History Franchise / HALLOWEEN

* CompleteMonster: Although many of his female victims resemble his sister Judith, Michael will kill anyone--men, women, children, dogs, ect. He also enjoys tormenting or scaring his victims before killing them--such as when he disguised himself as a ghost to pretend to be the boyfriend of one of his victims, burying Lisa (who fears the dark) alive, or putting razors in Halloween candy. "Pure evil," indeed.

-> ''"These eyes will deceive you. They will destroy you. They will take from you your innocence, your pride, and...eventually...your soul. These eyes do not see what you and I see. Behind these eyes, one finds only blackness, the absence of light. These are the eyes...of a psychopath."''
-->-- '''Dr. Samuel Loomis''', ''Film/{{Halloween 2007}}''

* '''''Film/HalloweenResurrection'' (2002)''' -- Michael [[spoiler:finally kills Laurie]], then returns to Haddonfield to find an Internet reality show has set up shop in his old house. The contestants and crew get more than they bargained for when Michael decides to kill the trespassers.

* '''''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}'' (1978)''' -- At the age of 7, Michael Myers stabbed his older sister Judith to death on Halloween; this led to his incarceration at a mental hospital. Fifteen years later, Michael escapes from the hospital on the night before Halloween and returns to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois to stalk teenager Laurie Strode and her friends. Only Sam Loomis, Michael's former psychiatrist, stands any chance of stopping Michael.

* '''''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}'' (1978)''' -- At the age of 6, Michael Myers stabbed his older sister Judith to death on Halloween; this led to his incarceration at a mental hospital. Fifteen years later, Michael escapes from the hospital on the night before Halloween and returns to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois to stalk teenager Laurie Strode and her friends. Only Sam Loomis, Michael's former psychiatrist, stands any chance of stopping Michael.

* '''''Film/Halloween4TheReturnOfMichaelMyers'' (1988)''' -- Michael Myers awakens from a ten-year coma just before Halloween to return to Haddonfield and kill Laurie Strode's young daughter, Jamie, who lives with a foster family.
* '''''Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers'' (1989)''' -- After the events of the previous film, Jamie lands in a mental hospital to help her recover. Michael uses his psychic link to Jamie to lure his young niece to him by stalking her friend Tina.
* '''''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers'' (1995)''' -- Years after the previous film, a group called The Cult of Thorn try to kidnap an adult Jamie's newborn baby, Steven, as part of a plan involving Michael (who keeps trying to kill his niece).

* '''''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'' (1998)''' -- This film [[RetGone ignores the events of the previous three films]]. Twenty years after the first two films, Laurie Strode -- who faked her death to escape Michael -- runs a boarding school under the assumed name of Keri Tate. After years of searching for her, Michael finally manages to track her down to finish the job he started twenty years ago.

* '''''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'' (1978)''' -- At the age of 6, Michael Myers stabbed his older sister Judith to death on Halloween; this led to his incarceration at a mental hospital. Fifteen years later, Michael escapes from the hospital on the night before Halloween and returns to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois to stalk teenager Laurie Strode and her friends. Only Sam Loomis, Michael's former psychiatrist, stands any chance of stopping Michael.
* '''''Film/HalloweenII1981'' (1981)''' -- On the same night as the original film, [[FinalGirl Laurie]] gets taken to a hospital to recover from Michael Myers' attack, but the serial killer follows her there. The film [[TheReveal soon reveals the reason Michael stalks Laurie]]: [[spoiler:he wants to kill his long-lost sister, who doesn't know about the familial relationship between them]].

* '''''Rob Zombie's Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'' (2007)''' -- This film, directed by Rob Zombie, reimagines the original film while adding a more extensive look at Michael's childhood in the first half of the film. (The second half follows the events of the original film, albeit at a quicker pace and [[BloodierAndGorier with bloodier violence]]).
* '''''Rob Zombie's Film/HalloweenII2009'' (2009)''' -- On the night of the previous film, the body of Michael Myers -- who had been shot point-blank in the face -- disappears ''en route'' to the morgue. One year later, Laurie Strode continues to struggle with nightmares about Michael, Dr. Loomis attempts to spin his experiences with Michael into fame and fortune, and the still-alive Michael returns to finish what he started...

* ReCut: For the original film's network television premiere in 1981, Carpenter - in between shooting for ''Halloween II'' - filmed several additional scenes detailing Michael's commitment to (and escape from) the Smith's Grove asylum, which aired in place of some of the original footage that was deemed too graphic for TV.
** ''Halloween II'' also features an alternate TV cut, supervised by director Rick Rosenthal.

