Michael Myers (Halloween)

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Michael Myers (also known as The Shape), is a fictional serial killer from the Halloween horror series. The killer has appeared in seven films, with an eighth film currently in preproduction, as well as comic books and other media. One of the first true slasher villians, his killings usually take place on or around the night of Halloween, and in many of the films his primary targets are family members.

[edit] Early Life (1957 - 1963)

Michael Audrey Myers was born on Saturday, October 19, 1957 in Haddonfield, Illinois. His father was Donald Myers, and his mother was Edith Myers. He also had two sisters, one younger, one older. The older was Judith Myers, and the younger Laurie Myers.

Michael Myers was prone to bedwetting in times of extremely low self-esteem. He spent alot of his time alone contemplating his role in the family, and was desperate to succeed his parents' expectations. Because of his frequent time alone, Michael claimed to hear voices - audible only to him.

Michael was very curious and timid, and notoriously shy, often clinging to his mother. When not in her presence, he often clung to his grandmother. She seemed to understand him, in some ways, more than anyone. Michael's grandmother was a very cold, and unloving person.

When Michael's parents went out, they often left him with their neighbor, Mrs. Blankenship. Unknown at the time, Mrs. Blankenship was a member to a cult know as "The Thorn". She often told Michael stories of the cult. Eventually, she convinced him that to save the rest of the village, or in this case, the human race. Someone was selected to sacrifice his or her family, which was an old cult legend. After months of these stories, Michael was committed to the beliefs of this cult, and was selected to sacrifice his family.

[edit] October 31st, 1963

On Thursday, October 31st, 1963, Michael was being babysat by Mrs. Blankenship. Michael's parents were out watching a film, and his older sister, Judith, was out with her boyfriend. Mrs. Blankenship has finally convinced Michael to start the sacrifice tonight, starting with Judith. When Judith arrived home with her boyfriend, Mrs. Blankenship sent Michael out to sacrifice Judith. Michael stalked his way to the house and glimpses of his sister and her boyfriend making love. Angered at his sister's neglect for him and Laurie, he enters the house throught the back door. He then went to the kitchen and retrieved a large carving knife and found his mask. Soon afterwards, Judith's boyfriend left the house, and Michael headed upstairs. Next, Michael walked in to Judith's bedroom, were she was sitting on a seat by her vanity, wearing only her underwear, combing her hair. Michael then proceeded towards Judith, and repeatedly stabbed her in the chest and stomach. Immediately, his parents pulled up in the driveway. Michael made his way down the stairs and out the front door. His father pulled over.

[edit] Halloween

In 1978, Michael hijacked the car meant for his court transfer. The car was driven by Loomis' medical colleague and assistant nurse, Marion Chambers. After nearly attacking Marion, Michael got into the car and speedily drove off. His destination was his hometown of Haddonfield. When the sun rose he then pulled over and murdered a towtruck driver stealing his clothes, however he had accidently knocked out a book of matches later hinting to Loomis he had been in the area.

On the following day, October 31st, Michael had returned back to his childhood house, which was now vacant, run-down, and on the market under Strode Realty. That morning, he had found and killed a stray dog and fed upon it, 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 sitting for Tommy Doyle while Annie was watching Lindsey Wallace. Later that night, Annie received a telephone call from her boyfriend Paul explaining that he needs to be picked up. Lindsey was soon after taken across the street to continue watching Forbidden Planet with Tommy and Laurie. Within a few moments, when Annie got to her car, she discovered it was locked and returned to the house. Upon her return to the car Myers exhibiting in his own mind a childlike prank had unlocked the door before she approached, Annie failed to notice that the door was now unlocked and only became aware something was amiss when she noticed the window was fogged up. Michael, hiding in the back seat began strangling Annie who tried to honk the horn to alert someone. Michael then slit her throat and carried her back into the Wallace House.

