* AssPull: The Man In Black of ''Halloween 5''. WordOfGod claims that they didn't even know who he should be before the sixth film was made.
** John Carpenter himself admits that while writing ''Halloween II'', the idea of Laurie being Michael's sister came to him "at 2:00 in the morning in front of a typewriter with a six pack of beer."
** The whole "Michael replaces an ambulance worker for himself at the end of ''H20''" move at the start of ''Resurrection''. Even hardcore fans of the series didn't buy that one.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Take a wild guess.
** Also, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6DjIm82J2U The Shape Stalks Again]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J82gFhtMdmE The main theme]] is considered one of the most bone-chilling pieces ever put on screen.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In ''The Curse of Michael Myers'', the lead pipe wielding Tommy Doyle begins beating the crap out of Michael in a scene involving a near seizure inducing strobe light effect. Tommy hits Michael over and over again, eventually causing some kind of viscous green slime to begin oozing out of Michael's mask. Later, when Michael's mask is found abandoned, its completely clean, with no weird sludge coating it.
** Several of Michael and Laurie's fantasy sequences in ''Halloween 2'' (2009) border on this, especially the one with the pumpkinheaded aristocrats.
** ''Season of the Witch'' is one giant BLAM for the series since it has absolutely no relation to the rest of the franchise other than something evil happening around October 31st.

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** During the commentary for ''Film/FreddyVsJason'', the director mentioned that the studios were in talks to include Micheal in a possible sequal(said talks didn't go anywhere). The director suggested the plot would involved [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kruger]] and [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards teaming up to beat Michael, implicitly saying that Michael is worse than either of them.]] To put that in perspective, Freddy is a ''child rapist'' and Jason has the highest body count of any slasher movie villain.
*** Unlike {{F|orTheEvulz}}reddy or [[CrazySurvivalist Jason]], Michael doesn't have ''any'' reason or motivation for his killing, or a life outside his murders. Killing people is all he does.
* ContestedSequel: The second movie, though it's certainly one of the better received sequels.
* EvilIsSexy: When he's unmasked in the first film, Michael is surprisingly attractive.
* FanonDiscontinuity: Many fans prefer to regard Halloween: H20 as the ending to the original series, and because of Halloween: Resurrection's failure, they try to ignore it.
* FauxSymbolism: Rob Zombie's ''Halloween II'' is ''LOADED'' with this.

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* {{Narm}}: In the original film, Laurie runs across the street with Michael stalking her. She runs up to the door of the house and reaches into her pocket to find the keys. Her line?
--> '''Laurie:''' ''The keys?'' '''''THE KEEEEYS?!'''''
** The theme is a bit overplayed in the beginning of the movie as well.
** In the Zombie remake, we have Michael bursting through a car windshield followed by Dr. Loomis shouting "MICHAEL! JESUS CHRIST!" as if he were reacting to someone spilling coffee on the floor. The line even became a meme in the Dread Central podcast and forums, usually used whenever Malcolm [=McDowell=] is mentioned.
** There's a bit in ''Halloween 5'' where Jamie screams out Cookie Woman after gaining a vision of Tina in trouble. The line wouldn't the narm, but its the fact Dr. Loomis, being half-crazed, pretty much is forcing Jamie in screaming out where Tina was, leading to the Cookie Woman line.
* NarmCharm: The original film has equal measures of IdiotPlot, PurpleProse, and MundaneMadeAwesome RuleOfScary overshadows them so much that they're all excused.
* NightmareFuel: Let's start with [[http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/10/31/halloween/ the creepy floating jack-o-lantern]] in the original's opening credits and go from there...
* OneSceneWonder: Ken Foree in the remake - ''"I'M BIG JOE GRIZZLY, BITCH!"''
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Covered by WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0G_8gHDsL8 his review of the video game version]].
* RetroactiveRecognition: The original Michael Myers would become a director and made films such as ''TheLastStarfighter'' and ''ComicStrip/{{Dennis the Menace|US}}''.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Even though Michael Myers came first, in the later sequels, he ends up seeming like a rip-off of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]]. Also since all the cliches ''Halloween'' created (or in some cases popularized) have now become cliches they are no longer frightnening.

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* TearJerker: Annie's death in New ''II'', especially Sheriff Brackett's reaction to it.
** YMMV, but [[spoiler: Laurie's]] DyingDream from the director's cut of the same movie.
*** Also possibly NightmareFuel, because of Laurie's PsychoSmirk.
* ToughActToFollow: Subverted with the original for John Carpenter. Most of his films released afterward (''Film/TheThing'', ''EscapeFromNewYork'' and ''BigTroubleInLittleChina'' among them) were not critical or commercial successes but have had second life on home video and cable going on to become classics and VindicatedByHistory.
* VillainDecay: Some felt the revelation that [[spoiler:Laurie was Michael's sister]] took away the menacing mystery that made Michael such an effective villain.
** Your mileage may vary, because it's not unheard of for slashers to have somewhat of a redeeming quality in their love for their family members, and Michael's obsession with killing his family members may make him out to be one of the more brutal or irredeemable slashers. Besides, it gives a reason for him targeting Laurie, but not a reason for being a CompleteMonster.

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