* BloodlessCarnage: The original only contains two shots with blood, and neither is particularly explicit. This is mostly because the film relies on lighting and suspense for its scares. The sequels avert the trope to an increasing degree, and Rob Zombie's versions avert it ''hard''.

-->-- '''Dr. Samuel Loomis''', ''Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'' (2007)

In 1978, JohnCarpenter made '''''Halloween''''', a low-budget independent horror film. The success of this film popularized the SlasherMovies genre and inspired other similar franchises such as ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' -- and it also turned the film into the first of a major horror film franchise.

** Jamie takes the cake though. She gets mocked for being related to Michael, becomes mute due to a powerful connection with Michael, has all her friends, her sister, and her dogs killed, gets kidnapped by a cult and is forced to have sex with Michael, and she's finally impaled by farm equipment. Jamie has to be the most depressing character in all of horror.

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* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Michael Myers went from a [[SuperStrength super-strong]], [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] human with plans to kill his sister to a [[JokerImmunity completely unkillable]] [[CompleteMonster supernatural being]] hell-bent on massacring half of Haddonfield. And if you follow the sixth movie's canon, his power is making him grow bigger in each movie.

''If you came to this page looking for the actual holiday, please proceed to AllHallowsEve.''

The series starts with the first two films:

After ''Resurrection'', the franchise laid dormant until Rob Zombie brought it back:

* '''''Rob Zombie's Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'' (2007)''' -- This film, directed by Rob Zombie, remakes the original film while adding a more extensive look at Michael's childhood in the first half of the film. (The second half follows the events of the original film, albeit at a quicker pace and [[BloodierAndGorier with bloodier violence]]).

* '''''Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later'' (1998)''' -- This film [[RetGone ignores the events of the previous three films]]. Twenty years after the first two films, Laurie Strode -- who faked her death to escape Michael -- runs a boarding school under the assumed name of Keri Tate. After years of searching for her, Michael finally manages to track her down to finish the job he started twenty years ago.
* '''''Halloween: Resurrection'' (2002)''' -- Michael [[spoiler:finally kills Laurie]], then returns to Haddonfield to find an Internet reality show has set up shop in his old house. The contestants and crew get more than they bargained for when Michael decides to kill the trespassers.

* AbandonedHospital: The hospital from the second film is conspicuously empty, with Laurie and some babies being the only patients that are seen. Likewise, in ''Resurrection'' the mental hospital where Laurie is being held seems pretty understaffed, with only two guards seen.
* AccidentalMurder:
** In the original ''Halloween II'' a speeding cop isn't able to brake in time and winds hitting the drunken Ben Tramer, slamming him against a parked vehicle.
** In ''The Return of Michael Myers'' a group of vigilantes accidentally shoot to death parkgoer Ted Hollister, thinking he might have been Michael.
** Laurie seemingly kills Michael by chopping his head off with an axe in ''H20'', only for the sequel to reveal that Laurie actually killed a paramedic whose larynx Michael had crushed before knocking him out and switching clothes with him.
** In the remake Patty tries to blast Michael with a shotgun during his escape from Smith's Grove. Michael grabs an earlier downed guard and uses him as shield.
* AcousticLicense: In ''Halloween Resurrection'', Sara is in a college classroom in the beginning. When the professor asks a question, and she answers, her voice is barely higher than a whisper, yet the professor hears her clearly and responds.
* ActionGirl: Laurie in ''H20''.

* AllJustADream: The entire beginning of the ''Halloween II'' remake.

* AnAxeToGrind: Michael uses one in ''The Curse of Michael Myers'' and Rob Zombie's ''Halloween II''.
* AndStarring: ''H20'' had "introducing Josh Hartnett". He has done quite well for himself ever since.
** ''Resurrection'' has two "and" credits — One for Tyra Banks and one for Jamie Lee Curtis.
* AssholeVictim: John Strode and Barry Simms in ''The Curse of Michael Myers'', and a number of people in the remakes.
* AutobotsRockOut: In ''Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers'', several of Carpenter's themes from the original are remade on the electric guitar.

* TheBadGuyWins: At the beginning of ''Resurrection'', Michael finally manages to kill Laurie.
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: The ending of ''Halloween: Resurrection''.
* BedlamHouse: The mental institution in Rob Zombie's ''Halloween'' remake. Michael Myers is kept chained at all times, his wardens degrade and insult him on a daily basis, and he is beaten at night. Even if he ''was'' a mentally stable individual, that sort of treatment would turn ''anybody'' into a CompleteMonster.
** Not to mention the female inmate that the orderlies gang-rape in front of him.
* BedsheetGhost: Michael kills Lynda while dressed as one in the original and the remake.
* BerserkButton: In the remakes, don't tease Michael Myers about how his mom is a pole dancer.
* BigEater: Sarah in ''H20''. While preparing a massive amount of junk food for a Halloween party she mentions she's got such an intense love of food that it's actually a goal of hers to get fat.
* BigNo: Loomis has the biggest no of history in ''4''.
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Laurie to Tommy and Lindsey in the first movie; Rachel to Jamie Lloyd in the fourth movie.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted in ''Resurrection''. Freddie, played by Busta Rhymes, is the only person (besides the FinalGirl, of course) to survive the movie. And the one who ''is'' killed isn't the first victim.

