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Dec 26, 2021 · Halloween H20: 20 Years Later could have been the end of Michael Myers, but a legal clause in the contract didn't allow him to die for good.
- Senior Staff Writer
Michael Myers is a character from the slasher film series Halloween. He first appears in 1978 in John Carpenter's Halloween as a young boy who murders his elder sister, Judith Myers. Fifteen years later, he returns home to Haddonfield, Illinois, to murder more teenagers.
- Overview
- Biography
- List of confirmed human victims of Michael Myers
- Animal victims
- Appearances
- References
"I grew up in Langdon, and even there we knew the stories-- the legends of the mid-west bogeyman. Michael Myers, the little boy who killed his sister, Judith, on Halloween night. Exactly fifteen years later, he escaped and slaughtered over a dozen people. They told everyone he was dead, but they never caught him, never found a body. As children, we even believed he wouldn't die. There were always whispers-- whispers that became screams when summer gave way to fall."
―Ryan Nichols
Michael Audrey Myers is the main character in the Halloween franchise. In the movie Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, a retcon was established which removed Halloween 4, 5, and 6 from continuity. As a result, the biography of this Michael is drastically different to that of the one who appears in the previous version. This incarnation of the character appears in Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, Halloween: Resurrection, and a number of Halloween comic books.
As a child, Michael inexplicably murdered his older sister, Judith Myers, on Halloween night. Locked away for his crime, he escaped fifteen years later and embarked on a legendary killing spree in his hometown of Haddonfield. He intended to relive Judith's murder by killing his remaining sister, Laurie Strode, but was stopped by his childhood doctor, Samuel Loomis. Believed to have died after being shot off a balcony, Michael Myers lived on and committed various crimes in the state of Illinois before catching up with Laurie twenty years later. His whereabouts remain unknown.
Childhood
Michael Audrey Myers was born on October 19, 1957, as the only son of Donald Myers and Edith Myers and the younger brother of Judith Myers. The family resided in a two-story house at 45 Lampkin Lane in the suburban town of Haddonfield, Illinois. Even from a very young age, Michael Myers was a disturbed little boy. The road signs for what would later become a lifelong psychosis had its roots as early as 1961. Young Michael discovered his older sister Judith's diary and defaced it by drawing macabre images of murder. His mother criticized Michael's behavior, but his mind was filled with images of Judith's death. When Michael was four years old, his mother became pregnant again with a girl who would be named Cynthia; Michael would secretly fantasize about killing his baby sister while she was still in the womb. Only Judith seemed to pick up on the disturbing behaviour her brother exhibited. On May 18, 1963, she was forced to bring Michael on a date with her boyfriend Daniel. Driving into the woods near Langdon, Judith left Michael alone to sneak off and make love with Danny in the grass. She was horrified when Michael interrupted them, covered in animal blood. On Halloween night that same year, Michael — dressed as a clown for Halloween — watched his sister and Danny kissing before going upstairs to have sex. Taking a knife out of the kitchen drawer and waiting for her boyfriend to leave, Michael snuck up the stairs and repeatedly stabbed his sister to death. After watching her die, he left the house only to be discovered by his astonished parents, who had just returned home. Following the murder, Michael was believed to be in a state of shock and was unresponsive to police questioning, with authorities instead looking at Danny as their lead suspect. The case took a surprising turn in November, when Danny was proven innocent, and the autopsy indicated that Judith's wounds were inflicted by a child. The Sheriff's Department admitted that Michael was the most likely suspect. However, in February 1964, Michael was found "not guilty by reason of mental incompetence"; Roger Graves, the Myers family attorney, declared that the boy was a "vegetable". Instead, Michael was sent to Smith's Grove Sanitarium until his twenty-first birthday, when he would be tried as an adult. At Smith's Grove, Michael received psychiatric treatment from Doctor Sam Loomis. Upon spending time with the boy, Loomis concluded that it was a hopeless case and that Michael Myers had no humanity left. He pleaded his case that Michael be moved to a more secure facility, but his superiors refused to listen and ordered that he remain in the "adequate" Smith's Grove. Sometimes when Cynthia was very young, Edith took her to visit Michael at Smith's Grove Sanitarium but warned her to never speak of this to her father. In 1965, Michael's parents were killed in a car accident, and his little sister was adopted by the Strode family, who renamed her Laurie. In 1968, Sam went into Michael's room and told him that it had been five years since Judith's murder and they were not getting anywhere. He continued to tell Michael that everyone thought he was either overcome with guilt or just stupid, but he knew better. He also knew that everything he had learned was useless when it came to Michael. He then took out a gun and laid it in Michael's lap. He said that there was one bullet in the gun and if he needed to kill, then to kill him. Michael did nothing so Loomis grabbed him and asked the boy what was he waiting for. He then calmed down and told Michael that he would not let him harm another person again. "I know that everything I've learned is useless where you are concerned. You see, what they taught me was about how to treat people. And I know that whatever it is that drives you -- well, it isn't human." ―Sam Loomis