Later on, Annie's other friend, Linda Van Der Klok, and her boyfriend Bob Simms showed up at the Wallace residence, where they made love in the empty house. Afterwards, Bob went downstairs for beer to find the back door hanging open, thinking it was a prank by Linda & Paul he searched the kitchen to find Michael hiding in the broom closet. Michael exhibited superhuman strength by lifting Bob with one hand and then ran a knife far enough through Bob to leave him hanging on the Kitchen wall. Michael then put a sheet over himself and Bobs glasses and continued upstairs where he violently strangled Linda with the phone cord. He then propped the three deceased teenagers' bodies in an upstairs bedroom. Just before Linda's death, Laurie had received a strange phone call from Lindsey's house. 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 their sister's headstone. When Michael was within reach of Laurie, he stabbed her in the left shoulder and knocked her 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. Michael who had attempted to cut her off by taking a path along the right side of the house was angered to find a massive fence blocking the end of the path, he was forced to return through the left side Laurie had taken.

He stalked her all the way to the Doyle residence. Once inside Laurie noticed one of the side windows was missing. Only hearing the killer's heavy breathing she armed herself with a sowing needle she stabbed her attacker hard in the neck. Thinking he was dead she moved upstairs. Myers continued to pursue her, however. She had opened the balcony window hoping that he would think she had fled outdoors, but Michael did not fall for the trick. In a final attempt to escape her attacker Laurie was able to get Michael's knife from him using a metal coathanger to his left eye, she then stabbed him in the lung causing him to once more return to a seemingly dead-like state. Laurie instructed Tommy and Lindsey to call the police from a neighbor's house. After they took off, Michael once again went after Laurie, now attempting to strangle her. 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 stood and fled from his own assaliant.

[edit] Halloween II: The Nightmare Isn't Over

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, and by the body outline on the lawn he instinctively knows that he shot Michael in the heart. 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 her injuries obtained during the chase and attacks. During this time nearly a block away, Michael obtained a knife and murdered a girl who he thought had seen him. He entered the front door and laid on the floor, to gain the girls attention he knocked over a picture and when she investigated he stabbed her in the stomach and gutted her.

Interrupting an annual television broadcast of Night of the Living Dead, Haddonfield reporter Robert Plant has arrived on the scene of the Wallace residence located on Orange Grove Boulevard. He confirms that three teenagers, two girls, one boy, have been found murdered in an upstairs bedroom. Soon after, Loomis and Brackett spot a mysterious man wearing a similar mask slowly walking down a sidewalk. Loomis gets out of the sheriff’s car, equipped with his personal firearm, and trails after the costumed figure. Brackett follows closely behind Loomis, but a speeding police vehicle slams into the masked individual colliding him into a parked van. The two vehicles explode, trapping the man in an inferno. The police official leaves his car virtually unharmed, but Loomis wonders if Michael was the victim in flames. Brackett forcefully screams to Loomis "Is it him? Is it him, or not!?". Brackett’s police deputy Gary Hunt quickly arrives on the scene to confirm 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 had discovered it was Annie he returned home leaving Police deputy Hunt in charge.

Assured he is well out of Loomis’ reach, for the time being, Michael returns in pursuit of his sister Laurie. While making his way on foot in downtown Haddonfield,hoping to evade the law by blending in, he overhears a radio announcement declare that the seventeen-year-old Laurie Strode had been transported to Haddonfield’s main hospital .

Michael soon after arrives at H.M.H. and later manages to slowly kill off the hospital’s principal staff: the security guard who he struck with a hammer and hid in the Hospital basement, a senior doctor who he killed using a needle filled with air in the eye, an ambulance driver he strangled with a piece of wire, and three nurses one killed with a needle to the temple filled with air, one killed by being drowned in a scalding hot pool, one killed by having her spine severed, he also murdered Head Nurse Virginia Alves, whom Laurie befriended, He drained her of her blood. 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 that the man who was "that little kid who killed his sister" would be after her at all. Later on, she dreams about a moment she experienced seven years earlier . When Laurie was age ten, she once visited her attacker at the institution where he was being held and was forced to leave when Michael had begun to violently grind his teeth at the sight of her. She also remembers 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 near presence of her feared tormentor when the hospital goes dark and the staff isn’t around. Since the telephone in her room wasn’t working, she decides to search for a working phone and then try escaping on foot.

Dr. Loomis and Deputy Hunt meet a dentist named Graham at his office. The burned corpse is unveiled and Graham checks the teeth determining the man is young, at about age seventeen or eighteen. Loomis says Michael Myers is twenty-one and that everyone must assume he is still alive. Deputy Hunt then 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 the escaped patient. During this time the town begins to form mobs and Riot in front of the Myers House.

