History Headscratchers / Halloween2018

** Except in-universe, Michael's not a Slasher Movie Supervillain, he's a 61 year-old man who killed just four people in 1978 and has been institutionalised ever since. They don't think it'll be that hard to track a 61 year-old down, at least at first. Besides, after the first few murders, it seems the town ''is'' locked down after Julian escapes his house - witness how quiet the street was when Allyson and Oscar walk home. And Laurie mentions the school has been evacuated in the phone message Allyson never gets. (Also, you might be surprised at how much people simply wouldn't care, thinking "it'll never happen to me". Just look at public reaction to the Covid pandemic.)

* ''Film/HalloweenKills'' finally shows the arrest. After killing Hawkins's partner in the Myers house, he simply... ''stops'' when surrounded by the police. [[spoiler: The police and Loomis tried to execute him right then and there, but Hawkins stopped them in a brief moment of compassion. He has since come to regret that.]]
** Haha! Called it.

** And if his psychiatrist [[spoiler: secretly wants him to go on a rampage just to watch]] then he's not going to be campaigning for his execution either.

*** If we take the theory presented again and again in the movies, that Myers goes beyond "normal" psychopathy and there is nothing else in his mind but evil and killing intent, then we are right into the old Evil Cannot Comprehend Good trope. Which means that he truly can't understand why he is being punished since he can't understand why his crimes are wrong, and thus going by the letter of the law he can't be tried as a normal criminal.
** Michael has been institutionalized since he was 6 and hasn't communicated with anyone to prove otherwise that he is sane enough to stand trial or understand his crimes.

* So after the accident, Michael and the other patients are free, and most of them stay near the bus, ready to be his first victims in forty years, and from what is mentioned later, most if not all of them were harmless,and by consequence, defenseless. But it's also mentoned that all of them were recaptured, confirming that none of them were killed by Michael. Why would he leave them alone? Did he think they [[NotWorthKilling weren't worth killing for being too insane]]? And for that matter, how come he didn't kill Dr. Sartain, who was stuck inside the bus, an easy and(apparently) sane target?

** So that law enforcement would be expending resources gathering them back up rather than just focusing on him.

* So after the accident, Michael and the other patients are free, and most of them stay near the bus, ready to be his first victims in forty years, and from what is mentioned later, most if not all of them were harmless,and by consequence, defenseless. But it's also mentoned that all of them were recaptured, confirming that none of them were killed by Michael. Why would he leave them alone? Did he think they [[NotWorthKilling weren't worth killing for being too insane]]? And for that matter, how come he didn't kill Dr. Sartain, who was stuck inside the bus, an easy and(apparently) sane target?

** It's definitely because they wanted a sequel. To be honest, it doesn't make sense. Laurie wants Michael ''dead''. She wouldn't be satisfied unless she watched him die, then made sure he was deader than Elvis. She wouldn't walk away just thinking NoOneCouldSurviveThat.

** Except in-universe, Michael's not a Slasher Movie Supervillain, he's a 71-year-old man who killed just four people in 1978 and has been institutionalised ever since. They don't think it'll be that hard to track a 71-year-old down, at least at first. Besides, after the first few murders, it seems the town ''is'' locked down after Julian escapes his house - witness how quiet the street was when Allyson and Oscar walk home. And Laurie mentions the school has been evacuated in the phone message Allyson never gets. (Also, you might be surprised at how much people simply wouldn't care, thinking "it'll never happen to me". Just look at public reaction to the Covid pandemic.)

** Or just the fact that Michael's not suicidal. MaybeMagicMaybeMundane aside, he doesn't have special powers that let him fight three cops on equal terms. It's quite possible that they cornered him, he was too injured to escape, so he simply... stopped.

** It's definitely because they wanted a sequel. To be honest, it doesn't make sense. Laurie wants Michael ''dead''. She wouldn't be satisfied unless she watched him die, then made sure he was deader than Elvis.

%%** In Laurie's defense, while she was ''very'' prepared to fight against Michael, she didn't not have a plan. Case in point, when she heard that Michael was going to be transferred, she was going to shoot him as he rode out in the prison bus, forgetting that she's trying to assault a ''federal vehicle'' with several mentally ill people, which could lead to her getting arrested, killed, and/or allowing Michael to escape. Also, when ever she mees she encounters him, he's inside of a house and she shoot at his reflection, alerting him and leading him to escape since Laurie couldn't get in the house fast enough. In the finale, Laurie, Karen, and Ray are waiting out Michael's rampage in her house and waiting for Allyson to come there and Michael follows Allyson and ends up finding Laurie's house; instead of storming in, he causes a distraction that lures Ray outside and kills him, then once he realizes that Laurie is the same girl
** If I had to guess, it would be they wanted something definitive enough if they never made another film, but with enough wiggle room for Michael to survive if they ended up getting the sequels. We're getting two sequels, it's likely Laurie will at some point mention that her plan wasn't good enough.

** Except in-universe, Michael's not a Slasher Movie Supervillain, he's a 71-year-old man who killed just four people in 1978 and has been institutionalised ever since. They don't think it'll be that hard to track a 71-year-old down, at least at first. Besides, after the first few murders, it seems the town ''is'' locked down - witness how quiet the street was when Allyson and Oscar walk home. And Laurie mentions the school has been evacuated in the phone message Allyson never gets. Also, you might be surprised at how much people simply wouldn't care, thinking "it'll never happen to me". Just look at public reaction to the Covid pandemic.