This page contains unmarked spoilers. You Have Been Warned!
And they get off easy.
The night HE came home and his body count continues.
- The way Michael comes out of nowhere to attack Hawkins' partner in the 1978 flashback at the start of the film. We’re so used to seeing Michael move slowly that it’s shocking how fast Michael can be when he wants to.
- When Michael is shown being apprehended by the Haddonfield police in the flashback sequence, he just stands there, still as a statue, no sign of fear, or anger, or any other emotion visible anywhere on his body despite having no way to escape and with all the officers present having their guns trained on him; nothing but complete, cold silence.
- The way Michael dispatches the firefighters in the beginning is outright horrific.
- How horrific? In a moment ripped straight from My Bloody Valentine 3D, Michael swings a halligan bar into the eye of a masked fireman, all seen from the point of view of the guy, blood squirt and all.
- And that's not even mentioning what happens to the desperate bastard who thought it was smart to charge a fully aware Michael while revving up a buzz saw.
- Michael stabbing a woman in the neck with a light fixture. Subsequent shots show him mutilating the woman's husband while she is still alive and helpless to stop him. What's even worse is that Halloween Ends reveals she actually survived her ordeal but is now disabled, rendered mute and clearly tramuatized.
- Not only that, but the husband is still alive when Michael starts on him. He's fatally injured, bleeding heavily from a massive gash in his throat, unable to move from blood loss, shock, and pain... but he's still conscious as Michael props him up on the table where his wife can see him and jams him full of knives like a pincushion.
- Before the car attack scene, Michael is shown holding a mask that belonged to one of the three kids from earlier. It's not just bloodied, but completely soaked in blood. Whatever Michael did to that kid was not pretty.
- We never see exactly what happened, but the other kids' comments about Michael playing "hide-and-seek" imply that Michael purposely lured him away from his friends to kill him, all without them having any idea what kind of danger they were in. The novelization also confirms that Michael would have killed the other kids if Lindsey hadn't showed up to warn them.
- Michael gouging out Big John’s eyes in graphic, on-screen detail, complete with a shot of one of his eyeballs rolling down his face.
- After the guy who the mob mistook for Michael throws himself off a window, there is a disgusting close-up of his corpse, brains splattered on the pavement.
- The mob scene itself is a pretty horrifying moment despite Michael not actually being involved. Instead, we're simply treated to several minutes of the mob going absolutely insane, hunting down an innocent and injured man until the point he can no longer escape. The shot of everyone coming at him from both sides was suspenseful and gut-wrenching, because in that moment, the crowd became the monsters. Seeing a bunch of normal, otherwise good people get so vicious thanks to their hatred and fear really sold just how much destruction Michael was really able to cause.
- The way Michael kills Cameron is absolutely vicious. He stabs him several times in the stomach, bashes his head into the stair railings until it breaks through them, impales his neck through one of the broken railings, and finally snaps his neck. Even if Cameron acted like a douche in the previous film, he did not deserve to die like that.
- In addition to that, there's also the brief moment in which it looks like Michael is turning his attention to Allyson, only for him to turn back to Cameron and wrapping his hands around Cameron's head. With Allyson screaming at Michael not to hurt him, it's like Michael was saying, "not gonna happen" and killed Cameron just out of spite for what Allyson, Karen and Laurie did to him earlier.
- The fact that even after he gets beaten, shot, and stabbed, Michael Myers just won’t fucking die. All Tommy Doyle and his crew can do is temporarily slow him down. It drives home that Michael isn’t just a murderous human being, but an unstoppable monster.
- Michael suddenly rising and subsequently killing the mob attacking him, including Tommy and Brackett. He then kills Karen. Michael wins in the end.
- Karen’s death is also particularly nightmarish. Michael stabs her at least seven times. It’s clear he’s furious at nearly being killed by her twice.
- The final shot of the movie is Michael looking at his reflection in the mirror after killing Karen. What the hell is going through his head?
- In the last film, Michael's kills were often coldly brutal, with no sense of feeling behind them aside from the satisfaction at Vicky's death and the It's Personal aspect to the fight with Laurie. But in this film, as the descriptions of the kills on this page show, it's truly unsettling to realize this time around Michael is angry. His body language as he stalks out the burning house, the sadism of making a dying woman watch her husband killed with every knife available, gouging out Big John's eyes after inflicting a fatal wound, making Allyson watch Cameron's horrific death - previous entries have often talked about Michael's rage, but here you feel every single bit of it.
- The sheer scale of Michael's rampage. The last film had him kill 18 people over the course of around 24 hours. This one, set just after the last one ended, adds another 25-30
directly or indirectly killed on this one night. If Michael were real he'd be one of the most prolific spree killers in the history of the Americas - and all this with only whatever weapons he has to hand (or his bare hands). By the film's end, he has murdered nearly fifty people in a single rampage and apparently remains at large. At this point, Michael is no longer a mere serial killer: he's a domestic terrorist.- Added to that, while he's racked up some terrific bodycounts in the past, he's always had some sort of goal after the original, whether it was killing his sister, killing his niece or killing intruders in his old home. Here, there's no discernible motive or reason for his killings; he possibly achieves his highest single-night bodycount for essentially the fun of it.
- The Strodes seem sure that Michael would have perished in the house fire at the start of the film if not for the intervention of the fire department. But as noted on the page for the previous film, look closely at the lingering shot of the basement over the closing credits. Michael is nowhere to be found. Add to this the fact that he emerges, his mask burned but otherwise unharmed, when the firefighters come to rescue him. He was never in any danger. Which once again begs the question, what does it take to kill this fucker?!
- Interestingly, Michael's first appearance when around the firefighters is emerging from one of the weapons cabinets in the basement to attack the one that fell in, implying that he had been sheltering from the blaze in there, explaining why he could not be seen in the previous film's ending.