Later on, Nurse Marion Chambers arrives in town to tell Loomis he is wanted back at the Smith’s Grove–Warren County Sanitarium, not just by his senior doctors, but by the Illinois governor himself. News of Michael’s first escape, the killing of three teenagers, being shot at, and his second escape had reached all over the state. Loomis feels that he cannot leave until he finds him. Accompanied by Marion is an Illinois state marshal whom is instructed to transport Loomis back to Smith’s Grove. When all hope of finding Michael is lost, Loomis reluctantly agrees to go back with Marion.

While on route to Smith’s Grove, Marion reveals "that girl, that Strode girl, that’s Michael Myers’ sister." Loomis realizes why Michael "came home" to Haddonfield. He killed one sister fifteen years ago, now he has returned to kill the other. Loomis fires a warning shot into the front passenger window, and the marshal swiftly turns the car around and the trio returns back into town to locate Laurie.

At the hospital, Michael is 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 immovable [momentarily]. The marshal sees Michael’s body collapse, honestly believing Loomis succeeded in killing him saying that "He’s dead." Loomis shouts "No he’s not! Look at him! He’s still breathing!" Loomis then instructs Marion to call for help from the marshal’s Citizens' Band radio. Even after being shot a total of eleven times, Laurie sees Michael lying on the floor wondering "Why won’t he die?" Loomis shouts for the marshal to get away from Michael, but then the killer rises up and slits the marshal’s throat with a scalpel. Dr. Loomis and Laurie take off in the darkened hospital hoping to find a good hiding place only to discover Michael had Systematically locked all the doors leading to a series of Rooms used for surgery.

Michael locates the pair. Laurie reluctantly takes one of Loomis’ firearms and attempts to speak to him, after a brief moment the two have a stare down and Laurie shoots Michael in the face, just barely missing his eyes. While Michael begins to weaken Loomis and Laurie fill the room with fresh oxygen and ether by turning on nearby tanks. Dr. Loomis frees Laurie from the room and then ignites a cigarette lighter. Laurie takes refuge behind a drinking fountain and watches as Michael continues to attempt to pursue her. He however has suffered far too many wounds to continue and collapses into a coma.

Until twenty years later, watching Michael lying on the floor in flames is Laurie’s last memory of him. For the next score of years, she hoped that Michael had died from being burned to death, but even fire couldn’t stop him from continuing his pursuit of living family relatives.

On the following morning of Wednesday November 1st, Laurie is pushed in a wheelchair by Nurse Marion to an ambulance. Laurie is apparently to be taken to a bigger hospital for further treatment.

• Note: In the Television cut of this film, Jimmy Lloyd the EMT, is in the ambulance when Laurie was helped in. He sits up to reveal himself when the doors are closed. Laurie is happy with tears to learn he survived, exclaiming "We made it!" The two hold hands and the ambulance drives off.

[edit] Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

Loomis and Michael survived the explosion at the hospital. Loomis had been scarred and walks with a cane, while Michael had spent an entire decade in a coma, doctors had discovered a year prior, his muscles had become weakened beyond use and just months before had begun to strengthen once more. On October 30, 1988, two Smith's Grove medical attendants (one male, one female) 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 upturned into a river.

Later on, Loomis rushed to the crash scene, searched for Michael's body, and came up empty. Loomis' superior tried to persuade him that even if Michael were alive, he would be too weak to cause any trouble. However, Loomis knew better and headed to Haddonfield. Michael had entered a gas station killed its attendents and acquired another Mechanic's uniform. Loomis made the grisly discovery, and for a moment the two stare at each other as Loomis pleaded 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. Upon hearing of Jamie's existence and that she's in care of the Carruthers family, Loomis rushed to save her from her uncle only to find Michael beat him there and killed the family pet.

The ever-methodical Michael attacked an electrician and propelled his body onto the power lines, knocking out power for all of Haddonfield, after ransacking the police station, killing all inside. Michael continued to stalk Jamie and nearly attacked her, but Loomis stopped him. They all then drove away to the sheriff's house, where they boarded up all the windows and doors. The sheriff, his deputy and Rachel's boyfriend, armed with shotguns, guarded the house from inside. However, Michael outsmarted them all, by hiding in the back seats of the deputy's police car. Unwittingly the deputy drove Michael, hidden in the back seat, from the Carruther's home to the sheriff's home; Myers sneaked into the house before it was boarded up. Thus, they had locked themselves up with the very person they were trying to escape.

