This essay is about the horror classic Halloween and its descendants of seven generations of later Halloweens, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. There are also a few things about Halloween II: The Nightmare Isn't Over because it explains a few things in Halloween H20. I will discus the plots, similarities, fate, the character Michael, and cultural differences between the different years.
Halloween is about a psychiatric patent named Michael Myers and a seventeen year old girl named Laurie (Played by Jamie Lee Curtis). Michael who for fifteen years has been living in a psychiatric hospital for killing his sixteen year old sister on Halloween night when he was six, escapes and heads back home to Haddonfield. Laurie is a shy teen age girl who people think is to smart. On Halloween night, the night after Michaels escape Laurie and Michael's worlds collide as Michael kills Laurie's friends and then comes after her while she is babysitting. As Laurie fights for both herself and the kids, Michael's Psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Played by Donald Pleasance) is hot on his trail.
Halloween II: The Nightmare Isn't Over is about the continuing fight that Laurie and Dr. Loomis have with Michael. When Michael gets up and walks away after being shot in the chest six times, Dr. Loomis goes on a witch hunt searching Haddonfield for Michael. Meanwhile Laurie is taken to the Haddonfield Hospital where we find she escaped death. Meanwhile this is happening Michael is walking around in the streets of Haddonfield when he finds out that Laurie is at the hospital, so he heads for it. After many hours of searching and many deaths at the hospital, Dr. Loomis finally gets the clue to the whereabouts of Michael when he finds out that Laurie is Michael's younger sister, which is when he realizes that where ever Laurie is Michael is. In the end Dr. Loomis kills Michael and himself.
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later is about Laurie who had faked her death, changed her name to Keri Tate, has a seventeen year old son named John (Played by Josh Hartnett) and is the dean of a private school called Summer Glen in Northern California. What Laurie does not know is that Michael found out that she is alive and where she is, and has started a trek across the country heading towards her. Once inside the school grounds Michael goes after John and his friends who were having a small party. Unfortunately for Michael, John knew exactly who he was and grabbed the only friend left and ran for it, eventually warning his mother. After making sure the kids are safe, Laurie heads back towards Michael and fights him and as people thought eventually killing him. Knowing better Laurie car jacks the corners van to finish the fight in a safer place.
When it comes to similarities between the movies there are the obvious like John Carpenter's Halloween song, the song Mr. Sandman, the date and place showing up on the screen and a peaceful place that Michael's victims lived in. Then there are the not so obvious like Michael returns when John is 17 just like the age that Michael showed up for Laurie. Michael also stabs Laurie in the arm in the same place as when they first met. Another similarity is when Laurie bumps into her secretary who said to her, “its Halloween I guess everyone is entitled to one good scare” (Sheriff Brackett/ Secretary, Halloween and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later), which is exactly what Sheriff Brackett (Played by Charles Cyphers) said to her 20 years earlier. Also they had a scene when they were in class and Molly (Played by Michelle Williams) notices Michael, answers a question and then looks back and Michael is gone, a similar thing happened to Laurie in Halloween as well as the same subject the question that Molly answered evidently turned into, fate.
In Halloween Laurie is in class and the teacher is talking about fate. The teacher says that “fate is immovable like a mountain” (Unknown teacher,
Halloween, Directed by John Carpenter), she also says that “fate never changes.” (Unknown teacher,
Halloween, Directed by John Carpenter). This tells us that what is going to happen will happen because it is fate. In
Halloween H20, Laurie is teaching a class which is discussing Frankenstein in which the subject turns to fate. Laurie asks Molly a question about Victor and Elizabeth in which molly answers “Victor should have confronted the monster sooner. He is completely responsible for Elizabeth's death because he was so paralysed with fear he never did anything, it took death for him to get a clue.” (Molly,
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Directed by Steve Miner). Then Laurie asks “and why do you think he was finally able to confront his monster?” (Laurie,
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Directed by Steve Miner) Molly answered “I think that he reached a point where he had nothing left to lose. I mean the monster sought it out by killing everybody that he loved. Victor finally had to face it, it was about redemption it was his fate.” (Molly,
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Directed by Steve Miner). This gives us an idea of what will happen later on in the movie.
