History Headscratchers / Halloween

** Frankly, at this point constitutional rights should have gone out the window when he survived an explosion. Also, how do you kill a guy who survived that?
* Just morbid curiosity, since this is one of the early (if not THE FIRST) instalment of the now familiar slasher film genre; putting aside the fact that the next film begins and continues where the first one ends, why did John Carpenter decide to end it [[spoiler:so abruptly after having Loomis shoot Michael, and seemingly finally kill him after a few failed attempts, and then show Michael's body gone, therefore STILL alive]]?

* Just morbid curiosity, since this is one of the early (if not THE FIRST) instalment of the now familiar slasher film genre; putting aside the fact that the next film begins and continues where the first one ends, why did John Carpenter decide to end it so abruptly after having Loomis shoot Michael, and seemingly finally kill him after a few failed attempts, and then show Michael's body gone, therefore STILL alive?

* Just morbid curiosity, since this is one of the early (if not THE FIRST) instalment of the now familiar slasher film genre; but, putting aside the fact that the next film begins and continues where the first one ends, why did John Carpenter decide to end it so abruptly after Loomis shooting Michael and then Michael disappearing, effectively still alive?

** Frankly, at this point constitutional rights should have gone out the window when he survived an explosion. Also, how do you kill a guy who survived that?

** Most likely to both their conscious and the eyes of the general public, it would be a case of IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim . Sure, Laurie and Loomis have tried killing Michael before, but those instances were in self-defense. Killing someone, even a crazed serial killer, while they're in a coma would not only be morally questionable, but there would also be a lot of people angry over that person's constitutional rights being violated.

* In H4, we learn that rather then die in the explosion from H2, Michael suffered third degree burns all over his body and was in a coma, for 10 years. The only reason we see him coming out of it is because the paramedics talk about Jamie during the transfer. Why did nobody use this to just [[BoomHeadshot blow his brains out while he couldn’t do anything]]?! You’re telling me that Dr. Loomis(and this is ignoring how he survived being in the center of the explosion and coming out with a limp and small facial/hand burns), Laurie, the police, hospital medics, anybody who knew or was related to one of his victims, or just anyone at all didn’t take advantage of the immobile mass murder to just kill him? That the police, state or local, decided that it was probably a good idea to temporarily forget the law, and at least try to kill the psychopath who survived an explosion? I find that rather hard to believe.

* From what I understand, the tiny staff size was more than likely dramatic licensing as patients alone typically have around four staff members dedicated to them, so the hospital is criminally understaffed. This might possibly have to do with a deleted scene where the power goes out in the hospital, thus explaining why it is so dark throughout the film.
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The troper asking this question works at a modern hospital in a small town probably smaller than Haddenfield, and gets that it was designed by Carpenter and Hill this way, but why is the hospital in Halloween II (1981) so understaffed? With how big the town of Haddenfield is portrayed and with the notable size of the hospital, it seems rather odd that you have at least three nurses pulling double duty (including two nurses that appear to work Inpatient and Mrs. Alves who seems to run the NICU portion of the hospital, all working in the ER as well) and, just as odd, one security guard on duty. Typically, there'd be more than the number of medical staff seen in the film not only during a night shift, but during a night shift and a holiday no less. And each department being covered by individual teams of staff (meaning Mrs. Ales would be handling NICU while the staff in the ER handling Laurie's injuries). Is this how hospitals typically worked in a town the size of Haddenfield circa 1978 or was this just dramatic licensing by Carpenter and Hill to keep not only the cost of hiring additional actors down, but to make the numbers easier for Michael to kill?

** They're teenagers. First off, they brought their own beer (you can see them drinking it in Bob's van prior to heading inside). There's a good chance that they would have had sex on the bed and then leave everything the way they found it (without washing the sheets. There are teenagers who have had sex on the beds of adults and not think about doing it. Or, since it'd be the kind of thing they would have done if Michael hadn't turned up and killed everyone, they would have left Anne to actually do the laundering, where she would have griped about not being able to hook up with Paul that night and having to do the dirty work to clean up Linda's mess.

