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Top 10 Dark Theories About The Halloween Franchise


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for this list we’re looking at unique
fan theories that add a whole new
dimension to the horror of the Halloween
franchise some of these are pretty out
there
others feel more grounded but they’re
all compelling and fun to think about
consider yourself warned spoilers await
around every corner just get your ass
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number 10 Michael Myers is a
supernatural force that exists to spread
fear unlike his peers Freddy Krueger and
Jason Voorhees there’s nothing
explicitly Supernatural about Michael
Myers well unless you count all that
cult of thorn stuff but the hammer
descend on the chosen one to whom we
offer this sacrifice of innocent blood
for the most part Myers has described as
flesh and blood a man who could be
captured incarcerated and hypothetically
killed it’s that last point where things
get a little complicated though as this
apparently human killer refuses to die
for that reason people have suggested
that Michael is a supernatural force
that only appears to be human that
beings purpose to spread fear think of
him as a single-minded demon or a
demigod monsters are scary and all but
there’s something about a seemingly
earthly killer that’s more immediately
terrifying hey you can’t kill the
boogeyman
number nine Michael Myers is triggered
by lovemaking the original Halloween is
considered by many to serve as the
blueprint for both the final girl trope
and the rules of the slasher genre you
likely know them well but in the off
chance you don’t here’s Randy from
screen with a refresher number one you
can never have sex though Michael’s
killing pattern generally follows these
rules even more so than most of his
peers he seems to really target sexually
active victims it’s like he’s got a
sixth sense for fornication some have
suggested that based on his history in
the films including his very first kill
his sister after she had sex he’s first
and foremost driven by a violent almost
instinctive repulsion to sexual activity
number 8 Michael Myers is the physical
manifestation of pure evil though this
theory is perhaps similar to our first
entry there’s a big difference between
fear and evil unpacking the psychology
of Michael Myers is a seemingly
insurmountable task more than one
psychologist in the film franchise has
dedicated their lives to it with little
success what was living behind that
boy’s eyes was pelion simply even as dr.
Sam Loomis put it in the first film and
as was hammered home again by his notes
in the 2018 film Michael is pure evil
there’s no complex psychology there’s no
cure he is evil pure and simple
it seemed that this is an opinion shared
by series creator John Carpenter who
once described Michael as quote almost a
supernatural force a force of nature an
evil force that’s loose you don’t
believe in the boogeyman
you should number seven Laurie Strode
pushed the bus off the road transferring
him tomorrow seven o’clock in the 2018
film we are reunited with Laurie Strode
a woman defined and haunted by her
connection to Michael Myers she’s got a
strained relationship with her family
and lives in isolation in a fortress of
her own design she spent her life
preparing to kill Michael she seems to
believe with every fiber of her being
that they’re destined to meet again all
this hiding all this preparation it was
for nothing
it took priority over your family in the
film she watches as the bus transporting
Michael leaves the institution and then
she showing up to family dinner drunk
and very distraught off screen the bus
has inexplicably crashed when she sees
news of it on TV she hardly reacts could
Laurie in her obsession have forced the
hands of fate he knows heaven I pray
every night that he would escape hey
Belle did you do that for
so I can kill him number six the silver
shamrock company made Michaels childhood
mask mom already goddess math silver
shamrock look nice try Halloween three
is an oddity carpenter tried to turn the
series into a Halloween themed anthology
but cinema-goers at the time were
disinterested in Halloween without
Michael Myers and so the franchise
returned to the formula in retrospect
it’s seen as an underrated standalone
cult classic but what if it is connected
to the core series in the film the
silver shamrock company makes Halloween
masks embedded with microchips and
Stonehenge fragments with the purpose of
turning the child wearers into vessels
for their evil machinations what if the
mask that Michael wore that fateful
Halloween was a silver shamrock
prototype that instead made him into the
killer we know today
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number five Sam Loomis is the same
character from psycho death has come to
your little town though Michael Meyers
is one of the most iconic villains to
ever wield a knife
he’s indebted to the horror genres
original stabbed happy killer Norman
Bates in Hitchcock’s seminal horror film
psycho Janet Leigh’s doomed Marion crane
is in a relationship with a man by the
name of Sam Loomis when she goes missing
Sam investigates and ultimately faces
off against Bates
now the logical assumption is the
carpenter named his doctor Sam Loomis in
homage to Hitchcock’s film but what if
Sam’s encounter with Norman Bates
actually gave him a taste for deviant
psychology and he decided to dedicate
his life to the study of the criminally
insane and you know what the timeline
actually works quite well you’re talking
about him as if he were a human being
that part of him died years ago
number four Michael Myers has congenital
insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis we
talked about the supernatural
explanations as to how Michael Myers can
take such a beating but like we said
Myers isn’t an inherently supernatural
character for those who prefer their
slasher villain grounded in reality this
explanation goes a long way an extremely
rare condition congenital insensitivity
to pain with anhidrosis or CIPA for
short is characterized by a complete
lack of any nerve related sensation no
pain no heat no cold pretty much the
only thing that the person can feel is
pressure but this explained how Michael
can take such a beating and just keep on
moving it had certainly explained his
fighting style
No number three Michael Myers is
possessed by Chucky the first person I
let in on my little secret was a six
year old kid I’m gonna be six years old
again
once upon a time fans theorized that
baby Michael from the first season of
American Horror Story was Michael Myers
sadly as of the season eight of American
Horror Story it no longer holds water
thankfully there’s another crossover
that does Halloween and the child’s play
series it’s more than a little
far-fetched but it sure is fun this
theory posits that Charles Lee Chucky
ray best known to horror lovers for
using voodoo to jump into the body of a
doll briefly jumped into a human body
that of six-year-old Michael Myers it
certainly explains why a young child
would suddenly murder his own sister as
for the rest of the killings well our
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number two Sam Loomis is the real
villain of Halloween Michael after
Michael kills his sister he goes outside
and stands on the sidewalk a stunned
expression on his face it’s far from
lacking in emotion sure this could be an
awakening but what if he’s horrified by
his own actions
Loomis describes the boy as pure evil
from the moment he met him but that
doesn’t match with the facial expression
of the boy who committed the act what if
dr. Loomis treated Michael like the evil
killer he wanted to study and that
treatment made him into the man he is
today
Michael’s escape and Loomis’s actions
during it also feel suspect could it be
that the boogeyman is dr. Loomis’s
monster Ella Frankenstein number one
Michael is a cyborg Android
collaboration between shamrock and cult
classic followed by the big giveaway at
night this one is freaking crazy trying
on all of the weirdest and most wild
elements of the Halloween franchise but
you know what we actually kind of love
it
the silver shamrock company not only
made evil masks but also notably
constructed androids then there’s the
thorn cult which placed a curse on
Michael Myers that ensures the survival
of the cult while also imbuing the
carrier with great power so what if
after Myers failed and was killed the
coat worked with shamrock to resurrect
Myers as a cyborg to continue to serve
his purpose
the yellow secretion from his mask in
Halloween six certainly supports this
theory as these shamrock androids also
leaked yellow goo do you agree with our
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