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Characters from the Rob Zombie duology of Halloween films.


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    Laurie Strode 

    Dr. Samuel Loomis 

    Deborah Myers 

Deborah Myers

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Played By: Sheri Moon Zombie

A stripper and the mother of Judith, Michael and Angel Myers.


  • Ascended Extra: She's a much more prominent character in the Zombieverse than in any of the original Halloween films.
  • Broken Bird: Already trapped in a relationship with an deadbeat asshole and her job being the only thing keeping the Myers family barely above the poverty line, the death of her family by her ten-year old son's hand cracks her further, but it's Micheal's murder of a nurse at Smith's Grove that makes her realize her son is gone and there is only one way out...
  • Driven to Suicide: After seeing how far Michael has gone after he kills a nurse while visiting him at Smith's Grove Sanitarium, she goes home, watching old family movies while sobbing and then shoots herself in the head.
  • Ethereal White Dress: Shown wearing a white dress throughout the second film.
  • Mystical White Hair: In the second film, her ghost or hallucination has white hair instead of her usual dirty blonde.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: Outlives her eldest child Judith.
  • Spirit Advisor: In the second film, her ghost or hallucination appears to both Michael and Laurie.

    Ronnie White 

Ronnie White

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Played By: William Forsythe

Deborah Myers' boyfriend, who abuses both her and her children, particularly Michael.


  • Abusive Parents: He verbally abuses both Michael and Judith, though he mainly focuses on Michael. He swears at Michael and makes homophobic remarks about him to his face.
  • The Alcoholic: Ronnie is always drinking, be it day or night.
  • Asshole Victim: Ronnie is so loathsome and annoying that you will cheer Michael on when he finally kills him.
  • Bound and Gagged: Michael duct-tapes him to a chair, and then slits his throat.
  • The Bully: He torments Michael for amusement.
  • Bullying a Dragon: After learning that Michael has been killing animals, instead of showing shock, he throws things at him and mocks him for killing animals, saying that "that is some deep ass serious fagotty ass shit", and tells Michael he's a "whiny bitch".
  • Canon Foreigner: Has no counterpart in the original films.
  • Copycat Mockery: He constantly mocks Deborah, Judith, and Michael by copying their words in a whiny voice.
  • Dirty Old Man: Makes perverted comments about his girlfriend's teenage daughter.
  • Grumpy Old Man: Not very old, but he is very mean and ill-tempered.
  • Hate Sink: To the point of being more of a caricature of one more than anything. While Ronnie is clearly meant to be unlikable, his behavior is so stereo-typically repulsive that it borders on being unintentionally hilarious.
  • Hey, You!: He never addresses anyone by name, he refers to Deborah as "bitch", Michael as "that freak", "little shit", and "boy", and doesn't even bother with finding a way to address Judith.
  • Jerkass: He's a loud, foul-mouthed, perverted man who frequently makes perverted comments about his girlfriend's daughter, is a complete asshole to everyone around him, shows No Sympathy for Michael when his rat dies, makes homophobic remarks to his face, threatens to beat him up, and is a deadbeat who mooches off his girlfriend.
  • Laughably Evil: His behavior is pretty amusing to watch.
  • Lazy Bum: He does nothing to provide for the Myers family and spends his days drinking at home. Justified, since he has a broken leg and can't do much until it heals.
  • No Indoor Voice: He constantly yells.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: He acts more like a schoolyard bully in a man's body than an adult.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: Practically every other word out of him is a swear.
  • Slashed Throat: Michael slits his throat with a broken piece of glass.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Has no qualms with verbally abusing children, using strong profanity against them, mocking them, throwing things at them, or threatening them with assault.

    Judith Myers 

Judith Myers

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Played By: Hanna Hall

Deborah's eldest child and sister to Michael and Angel.


  • Adaptational Jerkass: While the original Judith barely had any screen time, she seemed more-or-less like a relatively decent young woman. Here, she's all rude and bitchy, pretty much like anyone in the Zombieverse and is somewhat antagonistic towards Michael.
  • Adaptational Skimpiness: Unlike the modestly dressed Judith in the original, her intro has her in translucent shirt, tube top and low-cut cut-offs. This is then inverted in her death scene as '78 Judith was topless when Michael killed her while in the remake she's in a nightie.
  • Ascended Extra: Gets more screentime and dialogue. Though this is kind of played with as Judith of the original continuities was Michael's first ever human victim making her something of an in-universe Urban Legend, while in the remake, she's Michael's fourth victim and has slightly less of an impact.
  • Asshole Victim: Judith, unlike the original, is a pure Jerkass who messes with Michael just as much as Ronnie does.
  • Big Sister Bully: She can come off as cold and dismissive to Michael.
  • Gutted Like a Fish: Michael kills her by stabbing her several times.
  • Ms. Fanservice: Before becoming Fan Disservice in her death scene.
  • Really Gets Around: Implied that she has this reputation (if Michael’s bullies can be believed) and somewhat supported by her trailer-trash aesthetic and the fact that from her first to her last scene she’s pretty focused on sex.

