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Michael is tall, he is portrayed by [[Tyler Mane]] who is 6'8". In ''Halloween Resurrection'' he was clearly taller than 6'1" Busta Rhymes (Fred Harris). He has scars from burns after being set on fire by Dr. Loomis. Michael has black eyes, "devil's" eyes according to Dr. Loomis. 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) before murder with very few exceptions. |
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Michael never runs no matter how fast his victims run when he pursues them. His primary weapon is a butcher 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 crushed the skull of victims with his bare hands in ''The Return of Michael Myers'' and ''Halloween: Resurrection''. |
Michael never runs no matter how fast his victims run when he pursues them. His primary weapon is a butcher 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 crushed the skull of victims with his bare hands in ''The Return of Michael Myers'' and ''Halloween: Resurrection''. |
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- This article is about the fictional serial killer, Michael Myers. For other uses, see Michael Myers.
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| Michael Myers | |
| Classification: | Serial killer |
| Signature weapon | Kitchen knife |
| Location | Haddonfield, Illinois |
| Created by: | John Carpenter Debra Hill |
| Enemies: | Dr. Sam Loomis, Laurie Strode, Tommy Doyle, and 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) Don Shanks (Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers) George P. Wilbur (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers) Chris Durand (Halloween H20: 20 Years Later) Brad Loree (Halloween: Resurrection) Tyler Mane Daeg Faerch (child) (Halloween 2007) |
Michael Myers (nicknamed The Shape) is a fictional character from the Halloween film series. The character has appeared in seven films (he was absent from Halloween III: Season of the Witch), with a ninth film currently in post-production, as well as comic books and other media. One of the first slasher villains, he usually kills on or around the night of Halloween, and in all films (except Halloween III) his targets are his family members, but he's willing to kill everyone that comes in his way.
Early life (1957-1963)
Michael Audrey Myers was born October 19 1957. Michael had two sisters. The family resided at a two story ranch house (45 Lampkin Lane) in the 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 much more 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.)
Based on information from both the sixth installment (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers) and the novel based upon the first film, Michael's grandmother lived across the street from the Myers family on Lampkin Lane.
The sixth installment also reveals that Michael at some point in his childhood was chosen by a cult to bear the Curse of Thorn. The cult believes that a child from one family must be chosen to bear the curse and sacrifice their entire family in order to save the rest of the community from death. The curse apparently makes the user immortal or grants the ability to self-resurrect once dead, and gives other super-natural abilities like superhuman strength. The curse is what the cult believes causes Michael to stalk and kill family members. It is not known exactly how many family members Michael has killed outside his immediate family. He has at least two biological family members still living: John, Laurie Strode's 17 year old son in Halloween H20, and Jamie's infant son from The Curse of Michael Myers.
It is assumed that Mrs. Blankenship - Michael's babysitter - was the one to give him the curse or she is aware of who did. It is unknown why Michael was specifically chosen to bear the curse. She was a member of the cult and would tell Michael stories about Thorn and their beliefs. Michael was eventually brainwashed by the stories and the curse. On Halloween, October 31, 1963, Michael was under the influence of curse long enough to begin the sacrifice of his family. Some unknown trigger stimulates Michael to seek out his family members. Sometimes he does not pursue relatives for years, then some unknown internal bell stimulates him to seek out his relatives. It was suggested Michael's appearances coincide with stars which periodically align to form the sign of Thorn. Although, many fans do not agree with this theory as the series has had many different writers and continuations. Therefore, a definite answer for Michael's rage has yet to be revealed. Michael has never spoken a word as an adult, although clearly he understands speech. His behavior patterns after any stereotypically violentic psychopathic serial killer's: Remorseless, brutal, and calculating.
Mrs. Blankenship was watching over a 6 year old Michael, and his 2 year old sister Laurie. Michael escaped when she wasn't looking and crossed the street. When he arrived back at his house, he watched his sister Judith Margaret Myers and her boyfriend make out on the couch. He watched them from the window as they went up stairs to have sex. Michael, still dressed in his clown costume, entered the house through the kitchen, and obtained a butcher knife. In a few minutes, his parents would be home. Judith's boyfriend then left the house and told her he would see her again tomorrow. Michael then walked upstairs with the knife. Judith's clothes were scattered across the floor. When she looked into the mirror, she saw Michael's reflection. She thought it was inappropriate for her little brother to see her this way but it was too late. When she turned around, Michael stabbed her with the knife. She died within a matter of seconds. Then he walked downstairs, opened the door, and was starting to walk away. When he was walking down the sidewalk, he saw his parents' car enter the driveway.
