushed to the crash scene, searched for Michael's body, and came up empty. Loomis headed to Haddonfield to search for Michael. Michael had entered a gas station, killed its attendants, and acquired another mechanic's uniform. Loomis made the grisly discovery and, for a moment, the two stare at each other as Loomis pleads with him not to return to Haddonfield, only for Myers to nearly kill him in his escape.
Loomis took a fresh look into Michael's past to contemplate the latest motive for his actions. After Laurie's faked death, her daughter Jamie Lloyd (daughter of Laurie and Jimmy Lloyd from Halloween II) is living in the care of the Carruthers family. Upon hearing this, Loomis rushes to save her from her uncle only to find that Michael has beaten him there.
The ever-methodical Michael knocked out power for all of Haddonfield after he propelled an electrician's body onto a power line, and killed all of the officers in the police station. Michael continued to stalk Jamie and nearly attacked her, but Loomis stopped him. Then, they all drove to the sheriff's house, where they boarded up all the windows and doors, but Michael outsmarted them all by sneaking into the house unnoticed. Thus, they had locked themselves up with the very person they were trying to escape.
Michael then surprised and killed them off one-by-one. Myers chased after Jamie and her older, adoptive sister Rachel. Ultimately, Jamie managed to escape and met up with Loomis where the pair broke into her elementary school. As Michael closed in on Jamie, Rachel appeared and sprayed Michael with a fire extinguisher.
The two sisters escaped with a group of armed townsmen who also had a score to settle with Michael, as he murdered one of their sons, but they later were killed and thrown off the truck. Finally, after ripping the driver's throat open, the girls were left by themselves to fight off Michael, who was now slashing off the roof of the truck. Rachel abruptly stopped the truck, propelling Michael forward onto the ground, and then ran him over. This time, Michael did not stir, and Jamie got out of the car and touched his hand. Michael then nonchalantly sat up, but this time, the state police had arrived and they gunned him down, causing him to fall into a mineshaft.
Jamie and Rachel returned home to their parents. As the evening ends, the opening sequence of the first movie repeated itself, except that instead of Michael dressed in a clown outfit, stabbing his sister, it was Jamie in the same outfit, stabbing her foster mother. Apparently when Jamie touched Michael, his homicidal impulses transferred to her. Loomis tried to shoot Jamie in horror, but the girls' police escort tackles him before he could do so. It was believed that the transformation was a Michael Myers "reincarnation."
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
After Michael fell down the mine shaft, the state troopers tossed dynamite down the mine to make sure that Michael would die. But Michael somehow found his way out and crawled out in time. After floating downriver, he spotted a hermit's house in the nearby woods and passed out as he tried to strangle him. The hermit then nursed him back to health, but on Halloween 1989, Michael awakened, killed the hermit, and continued his insatiable quest to kill his niece.
Jamie, now in a mute state, has been put under doctor's care at a psychiatric home. She had been having nightmares since the events of part 4 and apparently, now shared some sort of telepathic link with her uncle; she knew exactly when and where he would strike next. This first explains the power of "THORN". Michael snuck into Rachel's house, eventually killing her. Michael then killed off a group of teenagers (and two police officers) as he slowly built up to his main target, Jamie.
Loomis, who was slowly losing his mind, used Jamie's connection with Michael to set a trap for him at his house. Myers disposed of the police and even wounded Loomis as he stalked Jamie. When Loomis tried to take Michael's knife away, Michael hesitated and slashed him. Jamie ran into the attic, where she found her dead sister Rachel, her dog Max and couple of other bodies. When he finally had the opportunity to kill Jamie, he suddenly stopped when she says "Uncle?" Afterwards, Jamie says "Let me see". In a bizarre moment of humanity, Michael listened to his niece and eventually took off his mask, beginning to cry. When Jamie said "Let me" and tried to wipe away his tears, Michael recoiled in a rage and attacked his young niece again, lifting up the coffin and tossing it across the attic. He angrily stalked Jamie until he encountered Loomis, who caught Michael in a net of heavy chains, shot him with several tranquilizers and beat him into unconsciousness with a board from one of the broken windows.
