Who's your favorite Myers?

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Holy crap, my first relevant post on here.

This is a question I’ve thought particularly hard about, because I don’t think it’s often addressed enough: What do we think of the actors who play Michael Myers?

Nick Castle, obviously, is great and defined the character. Not much more needs to be said.

Dick Warlock was pretty good, but more robotic than I would have liked. Castle made Michael move more or less like a person. He swung his arms when he walked. I think Warlock turns Michael more into something that isn’t human, which is something that usually makes him scary: he looks and moves like a person, but is beyond that.

George Wilbur is a mixed bag for me. He can be frightfully intimidating and he’s a pretty big guy, but he kinda doubles down on the robotic style that Warlock introduced. It makes Michael look like he’s moving on puppet strings. And I know this isn’t Wilbur’s fault, but the shoulder pads in H4 don’t make him look scary, they almost make him look fluffy. In Halloween 6, however, I think Wilbur is at his best. Michael is bulky without looking silly, and he way toned down the stiff movement. I’m not Halloween 6’s biggest fan, but I love Wilbur as Michael in this one.

I don’t know much about Don Shanks as an actor, but his Michael is sub-par. He just doesn’t have a presence, and the way he holds his knife has always bugged me. You know, raised to chest level and actually walking around in that pose. It just looks goofy.

Chris Durand is okay. He definitely moves a bit more like Nick Castle than the previous actors, but I do have one problem: you can see his eyes. It totally breaks the “darkest eyes” shtick. I know that’s more the mask’s problem, but the way Durand keeps his eyes so wide so frequently, Michael just looks perpetually surprised at everything.

Brad Loree is…fine? Like Shanks, I don’t think this Michael really has a screen presence, but he doesn’t look as silly.

Tyler Mane…wow. This might be the most intimidating Michael has ever been. Mane’s sheer height and physicality really makes a monster out of Michael. Stealth and hiding in shadows has been replaced by outright brute force. It’s terrifying. He towers over everyone and it might be the most aggressive we have ever seen Michael. In short, I LOVE Tyler’s Michael.

James Jude Courtney is great. He differentiates himself from Nick Castle, but he still captures what makes Michael so frightening. He moves like a cat, yet he captures some of that physicality that makes Tyler Mane’s Michael so frightening. At the same time, he incorporates some of that stealth that defined Michael in the first movie.

So yeah. Those are just my thoughts.

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My favorite has to be Nick Castle. There’s just something about the way he moves…little things, like when he walks around the stair railing while putting the knife into his other hand. I love the way someone I heard put it once…his performance makes Myers in H1 seem like a relatively average guy who’s just “off” somehow, like an outsider, or an outcast.

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This… :myers: :drinkers:

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H78 is my favourite. Then it’s joined 2nd place with Tyler and James. Chris from H20 is massively underrated imo also. Warlock also is fantastic. I actually don’t dislike any in truth.

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Nick Castle and James Jude Courtney followed by Dick Warlock! For me, they will always be my favorite myers!

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Castle, Warlock, JJC and Airon Armstrong

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Warlock, Castle, Wilbur, Armstrong, Courtney, Mane

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The shape from original Halloween is my favorite by far, very closely followed by Halloween 2. I liked what we saw of him in the first movie better, the way they utilized the shape throughout the whole movie felt more ominous. In the day time he’s there and not there, creeping and following the babysitters until dusk when he finally moves in on them one by one. It’s just classic. My favorite moment of myers in the movie is the shot of him standing in front of bob pinned against the wall, And the shape tilting his head at the body. Now I’m just geeking out over how much I love the original Halloween… though I will tend to agree that the appearance of The shape in Halloween 2 looked more sinister the way the mask fit on warlocks head

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I agree with all of this. Nice post. For what its worth… my favorite is Dick. My second favorite is Nick.

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Castle. Watch him walk down the stairs. He’s quick about it. Makes him look more like a human psychopath than a robot. But I always say when Loomis shot Michael and he fell, it was the death of Michael the human. Then he was reborn by evil and became more robotic…no real thoughts except hate. I mean, he even had a sense of humor in the first movie by wearing that sheet with glasses.

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As a kid, warlocks portrayal scared the hell outta me!! As an adult I enjoy castles myers more. Something about how he stealthily creeps around is unsettling!

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If you ask me at this moment. JJC in Kills. That Myers is brutal.

But before this trilogy started dead die between Castle and Warlock. H2 is the look I have always associated as Michael Myers

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I get where you coming from with the “robot” Airon Armstrong looked like a robot when he walked down the stairs in the flashback. Other than that, Castle will always be my favorite

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A. Michael Lerner. H6 T-Cut Michael was a savage in the best way possible.

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Thats what I like about castle in 78. He is just an average guy. He does’nt need size to make him look scary/intimidating. Just his movements and of course the mask is what makes him. After H2 I think they were trying to compete with Jason of FT13th and went with him being bigger. If JJC was the same height as Castle he would be the second best

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Yes, and in fact, on H4, Moustapha Akkad wanted Myers to be bigger like Jason, which is why they used the shoulder pads in that film. Apparently, he kept saying “I want Jason, give me Jason!” It was a mistake because ever since H4, every film has tried to make Myers bigger and beefier like Jason, but that’s just simply not what The Shape is, or ever should be, in my book.

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Dick Warlock…its like Myers was possessed.

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Perfectly said!!

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Interesting that you say that because I’ve always felt that at the end of H1 when Loomis shoots Myers, that ultimately killed what little humanity he had left, and so in H2 after being shot, he is basically a dead body being driven by pure evil. That’s just the way I look at it.

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Easily Dick Warlock, not even a question for me.

The way he walked, the way he stretched out the mask, how he looked in the shadows, the brute strength of lifting a nurse up with just a small scalpel, the scene where he just bursts through a glass door face first without even flinching.
Nick Castle was amazing as the shape but I always felt he was a bit more clumsy and still felt like just a 21 year old man where you could still sense some sort of man underneath that could be anyone which has its own incredible charm of course but compared to how Dick Warlock was, as dr Loomis would say, “pure evil” he felt so much more focused and collected, just this evil entity quietly lurking in the shadows, the fact he was just shot 6 times and wasn’t even phased, all that mattered was killing Laurie.
So for me that’s why Dick Warlock will simply just never be topped, it was perfection imo.