Michael was found by his parents on the curb in front of the house with the knife. Michael was taken to be put under psychiatric care by Dr. 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 and only waited there 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. Both their parents later died in a car accident, Laurie was put up for adoption, and was the only one 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 put 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. This is where the first movie begins.
Halloween (1978)
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 and murdered a tow truck driver and stole his clothing. 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. That morning, he "came home" to Haddonfield. 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 Forbidden Planet 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. Michael then put a sheet over himself and placed Bob's glasses on top of the sheet. He then 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 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. Hearing the killer's heavy breathing, she armed herself with a knitting needle. Michael then attempted to stab her, but was off the mark. Laurie then turned around and stabbed him in the neck with a knitting needle. Thinking he was dead she moved upstairs. Myers continued to pursue her, however. Laurie moved into the bedroom and secured herself in a linen closet. Myers attempted to pull the door open, but he eventually resorted to breaking through the wood panels on one of the doors with his fist. As Myers leaned into the closet, Laurie stabbed him in the eye with a coat hanger. Michael dropped his knife and Laurie stabbed him in the chest. She emerged from the closet to find Michael lying on the floor, seemingly dead. Laurie then 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 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.
Interrupting a television broadcast of Night of the Living Dead (1968), Haddonfield reporter, Robert Plant, reported from the scene of the Wallace residence. He confirms that three teenagers (two girls and one boy) have been found murdered in the 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 and trails the masked stranger. Brackett follows closely behind Loomis, but a speeding police vehicle slams into the masked individual slamming him into a parked van. The two vehicles explode, trapping the man in a huge inferno. The police official leaves his car virtually unharmed, but Loomis wonders if Michael was the victim. Brackett screams to Loomis "Is it him? Is it him, or not!?". Loomis does not have a definite answer, so he must operate on the assumption that Michael is still alive somewhere. He asks that the body be identified as soon as possible. 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 discovers it was Annie he returns home, leaving police deputy Hunt in charge. Michael, however, is still on the loose and on the hunt for Laurie. While making his way through downtown Haddonfield, Michael hears a radio broadcast confirming that Laurie has been taken to Haddonfield 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 aren'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, perhaps 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 Smith’s Grove–Warren County Sanitarium, not only by his senior doctors, but by the Illinois governor himself. News of Michael’s exploits has reached across the entire state. Loomis feels that he cannot leave until he finds him. Accompanying Marion is an Illinois state marshal who 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 en route to Smith’s Grove, Marion reveals to Loomis that some previously sealed files on Michael Myers have been found, confirming that Michael and Laurie are siblings. Loomis realizes why Michael "came home" to Haddonfield. He killed one sister fifteen years ago, now he has returned to kill the other. Loomis asks what happened to Laurie, and is told that she was taken to Haddonfield Memorial. Realizing that is where Michael will find her, Loomis pulls a gun on the marshal and insists he turn the car around. After the marshal initially refuses, Loomis fires a warning shot into the front passenger window, and the marshall swiftly turns the car around and the trio heads back into town to locate Laurie.
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. Loomis instructs the marshal to stay away from Michael, as he is still breathing. Loomis then instructs Marion to call for help from the marshal’s radio. As Loomis is distracted while attending to Laurie, the marshal begins approaching Michael's body once again. 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 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 and says "It's time, Michael." before he ignites a cigarette lighter. Laurie takes refuge behind a drinking fountain just as the room explodes. After a moment, she stares in horror as Michael slowly emerges from the firery 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. But not even the Devil's flames could stop the evil within Michael...