For the first time in the series, Michael was captured and imprisoned. A policeman tried to assure Jamie that her uncle would die in prison, to which Jamie responded, "He never dies." A few minutes later, a mysterious stranger dressed in black blasted Michael out of jail, attacking and apparently killing the remaining police with an automatic weapon before explosively detonating Michael's cell door. Jamie then enters the prison and to her horror, finds signs of extreme violence and Michael's cell empty.
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
It is revealed that Myers was saved by a secret cult of Druids that existed to worship and protect him. This same cult also kidnapped Jamie, who was now 15 and pregnant with a son. When she gives birth to her son, the cult leader, the man dressed in black, takes it to fulfill the cults own purposes. Jamie was able to escape with her newborn baby thanks to the help of one of the doctors. Michael however murdered the doctor and pursued Jamie, murdering a truck driver in the process. Jamie eventually calls a Radio broadcast network in hopes of contacting Dr. Loomis through the Radio. This method proves effective, but it was too late to save Jamie from her murderous uncle. Loomis hears the radio broadcast along with Dr. Wynn who had arrived at Loomis's house to ask him to come back to Smith's Grove where he originally worked.
Michael stalked and eventually killed Jamie by jamming her body into some farm equipment and then turning the machine on. In the producers cut, Michael merely stabbes Jamie and she is found alive by authorties and taken to the Haddonfield Hospital. She is later killed by the man in black while in the hospital since she served no further purposes for the cult. Michael however, was unable to find where she hid the baby and goes back to Haddonfield to find the last of his bloodline. In his search for Jamie's baby, Michael began a new murder spree, targeting the new family that now occupies the serial killer's old house, the Strodes. Michael believes that anyone living in his house is his family and therefore will become his victims. Laurie Myers Strode's (Michael's deceased sister's) adoptive Aunt and Uncle now reside in the house with a son. Kara, their daughter, and her son Danny, now live there until she graduates from college. Tommy Doyle, the child Laurie was babysitting in the first film, is now an adult and has been researching Michael, hoping to uncover the reason for his homicidal rage. In his search, he hears about Jamie and learns that she was at a bus station at the time she called the radio broadcast. There, he finds her baby, which he names Steven, and also meets Dr. Loomis. He tells Loomis about the Strode family that lives next to him and that they are in danger. Loomis later goes to the house to warn Kara's mother that Michael will return to the house as all his memories and rage are there. Though she believes him, Michael was already too close for her to escape.
One by one, Michael begins slaughtering the family until only Kara and her son are left. Danny, in the meantime, had been experiencing odd occurrences that are connected to the man in black, the same man who released Michael from his prison and kidnapped Jamie. It is soon learned that Michael is nothing more than a puppet for an ancient evil that makes him stalk and kill family members. Tommy explains that an ancient organization called Thorn, named after one of the worst plagues to befall the world, has inflicted Michael with the Curse of Thorn to make him kill family members on the night of Samhain, Halloween. The cult believes that this must be done in order to restore balance to humanity and save the rest of the community from death and the plague of Thorn. The cult is responsible for impregnating Jamie to make Steven Michael's final sacrifice and then pass the curse to Danny Strode, who the man in black has been haunting, to make him the next one to bring balance to the world in the years to come.
It is this curse that gives Michael his homicidal rage, strength, and immortality. The symbol of Thorn is also shown as a constellation of stars that appears on Halloween, whenever it appears Michael commits his murders. Loomis meets with Tommy as Michael's body count continues to rise. They save Kara and Steven from Michael only to be ambushed by the Thorn Cult. Here, it is learned that Dr. Wynn is actually the man in black and is the leader of the cult. They take Kara, Danny, and Steven, leaving Loomis and Tommy drugged. Loomis and Tommy go to Smith's Grove where Loomis learns from Tommy about The Curse of Thorn. Wynn is revealed to be Michael's guardian and he has an obligation to protect Michael at any cost, which is why he released Michael from his prison cell in the previous movie. This also hints that Wynn is the one who released Michael from Smith's Grove in the first film and was the one who taught him how to drive.
Wynn wants Loomis to join them. In the theatrical version of the movie, Michael kills Wynn along with other doctors in Smith's Grove. As Michael pursues his victims, Tommy stabs Michael with syringes and beats him into unconsciousness with a pipe. In the Producer's cut, Michael is about to sacrifice the baby when he begins to resist the Curse upon Kara begging him not to kill Steven. It is hinted that the baby is Michael's, but it is not explored further. As Michael pursues his victims, Tommy performs a ritual that cancels out the energies of the Curse, seemingly bringing Michael out of his homicidal rage once and for all.