Sure enough, Michael surprised and killed them off one-by-one; the deputy by crushing his neck and several bones in his arms, the Sherrif's daughter by impaling , and Rachel's (Jamie's adopted sister) boyfriend by crushing his skull. Myers chased after Jamie and her older, adoptive sister Rachel. Ultimately, Jamie managed to escape, but Rachel plunged from the roof, apparently to her death. Jamie ran into Loomis, and the pair broke into the elementary school where Jamie attended. Michael surprised them both and then threw Loomis into a classroom door. As Michael closed in on Jamie, Rachel, who had in fact survived the fall, 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. Michael stayed one step ahead by hiding under the truck, only to climb up and stab some of the gunmen, as well as throwing a couple of them off the moving vehicle. 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 didn't stir and Jamie got out of the car and touches his hand. Michael then nonchalantly sat up, but this time, the state police had finally shown up and they gunned him down as he fell 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, but the girls' police escort tackles him before he could do so, as Loomis is heard yelling "NO!"

[edit] Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

After falling down the mine shaft, the state troopers tossed dynamite down the mine to make sure they finished the job, but Michael crawled out in time. 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 reawakened, killed the hermit, and continued his insatiable quest to kill his niece.

Jamie, now in a mute state, had 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. 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 (if you look closely, you can see the "Thorn" symbol on the wall of the house in black). Myers disposed of the police and even wounded Loomis as he stalked Jamie after Loomis almost got Michael to put down the knife for good. 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. For the first time in 25 years, Michael questioned his beliefs. For a moment he questioned himself if the things that Wynn and Blankenship had been telling him his whole life was wrong. While he was coping with such a realization he soon snapped back out of denial. When Jamie said "Let me" and tried to wipe away his tears, Michael Myers (not the scared 6 year old child, but the brutal and almost unkillable monster) recoiled and attacked Jamie in rage, thoroughly eliminating the last trace of Michael Audrey Myers from the killer. 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, but a mysterious stranger dressed in black blasted him out of jail.

[edit] 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. Although Jamie escaped from the cult, Michael stalked and eventually killed her. However, he was unable to find where she hid the baby. Loomis, meanwhile, finally learned the secret of Michael's homicidal rage and apparent immortality: It was the curse of the symbol "Thorn," which makes the victim believes that if he kills all of his family members, he will bring balance to the conditions that afflict humanity.

At the end of the theatrical version of the movie, the audience is led to believe that Loomis was murdered by Myers, as a loud scream was heard from inside the building in which Loomis and Myers were last seen in. In the unreleased cut of the film, the reason Loomis screamed was because he found out that the Michael he was following was just Dr. Wynn in Michael's clothes. Wynn then passes on the duty of watching Michael on to Loomis, and Loomis receives the Thorn symbol on his right wrist.

This film upset many fans, because of the death of Jaime Lloyd, which is one of the most popular characters next to Dr. Loomis and Laurie Strode. It also upset fans because Danielle Harris didnt play Jaime as she did in Halloween 4-5. Fans were upset because of them not paying enough to return Danielle Harris in H6. JC Brady potrayed Jaime in H6.

[edit] 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, Northern California. Myers discovered her whereabouts on October 29, 1998 as he ransacked Nurse Marion's house and killed her, back in Langdon, Illinois. Again, Michael attempted to kill Laurie and her 17-year-old son, John. However, after all these years, Laurie realized she was not afraid. She had indirectly waited for Michael to come back. Michael chases after Laurie, John, and his friends. After a violent struggle, it appears that Michael was killed. Laurie, knowing how Michael can come back from the dead, steals the ambulance, intending to crash it and kill Michael for good. Michael awakens, and causes Laurie to drive over a cliff. Michael gets trapped by a tree, and Laurie decapitates her hated brother and thinks it is over, but is it really ?

[edit] 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. 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 31st, 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. He grabbed her right hand as well. 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 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 he admired his handiwork, he knew that he had finally won.