* BloodbathVillainOrigin: The remake.

* BloodyHandprint: In ''H20'', Laurie leaves a bloody handprint on the door of a closet, tricking Michael Myers into thinking she was hiding inside.
* BookEnds: The ending of ''Halloween 4'' '''would''' have applied this to the entire series, had the film bombed and no more sequals been made.
** The theatrical cut of Zombie's ''2'' ends with [[spoiler: Laurie committed to Smith's Grove, and having the same vision young Michael had at the beginning of the film]].

* {{Break|TheCutie}} [[KillTheCutie (and subsequently kill)]] [[BreakTheCutie the Cutie]]: Jamie Lloyd and remake Annie. Both happen to be played by Danielle Harris.
** Laurie in Zombie's ''2''.

* CampingACrapper: Averted in ''Halloween: H20''. A woman and her daughter go to a public bathroom and Michael Myers follows them in. After a tense scene in which the audience assumes he is going to kill them, he ends up stealing the woman's car keys instead.

* CarFu: In ''Halloween: The Return of Michael Myers'', Rachel uses her car to run Michael Myers over. But since Michael is Michael, it doesn't faze him in the slightest.
** Also, in ''H20'', Laurie hijacks an ambulance van with Michael in it, and runs it off a cliff in order to kill Michael once and for all.
** He also tries to run down Jamie, Billy, and Tina in ''Halloween: The Revenge of Michael Myers'', and in ''Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers'', runs Jamie off the road.

* CatScare: In the first film, there's a scene where Loomis and Brackett are exploring the abandoned Myers house and a broken gutter suddenly crashes through a window, causing a startled Loomis to whip out a handgun.
** In ''Halloween II'', a bumbling security guard stumbles around outside the hospital checking for a disturbance. He gets startled by a spring-loaded cat, sighs and relaxes. Three guesses who he encounters next...
* CaughtInASnare: Laurie has a snare trap set for Michael in ''H20''.

* ChekhovsGunman: Ben Tramer, the boy that Laurie has a crush on, is briefly mentioned in the first movie [[TheGhost but never seen]]. In the second movie, [[spoiler: he is killed in an explosion while wearing a Halloween mask, which briefly fools the police into believing that Michael is dead]].

* ClusterFBomb: Various scenes in the remake, to the point where it's practically a second language there.
* ColorWash: Cinematographer Dean Cundey used this in the first film to give the daytime scenes an autumnal brown tint and the night scenes an eerie blue one. The most recent hi-res transfer "[[TheyChangedItNowItSucks fixed]]" this, much to the dismay of Cundey and the fans.
* ContinuityNod: In the original ''Halloween'', Laurie mentions having a crush on one of her classmates Ben Tramer. In the sequel, the police accidentally kill a costumed teenager after mistaking him for Michael Myers. Turns out that poor teenager was Ben Tramer.
** Burn scars on Michael and Dr. Loomis in Halloween 4.
** Tommy Doyle in Halloween 6, still traumatized by the events of the first Halloween.

* DaylightHorror: Michael Myers stalks Laurie Strode and her friends through the sunny, idyllic streets of Haddonfield in the middle of the day.

* DangerTakesABackSeat: How Annie gets killed in the first film.
** Michael pulls this off by clinging to bottom of a pickup truck in ''The Return of Michael Myers''.
** Also, Barry's death in ''The Curse of Michael Myers''.
* DeathByMocking: Anybody who mocks Michael Myers in the ''Halloween'' remake doesn't last very long.

* DecoyProtagonist: In ''Halloween 5'' [[spoiler:it looks like Rachel is going to reprise her role as the FinalGirl, but ends up getting killed twenty minutes in]].

* DoesNotLikeShoes: In "Halloween II", Laurie is barefoot but justified since she had been admitted to the hospital.
* DontGoInTheWoods: ''Revenge of Michael Myers'' ends with Michael Myers chasing the protagonists into an eerie, foggy woodlands with a car. When he crashes the car, he gets out completely unscathed and proceeds to stalk the victims through the forest with a butcher knife.