At the end of the movie, a loud scream was heard from inside the building in which Loomis and Myers were last seen in, and the mask of Michael Myers is found on the floor.
Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998)
Laurie Strode had faked her own death and changed her name to Keri Marie Tate. She became the Headmistress and a literature teacher at a respected secluded private school called Hillcrest Academy in fictional Summer Glen, California. Myers discovered her whereabouts on October 29, 1998 as he ransacked Nurse Marion's house and killed her and two other teenagers, back in Langdon, Illinois; however, after all these years, Laurie has "visions", out of fear, of Michael (coming toward her, or seeing his reflection in a window). Her visions cause her to resist allowing her 17-year-old son John from attending a field trip to Yosemite, but she eventually breaks, feeling it would be good for him. Nevertheless, John and his friends have already made plans to stay on campus. He does not tell his mother. Michael comes to Hillcrest for Laurie and John. He sneaks past the guard at the entrance to the school. As this is happening, Laurie tells her boyfriend, Will, of her true identity and family history. It is then that she realizes that Michael attempted to kill her when she was 17, the same age as her son. Upon trying the phone and discovering it dead, she finds John's camping gear in the closet. She panicks and arms herself with a gun while Will watches. The security guard comes to warn Laurie of the mysterious car at the gate (Michael's car).
Meanwhile Michael has killed John's friend and his girlfriend. John and his girlfriend run to get away from Michael as he chases after John trying to kill his girlfriend first, but fails in doing that. Once John saved his girlfriend, Michael stabs John in the thigh, but John and his girlfriend escape. As soon as the two kids meet up with Laurie and Will, Laurie sees Michael through the window, realizing her worst fears.
Everyone is in the building, and Laurie tells the kids to hide in a closet. Then, Laurie and Will, see someone walking in the shadows, and Will shoots the figure. Upon closer inspection, they find it was the security guard. Then Michael comes in and stabs Will, lifting him off the ground. Laurie finds the kids, and gets in the car and goes to the front of the school. She tells them to leave the school. Once this happens, Laurie destroys the gate-opener, locking her and Michael in. She grabs the fireman's ax, and starts shouting, "Michael", trying to lure him to her. Back in the school Michael and Laurie have a violent struggle. Laurie eventually stabs Michael several times, and sends him flying off a balcony into the cafeteria of the school. He lays there, seemingly dead, and Laurie prepares to stab him even more, when the security guard stops her saying, "he's dead, he's dead".
Police officers come, and everything seems to be okay. However, Laurie knows Michael's immortal "nature". She takes the ax she had earlier, swipes a policeman's gun and orders paramedics to load Michael's body into a nearby van. She drives off, continuously checking to see if his body bag is moving. Once it does start moving and he gets out of the bag, Laurie suddenly stops the car, hurtling Michael through the windshield. Once he stands up, Laurie rams the van into him and sends the car down an off-road hill. She jumps out of the van, and the van, Michael, and her tumble down the hill, and Michael gets pinned between the van and a tree. Laurie walks over to him with the axe. Michael reaches out to her, and Laurie breaks out in tears, and goes to touch his hand. But before she touches his hand, she remembers his true nature, and decapitates her brother.
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Laurie Strode thought she had put an end to her evil brother once and for all. It turns out, while Michael was still in the Academy's dining hall, a Summer Glen paramedic came to inspect his motionless body. Just as he was about to unmask him, Michael arose and crushed the paramedic's larynx. Michael then switched clothes with the now-mute and unconscious paramedic. When Laurie hijacked the coroner's van, she believed her brother had been loaded in. After succeeding in crashing the van down a steep slope off a mountainous highway, Laurie beheaded the costumed and masked man, thinking it was Michael. But when it was discovered she killed an innocent man, she was arrested for homicide. Shortly afterward, Laurie was committed to the psychiatric care facility of Grace Andersen Sanitarium.
