The other day saw Rosie and I watch the final Michael Myers
Halloween film. So here, after 7 films of terror, I attempt to explain
what actually happens in the Halloween series, from start to finish, obviously excluding Halloween III, which is the only film not to follow the Michael Myers story.
On Halloween 1963, 4 year old Michael Myers, without reason
or remorse, stabs to death his older sister, Judith. After 15 years in a mental
institution under the eye of his Doctor, Dr Loomis, he escapes on Halloween
night 1978, and stalks Laurie Strode, his younger sister, and her friends.
Laurie had her name changed in the sixties after her parents died in an automobile
accident and she was put up for adoption. The name change was so she would
never realise who her older brother was.
After successfully killing her friends, Michael goes after
Laurie, who is babysitting a boy called Tommy Doyle. However Dr Loomis saves
her after he shoots Michael off of a balcony. Michael survives the fall and
makes off to kill more people whilst Laurie is taken to Haddonfield hospital
because of her injuries, and once there begins to have flashbacks about her
original family, being adopted by the Strodes and visiting a young boy in a
mental institution. Meanwhile, Michael hears on a radio broadcast about Laurie’s
whereabouts and goes to the hospital. After killing all the doctors and nurses,
Michael attempts to kill Laurie. However Dr Loomis and a sheriff arrive, Loomis
fills a room with ether gas and sets it on fire, engulfing both him and Michael
in flames. It is unclear until the next film whether or not either survive.
In 1979, soon after her experiences
on Halloween, Laurie found she was pregnant. Traumatised, she put the child up
for adoption and faked her own death and moved away from Haddonfield. By
Halloween 1988, 8 year old Jamie, Laurie’s daughter, is in intense danger after
Michael Myers, who has been in a coma since Halloween 1978, awakes whilst being
transferred between institutions. He overhears that Jamie is his only surviving
relative and sets off to Haddonfield to kill her. After single handedly killing
the local police force and plunging Haddonfield into darkness by interfering
with an electrical substation, a lynch mob forms in Haddonfield led by Dr
Loomis, who also survived the fire 10 years earlier. After Michael enters Jamie
and her family’s house, Jamie and her babysitter flee and run Michael over in
the process, and after continuously hitting him with their truck, he flies
towards an abandoned mine shaft. Jamie touches Michaels hand before the angry
mob from Haddonfield shoot Michael into the mine shaft. Later, on returning home, Jamie
appears in a clown mask after stabbing her adoptive mother who was running her
a bath. The film ends with Dr Loomis and the rest of her family looking at her
and screaming.
However Michael doesn’t die in the mine shaft, he falls into a
coma and floats down a river and is found by a hermit who lives in a shaft near
the river. On Halloween 1989, Michael reawakens, kills the hermit and returns
to Haddonfield to kill Jamie, who after Halloween 4 has become mute and
admitted to a psychiatric hospital for children. A man in a black cloak also begins to
stalk Haddonfield, and appears to be aiding Michael. By the end of the film, after
a large chase through the woods and a farm, Michael is arrested and Jamie is
safe. However the man in black blows up the police station and Jamie is taken by Michael and the mysterious man and is held hostage in a large abandoned church and impregnated by
Michael several years later.
On Halloween 1995, a nurse helps Jamie escape with
her baby and she hides with it in an abandoned bus station. Michael arrives and
kills her, and the baby is left in the bus station toilets. Tommy, the boy who
Laurie Strode babysat on Halloween in 1978 who has since become obsessed with
Michael Myers finds the baby and takes him home. Tommy tells Dr Loomis of his
suspicions that Michael has returned to Haddonfield. He then explains to Dr
Loomis of his research into the ‘Curse of Thorn’ that Michael has. The curse
involves someone having to make a blood sacrifice of their next of kin each Halloween.
This also explains why Michael cannot die. Tommy suspects that Jamie’s
incestual baby will be Michael’s ‘final sacrifice’, or that Michael has created
the ‘definition of evil’ through this baby. Later on Tommy and Loomis are
led to an abandoned factory and Michael arrives and attempts to kill them both. They both escape, however Dr Loomis goes back in as ‘he has unfinished
business to attend to’. It is the assumed that Michael and Loomis fight,
resulting in Dr Loomis’ death.
While all this was happening,
Laurie Strode had been living a new life with a new family in Illinois and had
become principal of a school there. However on Halloween 1998, Michael finally
finds Laurie after 20 years, and attempts to kill her and her son. After a
night of bloodshed, Laurie decapitates who she thinks is Michael. However, it
is a surgeon who had had his larynx crushed by Michael and had been put in his
mask. Because of this, Laurie is put in a mental institution. On Halloween
2001, Michael finds Laurie and successfully kills her. Her son had been
relocated because of a witness protection programme.
A year later, Michael returns to
Haddonfield to kill a group of teenagers who are filming a tv show in his old
family home. The film ends with Michael being killed with a spear. However on a
slab in the mortuary, Michael’s eyes open and he awakes once again. It is never
revealed what happened to Jamie and Michael’s baby.