    Steven Haley 

Steven Haley

Played By: Adam Weisman

Judith's boyfriend.


  • Adaptation Name Change: In the first film, Judith's boyfriend was originally nameless and was only credited as "Boyfriend" though some Expanded Universe material would later officially name him Daniel Hodges.
  • Ascended Extra: Downplayed. Judith's boyfriend only briefly appeared in the opening scene of the 1978 movie given only a few lines. In the remake, he gets a little more screen time and dialogue, and is even the reason how Michael gets his iconic mask.
  • Batter Up!: Michael beats him to death with an aluminum baseball bat.
  • Death by Adaptation: While he left the original film unscathed, here he winds up being Michael's third victim.

    Sheriff Lee Brackett 

Sheriff Lee Brackett

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Played By: Brad Dourif

The sheriff of Haddonfield and Annie's father.


  • Adaptation Name Change: A minor one. In the original film his name was Leigh Brackett, while here he is named Lee Brackett.
  • Adaptation Origin Connection: In the Zombieverse, Brackett explains to Loomis that he was the first man on the scene when Deborah Myers committed suicide and brought Laurie to the hospital; from there, the Strodes adopted her.
  • Give Her a Normal Life: Brackett didn’t want the stigma of Michael Myers hanging around Laurie’s neck, and omitted finding her in his police report of Deborah’s suicide, then drove her to another hospital’s town where the Strodes adopted her.
  • Sole Survivor: In the sequel's Extended Cut, he is the only surviving main character (Laurie is killed at the end of this version).

    Annie Brackett 

Annie Brackett

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Played By: Danielle Harris

Sheriff Brackett's daughter and Laurie's best friend.


  • Ascended Extra: The Zombieverse makes her a much more important character than in the John Carpenter film.
  • Bratty Teenage Daughter: She's prone to being this.
  • Deadpan Snarker: She frequently makes very snide comments.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's arrogant, rude, and foul-mouthed but she is still Laurie's friend and cares about her. So much so that she starts becoming motherly towards her in the sequel, something that Laurie isn't appreciative of, leading to tension between them.
  • Ms. Fanservice: She has a sex scene with her boyfriend in the first film that gets interrupted by Michael.
  • Sex Signals Death: Subverted. She survives Michael's rampage in the first film, only to die in the following one.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: She survives the events of the first film, in contrast to famously being the first of Laurie's friends to die in the 1978 version. Even if she dies in the second film, she is well ahead of her original counterpart by outliving her for two years.
  • Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: She dies in the second film at Michael's hands, but still well outlives her original counterpart.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Unlike Laurie, Annie's trauma from her encounter with Michael ironically brought out a kinder side in her, as while it still clearly bothers her, she's made a better effort at coping and maturing despite it, and ends up chiding Laurie's increasingly bitchy behavior and bad habits like alcoholism as excuses from her own trauma out of concern for her, even flatly saying "I'm not impressed." when Laurie cusses her out and tells her to Get Out!.

    Lynda Van Der Klok 

Lynda Van Der Klok

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Played By: Kristina Klebe

One of Laurie's best friends, Lynda is wild, foul-mouthed, egotistical, and opportunistic, though she has a soft spot for Laurie.


  • Adaptational Jerkass: She's much more crude and unpleasant here than in the original, where she was a much more friendly (yet slutty) Valley Girl.
  • Adaptational Skimpiness: While the original version is wearing an open blouse when Michael kills her, the remake has her completely naked.
  • Asshole Victim: She is significantly cruder and more egotistical than the air headed original character, and which makes her death harder to mourn.
  • Composite Character: She takes Annie's place as the first of Laurie's friends to die and whose corpse is placed in front of Judith Myers' headstone.
  • Ms. Fanservice: She spends extended portions of the film nude, which leads right into Fan Disservice as she's killed while naked and spends the rest of the movie that way.
  • Pom-Pom Girl: She's supposed to be this, although the film implies she got kicked off.
  • Statuesque Stunner: She's a Ms. Fanservice character who stands 5'8".

    Bob Simms 

Bob Simms

Played By: Nick Menell

Lynda's bespectacled boyfriend.


    Paul Freedman 

Paul Freedman

Played By: Max Van Ville

Annie's boyfriend.


  • Ascended Extra: In the original he was only heard over the phone, while here he actually makes an onscreen appearance.
  • Dead Guy on Display: His corpse is strung up in a house with a jack-o-lantern on his head.
  • Death by Adaptation: Paul never encountered Michael in the original, while he gets killed here.

    Mason and Cynthia Strode 

Mason and Cynthia Strode

Played By: Pat Skipper (Mason) and Dee Wallace (Cynthia)

Laurie's adoptive parents.


  • Adaptational Name Change: Mason was named Morgan in the original film.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: Laurie's adoptive mother in the original seemed kinda cold, bluntly telling her "I told you, I'm not your mother!" in a flashback. The remake version is more supportive and loving of Laurie even referring to her as "my baby."
  • Death by Adaptation: While neither appears past Laurie's first scene and are presumably still alive by the ending of the first two films in the original timeline, both are killed by Michael here.
  • Good Parents: They do seem like very loving people invokedmaking their deaths at Michael's hands all the more Tear Jerking.
  • Mythology Gag: Cynthia's name is likely a Shout-Out to the original Laurie's birth name Cynthia Myers.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Their decision to adopt Laurie put them in Michael's crosshairs.