Three years later, on the night of October 31, 2001, Michael eventually found his sister at the institution. He broke into the facility, tracked down Laurie, and chased her as she made her way to the rooftop. Ardent preparation was the only thing left for Laurie in her captivity. She had planned an ingenious trap for her brother's eventual return. When he did fall for the trap and was hanging upside-down, Laurie wanted to make certain Michael was the man behind the mask. As she proceeded to unmask him, Michael grabbed her left hand. Equipped with his knife in her right hand, Laurie tried to drive it into Michael's abdomen, while Michael tried to grab her right hand. The rope suspending Michael broke and the two siblings were pulled to the other side of the roof. Michael grabbed the ledge with Laurie hanging on, he then drove the knife into Laurie's abdomen all the way through her back. Laurie accepting her death, kissed the lips of her brother's mask and vowed that she would see him in Hell. Michael then released the knife, letting Laurie fall to her death. Coldly watching her as if admiring his handiwork, he knew that he had finally won.
One year later on October 31, 2002, Michael was home in Haddonfield, living in a section of tunnels below his childhood house.
The abandoned house itself was later being used as the setting for an Internet reality show by Dangertainment owner and operator Freddie Harris along with his girlfriend and colleague Nora Winston. Six college students, three from Haddonfield University, have won as contestants to spend Halloween night in the 'now-famous' residence.
That night, Michael succeeded in killing five of the college students and two of its crew members. It ended when Freddie and the reserved college student, Sara Moyer managed to electrocute and burn Michael while the garage was engulfed with flames. Michael's body was thereafter taken to the morgue. As a female coroner was about to unmask his charred face, his eyelids open, leaving it open for a possible sequel.
Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007)
The story begins at the Myers home, where a young Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch), wearing a clown mask, is petting his rat named Elvis, which Michael later kills. At the breakfast table, Michael is taunted and insulted by his mother's slacker boyfriend Ronnie (William Forsythe). Later that day at school, a bully (Daryl Sabara) mocks and fights Michael after taunting the boy about his sister Judith (by portraying her as a slut) and showing him a flier showing Michael's mother Deborah (Sheri Moon Zombie), who is a star at a strip club. Deborah is called to the office where the school tells her that the mutilated bodies of several animals were found in Michael's locker, along with photos of Michael torturing them. Deborah is introduced to Dr. Samuel Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), who advises her to get professional help for her son for the torturing may be early signs psychotic behavior. Meanwhile Michael runs away. Wesley, the bully who mocked Michael, takes a short-cut home through the woods, where Michael ambushes and beats him relentlessly with a tree branch, wearing his clown mask. Despite the boy's desperate pleas for mercy, Michael proceeds to viciously finish his kill.
Later that Halloween night, Michael's older sister Judith (Hanna R. Hall) neglects taking him trick-or-treating because her boyfriend (Adam Weisman) comes over, so Michael goes alone. But when Michael gets back, he brutally murders Ronnie with a knife, his sister Judith's boyfriend with an aluminum bat, and finally Judith while wearing her boyfriend's mask. But he spares his younger sister Laurie. Deborah Myers arrives home and finds Michael outside, covered in blood and with Laurie in his arms. Afterwards, Michael is taken into police custody.
Eleven months later, Michael is sent to a mental institution where Dr. Loomis tries to help him, but Michael claims to not remember any of the killings. Michael's mother comes to visit him every week. Michael slowly becomes repressed from the confinement, speaking less and less, and wearing homemade masks at all times. While at lunch with Dr. Loomis and his mother, Michael refuses to eat, move or respond, his mother presents him with a picture of himself and his younger sister. Later when Dr. Loomis and his mother leave, Michael kills his nurse with a fork for touching a photo of him and his little sister (in one of the workprints, the nurse insults Michael by looking at the photograph and saying, "Cute baby... couldn't be related to you."). An alarm sounds and guards, followed closely by Deborah Myers and Dr. Loomis, rush into the room to restrain Michael, who becomes feral when they remove his mask. Later at the Myers home, Deborah cries while watching old films of her and Michael. Unable to stand what her son has become any longer, she kills herself, leaving baby Laurie screaming in the house.
Fifteen years later, Dr. Loomis, who has since written a book about his unsuccessful treatment of Michael, titled The Devil's Eyes, is forced to resign from the hospital staff. That night, Michael is to be transferred to a new cell, but escapes, killing several guards including one who had befriended Michael since his incarceration (Danny Trejo). Michael goes to a truck station and confronts trucker Joe Grizzley . Grizzely taunts Michael for facing him before he is rushed into a bathroom stall and killed with his own knife. (Ken Foree) and steals his boilersuit. Loomis is called and informed that Michael has escaped, and knows immediately that Michael will return to Haddonfield. Michael does indeed travel to his old home and retrieves his knife, and an old mask his sister's boyfriend was wearing from underneath the floorboards where he evidently hid them. He then hears Laurie Strode outside bringing a key to the front door to his old home. It is here he figures out that Laurie is his younger sister—-the one he's looking for.
