"I was good to you Mikey! I was good to you!..."

Had he run or not tried to cuff Michael, he might have lived. Michael was intent on escape and was not going to let anyone, let alone the closest thing he had to a friend, get in his way. Also, it just shows how evil and how merciless he was.

Indeed it was sad, but like I said, totally could've been avoided. Personally, I'd have run like hell in the other direction.


"He came home." - Dr. Sam Loomis from the original HalloweeN

I read somewhere that Trejo's death was supposed to show how "evil and merciless" Michael was.

Unfortunately, the scene didn't do that for me - but then, neither did the movie.

The movie spent a good deal of time in the beginning demonstrating that Michael wasn't "evil" but that he was "insane". An evil person knows what is good and bad and cruel and horrible, and - knowing that - they can be called "evil" when they choose to do something evil.

This Michael Meyers wasn't like that for me - he seemed like a child who was seriously messed up mentally, but the hospital didn't really help him - it just kept making him worse until he became so crazy that he snapped.

I felt like he might have been "cured" under different treatment or something, but I definitely didn't say - "Ooh, he killed Trejo; yep, he's evil!"

What really sucked, too, is that if he was actually insane as the movie suggests in the beginning I kind of was hoping to see some kind of nuances in his insanity.

Like remember how in "Silence of the Lambs" the one guard wasn't afraid that Hannibal would come after him after Hannibal had escaped, because the guard had always been polite to Hannibal and he knew that Hannibal would not kill him, even though Hannibal was crazy, because part of Hannibal's insanity is that he respected courteous people?

I kept assuming that was what they were trying to do with Michael Myers and the Trejo character - create a "method to the madness" thing - or something like that. Maybe we'd see Michael Myers go through the whole rest of Carpenters version, only with an almost "Sixth Sense" twist kind of ending; when we see that all the people Michael Myers killed - or spared - had been directly connected to the nuances of his insanity? Like - he kills people having sex because that was a trigger for him; and maybe the nurse said something that reminded him of his mother (or something like that); and then maybe he spares the few people who happen to compliment his "costume" on Halloween, because (like Trejo did) they showed respect for the masks that he made - or something like that.

In the end, Rob Zombie's decision was a load of crap. Meyers didn't seem evil, but he didn't even seem crazy - in retrospect it just felt like Rob Zombie wanted to do something by having Michael seem "extra evil" and simply dropped the ball on how to deliver that to us.

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