    Tommy Doyle 

Tommy Doyle

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Played By: Skyler Gisondo

A young boy with a hyperactive imagination in Haddonfield who Laurie babysits on Halloween night.

    Lindsey Wallace 

Lindsey Wallace

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Played By: Jenny Gregg Stewart

A little girl in Haddonfield who Annie initially babysits on Halloween, but then later puts that duty onto Laurie so she could be with her boyfriend Paul.


    Lou Martini 

Lou Martini

Played By: Daniel Roebuck

The owner of the Rabbit in Red strip club, where Deborah works. After Michael's initial killing spree, Lou uses this as free publicity and advertises that the mother of the “Butcher of Haddonfield” worked at his club.


    Joe Grizzly 

"Big Joe" Grizzly

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Played By: Ken Foree

A trucker who has an unfortunate encounter with Michael at a truck wash restroom. It's Joe's coveralls that Michael steals.


  • Ascended Extra: He’s essentially a more notable version of the unnamed mechanic from the original film who Michael killed and stripped for a pair of coveralls.
  • Badass Boast: "Imma cut that mask right off your face." Doubles as his Last Words.
  • Badass Normal: He's just a normal human, but he managed to get slammed into the restroom stalls hard enough to dent them and shrug off what should have broken bones, and he managed to get one good hit in on Michael before getting killed.
  • Crazy-Prepared: Downplayed. He was already armed with a knife in the event he came across an attacker.
  • Curb Stomp Cushion: He manages to get one good hit in on Michael before being killed.
  • Dying Moment of Awesome: He goes out fighting Michael and destroying the bathroom they're in during their fight.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Killed with his own knife.
  • Large Ham: “I'm Joe Grizzly, bitch.

    Ismael Cruz 

Ismael Cruz

Played By: Danny Trejo

The only guard at Smith's Grove who ever treated Michael with kindness.


  • High-Voltage Death: Michael drops a TV on his head, electrocuting him.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: Became friends with Michael when the latter was still a child.
  • Nice Guy: One of the nicest people in the remake continuity.
  • Retirony: He mentions being only a few months away in retirement before being killed by Michael.

    Noel Kluggs 

Noel Kluggs

Played By: Lew Temple

A new security guard at Smith's Grove.


    Wesley Rhodes 

Wesley Rhodes

Played By: Daryl Sabara

A bully whose favorite target was Michael.


  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Michael begins beating him to death.
  • Asshole Victim: He's a bully who ends up on the receiving end of being a serial killer's first kill.
  • The Bully: He's this to a young Michael.
  • Freudian Excuse: He does mention having an father who beats him.
  • Jerkass: He's a bully and a prick.
  • Karmic Death: He's bludgeoned to death by the kid he spent his entirety of screentime bullying.
  • Kick the Dog:
    • His bullying of Michael by taunting him about Deborah being a stripper and bragging about how he'll send copies of posters heavily-featuring her on them to everyone in the school.
    • Shortly before he's murdered by Michael, he snatches a kid's hat and spits into it.
  • Undignified Death: He gets bludgeoned to death by a kid he's spent years bullying, while pathetically begging him to stop.

    Barbara Collier 

Barbara Collier

Played By: Margot Kidder

Laurie's psychiatrist.


    Mya Rockwell 

Mya Rockwell

Played By: Bea Grant

Laurie's coworker and one of her closest friends.


    Harley David 

Harley David

Played By: Angela Trimbur

A bad girl and one of Laurie's coworkers and friends.


    Alan Hooks 

Alan Hooks

Played By: Dayton Callie

An ambulance driver.


    Gary Scott 

Gary Scott

Played By: Richard Brake

A perverted, necrophiliac paramedic.


  • Asshole Victim: Such an asshole that he gets one of the most gruesome deaths in the entire series.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Michael slowly saws off his head with a shard of broken glass.
  • I Love the Dead: Mainly discussed, but also creepily implied.
  • Jerkass: This guy is the biggest asshole in the remake continuity, which really says a lot.
  • Off with His Head!: Michael slowly saws off his head with a shard of broken glass.
  • Slimeball: He just oozes sleaze.

    Chester Chesterfield 

Chester Chesterfield

Played By: Sid Haig

A gravedigger and caretaker of a cemetery in Haddonfield.


  • Mr. Exposition: Technically speaking, his only scene is to explain to Loomis, and the audience, about Judith Myers.
  • Repetitive Name: A variation.
  • You Look Familiar: In-Universe. Haig has a previous role in the same movie, playing a guard that is killed by Michael during a prison transport in the theatrical version. However, given how the Director's cut is wildly used, Chester is the only role that Haig is known for in the remake.

    Jim Chambers 

Jim Chambers

Played By: Richard Lynch

The principal of Haddonfield Elementary School.


Alternative Title(s): Halloween II 2009

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