The story shifts to Michael stalking his sister Laurie (Scout Taylor-Compton), who was adopted by the Strode family. On Halloween night, Michael managed to successfully kill Laurie's adoptive parents, Lynda van der Klok (Kristina Klebe), her two best friends' boyfriends, and mortally wound Annie Brackett (Danielle Harris). Near the end of the film, Laurie is taken off to the Myers' abandoned house where he shows her a picture given to him earlier in the film. She then buys some time and talks to him only to stab him with his knife and flees. As she flees, she falls into an empty swimming pool. As Michael approaches to finish her off, Loomis appears and shoots him down. He takes Laurie into his car and she utters the classic "Was that the Boogie Man?" line before Michael punches through the window and drags her out. Loomis convinces Michael to spare Laurie, taking the blame for Michael's mental state, claming he "failed" Michael. Michael lets her go, then kills Loomis by crushing his skull. Laurie runs into the Myers home and hides in the attic. Michael finds her and attempts to get her. She finally falls out and stands to find him facing her. Michael then charges at her, and they both fall off the balcony. The next scene is Laurie lying on a bloodied Michael; she picks up Loomis's gun that she got from the doctor's coat, and attempts to shoot Michael. She tries to fire three times but it doesn't fire. Just then, he grabs Laurie's wrist and the fourth shot fires. The film ends with Laurie screaming in terror of what had just happened and goes to credits with home videos of Michael when he was a child with his family.
Characteristics and abilities
- Michael is tall, in Rob Zombie's re-imagining he is portrayed by Tyler Mane who is 6'8". In Halloween: Resurrection he is clearly taller than 6'1" Busta Rhymes (Fred Harris). He has scars from burns after being set on fire by Dr. Loomis at the conclusion of Halloween II. Michael has blue eyes and blonde hair. In subsequent films, mainly one eye is seen, due to being shot in both eyes, by his sister Laurie Strode in Halloween II. He is generally depicted in coveralls worn by automobile mechanics. He also wears a white mask (originally a William Shatner mask with the facial hair removed and spray painted white) during his murders with very few exceptions. In the 2007 remake, Michael, as a child, often wears masks to school and while at home. He wears a clown mask most often and tells his mother, after he is incarcerated for killing his sister, her boyfriend, and his mother's boyfriend, that he doesn't like his appearance and thinks he's ugly. He even orders her to put back a mask she took off of his face. As an adult, Michael, while not in therapy with Dr. Loomis, spends much of his time creating masks made out of paper that he hangs on the wall of his cell and is almost always wearing one of them.
- Micheal also has a rudimentary and near-genius mentality. In the 1978 film, Michael is only six-years-old when he kills his sister, meaning he may not have been in school for long. He never receives any school while incarcerated. In his escape, he is able to commandeer the vehicle Loomis and Chambers were driving, and operated it well; he was never instructed how to drive a motor vehicle. There are also times he has been seen operating complex devices. One aspect writer Rob Zombie consciously removed from the mythology in his remake is Michael's inexplicable ability to drive, as he is seen traveling on foot.
- Michael almost never uses firearms or explosives to kill people. The rare exception is in Halloween 4 where he uses a shotgun to impale a victim. Typically, Michael prefers stabbing and cutting instruments like knives and scalpels (as in Halloween II) or blunt force such as his bare hands.
- Michael never runs no matter how fast his victims run when he pursues them. He usually walks with a distinctive gait[citation needed], but in the 2007 remake of Halloween Michael is seen charging at his younger sister, though he doesn't actually run. His primary weapon is a kitchen knife, but has also used several other weapons to accomplish his work, including a pitchfork in Halloween 5 and an axe in Halloween 6. He crushes the skull of victims with his bare hands in The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween: Resurrection. He even drives his thumb through a victim's forehead in the beginning of The Return of Michael Myers. He often looks directly into his victim's eyes with his head shifted to the side as if to study them as they die or shortly thereafter. In the 2007 Rob Zombie movie, he kills his sister's boyfriend with an aluminum baseball bat and a nurse with a fork.
