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.

Let's take a look at one of the major characters, Michael. In Halloween one and two we see what he sees as well as hearing him breath. The only time we saw him as a person is when he is either killing a victim, attacking Laurie or being shot by Dr. Loomis. Other then that when ever he is doing something we see it through his eyes. In Halloween H20 we see him as a person we do not see through him or hear him breathe. Also in the first two Halloweens Michael walks in a slow mechanical way but in Halloween H20 he walks like a human being.

When it comes to Dr. Loomis he always referred to Michael as evil or it. The very first indication of this is in Halloween scene two when he tells the nurse, “Don't under estimate it.” (Dr. Loomis, Halloween, Directed by John Carpenter). Another example in that scene would be when Michael Steals the car and drives away and Dr. Loomis says, “He's gone, he's gone from here, the evil is gone.” (Dr. Loomis, Halloween, Directed by John Carpenter). Latter on in the film Dr. Loomis tells Sheriff Brackett of how he thought of Michael, “what was living behind those black eyes was purely and simply evil” (Dr. Loomis, Halloween, Directed by John Carpenter). In Halloween H20 the only thing Michael was called was a brother, an uncle and a psychotic killer which shows us the change in our culture when it comes to the mentally disordered.

In Halloween they did a twist on Michael's character, they had Tommy Doyle (Played by Brian Andrews) the child Laurie was babysitting, see what was going on. Instead of seeing Michael as a human Tommy saw him as the bogeyman. Because of this when ever Tommy saw Michael he would say that he saw the bogeyman outside. This made Laurie think it was his imagination mixed with childish fear. Near the end of the movie after Laurie kills Michael for the first time Tommy tells her that the bogeyman can not be killed and he was right. At the end when Dr. Loomis shoots Michael, Laurie said to him in disbelief, “it was the bogeyman!” (Laurie, Halloween, Directed by John Carpenter). To which Dr. Loomis replied it was.

Tommy's bogeyman theory was not that far off. In Halloween, Michael gets stabbed in the head with a knitting needle, then stabbed with his own knife and to top it off shot six times in the heart, yet he is still alive. In Halloween II, Michael gets shot in the heart again and it is still the same night; shot in the eyes and then blown up. In Halloween H20, he gets whacked with an axe, stabbed with a flag pole and then stabbed many times in the heart. But he is still not dead, so later he goes flying out of a windshield, gets run over with a van, falls down a cliff with the van and then beheaded. Apparently he is still not dead because there is another movie five years after this with his character in it. A good quote showing this is in Halloween II when Laurie asks “why won't he die?” (Laurie, Halloween II, The Nightmare Isn't Over, Directed by Rick Rosenthal). The reason for Michael's immortality is because in those days the horror villains were usually created to be immortal, example: Jason, Friday the 13th, unlike today where the villain is more human, example: all the villains in Scream.

In the first two Halloweens most of the women are shown as idiots, this was because the movie industries at that time were mostly men and it was the way they wanted it. Here are three examples of what I mean by idiots. First would be Annie (Played by Nancy Loomis) who after spilling butter on her clothes, chose to walk across the street wearing only a shirt and underwear. Since it is common sense that you should not do that, she would have to be an airhead or slut. She also showed more stupidity by realizing she needed her car keys because the door was locked and once she got her keys she opens the car door without using the keys, you would think it would give her a clue that something was not right but no. The second was Lynda (Played by P.J. Soles) who when Michael dressed like a ghost with her boyfriends glasses on could not tell that it was not her boyfriend even with the noticeable personality change. The third example was in Halloween II, when the last living nurse named Jill (Played by Tawny Moyer) exited the hospital but after realizing that the cars did not work she went back in even though she knows that the danger was in the hospital. But in Halloween H20 the women would fight back. A good example would be when John punches Michael in order to free Molly but when that did not work Molly hit him in the face with a rock. This is due to the fact that the myth that women are helpless is fading.

When it comes to smoking in the earlier Halloween movies and Halloween H20 there is a huge difference. In the first two people are smoking up a storm. They have all the doctors and nurses smoking as well as Laurie and her friends. In Halloween H20 we see the difference in the second scene when Dr. Loomis's former nurse Marion (Played by Nancy Stephens) is smoking when the kid next to her says “Hasn't anyone told yah second hand smoke kills!” (A Kid, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Directed by Steve Miner), in which Marion replies “Yeah but they are all dead!” (Marion, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Directed by Steve Miner). This shows people that there is a big cultural difference when it comes to smoking.

There you have it Halloween's idiots, smokers, Michael and plots as well as fate but these things are just a small part of these three Halloween stories there are still more similarities and differences. But these show us how times have changed over the years and that they will change some more.