* DramaticThunder: Used when Mrs. Blankenship mentions the boogeyman and later when Beth describes Judith's death in ''The Curse''.
* DramaticUnmask: At the end of the original ''Halloween'', Michael Myers is finally unmasked to reveal...a surprisingly attractive man.
* DrivenToSuicide: Mrs. Myers in the remake.

* DropTheHammer: Michael Myers uses a claw hammer to off a security guard in ''Halloween II.''
* DyingDream: [[WordOfGod Rob Zombie confirmed]] the ending of the director's cut version of his ''Halloween II'' is this for [[spoiler:Laurie]].
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: "It's time, Michael..."
* DysfunctionalFamily: Zombie's remake has Michael growing up on one of these.

* EmptyPromise: Loomis to Jamie, in the school in ''4''. Subverted when she asks him if he ''really'' believes they'll make it out alright, and he gives a barely audible LittleNo.
* EnemyRisingBehind: Memorably in the first film. Also in the fifth, where Michael lurks ''right behind'' the oblivious Rachel. . .yet doesn't kill her. Not yet, anyway.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Michael is quite fond of his mother in the ''Halloween'' remakes. Not only does he kill the kids who insult his mom, he also has hallucinations about her [[WomanInWhite wearing completely white]] and urging him on while he murders.

** At the conclusion of the Halloween: Resurrection prologue, Michael, after [[spoiler: killing Laurie]] goes to give his knife back to the orderly that he took it from. When he does so, he hands it to him with the "safe" end first. That's right, kids. Even a psychotic, inhumane serial killer/mass murderer knows the proper way to hand someone a sharp object.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: In ''Revenge of Michael Myers'', Michael chases the protagonists in a car. Even though the car is barely going at a running-pace, it still explodes when it collides with a tree. Though this ''does'' add to the creepy factor when Michael nonchalantly gets out of the car completely unscathed.
* EvilClown: Michael's childhood Halloween costume.
* EvilDetectingDog: Lester the family dog barks at Michael Myers hiding behind the bushes in the original film, and Max does precisely the same thing in the fifth.

* EvilOverlooker: The posters for ''[[http://i.imgur.com/6N8XZ.jpg Halloween: H20]]'' and ''[[http://i.imgur.com/kQcnf.jpg Halloween Resurrection]] do this with Michael Myers' BlackEyesOfEvil looming over the frightened-looking protagonists.

* EyeScream: Two of Michael's victims in ''Halloween II'' are killed with a syringe jammed to the eye.

* {{Fanservice}}: Numerous examples, but probably the reason Laurie dresses as [[TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Magenta]] in Zombie's ''II''.
** FanDisservice: ...before she winds up hysterical and covered in blood. The series really seems to like this trope...
* FinalGirl: Laurie Strode and Jamie Lloyd.
** [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Sara Moyer]] from ''Resurrection''.
** Rachel from part 4 counts too.
* {{Fingore}}: The opening of the new ''Halloween II'' has a particularly {{squick}}y scene involving Laurie's fingernails...
* FlashbackNightmare
* FlippingTheBird: Donna flips off Jim when he comments on her legs in ''Resurrection''.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: ''H20'' has an excellent example of this. Laurie Strode (who now goes by the name Keri Tate) is teaching an English literature class on Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Molly, one of the students, responds to a question about the book and fate with this: ''"I think that Victor should have confronted the monster sooner. He's completely responsible for Elizabeth's death. He was so paralyzed by fear that he never did anything. It took death for the guy to get a clue."'' She goes on to say that Victor finally confronts the monster because he ''"had reached a point in his life where he had nothing left to lose. I mean, the monster saw to that by killing off everybody that he loved. It was about redemption. It was his fate."'' This foreshadows the final scenes in the movie where [[spoiler:Laurie finally decides to stop running from]] [[CompleteMonster Michael Myers]] [[spoiler:and confront her monster. After 20 years of living in fear and seeing her loved ones murdered, she had nothing more to lose. It was time to face her fears and end the nightmare.]]

* FreakOut: Laurie at the end of ''Halloween (2007)''. Further explored in the sequel, where Laurie is depicted as an embittered, psychological wreck that is further destabilized not only by the return of her accursed tormentor, but also a traumatizing revelation about her past.

* GenkiGirl: Tina from ''Halloween 5''.
* TheGhost: Ben Tramer, Laurie's crush in the first movie. [[spoiler: When he shows up in the sequel, he only gets a minute or two of screen time, he has no lines, and he's wearing a mask that obscures his face]].
* GoingByTheMatchbook: In the original, Loomis finds a plumber's abandoned pickup, and in it is the same matchbook carried by the nurse who was with him when Michael Myers escaped the previous night; she left her matches in the car Michael stole, and they wound up in the truck of the guy he stole his jumpsuit from.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Freddie tries to bring Michael Myers down with his fists in ''Halloween: Resurrection''. Surprisingly, [[spoiler:Freddie actually survives this encounter]].
** Surprisingly? It's common knowledge that being played by [[spoiler:a rapper]] is the strongest PlotArmor in existence.