** Another explanation is that Laurie wasn't at the Myers house in the first film. The Myers were leaving their teenage daughter to keep an eye on their son, who is probably ten or even nine years old. If you were a parent, would you trust your teenager to keep an eye on your ten year old child and your infant at the same time? It'd make more sense to leave the baby with a next door neighbor who may have more experience with babies and let the teenager keep an eye on a more manageable ten year old.

** I assumed the reason why no one noticed him at that moment was because everyone was focused on Laurie stealing the van, after stealing the gun from an officer and holding them up to steal the van. After driving off, they were more concerned about the woman who is acting a bit crazy than the people around in the area.

** They're teenagers. First off, they brought their own beer (you can see them drinking it in Bob's van prior to heading inside). There's a good chance that they would have had sex on the bed and then leave everything the way they found it (without washing the sheets. There are teenagers who have had sex on the beds of adults and not think about doing it. Or, since it'd be the kind of thing they would have done if Michael hadn't turned up and killed everyone, they would have left Anne to actually do the laundering, where she would have griped about not being able to hook up with Paul that night and having to do the dirty work to clean up Linda's mess.

** Another explanation is that Laurie wasn't at the Myers house in the first film. The Myers were leaving their teenage daughter to keep an eye on their son, who is probably ten or even nine years old. If you were a parent, would you trust your teenager to keep an eye on your ten year old child and your infant at the same time? It'd make more sense to leave the baby with a next door neighbor who may have more experience with babies and let the teenager keep an eye on a more manageable ten year old.

** I assumed the reason why no one noticed him at that moment was because everyone was focused on Laurie stealing the van, after stealing the gun from an officer and holding them up to steal the van. After driving off, they were more concerned about the woman who is acting a bit crazy than the people around in the area.

** Another explanation is that Laurie wasn't at the Myers house in the first film. The Myers were leaving their teenage daughter to keep an eye on their son, who is probably ten or even nine years old. If you were a parent, would you trust your teenager to keep an eye on your ten year old child and your infant at the same time? It'd make more sense to leave the baby with a next door neighbor who may have more experience with babies and let the teenager keep an eye on a more manageable ten year old.

** Another explanation is that Laurie wasn't at the Myers house in the first film. The Myers were leaving their teenage daughter to keep an eye on their son, who is probably ten or even nine years old. If you were a parent, would you trust your teenager to keep an eye on your ten year old child and your infant? It'd make more sense to leave the baby with a next door neighbor who may have more experience with babies than to leave it with a teenage girl.

* In the first movie, high school students Bob and Lynda run happily into the house where Annie was supposed to be babysitting little Lindsey Wallace. Where they have passionate sex in what is presumably the Wallaces' master bedroom, and Bob goes down to fetch beers out of the Wallaces' refrigerator (that's where he is ambushed). And there's no indication they were planning to clean up after themselves or air out the room, or too drunk to think out the consequences. So what ''were'' they thinking? They were old enough to have cars and bedrooms of their own, and this is a semi-rural small town with its share of outdoor spots. They could've found a safer place...safer from adult discovery, I mean.

* In the first movie, high school students Bob and Lynda run happily into the house where Annie was supposed to be babysitting little Lindsey Wallace. Where they have passionate sex in what is presumably the Wallace's master bedroom, and Bob goes down to fetch beers out of what is presumably the Wallace's refrigerator. And there's no indication they were planning to clean up after themselves or air out the room, or too drunk to think out the consequences. So what ''were'' they thinking? They were old enough to have cars and bedrooms of their own, and this is a semi-rural small town with its share of outdoor spots. They could've found a safer place.

* In the first movie, Bob and Lynda run happily into the house where Annie was supposed to be babysitting little Lindsey Wallace. Where they have passionate sex in what is presumably the Wallace's master bedroom, and Bob goes down to fetch beers out of what is presumably the Wallace's refrigerator. And there's no indication they were planning to clean up after themselves or air out the room, or too drunk to think out the consequences. So what ''were'' they thinking? They were old enough to have cars and bedrooms of their own. They could've found a safer place.