Y’know… in spite of the bullshit that we see in Halloween Kills, and even to a lesser extent 2018, I think that, in a vacuum, this retrospective on the character of Michael, and his intentions and why he kills, is actually a rather fascinating character study. I can’t say that I’ve seen anything like that specifically before. It’s always “Because he’s pure evil” or “Because he’s trying to kill his family”. This keeps in Carpenter’s line of thinking with Michael, while also providing an actual psychoanalytical analysis.
Reading far too much into it, honestly, I just think of him as a force of nature and nothing more
I’ve got to admit, as a costumer and someone who loves music and effects, the mask and persona have always been my favorite parts of the character. Plot comes after that for me.
I think the new trilogy Michael is top notch in terms of mask and the way he’s carrying himself. Best since the original in my opinion. I just don’t watch these movies for plot
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To be fair, it probably is. But it’s also a legitimate explanation, one that does make sense while keeping to the mystique, because it could be entirely wrong. It keeps to Doctor Sartain’s line in H40 of how Michael’s been interviewed by numerous psychiatric specialists and psychoanalysts, each with differing opinions and diagnoses. The way that it’s explained here is a very Freudian explanation that does still fit in line with the events of the first film in a vacuum.
Don’t get me wrong. His psychopathy and his pure and simple evil is what I like most. But I thought it was a rather interesting retrospective on the character of Michael, and how he functioned and operated in the first film. After all, if he was just a force of nature, he wouldn’t spend so much time just… stalking, watching. He wouldn’t have put his bodies up on display like grizzly trophies. He wouldn’t have made the effort to disguise himself as Bob. The way he acts is a lot more in line with Loomis calling him purely and simply evil, and John Carpenter calling him “evil in human shape” over him being something like “the wind” or “the sun”.