* GroinAttack: Laurie knees Michael in the groin in ''H20''. It doesn't do anything except cause him to give her a nasty glare.
** And Freddie actually electrocutes Michael in the groin in ''Resurrection''
* GrossUpCloseUp: Rob Zombie seems to like these. In his ''Halloween II'', we're treated to close views of Laurie having her head sewn shut, a man's face after he's mutilated by a crash, a guy having his head sawn off with broken glass, Big Lou Martini getting his arm snapped...
** There's plenty in the original series as well from ''Halloween 2'' onward (for example, when he kills a nurse by repeatedly dunking her head into scalding water, and that's just ONE of many instances in the film). Or ''Halloween 5'', where he impales two coupling teenagers with a pitchfork. Or ''Halloween 6'', which finds Jamie being impaled on a corn thresher.
* HalfEmptyTwoShot: The first movie has a famous example, when Michael emerges from the closet to attack Laurie.
* {{Hallucinations}}: In ''Rob Zombie's Halloween II'', Michael Myers has hallucinations about his [[WomanInWhite mother]]...and some rather random things, including pumpkin-headed aristocrats and white unicorns.
* HeroicSacrifice: In Part 5, Tina sacrifices herself to give Jamie a chance to get away from Michael.
** Inadvertently done by Brady in Part 4 who tries to shoot Michael, then futilely struggles with him, ultimately giving Jamie and Rachel a chance to escape.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Almost. By the fifth film, Dr. Loomis is ready to use blackmail, threats and physical force to make sure Michael is gonna be put down. It goes so far that he used Jamie as a bait to lure Michael in to a trap, and then beat him savagely with a plank so that Michael got unconscious yet he continued to beat him, all while screaming "DIE! DIE!" for each hit.
* HearingVoices: ''The Curse'' establishes that The Man in Black provides voices (that command to kill) to those chosen to perform the sacrificial familicide.
* HollywoodDarkness: ''Halloween'' was one of the first horror movies to use the blue filter.

* HospitalHottie: [[http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Jill_Franco All]] [[http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Janet_Marshall of]] [[http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Karen_Bailey the]] [[http://halloweenmovie.wikia.com/wiki/Virginia_Alves nurses]] in ''Halloween II''.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: At the end of ''H20'', in what is Laurie's SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, she turns the tables on Michael Myers and hunts him down with an axe.
* ICantHearYou: When Jamie gets inside the truck she found in ''The Curse'', she tries to tell its owner that Michael is near him but he can't make out what she's saying because the windows are closed.
* ILoveTheDead: The {{Squick}}-tastic ambulance driver in the ''H2'' remake.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** Bob being pinned to the wall with a knife in the original film and the remake.
** Kelly being impaled to the wall with a shotgun in ''The Return of Michael Myers''.
** Spitz getting impaled with a pitchfork in the midst of sex in ''Halloween 5''.
** Jamie getting impaled on a tractor in ''The Curse of Michael Myers'', plus John Strode being pinned to a fuse box later on.
** Rudy's impalement to a door with ''three knives'' in ''Resurrection''.
** A redneck's impalement on antlers in ''Halloween II''(2009).

* IntroOnlyPointOfView

* KillEmAll: Zombie's ''Halloween II'' has [[spoiler: Loomis, Michael, and Laurie all dying]].
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Jamie Lloyd]], who winds up impaled on and ripped open by tractor harrows courtesy of Michael.

* LightningReveal: Mixed with StealthHiBye when Michael is stalking Jamie in the barn in ''The Curse''.

* LoonyFan: The radio show callers in ''The Curse of Michael Myers'', Harold in ''Resurrection'', Chett in ''Halloween II'' (2009).
* MacheteMayhem: One is briefly used by Michael to massacre the Cult of Thorn in ''Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.''

* TheManTheyCouldntHang: Michael in ''Resurrection''.

* MirrorScare: Michael Myers.

* MuggingTheMonster: In Rob Zombie's ''Halloween II'' a redneck duo decide to pick a fight with Michael when they find him crossing their property on his way to Haddonfield.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: ''5'''s opening credits has someone carving a pumpkin lantern, which is shown with quick cuts that makes it seem that someone is being stabbed.
* MurdererPOV: Sometimes accompanied by VaderBreath.
* MyCarHatesMe: Justified in the original ''II'' due to Michael tampering with cars outside the hospital.
* MythologyGag: The 2007 version includes many of these referencing the original.
* NeckSnap: Grady's death in ''The Return of Michael Myers'', the hermit in ''The Revenge of Michael Myers'', and Mrs. Strode's death in the remake.