The night he came home
On October 30, 1978, Michael Myers destroyed his room at Smith's Grove and carved the word "sister" on his door before breaking out. He also released other patients from their rooms. At the same time, Dr. Loomis and Nurse Marion Chambers were arriving at the facility to transfer Myers for his court hearing. Noticing the patients roaming around outside the hospital, Loomis got out of the car to investigate as Michael attacked Marion and sped away in their station wagon. As he drove across Illinois, Michael stopped to murder a truck driver to steal his overalls. Traveling to Haddonfield, Michael returned to his childhood home. The next day, on Halloween, a teenaged Laurie Strode dropped off a key at the Myers house for her realtor father, and was recognized by her brother. Michael proceeded to stalk her and her friends Annie Brackett and Lynda Van Der Klok throughout the afternoon. He also stole Judith's gravestone from the local cemetery, and broke into Nichol's Hardware Store to acquire knives, rope, and a white Halloween mask. Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis had followed Michael to Haddonfield and warned town sheriff Leigh Brackett of the danger he posed. That night, as Laurie and Annie were babysitting Tommy Doyle and Lindsey Wallace across the street from each other, Michael watched them from the shadows. He murdered Annie first, strangling her in her car as she left to meet her boyfriend before slitting her throat. Later, Lynda and her boyfriend Bob showed up, only to fall victim to Michael as well. Worried about her missing friends, Laurie crossed the street to investigate, only to find Annie's body arranged under Judith Myers' gravestone and Lynda and Bob's bodies hidden in the closets. Michael lunged at his sister, slashing her arm with his knife, and she ran for help. Michael followed her across the street, and Laurie stabbed him in the neck with a knitting needle and in the chest with his own knife. As Michael rose again to attack Laurie, Dr. Loomis appeared and shot him in the chest six times, causing him to fall off a balcony. When Loomis went to check the body, Michael had vanished. "You can't kill the bogeyman!" ―Tommy Doyle Later that night, Loomis found out that Laurie Strode was Michael Myers' younger sister and realized that she was his target. Laurie survived further attacks at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital and also grew close with fellow survivor, ambulance driver and EMT Jimmy, while Michael apparently died from an explosion.
Missing years
Michael had survived, and eventually returned to Nichol's to steal more masks. Meanwhile, Laurie Strode was convinced that her brother was alive and stalking her again. However, the residents of Haddonfield were trying to move on from the tragedy, and dismissed her claims; the only person who believed her was fellow survivor, Dr. Loomis. On May 25, 1979, Laurie was attacked by a knife-wielding clown at a costume graduation party. The man, who she realized was her brother, chased her through the backstreets of Haddonfield before stopping outside Jimmy's house. Laurie watched in horror as the clown entered the house and snapped Jimmy's neck. With the help of Dr. Loomis, Laurie subsequently faked her death in a car accident, taking on the alias Keri Tate and moving away from Haddonfield. Although Michael was presumed dead, rumors of his existence spread and various violent incidents were unofficially attributed to the "mid-west bogeyman". Authorities often neglected to document events and sometimes went out of their way to cover them up, but Dr. Loomis dutifully continued his search for Michael with the somewhat skeptical help of Marion Chambers. He maintained a home study recording the madman's movements and possible crimes, which ranged from gruesome murders to missing animals and robberies. Loomis' insistence that Michael Myers was to blame for almost every crime in Illinois gained him an unfavorable reputation among the state authorities, who came to regard him like "the boy who cried wolf". Knowing that Loomis was tracking his movements, on Halloween 1989, Michael played a game with his former doctor. He left a clue on Loomis' map pointing to Haddonfield Elementary School. When Loomis went to the school with Marion, he found a wounded dog with a drawing of himself stapled to it. Loomis recognised Michael's attempt to humiliate him; that he was "like a dog, a stupid obedient fool" for answering Michael's call. At the same time, Michael murdered a teacher inside the school. The woman, who had just advised her students to chase their fears away with a smile, was found strung up on a swing set, her face contorted into a twisted smile with barbed wire. In 1991, Michael stalked a young beauty queen who was named "Miss Haddonfield 