Just wondering this after seeing the shape returns scene but when Michael kills the old lady with the hammer and came across the baby, he noticed it, but spared it and walked away. I find this interesting because earlier in the movie he kills a 14 year old kid. Any theories or explanations?
people wouldâve been all outraged and pissed off if he killed the baby. Twitter and such would be all, âCry cry-tear tear, heâs a monster!!â
which actually is exactly why I wish he wouldâve done it. All he had to do was stab down while he walked past the cradle and keep moving in that creepy, smooth and calm way he does things, and have the sound of the baby crying stop abruptly. You never actually saw a baby you just heard it. It wouldâve been a pretty chilling effect done only through the use of sound.
But I wouldâve liked to see the horror and reaction of, âHeâs a Monster!â âŚbecause him being âpure and simple Evilâ, is the entire point. Heâs supposed to be an evil monster.
I feel itâs because thereâs simply no reason for him to. He didnât kill the babies in the hospital in H2 (1981) either. Theyâre just babies, theyâre not in his way, and they are not hindering him in any way, so why would he kill them? Of course heâs pure evil, but he only kills who he stalks, and pretty much anyone who happens to be in his wayâŚI donât think that applies to the babies.
I think he knew the baby was in no way a threat to him. He usually seems to kill people for a reason (not all the time) their was no reason for him to kill the baby in my opinion.
Agreed. Itâs not much of a mystery
The simple explanation is that the actor playing the husband didnât show up to shoot so they put a crib there. He wasnât supposed to kill the husband in the script and he didnât kill the baby. Michael is random
Itâs almost worse that he didnât kill the child. Now the child has to grow up without his/her mother, possibly knowing she was murdered in the same room. Iâm not sure why he didnât, but it really isnât a big deal to me in a way that I was upset with the scene.
I assumed he didnât kill the baby because it didnât have the capacity to fear him or understand what was happening.
That would be very creepy and effective, but due to how soft todayâs society is, thatâll never happen, you are right about how outraged people would be