* NightmareSequence: Michael and Laurie have these in the remake of ''Halloween II''.
* NonchalantDodge: Michael's response to Laurie's knife throwing act in ''H20''
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: In the remake, the only security guard in the institution who ever showed Michael compassion and stopped the others from bullying him is given an over the top and painful death.
** In the sequel, the daughter of one of the rednecks who beat down Michael for trespassing pleads with them to leave him alone, and at least apologizes when they leave him for dead. Dead just the same.

* OffWithHisHead:
** The paramedic Laurie beheads with an axe in ''H20'', thinking he was Michael.
** The deaths of both an asylum guard and Jenna in ''Resurrection'' (the latter being decapitated [[ArtisticLicensePhysics with a single swing of a regular kitchen knife]]).
** The ambulance passenger having his head sliced off with a glass shard in ''Halloween II'' (2009)
* OnlyAFleshWound: LL Cool J can survive getting shot in the head.
** The bullet apparently only grazed his head, rather than entering.
* OopsIDroppedTheKeys: Molly in ''H20'' does this.
* OrderliesAreCreeps: Practically everyone who works in the [[BedlamHouse Smith's Grove Sanitarium]] in ''Music/RobZombie's'' remake.

* PoliceAreUseless: The Haddonfield Police Station gets massacred in both ''The Return of Michael Myers'' and ''Halloween 5''.
** In Rob Zombie's ''Halloween II'', Sheriff Brackett asks Andy, one of his deputies, to protect Annie. To say he fails horribly shouldn't come as a shock.
* ProlongedPrologue: ''H20's'' prologue goes for almost 20 minutes before the opening credits begin.
* ThePublicDomainChannel: Laurie watches it in ''Halloween II''.

* ReCut: For the original film's network television premiere in 1981, Carpenter - in between shooting for ''Halloween II'' - filmed several additional scenes detailing Michael's commitment to (and escape from) the Smith's Grove asylum, which aired in place of some of the original footage that was deemed too graphic for TV.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath[=/=]StupidSacrifice: Loomis, in Zombie's ''2''.
* RetiredBadass: Loomis in the sixth movie.
* TheReveal: ''Halloween II'' reveals Michael is Laurie's brother. ''The Curse of Michael Myers'' reveals the Man in Black is Dr. Wynn.
* SassyBlackWoman: Ronnie's wife in ''H20''.
* SayMyName: Laurie at the end of ''H20'':
--> "MICHAAAAEEELLL! MICHAEL!"
* SeriesContinuityError: Several.
** At the end of the first film, Loomis shoots Michael six times, and he falls off a covered balcony at the back of the house; in the sequel, this scene is shown again at the start - and Loomis shoots Michael ''seven'' times (despite only having a six-chamber revolver), sending him flying off an ''uncovered'' balcony at the ''front'' of the house. Made all the worse when Loomis goes around shouting "I shot him six times!" in the first few minutes of the film.
** In the original ''Halloween'', the Myers house is a modest two-story home. By the time we get to ''Halloween 5'', it's a huge, Gothic-style mansion. Then when we get to ''Halloween 6'', it's back to being a typical two-story house--that still looks completely different from what we saw in the original film. At the time these movies were made, they were on the same continuity as the first one, so there's no excuse for the discrepancy.
** Following the end of the second movie, Michael had burn scars (which we typically saw on his hands) in ''4'', ''5'' and ''6''. No such scars are seen in ''H20''. While the preceding three movies are ignored by ''H20'', the second movie isn't. [[WildMassGuessing Unless you think the reason why he didn't turn up for twenty years was because of extensive skin grafts.]]

* SingleMomStripper: Note to [[KidsAreCruel cruel kids]]: Do not tease Michael Myers in the remake about how his mom is a pole dancer.
* SingleTear: Strangely enough, Michael Myers has a SingleTear moment in the fifth film...before reverting back to his CompleteMonster self, of course.
* SinisterScythe: Used to kill Samantha in ''5''.

* SmokingHotSex: Lynda and Bob in the original ''Halloween''.
* SoftGlass: Probably one of the craziest examples ever happens in ''Curse of Michael Myers'' when Kara flies face first through a window and belly flops to the ground two stories below with no discernible injuries from either the glass or the fall. Honestly, with MadeOfIron abilities like that, why the hell is she afraid of Michael Myers?