1991". Mere moments after she was elected, he attacked her in her dressing room and decapitated her with a knife. Her corpse was found "staring" at itself in her dressing room mirror. "I didn't see the work of a killer. I saw the work of an artist." ―Patrick Carter In 1993, photojournalist Patrick Carter was given the assignment to prove that Michael Myers was still alive. Given a photograph of Annie Brackett's corpse by his editor, he became increasingly obsessed with Michael and his victims. To carry out his assignment, Carter began following Sam Loomis in Haddonfield, in hopes that he would somehow lead him to the killer. Loomis soon noticed him and warned him to stay away. Undeterred, Carter broke into Loomis' study and looked through his archives, only to find more images of the many women Myers had killed over the years. One rainy day, while stalking Loomis from a distance, Carter was brought face-to-face with his obsession when Michael Myers appeared in front of him. Michael cut his throat before stabbing him to death. Upon examining his body, the coroners at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital found rolls of film forced into Carter's eye sockets; this film contained the images from his camera, including some of Michael. When Dr. Loomis heard of Carter's death, he decided to take Marion's advice and move with her to Langdon, Illinois. In early 1995, Loomis suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized. At the same time, his old acquaintance Elizabeth Worthington had come to Langdon from England to reunite with him. Michael found and kidnapped Elizabeth outside Loomis' home, chopping off her hand. At the hospital, Loomis awoke in the middle of the night to find Michael standing over him. When asked why he had come, Michael presented the doctor with a plastic bag containing the severed hand and blood-stained photographs from Loomis' past. Loomis looked up in horror to see Elizabeth tied to a chair in front of him, beaten and gagged. He attempted to stop Michael but was knocked to the floor and forced to watch as Michael removed Elizabeth's eyeball with his knife. Hysterical, Loomis mocked Myers, claiming that his eternal mission to relive Judith's murder was futile since his only other sister had perished in a car crash. Michael left the room, and as Loomis untied his former love, he found the words "Keri Tate" carved into her back. Before dying of a coronary failure, Loomis realized that Michael knew — and had always known — that Laurie Strode was still alive. "Your sister Judith, your very first kill - that was it for you, wasn't it? That was the greatest thrill you ever had. A trick or treat on your family and especially on your poor sister. Blood spilled for whatever inhuman force it is that drives you. And you know something else, Michael? You can't repeat it." ―Sam Loomis
Halloween
1.Judith Myers: Knifed 9 times 2.Christopher Hastings: Chest knifed 3.Annie Brackett: Throat slit and strangled 4.Robert Simms: Impaled with knife 5.Lynda Van der Klok: Strangled with phone cord
Halloween II
1.Alice Martin: Stabbed in chest 2.Bernard Garrett: Hammer claw in head 3.Vincent Scarlotti: Strangled with cord 4.Karen Bailey: Drowned/scalded in hot water 5.Frederick Mixter: Eye stabbed with syringe 6.Janet Marshall: Air bubble injected in temple 7.Virginia Alves: Blood drained by I.V. 8.Jill Franco: Stabbed in back with a scalpel 9.Terrence Gummell: Throat slit with scalpel
Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later
1.James Howell: Ice skate stabbed in face 2.Tony Allegre: Stabbed in back 3.Marion Whittington: Throat slit 4.Charles Deveraux: Throat slit with corkscrew 5.Sarah Wainthrope: Leg stabbed, crushed/broken by elevator, and knifed repeatedly 6.Will Brennan: Stabbed/impaled through back with knife 7.Paramedic: Throat crushed, made to pose as Michael Myers, and decapitated with axe by Laurie Strode.
Halloween
1.Female dog in the Myers house: Slammed against wall and eaten 2.Lester: Strangled
•Halloween (1978)
••Halloween (Extended Edition)
••Halloween II (Television Cut)
•Halloween II (novelization)
1.HalloweenComics - Articles and Memos
3.Halloween: The First Death of Laurie Strode #1, "Masks and Grotesque Figures"
6.Halloween: The First Death of Laurie Strode #2, "Demons Tormenting Me"
7.Halloween (extended television version)
9.Halloween: 30 Years Later, "Repetition Compulsion"
12.Halloween: 30 Years of Terror, "P.O.V."
Sep 28, 2023 · At the end of Halloween H20, Laurie Strode decapitates a man wearing Michael's mask, believing he is Michael. However, Halloween: Resurrection reveals that Michael put his mask on a paramedic and escaped, meaning that Laurie kills an innocent bystander instead.
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It has been almost twenty years since Michael Myers escaped from Smith's Grove and returned to his hometown of Haddonfield to kill his long-lost sister, Laurie Strode. After an explosion at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital caused by Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael's body disappeared and was presumed dead.
Michael Myers, the little boy who killed his sister, Judith, on Halloween night. Exactly fifteen years later, he escaped and slaughtered over a dozen people. They told everyone he was dead, but they never caught him, never found a body.
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