Composite image of three different versions of Michael Myers from the Scream franchise
The late 1970s and '80s were all about the slasher craze in the horror genre, with a plethora of masked men hacking their way through cinema screens. He might not have been the first, but the one who made the trend popular was Michael Myers in 1978's Halloween. John Carpenter created an iconic and terrifying villain with a man in a mask who didn't speak and who had no motive .
The remainder of Halloween picks up 15 years later. Michael Myers has been sitting in Smith's Grove Warren County Sanitarium, but on Halloween Eve 1978, he escapes to kill again. This is not your average slasher, with the standard trope of a killer seeking revenge against those who wronged them like we see in films such as The Prowler, The Burning, Terror Train, Prom Night, and so many more. Michael Myers has no true motivation, which makes him so much more terrifying.
"There was this kid, must've been 12 or 13, and he literally had this look that I gave the lines to Donald Pleasence to say. It's a schizophrenic stare is what it is. It's a real evil stare. And it was unsettling to me, and it was like the creepiest thing I'd ever seen." Alternate Scenes in 'Halloween' Show More of Michael Myers as a Child Dr. Loomis is seen as crazy by a lot of the people he interacts with, but in truth, he's one step ahead. Perhaps he's never seen Michael Myers in the wild killing people, but he's spent years around him and can sense the pure evil that lies within him. It terrifies the man, and as the sequels show, Michael becomes Dr. Loomis' obsession, driving him increasingly mad.
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