Several franchises can say that they have endured the way it has "Halloween". Directed by the Horror Master, Johnon CarpenterThe 1978 classic that started all this remains one of the most beloved films the genre has ever had. It also resulted in a series of sequels and restarts that allowed Michael Meyers to withstand nearly 50 years in the greater awareness of pop culture.

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Carpenter's original film sets the tone immediately from the gate, with a young Michael Meyers killing his older sister, Ithudite Meyers, brutally. We see all the work in POV in front of the intestines of discovering that it is a young boy behind this cold murder. The rest of the film gathered years later, with Michael now an adult to get rid of the city of Hadonfield, leaving a few more bodies on the eve.

But why did that young boy decide to kill his sister in the first place? The answer is actually quite complicated and has more than one answer. This is because the overall time schedule "Halloween" is pretty crushedWith more branches and continuities to follow depending on which movie/movies we are talking about. Uncomfortable or not, we will offer different answers to that question, accounting for the explanations offered by different timelines. Let's dive.

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Something for "Halloween" is that it is a very frightening movie and has been from 1978. It is something that Carpenter really relies on what Michael Meyers called him "Bugiman" in the film itself and "form" in the loans. He is mysterious and, in many ways, pure evil. It becomes in the heart because he killed his sister in the first place.

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As Dr. Samuel Lomis (Donald Pleasensens) explains in the film, he has not spent 15 years with Michael after his sister's murder, Ithudite. No one knows Michael like Lomis, and it's worth looking back at his Hadonfield Bugimen monologue to find out why Ithudite met such a gloomy fate. As you missed:

"I met him 15 years ago.

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Simply put, Michael Meyers is pure evil, and therefore killed Ithudite. It is scary in its own way because it is difficult to make sense. It's not a reason. This was something that was transferred to the 2018 "Halloween" time frame, and was also more or less Rob zombie films constantly split "Halloween". Michael is always evil, it is very sure, but evil is not always the reason he killed Ithudite.

This is where you work a little weird when it comes to Michael Meyers and the Halloween franchise in general. After Halloween III: The Witch Season Failed to start the idea of ​​turning the franchise into an anthology series, Michael returned to "Halloween 4: The return of Michael Meyers". It has begun a bizarre trilogy of films within the franchise canon, with "Halloween 5: Michael Meyers Revenge". Things became extremely bizarre when the "Curse of Michael Meyers" arrived in 1995.

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For one, it is worth noting that "Michael Meyers' Curse" is not well appreciated in the movie "Halloween" Canon. That is why the franchise was withdrawn in the years that followed. Even so, it introduced some great ideas, including a brand new reason why Michael killed Ithudite. It all has to do with a group known as a thorn cult. While one can write an entire article that crashes the cult itself, we will overcome the basics because they refer to this situation.

Basically, basically, Thorn's cult was a cult of Druidi, the one that helps in ancient evil known as Thorn, who can give great power to someone. Whoever takes the power of Thorn is forced to kill his family. By the end of Halloween 6, Michael Meyers were found to have been chosen by Thorn's cult Like a boat, he killed Jululey.

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There are different versions of the "Curse of Michael Meyers" and the entire cult of the franchise is something that can be discussed for advertising. It is a far more comfortable explanation for Michael's killing instincts, which is very certain. This term will be abandoned as "Halloween H20" came out several years later in 1998, with that film serving as a more direct sequel to "Halloween II".

All this brings us back to Lori Stroda. Little by Jameimi Lee Curtis, she is the primary protagonist of the Halloween films. Michael Meyers have much of it from the beginning. No matter how many bodies he leaves, his sights always return to Lori, next to her death in the "Resurrection of Halloween", or next to Michael's death in "Halloween does not end", depending on which timetable we follow. In any case, looking at the murder of iThudite, why does Michael also want to kill Lori so bad?

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The answer depends entirely on which timetable we follow. In "Halloween II", for which Johnon Carpenter is not a personal big fanHe introduced the idea that Michael Meyers' secret sister is also the secret sister. If we follow the original time schedule or Rob zombie films, this explains why the form would like to kill Lori. He killed Ithudite, so there may be something to get the job done here. Michael is pure evil, and a lot of time, that evil can look a little pointless. Lori is where he finds his goal.

If we follow the time frame "Halloween 4", Michael who wants to kill Lori is all about completing the task imposed by Thorn's cult. If Lori's star is his flesh and blood, then she must die. It's just like that, even if the specifics of the thorn cult and the films in which they are part can be slightly convoluted.

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Lastly, there is the subject of the 2018 "Halloween" trilogy. David Gordon Green's films serve as direct sequels to the original, ignoring every other entrance to the franchise. Green Halloween films have changed things by making it clear that Lori is not Michael's sister. So, in this time frame, we are returning to the simpler idea that Michael is pure evil. Is it an unfinished business in play? Of course, but these are not family relationships or some cult behind it. It is a seemingly unstoppable, high-motivated evil, usually and simple.