One year later on October 31st, 2002, Michael was home in Haddonfield. He was 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 that 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 eye flashes open .

[edit] Halloween 2007

In June of 2006, it was announced that Rob Zombie would be writing, directing and producing a Halloween remake/reimagining of the original film with a set release date of August 31, 2007. While the film will be a new beginning to the franchise, it has been made clear that the character of Michael Myers will remain. In an interview on the film series' official site, Rob Zombie answered questions by fans regarding the film, assuring that the mask will remain "classic." In many interviews he's also expressed plans to include "prequel" elements, further expanding on the reasons for Michael's actions and his life before escaping Smith's Grove Sanitarium.

In a recent interview for MTV[1], Rob Zombie further explained his plans for the character: "I want the lead character to be Michael Myers, He's not just a faceless thing floating around in the background and then you focus on these girls. I feel that that's where you can make it different and that's where you can make it more intense... There's a lot of great stuff they hint at [in the original], but you never see. That's where I think there's potential to make something unique. When you research anybody, whether it's Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahmer or Henry Lee Lucas and you see the things in their past, you go, 'Serial killer is the only job this guy was qualified for.' It makes it even more disturbing when you see the events that make someone have no concept of those things." Rob Zombie further commented ""There are even things about the original Michael Myers that bothered me. Like, he killed the only mechanic that wears a pristine mechanic's uniform. It's just things like that that bothered me."

[edit] Immortality?

Though some credit Michael's juggernaut-like state, which allows him to recover from deadly experiences, to his own natural rage and murderous psyche, it is more commonly accepted to be caused by the Curse of Thorn, as stated in the sixth film. This curse possesses and compels Michael to kill all the members of his family, and all who stand in his way. According to myth, this is supposed to spare the "village" Michael inhabits from a form of plague or disaster. With that in mind, it is possible that Michael only reluctantly accepts the duties of his job, an actully feels that by killing these people, he is doing what is best for humanity. The Curse uses Michael as nothing more than a puppet and a guide to the appropriate victims. Thorn seems to fuel Michael in a way far exceeding any ordinary human capacity, since he was completely mobile, regardless of the fact that his muscles were supposed to be virtually useless to him.

It is also theorized that Michael himself, the man behind the mask, feels remorse for his killing. In Halloween 5, he seemed to fight back the curse and when he removed his mask, Michael wept (seemingly with remorse). It was as though he himself wasn't in control of actions, or was forced to act by the curse and could be possessed by the curse. Michael has, on occasion, gone out of his way in order to kill certain people, namely, the members of the Cult. It is unknown what Michael may have endured at their hands, and as such, he may have had a vendetta against them, since taking time to kill them would slow his progress towards baby Steven, there is no logical motive for Thorn killing them. It may also have something to do with the fact that he had what he needed, his goal was about to be accomplished. Maybe he took the moment to reflect on everything that he had gone through, allowing the old Michael Myers, the small, shy, child to wake up. But when his niece tried to wipe his tear, it snapped his train of thought and brought him straight back to where he left off.

[edit] Notes

• In one scene of Halloween 4 when Michael throws Dr. Loomis through the glass, his hair seems to have changed both style and color from combed and brown to sticking up and blonde.

• In the script for Halloween, Myers is often referred to as "The Shape", because of him constantly blending in with the background shadows, only being cited by name when unmasked.

• John Carpenter got the idea for Myers' name from the British distributor of his film Assault on Precinct 13, Michael Meyers.

• In Halloween, Dr. Hoffman had typed Michael's middle initial as "M" on a Ridgemont Federal Sanitarium document. The producers of this installment probably just forgot that John Carpenter filmed additional scenes for the original Halloween. These scenes, which were filmed to coincide with the upcoming release of Halloween II, revealed that Michael's full name is Michael Audrey Myers. This particular scene occurs at Smith's Grove on May 1st, 1964.

• Kane Hodder, who played Jason Voorhees in four of the Friday the 13th films, has expressed great interest in portraying Myers in a future Halloween film.

• The mask Michael Myers wears in the original film is a Captain Kirk mask that was painted white, sideburns removed, and had the eyes widened. <ref name="GameSpotarticle">Game Spot, "The History of Movie Monster Games - Part 4", at [2]; last accessed on October 23, 2006</ref>

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