Does Michael Myers Survive the New Halloween Movie? Well, It's Complicated

Warning: Big ol’ spoilers for Halloween below!

Lock your doors and hide your butcher knives, because Michael Myers is back.

The infamous serial killer makes a bone-chilling return in David Gordon Green’s stylish, nightmarish Halloween, which is far smarter than most of the 1978 original’s endless line-up of sequels while still paying homage to John Carpenter’s film in a number of ways. From the reappearance of “final girl” Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) to a recreation of a certain scene in a high school classroom, there are unmissable nods to the original film, including its treatment of Michael’s fate. In other words, like many Halloween installments before it, the status of the serial killer is left uncertain.

First thing’s first: this version of the story ignores everything that happened in the sequels to Carpenter’s 1978 film. It picks up with Laurie 40 years after Michael brutally murdered her friends on Halloween night, and makes it clear that the incident irrevocably changed the fiber of her being. She went on to devote her life to preparing herself to face Michael again one day, turning her remote cabin in the woods into a booby-trapped compound and training her young daughter, Karen, as a mini-survivalist. Of course, Laurie’s parenting methods lead to Karen being taken away by social services, resulting in Laurie becoming even more withdrawn and focused on killing Michael.

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