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Horror movies tend to have a lot of dumb lore. When you stretch a franchise out to its eighth, ninth, tenth installments you naturally build up a lot of absurd storylines and melodramatic characters and supernatural backstories for why the teens keep getting murdered. The Halloween franchise is no different.
The 2018 David Gordon Green/Danny McBride Halloween reboot in theaters this week presents itself as a direct sequel to the 1978 John Carpenter classic original ignoring all the others and bringing back older Jamie Lee Curtis after decades. It’s like when the 1998 Halloween: H20 reboot presented itself as a direct sequel to the 1978 John Carpenter classic original ignoring all others and bringing back older Jamie Lee Curtis after decades.
But a bunch of other movies also came after Halloween, arguably the first slasher movie. And all except one revolve around its iconic slasher, knife fan, Shrek voice actor, and devoted brother Michael Myers. Michael’s story has gotten mixed around over the decades, coming up with new reasons why he slaughters his family. With a canon that confusing and impermanent, it can be tough to get a grasp on what you truly know about The Shape. So to get ready for the new movie, here are 6(66) things you didn’t know about Halloween’s Michael Myers.
Every horror movie villain needs a signature look, something that immediately strikes fear into your heart anytime you catch a glimpse of it. For Michael Myers it’s his uncanny mask with the white skin, sunken eyes, and patch of hair showing how Myers is both human and less than. But did you know that mask is actually based on the face of fellow unrepentant killer William Shatner? I guess in 1978 Michael was just really pumped for next year’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
The sleepy suburb of Haddonfield, Illinois is the nexus of Michael’s family violence. The fact that something so disturbed could happen somewhere so normal in America is part of the terror. But Michael’s Midwestern farmland roots also make him a big hillbilly only just slightly more put together than the cannibal family of The Hills Have Eyes. This is especially true in the grimy rustic realistic serial killer Rob Zombie reboots.
My personal favorite explanation for Michael’s evil, the reason I even wanted to write this feature, comes from 1995’s Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. Here it’s revealed that Michael is just one of a long line of children driven to kill their family by the curse of Thorn, some kind of Samhain corncob cult that requires sacrifice for a good October harvest. It’s like Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery but dumb.
Although he’s typically locked up in a mental institution, Michael Myers is scary because he isn’t tragically insane, he’s innately evil. Mental illness is human and understandable and relatable. Evil is not. There’s a reason why his arch nemesis is his one-time doctor Samuel Loomis, who recognizes the correct medical course of action is to remove Michael from the face of the Earth.
This point is more muddled because of how each movie changes things, but more often than not Michael’s supernatural powers are very vague if not non-existent. He pursues his foes like a demon from Hell, taking attacks like they were nothing, and seemingly comes back from the dead. But his murder weapon is a regular knife.  At least until the next reboot. Again, the normalcy and plausibility is what makes him so chilling.
This is another detail exclusive to the controversial Rob Zombie take on the character, but man whenever Michael hallucinates his mother on a white horse telling him to kill everybody it owns. And then when surviving sister Laurie starts seeing that same lady on the same horse telling her to kill everybody too? It makes us wish Zombie could’ve finished this trilogy.
For more on Halloween (the holiday, not the movie) check out these scary Netflix movies, creepy old Halloween pictures, and zombie makeup tips.
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