Consider this: Doc Loomis is in charge of the mental hospital (where Myers is confined). On Dr. Loomis’ watch, Myers escapes and kills several people (including good-looking tenagers having sex).
Loomis then grapples with trying to catch Myers…who returns in several awful sequels.
Are we to conclude that Dr. Loomis created Myers?
Why doesn’t Loomis:
-prevent the release of Myers?
-have the (recaptured Myers sent to a real prison?
-equip Myers with a monitoring bracelet?
I think that Myers is all in Loomis’ head-which would explain the immortality, invulnerability, etc.
Incidentally, what happens to Doc loomis in the final installment?
I never saw it.
But how do you explain the first scene, where young Michael kills his sister? Doc Loomis wasn’t in the picture yet.
**Halloween: Was Michael Myers a Creation of Dr. Loomis? **
When they did that Rob Zombie Halloween remake a few years ago, I thought that the movie was going to be about that. Halloween: the Hidden Years, with Doctor Loomis in a tug of war with little Michael over the latter’s sanity (kind like the Rorschach vs his psychiatrist scenes in prison, in Watchmen). And we’d realize that Loomis was as much a Van Helsing as he was a Dr Frankenstein regarding Myers’s madness.
Sadly it was just badly filmed gore, the name Rob Zombie might have given me a clue as to that.
Some of the often-deleted scenes in the original (I haven’t seen the remake) show Dr. Loomis clearly and vainly trying to warn his superiors about Michael. He NEVER wanted Michael to see the light out day again. With good reason as it turns out :smack:
I am assuming you are talking about the original.
What G0sp3l said. Loomis was actually setting it up so that Michael would be sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison (He committed his first murders as a child and was held at Smiths Grove until he could be tried as an adult). But one Halloween night, Michael just decided to leave.
When he was captured again, it was at the end of part 2 after Loomis tried to kill Michael with an explosion. Michael survived, but was in a coma. I don’t think coma patients are sent to general prisons, so that explains why he wasn;t in a supermax.
As for what happened to Loomis, at the end of part 6 Michael is injected with several syringes of, well, not really sure, might have been drano. And passed out. Then we see that his body is gone, and we hear Loomis scream as though he is being killed. That is how Loomis met his end.
The reason why they had him die is that the actor, Donald Pleasence, passed away before the movie was actually finished.
Its been years since I read the novelization of Halloween, but IIRC, it mentioned Michael Myer’s life growing up in a mental hospital. At one point he really anticipates Halloween and dressing up. The hospital staff are a little puzzled that he would have no bad memories associated with the holiday. I was pretty struck at how normal he is – not the unstoppable bogeyman that stalked Jamie Lee Curtis at all. Just your average, everyday, murderous child growing up in a mental care facility.
That’s a direct contradiction to the movie where we’re told he hadn’t spoken in 15 years.
The immortality has always disappointed me; it could have been a better story without it. Frankly yours is the best explanation I’ve heard but it doesn’t agree with other parts of the story as others have pointed out.
How? In some kind of split personality like Norman Bates (of the movie Psycho)?
People are still ending up dead. Even if Loomis felt no pain while in “Mikey Mode”, he would still have wounds inflicted on him by the victims that were able to defend themselves. Wouldn’t folks notice?
Having just rewatched Carpenter’s Halloween a few days ago…I think any attention here is overthinking it.
Just wanted to add that the nurse in Halloween 2 had the best tits ever captured in a Hollywood movie. Then or now. Just amazing.
I don’t think Loomis has any blame here. I worked on a psych ward for a while and we did have people run off from time to time. Loomis didn’t want Michael to escape, but Michael got out anyway.
He couldn’t just send him to a real prison. That takes a conviction and sentence from a judge.
As for monitoring bracelets, I don’t know if they existed in 1978, but you only use those to keep tabs on people who are out amongst the public. You don’t put them on people who are confined because what’s the point? In case they escape? There are too many. Also, if they have the means to escape, they probably have the means to remove the monitor.