* SoundtrackDissonance: ''Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream...''
** ''Love hurts...''
* SpiritualSuccessor: In many ways, the first film is this to ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. One of the two main characters is played by [[JamieLeeCurtis Janet "Marion Crane" Leigh's daughter]], and the other [[NamesTheSame has the same name as Marion's lover]]. Many of the stylistic choices are also clearly influenced by [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]], like a repetitive {{Leitmotif}} used for a butcher knife-wielding bad guy; and the camera work in Michael's first kill, where we never see knife penetrate flesh.
* StartOfDarkness: The remake is pretty much this for Michael.
* StalkerShrine: In ''H20'', it is revealed that Dr. Loomis' office is a shrine to Michael Myers, with three decades worth of newspaper clippings about Myers taped all over the office walls. To add to the creepiness, he also has high school photos of Laurie (Michael's sister) stuck to the wall too.
* StockSubtitle: ''Halloween Resurrection.''
* StoppedNumberingSequels: Textbook example.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome:
** Doctor Loomis and Michael in ''Halloween II'' (they get better).
** Rachel Carruthers in ''Halloween 5''.
** Jamie Lloyd and possibly both Doctor Loomis and Doctor Wynn in ''The Curse of Michael Myers''.
** Marion Whittington and Doctor Loomis (again) in ''H20''.
** [[spoiler: Laurie]] in ''Resurrection''.
** Annie, Laurie and Doctor Loomis (''[[RunningGag again]]'') in ''Halloween II'' (2009)
* SuddenlyVoiced: The director's cut of Rob Zombie's ''Halloween II'' actually has Michael scream "DIE!" before killing Loomis.
* {{Tagline}}: "The night ''he'' came home!"
* TakeMeInstead: When confronting Michael at the diner in the fouth movie, Loomis invokes the trope - saying Michael could kill him in exchange for leaving the people of Haddonfield alone. Michael remains still following this, suggesting he turned it down and prompting Loomis to try to shoot him.
* TakeThat: In ''Part 4'', Michael is coincidentally looking for a new mask at a store the same time Jamie is. He grabs a RonaldReagan mask and walks off screen. A few seconds later, he throws it away and grabs the bleached WilliamShatner mask instead. The scene was cut for being too funny.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: ''The Curse of Michael Myers'' has Michael preparing to kill a bunch of sanitarium employees by overlooking a tray filled with medical tools. At first, it looks like he's going to grab a scalpel, but, having apparently gotten tips from Jason Voorhees, he decides to grab a ''huge'' machete (that was there for some reason) instead.
** In 'the new 'Halloween II'', Michael stabs a nurse in the back. And then does it again. And again, and again, until after about an entire minute filled with stabbings, he rams the knife into her skull and leaves it stuck there.

* TragicDream: In the remake, Michael just wants to meet Laurie and live happily with her.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The original theatrical trailer gives away the first scene's twist - that the killer is the victim's six-year old brother.

* TwoPersonPoolParty: In ''Halloween 2'', Nurse Karen and Budd get busy in the hospital's hydrotherapy pool before Michael Myers [[DeathBySex strangles Budd with a length of cord and drowns Nurse Karen after dunking her face into scalding water, causing her face to blister and boil]].
* UnexplainedRecovery: Dr. Loomis surviving the explosion of the first floor of a hospital in ''Halloween II'', returning in ''The Return of Michael Myers'' with a slightly burnt face, a limp and mangled hands.
** The same goes for Michael seeing as before the explosion, he got shot in the eyes by Laurie, causing him to become blind. To be fair, it's implied that he isn't exactly human...
** Loomis could've always been blasted out of the wall as the writer of ''4'' wanted to do.
* TheUnreveal: In the first film, Michael is unmasked - and he looks like a normal 23 year old boy.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The Cult of Thorn apparently believe Michael killing his relatives will bring world peace... or something.

* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: Done in the ending of ''Resurrection''.

* WhatTheHellHero: Loomis himself realizes what an asshole he's become in Zombie's ''2''.

* WomanInWhite: Mrs. Myers in the ''Halloween 2'' remake.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Michael takes Howard down with a choke-slam in ''Halloween II'' ('09), before he stomps his face in.
* WritingAroundTrademarks: In Zombie's ''2'', Laurie and her new friends Mya and Harley attend a party dressed as [[TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Magenta, Columbia, and Dr. Frank N. Furter]], respectively, but none are identified by name. Harley only describes herself as [[RecursiveCrossdressing "...a chick, dressed as a guy, who wants to be a girl."]]

* YoureInsane: Loomis to the Thorn leader in ''The Curse''.
-->'''Dr. Loomis''': "You are... a madman."
* YourHeadASplode: John Strode's death in ''The Curse of Michael Myers''. Michael impales him to a fuse box, electrocuting him to the point that his head messily blows up.