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' superior tried to persuade him that, even if Michael were alive, his muscles would be too atrophied to go anywhere or kill anyone. But Loomis knew better and headed to Haddonfield. 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 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 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. He then entered the police station and killed everyone inside. 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. The sheriff, his deputy, and Rachel's (Jamie's adopted sister) 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 of the car. Myers then sneaked into the house before it was boarded up. 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; the deputy by crushing his neck and several bones in his arms, the sheriff's daughter by impaling, and Rachel's 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 that 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. It was believed that the transformation was a Michael Myers "rencarnation". It should be noted now that the storylines of Halloween movies change based on characters. For instance, Halloween, Halloween II, and Halloween H20 follow the same storyline, discluding a daughter of Laura Strode, but instead a son. Halloween 4, Halloween 5, and Halloween 6, portray a storyline itself. Here it takes on the idea that Laura Strode died.
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 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 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. 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, but a mysterious stranger dressed in black blasted him 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 to find signs of extreme violence and an empty cell.
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 new born 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 turned the machine on. However, he was unable to find where she hid the baby. 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 Strode's, Michael's deceased sister, 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 began 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 has inflicted Michael with the Curse of Thorn to make him kill family members. The cult believes that this must be done in order to restore balance to humanity and save the rest of the community from death. 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 humanity to the world in the years to come.
It's 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 ambused 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 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 Producer's cut, he wants Loomis to take his place as Michael's guardian). In the Producer's cut Michael is about to sacrfice 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 theatrical version 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. In the unreleased cut of the film, Loomis went back inside and finds Michael on the floor (After being stopped by Tommy Doyle), however, as Loomis pulls the mask off, it's instead Dr. Wynn. As Wynn realizes Michael is gone, he then passes on the duty of watching Michael on to Loomis, and Loomis receives the Thorn symbol on his right wrist. Loomis screams as he seemingly feels the mysterious power of Thorn. Michael, in the Man in Blacks' clothes, hears the echoing scream of Dr. Loomis, and takes one look back as he then walks once more into the night.
Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998)
[citation needed] 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. However, 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 , and lifted 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. Before she touches his hand, she realizes 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. 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. Michael
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, and he then 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. Tracing back all the way to 1978.
One year later on October 31, 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 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 eye lids open.
Halloween (2007)
In June 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. "I want Michael to be as real as a psychopath can get." says Zombie.
In a recent interview for MTV, 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."[1]
On December 24, it was announced on Zombie's MySpace page that Tyler Mane will be playing adult Michael Myers in the new film. Daeg Faerch will be playing a 10 year old Michael Myers.
Characteristics
Michael is tall, he is portrayed by Tyler Mane who is 6'8". In Halloween Resurrection he was clearly taller than 6'1" Busta Rhymes (Fred Harris). He has scars from burns after being set on fire by Dr. Loomis. Michael has black eyes, "devil's" eyes according to Dr. Loomis. 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) before murder with very few exceptions.
Michael never runs no matter how fast his victims run when he pursues them. His primary weapon is a butcher 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 crushed the skull of victims with his bare hands in The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween: Resurrection.
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 was 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 interpentation of Michael's hesitation, as it was 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.
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 continued to hunt for his sister Laurie Strode even though she faked her death via an automobile accident in H20. Laurie also displayed a psychic link with her brother. She had nightmares and visions of him coming for her in Halloween H20 and Halloween: Resurrection, and soon after Michael did come although years lapsed in between his attacks.
Michael possesses superhuman recuperative abilities. He has withstood being shot, burned, stabbed, beaten, hanged, and electrocuted. After acting comatose for nearly 10 years, he displayed no ill physical effects when he escaped from the ambulance in The Return of Michael Myers. He is also very cunning, able to sneak up on intended victims or trick them consistently. All in all he is very much like Jason Voorhees except for the fact that Michael seems to understand things, as well as interpret things as a thinker, and tends to have unique ways of taking out victims, as opposed to Jason Voorhees, who seems to only brutalize, not think and kill.
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 pressed the doctor's head into the bars, crushing it, and causing the bars to fall to the floor in the process.
Cameos
- Michael appeared in the Robot Chicken parody Big Brother. He was the one to leave, take his mask off, who turns out to be "Mike Myers" and happily stabs the host.
- Despite not being in Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Michael does make a small appearence on the TV screen at the bar where Challis goes to.
References
In the CSI episode "Living Legend" Mike Myers is the first alias for the murderer.
