Obviously it’s a movie but dang for being just a normal/crazy human Michael has crazy strength, and pain resistance. So at age 21 he can pick a guy up off ground with one arm…that’s a lot of crazy strength, not to mention all the injury’s then he’s captured according to the new film. He was in Smiths grove from the time of a kid, what workout program was he on??? Then fast forward 40 years…he’s in his early 60’s blind in one eye and has been locked up. He is still strong and resistant to certain injuries and pain. He’s either dopped up on some serious PCP and steroids or something. He would probably kill anyone in the octagon
Lol I’d pay to see Conor McGregor vs Michael Myers. I don’t necessarily like to think of Myers as “supernatural”, just that he can tap into his mind better than the average person, resulting in extra strength and pain tolerance (like you said, someone on PCP exhibits these same oddities).
Kind of like when the mother lifts the car off her child with a rush of adrenaline, when you don’t feel the punch during the fight, but later… that sort of thing.
Hahaha yeah, Connor would be getting his face smashed into a stall, they stop the fight and afterwards he tells reporters “if they would have given me 1 more minute I know I could have turned things around”
I feel like the supernatural evil within really shined through in this film. The age had no baring on his strengths
I believe the reason for Michael’s strength is the fact that he is a “force”, as John Carpenter said. He is pure evil, and as Dr. Loomis said, “this isn’t a man”.
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When he kills the film maker guy…repeated smashing of his head against the stall wall…
I thought that was pretty brutal. Then when they show the guy in the corner slowly dying…it demonstrates the brutality and evilness of MM.
exactly. He’s not a Man, he’s evil in The Shape of a Man.
Like a Person possessed by a Demon or something, … Demonic Strength.
I mean in the bathroom scene, that guy cracked a crowbar across Myers head and it didn’t even slow him down. I don’t want to meet a person that can take a hit like that and just keep coming at you.
That’s funny cause I’m Friday the 13th part 3 he gets hit with a log and falls over. Michael gets hit by a crowbar and keeps moving. So if he’s evil incarnate, when did that happen?? At birth, the night of 1963?? Something clicked off in his head
idk, … he’s possessed.
Carpenter said he’s Evil though, not a Man. That’s all I need.
Not to mention dislodging then carrying Judith’s huge tombstone (weighing hundreds of pounds) from the cemetery to the station wagon then from that to the top floor of the Wallace house, not even World’s Strongest man competitors can do that (look at the stone lifts they do, placing them on pedestals). The new movie trying to make him more human just doesn’t really work in the context of the original Halloween.
Exploding someone’s head like an overripe avacado by stomping it (in H:40) also isn’t something a human can do.
I don’t think it is super natural at all. That implied something impossible. I think it is channeled adrenalin. The same as a woman who lifts her crashed car off of her two children etc. Or a child pulling their father out of a freezing lake. And in Myers case this superhuman strength comes about when he runs into humans.
Its hard to put your finger on. In the new movie and in the original I think he comes across as somewhere in between mere mortal and supernatural being
I think for 40 years it’s been pretty well established he’s supernatural/possessed/The Shape/The Boogeyman.
especially because his creator John Carpenter said that’s what he is. That’s why the credits list him as ‘The Shape’ and not ‘Michael Myers’.
Amen. The scene where the mask is revealed and he says nothing but everybody else flips out just shows us the true evil within. He may be a man, but there is no conscious just pure evil within his heart
He is credited at the end as “Michael” but not Myers. The full name Michael Myers is never mentioned once in the original movie, he had no last name… just Michael.
John Carpenter –
I drew on “haunted house” folklore that exists in many small American communities: “Most small towns have a kind of haunted house story of one kind or another,” he stated. "At least that’s what teenagers believe. There’s always a house down the lane that somebody was killed in, or that somebody went crazy in. The inspiration for the “evil” that Michael would embody came from a visit during college to a psychiatric institution in Kentucky. There, was a ward I visited with my psychology classmates, where “the most serious, mentally ill patients” were held. Among those patients was an adolescent boy aged 12-13, who possessed a blank, "schizophrenic stare. The boy gave this “schizophrenic stare”, “a real evil stare”, which I found “unsettling”, “creepy”, and “completely insane”
A common characterization is that Michael Myers is evil. John Carpenter has described the character as “almost a supernatural force - a force of nature. An evil force that’s loose,” a force that is "unkillable
Debra Hill –
The idea was that you couldn’t kill evil, and that was how we came about the story. We went back to the old idea of Samhain, that Halloween was the night where all the souls are let out to wreak havoc on the living, and then came up with the story about the most evil kid who ever lived. And when John came up with this fable of a town with a dark secret of someone who once lived there, and now that evil has come back, that’s what made Halloween work.
I think he overpowered people with ease, but he still isn’t this invulnerable entity. I think how they handled that worked fine with me.
I just realized this is reminiscent of a thread from almost a decade ago 
And agreed. I was very happy with the new film. It showed him to be human, but in my opinion along with that showed that he is truly the embodiment of evil. He didn’t come back from the dead like Jason or Freddy but his strengths were extremely noticable and the scene at the institution really was amazing in my eyes. Simple, but showed he is much more than just a man
not trying to be argumentative btw. I’ve just never thought of him as ‘just a Man.’
Dr. Loomis even says it’s a mistake to think of him as a Man.
I am so glad you mentioned this as well! I was evenglad to hear Laurie refer to him as such. People should not forget his original alias.
