Courtney Balcombe

News Editor

clb6264@psu.edu

If you have not seen any of the Halloween movies, it is highly recommended that you do before watching the latest film in its franchise as it does pick up from the previous movie. The order to watch these films in is as follows:

• “Halloween,” 1978
• “Halloween II,” 1981
• “Halloween: Season of the Witch,” this has nothing to do with Michael Myers and can be skipped over, 1982
• “Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers,” 1988
• “Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers,” 1989
• “Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, 1995
• Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later,” 1998
• “Halloween: Resurrection,” 2002
• “Halloween,” the Rob Zombie version, 2007
• “Halloween II,” the Rob Zombie version, 2009
• “Halloween,” 2018
• “Halloween Kills,” 2021
• “Halloween Ends,” 2022

If you don’t know anything about these films, Michael Myers is just like every other slasher killer from the 1970s and 1980s, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. However, he can eventually die but only if he is the last Myers alive.

In Halloween, 1978, he killed his sister in her bedroom on Halloween night in 1963 when he was only 6-years-old. The movie then jumps forward to 1978 when he escapes and returns to his home, where he kills teenagers who are babysitting. While one babysitter manages to escape his gasp, she soon becomes his obsessed target.

In Halloween II, it picks up where Halloween left off and we learn that the babysitter he is stalking and trying so hard to kill is his little sister. Laurie was born two years after Michael was locked up in the asylum, then two years later their parents died. While she was adopted, her previous records were sealed and no one would know about her relationship to Michael.

Now skipping ahead to Halloween Kills, this movie continues the same pattern Michael Myers has: escape, kill, get attacked, and still does not die. So why can he not die?

Well, according to Distractify, Michael Myers has a curse.

Original creator John Carpenter said he wanted to emphasize that Michael is likely a supernatural entity to keep the audience guessing about an unknown evil. According to the Halloween 25th Anniversary DVD Commentary, John preferred the mystery of an unknown to a more solid explanation such as “he was cursed.”