- While Michael is mute, he seems to understand what people say to him. There have been brief glimpses of hesitation or even remorse in Michael, an example of which is in Halloween II. Michael approaches Laurie with the intention of killing her, when she screams his name. Michael stops and turns his head slightly in confusion; this hints that Michael may not be entirely sure of his intentions. Many consider this a true interpretation of Michael's hesitation, as it is in a film made by John Carpenter, the creator of the character, and not a different writer who hoped to fill in the gaps of Michael's origin with their own ideas. Another example is Halloween 5 when Jamie climbs into the coffin, she cries out "uncle" and Michael stops his attack and then she says "let me see", at which point Michael removes his mask and a tear falls out of his eye. This seems to show remorse, or perhaps simply a moment during which Michael's true soul takes hold before the curse silences it once more, suggesting Michael is not a psychopath. In the 2007 remake, Michael displays psychopathic tendencies such as regularly torturing and killing small animals and is described in the film as being psychotic.
- Michael has displayed limited psychic abilities with his family, especially his sister Laurie and niece Jamie. He was able to mentally command his niece Jamie to attack her adoptive mother in The Return of Michael Myers. This ability may also explain why he continues to hunt for his sister Laurie in H20 even though she faked her death via an automobile accident.
- Michael has displayed many feats of superhuman strength including lifting large men off their feet by their heads. One of his greatest feats occurred in The Curse of Michael Myers; after pursuing a Thorn doctor through a tunnel and trapping him behind jail-like bars, Michael slowly presses the doctor's head into the bars, crushing it, causing the bars to fall to the floor in the process. In the 2007 remake, Michael demonstrates superhuman levels strength sufficient to lift a man off the ground by the throat with one hand, breaks steel chains, and lift and move his mother's tombstone which is said in the movie to weigh over 1,000 lbs.
- Michael apparently eats food. In the first film, Michael fed on a canine. It is not known how often he needs to eat, but it seems very infrequent. It was insinuated he lived in part off rats in Halloween Resurrection. In The Revenge of Michael Myers, he is apparently catatonic for an entire year as he laid in the fisherman's cabin. It is unknown if he partook of any sustenance during that year.
- Michael possesses superhuman recuperative abilities. He has withstood being shot several times, including 6 times at point blank range in the original film. He has also withstood being burned, stabbed, beaten, hanged, shot, and electrocuted. In Halloween II, in the final scenes, he is shot in both eyes by his sister, Laurie; in later films he has regenerated both eyes, though most of the sequels only show one eye in close-ups. However, given the common occurrence of unlikely events in horror films, it is possible that Laurie's shots did not actually hit Michael in the eyes, but rather in a close vicinity to his eyes, and the flow of blood simply blinded him temporarily. After acting comatose for nearly 10 years, he displays no ill physical effects when he escapes from the ambulance in The Return of Michael Myers. In the 2007 remake, there is no mention of Michael being supernatural though displays superhuman levels of resilience throughout the film such as being stabbed in the chest and shot on multiple occasions by Dr. Loomis, the police, and his sister Laurie. At the end of the film, Laurie shoots him in the face and is splattered with his blood, though the movie quickly ends without revealing if Michael survives.
- Michael is also quite cunning, able to sneak up on intended victims or trick them consistently. He has an uncanny ability to escape detection.
In mass media
The stop motion animated television show Robot Chicken episode nineteen, "That Hurts Me", Michael appears, this time a housemate of "Horror Movie Big Brother", alongside other famous slasher movie killers such as Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, Pinhead, and Ghostface. There he plays Charades with the other mute killers and wages a practical joke war with Jason against Pinhead. Unable to win the veto in the Challenge, it was Michael and Ghostface who were voted on to be evicted. When pleading their cases, Ghostface give a decidedly more heartfelt speech than Michael, who just stabs Freddy several times. Michael is evicted, and is revealed to be comedian Mike Myers before stabbing his interviewer to death.
He also appears in an "Andy Milonakis" feature called "Andy goes to Hollywood" where Andy is attacked by Michael and Ralphie (another character) and it ends with Ralphie saying "I want a doughnut" and a group hug in which Michael Myers joins in.
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