In my dreams, I'm not afraid. I dance forever under starlight. In my dreams, I'm no longer a little girl. In the night sky, I dance alone.
A comic miniseries based on the Halloween movies by Devil's Due Publishing.
Lisa, a girl on the verge of adulthood with a traumatic past, finds herself in the middle of a sinister plot by the famed killer Michael Myers.
Halloween Nightdance provides examples of:
- Abandoned Area: The old Bowles place, an abandoned shack in the woods of Russelville where Lisa first met Michael, and which is his current hideout.
- Abusive Parents: Nikki's parents are strict and ground her for every little thing, leaving her with massive insecurities, feeling like she's an embarrassment to them.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Michael kills all of the characters and gets away to slaughter more innocents.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Wouldn't be Michael if he wasn't killing some poor, defenseless animal. In this story, he guts Lisa's pet cat and throws it into her shower after turning the lights off to scare her. Lisa also mentions that when she and Daniel were found by a searching party, one of the dogs that trailed them was killed by neck snapping. It's quite obvious that Michael did it.
- Big Bad: Michael Myers, who is out torturing these characters For the Evulz.
- Buried Alive: In the end Michael manages to catch Lisa, and she ends up in a coffin buried underground.
- Covert Pervert: Michael shows a more lechereous side here. He draws naked women being slaughtered and he seems to enjoy Lisa's naked body. The fact that he later buries her alive that way seems to confirm it.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Lisa was babysitting a boy named Daniel and they went out for a walk. While in the forrest, the two come across the abandoned Bowles place, where Daniel runs in and is injured (possibly by Michael's hand). Lisa ran in to help, only for Michael to lock the two in the cellar, trapping them in complete darkness for two days before help arrived. As a result, Daniel's mother blamed Lisa and Lisa is terrified of the dark.
- Downer Ending: Lisa and most of the secondary characters end up dead, and Michael gets away scot-free.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: After Michael fatally stabs Nikki he puts an apple in her mouth and draws a clown-like smile around her face with her lipstick. This shows that his black humor hasn't fade away not even in the slightest.
- Family Extermination: Michael kills a young boy and the rest of his family.
- Fan Disservice: Lisa spends a good chunk of the third issue naked during and immediately after a Shower Scene, but the Fanservice of it is removed due to Michael stalking her during the shower and her being in panic even after he runs off. She also ends the series naked, having been Buried Alive that way.
- In a flashback moments, a naked 6 years old Michael is shown in front of a mirror dripping blood.
- Fingore: Michael has left razors behind a certain door handle in a case if someone would try open it. Which of course happens, with bleeding fingers as a result.
- For the Evulz: This is Michael at his most twisted and sadistic, with no Laurie, Doctor Loomis or any of the recurring characters, we have Michael tormenting innocent people for fun.
- Frameup: Implied. Cops arrive on the scene of the climax and shoot Ryan on the spot, as Michael has put one of his masks on him.
- Growing Up Sucks: Discussed between Lisa and Sean after she recounts how she became afraid of the dark, equating the event to as the death of her childhood.
- Happily Married: Ryan and Marcy seems to have a strong and functional relationship based on mutual love and respect. This makes their deaths more heartbreaking.
- Hidden Depths: Michael has a moment of this, having hallucinations of his past that seem to genuinely anger and upset him.
- Human Jack-O-Lantern: The last comic reveals that Michael Myers had done this to the wife of the deuteragonist, Ryan, who finds her body pinned to the wall of Michael's hideout, with her head hollowed out in order to have space for a candle, her eyes gone, and a Glasgow Grin inflicted on her face.
- Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: It wouldn't be Halloween without actual Halloween.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: In the third issue Michael is in the bathroom with a naked and terrified Lisa. His intentions leave no room to the imagination. He runs off before he can do anything, however.
- Karma Houdini: Michael manages to torment and kill all of the characters, getting away to slay more innocents.
- Kick the Dog: Michael killing Daniel and later Lisa's pet cat which then throws to Lisa into the shower simply to scare her even more.
- Malevolent Masked Man: Unsurprisingly Michael still wears his iconic white mask and he's still the usual homicidal monster he's always been. He apprently carries more than one this time.
- Mortality Phobia: Lisa speaks about how she doesn't want to grow old and die. She unfortunately doesn't get to experience the former, and Michael assures she experiences the latter.
- My Greatest Failure: For Lisa, it was when a little boy she once babysat wandered off when she wasn't paying attention and ended up getting hurt.
- Neck Lift:
- Michael lifts Nikki by her throat as he is strangling her to unconsciousness.
- When Michael terrorizes Lisa as she's having a shower, Sean tries to run upstairs to her rescue, only to get grabbed by the throat and thrown back downstairs.
- Neck Snap: As Lisa recounts her most traumatic experience to Sean, she mentions that one of the search dogs looking for her had its neck snapped.
- Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Daniel, the boy Lisa used to babysit, sends her crayon drawings from time to time. But lately they've become more disturbing, depicting subjects such as nudity and gore. It's actually Michael that's sending these pictures - he killed Daniel and his entire family long ago and is trying to lure Lisa to him.
- Oblivious to Love: Sean apparently never noticed that Nikki had a crush on him.
- Pet the Dog: Subverted. Lisa's cat at the end of the first issue is seen cuddling at Michael's feet. It's not seen again until the third book and the reader might imply that Michael spared it. Turns out he actually viciously gutted it as shown when he throws its mangled body to Lisa while she's taking a shower.
- Pinned to the Wall: One victim is discovered pinned above a fireplace, with his legs roasting on the fire.
- Psycho Knife Nut: As usual, Michael prefers to use a kitchen knife.
- Psychopathic Man Child: Especially pronounced in this comic, as Michael's immaturity helps him pretend to be a little boy named Daniel.
- Rage Against the Reflection: As Michael spies on the protagonists from a house of mirrors at the fair, he starts seeing images from his past in the reflections and stabs one of the mirrors in retaliation.
- Shout-Out: The third issue cover has Lisa in the shower with Michael's shadow with the knife in his hand behind the curtains.
- Shovel Strike: After Sean runs after Michael, he gets surprised with two shovel-hits to the back of his head, followed by a third one which kills him.
- Shower Scene: Michael creeps on Lisa as she's having a shower, and freaks her out by throwing her gutted cat in there with her, and turning off the lights.
- Slashed Throat: When the family that Daniel is part of is finally discovered, he and his parents have been long dead by having their throats slit.
- Sole Survivor: Abby is the only one who survives Michael's attacks.
- Tongue Trauma: To ensure that Ryan cannot speak to the police that are bound to arrive, Michael cuts off his tongue before putting a copy of his mask on him.
- Villainous Crush: Michael seems to have one for Lisa given the predatory look he gives her when she gets out of the shower naked and the fact that at the end she buried her alive with no clothes on. Though the latter could be just pointless cruelty.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Because she got trapped in a dark cellar for two days with a badly injured kid that she was supposed to be watching, Lisa now has an extreme fear of the dark. Which makes her ultimate fate all the worse.
- Would Hurt a Child: Michael ends up slashing Daniel's throat.
