Halloween: The Complete History of Michael Myers (40 Year Timeline) | Horror History

When I spoke to my mom about horror movies and brought up Michael Myers she said, "There's only one thing I remember and learned from Halloween. It's that no matter how slow you are and no matter how long it takes, as long as you have the determination you can do anything." Thanks for the inspiration of a serial killer, mom.

"Evil doesn't die, it changes Shape." -Laurie Strode, Halloween Ends

The fact that he been planning multiple escapes and even forging documents is damn near terrifying yet amazing how really unstable yet smart michael truly is

I prefer this concept of Michael best; the less the audience can understand him the more frightening he is as a threat. He has a clear objective (reliving the murder of his sister Judith) but despite his masked expression and blank menacing body language he demonstrates an ability to make plans, improvise and even has a morbid sense of humor at times. We never know what his motives are or what he's fully capable of. If there is anything supernatural about him, it's Michael's supernatural determination to achieve his goals, which gives him this mind-boggling endurance.

I think Ends makes it clear that it was about his status as the Boogeyman instead of a literal power that keeps him alive. It was Loomis who spread the rumor he was pure evil as a child and the whole town bought it as part of the urban legend. Over the 3 movies of the recent reboot, Laurie comes to terms with that at the end and it demystifes the status completely, though it doesn't mean it's contained and can easily spread. Similar track record with Corey. The more he embraced this idea and fear surrounding his accident in the beginning, the more "powerful" he became. Basically anybody can embody the status of Michael Myers so as long as people fear what he initially represented. And in that sense... He truly is invincible.

During the last fight with Michael and Laurie, you can hear Michael struggling to kill her. He is also breathing really heavily. This shows that his old age is slowing him down.

My theory about Michael being so weak in Ends was because he received no medical treatment for all the stab wounds, bullet wounds, and blunt force trauma he received 4 years ago. Going that long without proper treatment is going to absolutely destroy anyone. On top of that, he stayed in the sewers where it’s dangerously easy to get an infection. With all those open and bleeding wounds, Michael definitely got weaker staying in such an unsanitary place.

Although Laurie’s theory about him getting stronger the more he kills was correct, that 4 year period with no treatment to wounds and minimal killing brought him down significantly.

As for Corey, I believe Michael was influencing him through supernatural means. When Corey stared into those empty and black eyes, he gave into the fear and allowed a portion of the evil within Michael to transfer to him.

about the bus crash: I think Laurie was only there to watch and make sure everything was okay, which is why she said at dinner that she saw him. I think that the one who caused the bus crash was Dr. Sartain. He wants to see him 'in action', see how he works, what he does. Its the same reason he brings Michael to Laurie's house at the end.

I read on the Halloween wiki that this version of Michael has a rare condition where he cannot feel pain or his injuries. So my theory is that, since he cannot feel all the bullets, knifes, and the loss of his fingers, this doesn’t really deter his stamina. However, since in Halloween Kills we see him nursing his severed fingers, I think it’s clear that, while he doesn’t feel pain, he knows that his injures could kill him, causing him to stop the bleeding from his hand

I think it's hilarious that Laurie lived her life in absolute fear for 40 years when Mike didn't even know who she was. Lol

Honestly, i find more ridiculous to say that Michael felt identified with Corey or felt empathy for him, than to say that Michael just transferred a little of his "evilness" to him by looking into Corey's eyes.

I like how most killers seems to have this moral code of not killing children, Freddy and Chucky being the few only exceptions I can think of.

That recharge theory is genius. It makes so much sense on how he regains strength and stamina in such a rapid time

The moment when his fingers are shot off he actually makes a sound which is the first time he has reacted to pain...that's something I think most people overlook.

"Dead By Daylight" explains him perfectly well. He is one of the more simpler characters and becomes motivated based on how obsessed he is with his targets.

The scariest part about him is that he actually never teleports. His presence actually causes victims to temporarily lose control of their senses causing them to forget where he actually was walking. It's very easy to lose track of a slow moving threat.

As for why the mob could not kill him. Only retired Sheriff Brackett had a killer instinct; few folks actually have it in them to kill. The mob just wanted to hit him a few times and were too afraid to let themselves get too dark. The one other citizen who also brought the gun never actually used it for practical purposes and let his fear dominate him. Myers suffered no head trauma from the beating which would have quickly ended his existence. Sheriff Brackett had his revolver cocked and was more than likely going for a head shot before the Shape stood up; Brackett on a good day could have killed the Shape.

My theory about 40 year timeline Michael is that his youth as an outcast combined with his violent tendencies leads him to kill and view his victims as playthings in order to create a childhood he was denied. He is constantly trying to recreate the only thing that ever gave him any sense of emotion in his childhood, which is murder. The head tilt is to admire his work the way a child might admire their crayon drawings or the scenarios they create with their toys.

Imagine if Michael sped walk like Hal in Malcom in the Middle. He’d be unstoppable

I find it insane just how intelligent Michael is in this version

Forgot to mention that in Halloween kills when his mask gets taken you can hear him quietly whispering to give it back which is honestly really freaky.

It’s said Myers knew no difference between right and wrong and he was psychotic, but in the first movie when he killed the friend who always said totally, he walked in the room with a sheet with the eyes cut out on as a ghost after he killed her boyfriend….but he put the guys glasses on over the sheet to make it look like he was the bf and this reveals forethought and planning, so he wasn’t just going thru haddonfield, mindlessly murdering people, just those that got in his way of the task he felt he must complete.