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* '''''Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers'' (1988)''' -- Michael Myers awakens from a ten-year coma just before Halloween to return to Haddonfield and kill Laurie Strode's young daughter, Jamie, who lives with a foster family.
* '''''Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers'' (1989)''' -- After the events of the previous film, Jamie lands in a mental hospital to help her recover. Michael uses his psychic link to Jamie to lure his young niece to him by stalking her friend Tina.
* '''''Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers'' (1995)''' -- Years after the previous film, a group called The Cult of Thorn try to kidnap an adult Jamie's newborn baby, Steven, as part of a plan involving Michael (who keeps trying to kill his niece).

* '''''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'' (1978):''' At the age of 6, Michael Myers stabbed his older sister Judith to death on Halloween; this led to his incarceration at a mental hospital. Fifteen years later, Michael escapes from the hospital on the night before Halloween and returns to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois to stalk teenager Laurie Strode and her friends. Only Sam Loomis, Michael's former psychiatrist, stands any chance of stopping Michael.
* '''''Halloween II'' (1981):''' On the same night as the original film, [[FinalGirl Laurie]] gets taken to a hospital to recover from Michael Myers' attack, but the serial killer follows her there. The film [[TheReveal soon reveals the reason Michael stalks Laurie]]: [[spoiler:he wants to kill his long-lost sister, who doesn't know about the familial relationship between them]].

* '''''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'' (1982):''' A toymaker uses rocks from Stonehenge to create masks that cause children's heads to explode into writhing piles of snakes and bugs if they watch certain Halloween commercials. This plan also involves robots and [[DeathRay lasers]]. Carpenter originally envisioned the ''Halloween'' franchise as a GenreAnthology series, which makes ''Halloween III''' the only film of the franchise that ''doesn't'' feature Michael. The film's poor reception killed the anthology idea, though.

* '''''Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers'' (1988):''' Michael Myers awakens from a ten-year coma just before Halloween to return to Haddonfield and kill Laurie Strode's young daughter, Jamie, who lives with a foster family.
* '''''Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers'' (1989):''' After the events of the previous film, Jamie lands in a mental hospital to help her recover. Michael uses his psychic link to Jamie to lure his young niece to him by stalking her friend Tina.
* '''''Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers'' (1995):''' Years after the previous film, a group called The Cult of Thorn try to kidnap an adult Jamie's newborn baby, Steven, as part of a plan involving Michael (who keeps trying to kill his niece).

* '''''Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later'' (1998):''' This film [[RetGone ignores the events of the previous three films]]. Twenty years after the first two films, Laurie Strode -- who faked her death to escape Michael -- runs a boarding school under the assumed name of Keri Tate. After years of searching for her, Michael finally manages to track her down to finish the job he started twenty years ago.
* '''''Halloween: Resurrection'' (2002):''' Michael [[spoiler:finally kills Laurie]], then returns to Haddonfield to find an Internet reality show has set up shop in his old house. The contestants and crew get more than they bargained for when Michael decides to kill the trespassers.

* '''''Rob Zombie's Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'' (2007):''' This film, directed by Rob Zombie, remakes the original film while adding a more extensive look at Michael's childhood in the first half of the film. (The second half follows the events of the original film, albeit at a quicker pace and [[BloodierAndGorier with bloodier violence]]).
* '''''Rob Zombie's Halloween II'' (2009):''' On the night of the previous film, the body of Michael Myers -- who had been shot point-blank in the face -- disappears ''en route'' to the morgue. One year later, Laurie Strode continues to struggle with nightmares about Michael, Dr. Loomis attempts to spin his experiences with Michael into fame and fortune, and the still-alive Michael returns to finish what he started...

-->-- '''Dr. Samuel Loomis''', ''Halloween'' (2007)

* '''''Rob Zombie's Halloween'' (2007):''' This film, directed by Rob Zombie, remakes the original film while adding a more extensive look at Michael's childhood in the first half of the film. (The second half follows the events of the original film, albeit at a quicker pace and [[BloodierAndGorier with bloodier violence]]).

* '''''Halloween'' (1978):''' At the age of 6, Michael Myers stabbed his older sister Judith to death on Halloween; this led to his incarceration at a mental hospital. Fifteen years later, Michael escapes from the hospital on the night before Halloween and returns to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois to stalk teenager Laurie Strode and her friends. Only Sam Loomis, Michael's former psychiatrist, stands any chance of stopping Michael.

* ObviouslyEvil: Averted. Unlike [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy]], [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason]], and [[Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]], when Michael is (briefly) unmasked in the climax of the first movie, he's revealed to have an almost ''angelic'' face.