The Future Of The Halloween Franchise Discussion Thread

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Halloween Season of the Witch, one consistency was the robot goons in suits were relentless terminators too, like Michael Myers, after the hero. Then he found their weakness.

With Michael, setting up a death trap seems to be his only weakness. So he's after the hero, and then he walks into the trap and dies. The trick would be showing he's smart enough to sense something is off, and stop before getting captured, then the hero having to improvise.

Maybe have that "How will we trap Myers" as the new twist. Like Halloween Kills.

What if they captured him and had his mask removed? What would be underneath? Would evil somehow find a way to escape? I think maybe that was covered in one of the movies.

Just set it in the past and have a new character that he goes after and they can repeat that "Death Trap" formula for awhile.

Originally Posted by wonderer99

I have said many times before the issue with Halloween is that its such a simple concept that has absolutely zero scope for elaboration before what makes it effective is eroded. The original movie does EVERYTHING it can do as a concept. There is nothing left to do.

Michael Myers in the original is essentially a guy walking round stabbing people. That's it. The horror and mystery come from the fact we know little about him and the motivations. So sequels have two choices, either just repeat that over and over with no elaboration or do what most sequels do and try to expand the story, the character and lore.

Either option doesn't allow for repeated and frequent sequels without a serious erosion in quality. Again, the original did everything the concept allows, at least for me.

Good points.