Halloween 2018 *Spoiler* Discussion Thread

I never picked up that Michael really gave a damn about Laurie. He only wanted to kill. I never thought once he escaped the bus that he was looking for her. Now she on the other hand....she clearly had her eye on him and was determined that their paths would cross....which in a sense put her Michael's path again...and anyone in his path...he tries to kill.

Because that's where she is – or at least the last place he knew that she was.

And he's been focusing on her ever since because she's alive. She got away from him. That's never happened to him before. That's enough.

What happens after he kills the doctor and takes the deputy's truck? Does he go to his childhood home? No, he goes to Laurie's house. I mean, the writers even even tell you what is driving them when the kooky Dr. mentions him being an apex predator, having to finish off Laurie, etc. That is them literally telling the audience what his motivation in this movie is.

That's merely the Dr. saying what he thinks Myers' motive is, and the only reason Myers showed up at her house is because the Dr drove him out there. He killed the Dr and went to the house. Had that never happened there is nothing to indicate that Myers would have went there.

The final confrontation could have been Laurie simply step in and somehow thwart him killing anymore victims. An intervention based on her sole instincts.
Something like Loomis did in the original. It was subtle and effective.

The confrontation we got was the moment you knew this movie was heading toward from 10 minutes in. And it was executed in a very predictable, over the top and thoroughly formulaic manner. They might as well have staged it in a stadium with executive suites. It seemed so planned and telegraphed and forced out of the rear end of a movie that seemed constipated up to that point.

We've also got crossed wires here. In the original movie - to which my point referred - Myers is indeed back stalking teenage girls that somehow resemble Judith. I think you've misinterpreted this point as relating to the new movie.

My point is that this focus he had in the original movie - seemingly his whole purpose in returning home.......no longer exists in this one and instead he has a far less intriguing and sequel-influenced destiny in going head to head with Laurie either at his own desire, hers or both.

In the meantime he's killing men, women and not above child killing also.

The character no longer resembles that seen in the story to which this film claims to directly connect.
Is it not odd that in the first movie, this character singled out a small group and bided his time all day to stalk them in a very subtle fashion before systematically choosing the right moment to act out his psychosis on them, complete with Judith's tombstone to consummate his single-minded intent? No one else was in his firing line once he had found the right subjects. A teenage girl and her teenage girlfriends.

That was creepy, intriguing and gave us a dark vaccum through which to ponder Michael.

This movie just gives us a thug-like brute seemingly with a score to settle who's not fussy or fixated on any particular kind of victim.

Ultimately, I'm saying this movie - however bullish about ignoring the sequels - falls into the same trap they all did by overlooking the simple yet wonderfully eerie and effective concept that was presented in the very story this one seeks to extend.

I just read the script. The podcaster guy asks Michael at the beginning if he chose Laurie Strode because he reminds him of his sister, so that's another point against Trumpal Recall above. I also don't like the idea of Michael being fixated on her because she "got away". THAT is giving him too much motive.

Someone said the Myers house should have been mentioned, and I agree, and it is in the script. It was taken down and turned into a community garden by Will Patton after years of vandalism. The idea of Laurie buying the house to stage a confrontation is awesome.

It was posted on Reddit.

Does Michael eat? While I am very glad that he remains a mystery, I am very intrigued about his time in the institution and people's reaction to that.

For example, how can he survive getting shot six times and nobody talk about that? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that there wasn't some stupid explanation – like a cult being responsible for his power and actions – I was a little disappointed that no one brought up the fact that he seemingly doesn't seem human. It's pretty much impossible that someone would survive what he survived at the end of the first movie, yet it happened. I'm sure in the 40 years since that incident somebody somewhere talked about it, I would just like to see it addressed on screen.

And what does he do on a day-to-day basis? Does anyone else get the feeling that he does exactly what he does in the yard – which is nothing? I can't picture him eating or reading. I can't picture him outside of a catatonic state. Again, I don't want an outright answer. Stuff like this is often best left up to our imaginations, but I would've liked to have seen people discuss it. I mean, I'm not even a character in the movie in the movie and I'm constantly pondering about the last 40 years of his life or the moments of his life that take place on screen.