“I met him fifteen years ago, I was told there was nothing left; no reason, no conscience, no understanding in even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this… six year old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and…the blackest eyes – the devil’s eyes.
I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy’s eyes was purely and simply… evil.” -Sam Loomis
What does it mean when you can’t kill the killer? For Jamie Lee Curtis, it means having to devote your life to figuring out ways to fight. But what is keeping Michel Myers alive, you might ask?
How can he survive these executions of getting shot and catching fire? I’m here to find out exactly how and why he keeps showing up.
I did some research, and went back to the very beginning. It all started with Michel’s childhood home, where it was believed that there was a spirit controlling his actions and orders him to kill his sister.
If you ask me, it sounds like this is one angry spirit that has taken over this little boy. Because the situation is that he gave into that spirit of evil. I believe it was the lack of common sense that boys don’t get until they’re forty-years old. Little boys do not have the common sense to determine whether something is inherently evil or evil disguised.
In Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later, it’s also believed that he was found by the man in the black cloak. He was entrusted with the “cult of throne”, giving him powers of healing and resurrection, superhuman strength, and quietness; all of which he uses to hunt and kill his victims.
To me, this sounds like the antichrist 2.0, given an unlimited life span to kill off his own family. It is this cult ritual performed on Michel that has given him the rage and anger to hunt down his family. One by one, two by two, and so on, until no one is left. According to the Michael Myers fandom, once he kills off his entire family the hometown can live in peace and this evil will be put to rest.
Michael has never spoken a word. It’s like he is the grim reaper. He has no personality, conscious, or knowledge of mercy. How do you understand someone who has no understanding of humanity?
You don’t. All you can do is to try to stop the evil that lurks behind the shadows. Do you want to understand Michael or are you just as tired as I am of seeing him get blown up, shot, set on fire and still getting up and being able to walk away?
Put an end to it! Why keep this ongoing trilogy going? Is he a spirit that will wonder on? Will he die once his family line ends? Or will he pass down the curse “cult of thorne”?
We’ll soon see what director David Gordon Green has planned for the next Halloween film. I’ll leave the rest up to you to decide.
Priscilla Vargas
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