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John Carpenter’sHalloweenleft a couple of plot holes , but one in fussy has already been furbish up twice , though in very unlike agency . TheHalloweenmovie saga has been retconned a couple of times , making direction for different timelines , each with its own explanation of why Michael Myers is the way he is and is so difficult to drink down , and of course , none of them have been safe from plot holes . However , the originalHalloweenmovie has one plot hole that has raised many interrogation over the years , and none of the possible answers to it have been full square .
After killing his sister when he was six years honest-to-god , Michael Myers was sent to Smith ’s Grove Sanitarium , where he remain for 15 year . On October 30 , 1978 , Michael Myers bunk , and ashis doctor , Samuel Loomis(Donald Pleasence ) , was about to see him for a audition , Michael stole his automobile and arrived at his hometown Haddonfield , Illinois , the undermentioned Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . It ’s this part of Carpenter’sHalloweenthat created a highly debated plot hole , as Michael spend over a decade incarcerated at Smith ’s Grove , so it raises the inquiry of how he was able to drive without a problem – and as it turns out , theHalloweenfranchise has already fixed this double , but differently : in the novelization and in Rob Zombie ’s remake .
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Rob Zombie’s Michael Myers Didn’t Need To Drive
In 2007 , Carpenter’sHalloweengot the remaking treatment withRob Zombie as writer and director . Zombie took the premiss and basic plot of the 1978Halloweenmovie but tot a lot more to Michael ’s backstory , resulting in a movie that serves as both an stock storey and a remaking . As such , Zombie’sHalloweenspent most of its time explore Michael ’s younger years , from his early signs of psychopathic leaning to his first murder at the age of 10 ( a school bully appoint Wesley Rhoades ) , surveil by those of his older sister , her boyfriend , and his mother ’s abusive boyfriend . Halloweenshowed what hap to Michael during his first calendar month at Smith ’s Grove andLoomis ’ ( Malcolm McDowell)efforts to avail him before jumping 15 years into the future to show his leak and return to Haddonfield .
Unlike in the original 1978 picture , Zombie ’s Michael Myers did n’t love how to drive , and alternatively , he just toss off a truck driver for his clothes and continued his way back to Haddonfield , walking . Although make Michael Myers knowing how to get after spend most of his animation incarcerated adds to the enigma of his character and how terrifying he is as it shows his intelligence , Zombie ’s location was also beneficial to his version of this slasher killer . Zombie ’s Michael Myersis a lot more aggressive and brutal than the one in Carpenter ’s 1978 movie , and screw that he walked from Smith ’s Grove to his rest home in Haddonfield shows his conclusion to return and also enkindle the query of how many more people he offend and killed on his style that the movie did n’t show .
The Halloween Novelization Explains How Michael Myers Can Drive
In 1979 , a novelisation of Carpenter’sHalloween , written by Curtis Richards ( a nom de guerre used by author Richard Curtis ) , was put out , and it include a duo of point and scenes that the movie did n’t , though some of these are confounding or make no sense , such as Michael speaking while at Smith ’s Grove , even though Loomis famously say in the movie that he had n’t spoken in 15 year . The novelisation alsofixed Michael Myers ’ driving patch holeby explain he ascertain by watching Loomis drive him to his many hearings , but this feels like a lazy explanation . It has also been theorized that Dr. Wynn might have teach him how to drive , but that ’s up to every viewer to decide if it could be true or not .
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