Does Michael Myers Survive the New Halloween Movie? Well, It’s Complicated
Warning: Big ol' spoilers for Halloween below!Lock your doors and hide your butcher knives, because Michael Myers is back.The infamous serial killer makes a bone-chilling return in David Gordon Green's stylish, nightmarish Halloween, which is far smarter than most of the 1978 original's endless line-up of sequels while still paying homage to John Carpenter's film in a number of ways.
From the reappearance of "final girl" Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) to a recreation of a certain scene in a high school classroom, there are unmissable nods to the original film, including its treatment of Michael's fate.
In other words, like many Halloween installments before it, the status of the serial killer is left uncertain.First thing's first: this version of the story ignores everything that happened in the sequels to Carpenter's 1978 film.
It picks up with Laurie 40 years after Michael brutally murdered her friends on Halloween night,
