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Why is Michael Myers so appealing to fans?

posted 6 years ago by [deleted]
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Having seen this, could it be because he walks around silently, kills without a second thought, is unstoppable, and doesn't give a crap if he's seen? So how does that make him different from any other stone-cold killer?

I think back to the first movie and his unmasking as a child just after he's killed his sister, and his facial expression doesn't strike me as a kid possessed by evil, but just a scared little kid. If he was possessed by evil, he would have NO expression at all, not the terrified-little-boy one we got. I'd say the movie fumbled the ball at that crucial point, and it's probably why I don't really like the Halloween franchise (except the music and #3, of course).

[–] Starman (412) 6 years ago

Because he represents what people fear the most, it is ironic when we look into our deeper fears, people are afraid of the unknown in others, emotion-less and feature-less, and silence and darkness of the mind. All the other villains have at least some kind of a face expression. It is an ultimate fear to an ego. This fear and such villains would have never existed in the real world if people reversed that and embraced the unknown and the darkness in themselves and other people. It's all about self projection, and Halloween is perfect by feeding that same emotion most of us carry inside.

[–] lennonforever (2453) 6 years ago

I disagree about MM after he killed as a child. I do think his face is emotionless and blank.
It was terrifying to behold this child and know the carnage he just committed. He did not look terrified to me, at all.

[–] Bosdog6777 (817) 6 years ago

Because people think it's hip to praise originals and disregard sequels and Halloween was thd Original of the Big three before Jason and Freddy.

[–] ProductionNow (1072) 6 years ago

Evil sociopaths/psychopaths still express emotion; an emotional friendly sociopath is the scariest of all. It's like the 'Bad Seed".