As a matter of fact. With Mi-
chael Myers, the film’s masked
killer, escaping - after being
stabbed by knitting needles,
coat hangers and his own fa-
vored butcher knife, before be-
ing shot six times and plummet-
ing over a second floor balcony
- we’re left in no doubt that My-
ers is a supernatural force. And
as Tommy Doyle, the young boy
in Laurie’s charge on that eve-
ning, warns his babysitter, “You
can’t kill the boogeyman.”
Carpenter’s film is the story of
a very intelligent, smart (“Boys
think I’m too smart”) and well
educated young woman whose
belief in logic and reason is shat-
tered by an encounter with the
supernatural. By the end of the
movie, Laurie Strode has come
to believe that the boogey-
man exists, and that he can’t
be stopped, at least not by any
rational means. It made sense
in the 1998 sequel Halloween:
H20 then that Laurie would get
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