The Halloween saga went through various changes, many of these so controversial or unnecessary that they almost completely killed the franchise.
The Halloween saga has gone through different retcons and has brought various twists and surprises, but not all of them worked, and many of these almost killed the entire franchise. John Carpenter’s Halloween was key in the development of the slasher genre in the 1980s, and its success made way for a franchise with over 10 movies, two remakes, one movie outside the main timeline, and different timelines.
9 Laurie Strode’s Off-Screen Death Laurie Strode survived her second confrontation with Michael Myers in Halloween II, but the saga took a drastic turn when Jamie Lee Curtis refused to return in another sequel. In the Michael Myers timeline, Halloween II is followed by Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, in which it was revealed that Laurie died in a car accident a couple of years earlier.
The Cult of Thorn felt very out of place in the Halloween saga and was nothing more than a lazy excuse for the many fake deaths and underwhelming "resurrections" of Michael Myers. The Cult of Thorn ended up being an inconclusive storyline in the Halloween saga as it wasn't addressed again, but that was definitely for the better.
In addition to that, Zombie’s Halloween remakes added a connection between Michael and his mother that led him to have hallucinations of her, his younger self, and a white horse in Halloween II. All of these changes and additions made Michael Myers less scary, and especially the hallucinations were laughable.
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