The closest that Rob Zombie's Halloween movies get to the supernatural is a vague hint of a psychic connection between Michael and Laurie Strode, who is once again revealed to be Michael's long-lost sister. At one point Michael eats the flesh of a murdered dog, and miles away Laurie who is a vegetarian abruptly starts vomiting. Laurie later begins to experience the same visions of their mother, despite the fact that she was orphaned as a baby and has no idea what her mother looks like.
She also sees the child version of Michael Myers towards the end of Halloween II, with Laurie ultimately unable to escape the adult Michael because the child version is telepathically holding her down. Is Michael Myers human or inhuman? Zombie's answer is that he's severely mentally ill, linking Myers' psychopathy to hereditary traits.
Currently, the official Halloween canon consists of Halloween , Halloween , the high body count Halloween Kills , and its upcoming sequel Halloween Ends. One of the benefits of ignoring Halloween II and its lineage is that the current Halloween continuity is free of the family connection between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode.
Instead, the updated canonical entries return Michael to the core essence of his character - an unstoppable harbinger of death who kills without any known reason. This folkloric creature is defined by its lack of definition; there are no "rules" confining the bogeyman like there are with other supernatural creatures, and it doesn't have any overtly specific powers or weaknesses. At the end of Halloween , after Michael Myers ' bullet-riddled body disappears, the film closes on a series of shots of empty rooms, with the sound of Michael's breathing throughout all of them.
The sequence conveys the idea that the bogeyman could be lurking anywhere, and also confirms the ethereal qualities that the current continuities Michael Myers displays. While Halloween sticks with a decidedly flesh-and-blood portrait of Michael Myers, Halloween Kills confirms the notion that Michael is indeed supernatural. In reference to Michael emerging alive from the devastating fire of the Strode home, Laurie says darkly that " a man couldn't survive that fire ," and that Michael is " the essence of evil.
Loomis' vagaries in the original Halloween movie : chiefly that Michael Myers isn't a man, but pure evil in human form. In the coda of Halloween Kills , Michael lays prone after being viciously beaten, before regenerating in front of the Haddonfield mob.
Slowly but surely, he starts to close this distance -- until he eventually makes his presence known. Michael Myers toys with his victims, and leaves the audience with a distinct need to look over their shoulders even after the credits have rolled. You don't wander into his territory like Jason Voorhees or Leatherface ; he finds you within your own home, and compromises the safety that you take for granted.
Ultimately, that might be the scariest idea of all. What are your thoughts on this matter, horror fans? Do you think that Michael Myers is the scariest horror movie monster of all time, or do you think that honor belongs to another silver screen icon? Give us your take in the comments section below, and try not to get too scared along the way! He now lives in Los Angeles working in and around the entertainment industry and can mostly be found binging horror movies and chugging coffee.
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You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem. But the bigger Freddy and Jason got, their images were softened and they were turned into camp figures; it's tough to be truly scary when you're appearing on a song with DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince or showing up as a guest on "The Arsenio Hall Show.
Like a true Gen-Xer, he never sold out. Freddy's downfall was that he was forced to speak. Neither Michael Myers or Jason would be much fun on a Fresh Prince track, because they're silent killers. By 's "A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge," he was reduced to spouting catchphrases, which then became his calling card and turned him more into a comedic figure than a tool of nightmares. But by that time, Myers was mostly trading on his past anyway. Jamie Lee Curtis returned to the fold in 's "Halloween H 20 Years Later," and again in 's "Halloween: Resurrection," but other than introducing rappers LL Cool J and Busta Rhymes into the "Halloween" universe, neither did much for the series' clout, which continued to wane through two dreary Rob Zombie reimaginings in and That clout wasn't fully restored until 's "Halloween" wiped out 40 years of forgettable follow-ups by positioning itself as a direct sequel to the original.
You can strain your brain trying to figure out the logic of how Curtis' presence in "H20" and "Resurrection" somehow just didn't count , but it's not worth it.
Perhaps their images had already suffered too much, or they'd already become too much of a punchline. Or maybe they were never that scary to begin with. Michael Myers may have appeared in a lot of bad movies, but he always stayed true to himself and remained a no-nonsense kind of guy.
Which is how he's now having another moment. And yes, it helps that this series shares a name with what has become a season.
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