Michael Myers was a young assassin who lacked any sense of conscience or comprehension, even in the most basic sense. He couldn’t tell the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, life and death. Michael had a pale, emotionless face as a child, and yes, the eyes, the most lifeless, deadpan, blackest eyes imaginable.
Michael’s first and only victim was his older sister, Judith, whom he brutally murdered. He was seized and committed to a mental institution because he was not just a child but also a crazy one. With the exception of Jason and Freddy, he turned out to be the most merciless and violent killer that Hollywood has ever introduced after his escape.
Michael, unlike Jason and Freddy, was not indestructible. Yes, Michael despises death and tends to heal from even the most heinous of wounds, yet John Carpenter’s creation remained somewhat suffocating.
Having said that, he isn’t dead yet, so there must be something out of the ordinary about him, something truly horrible that makes him the epitome of evil. Now, these aren’t actually explored in the movies; for example, why does Michael kill? What, if any, are his motivations?
What happened to him at Smith’s Grove Sanitarium during his years there? But don’t be concerned, my friends. We’ve looked at the Chaos Comics Halloween comics by Phil Nutman and Daniel Farrands.
This beautifully terrifying work of fiction expands on Michael’s menacing history and explores his life prior to his 1978 attack on Haddonfield. So relax and enjoy yourselves, since Michael has here and Halloween is approaching.
A Peek Into The Dark Past Of Michael Myers!
Tommy, Laurie, Loomis, and, of course, Michael Myers were all featured prominently in the Chaos Comics. To get you up to speed, we’ll give you some history on the characters and events of the film before diving into Michael Myers’ hidden past.
So, as many of you know from John Carpenter’s 1978 picture Halloween, Michael Myers was committed to the Smiths Grove Sanitarium in 1963 after viciously murdering his older sister and became Hollywood’s titular slasher. But, 15 years later, in 1978, while being carried to court, he slipped through the hands of his doctor Samuel Loomis.
Michael had returned to Haddonfield, where he resumed stalking Laurie Strode. Later that night, Laurie and her friend Annie were babysitting Tommy and Lindsey, respectively. Evidently, the night of horrors had begun for these teens as well as the kids.
At the end, when the kids were looking for help, Loomis found them and saved them and Laurie by shooting Michael six times. Next,we meet Tommy in the sixth film of the franchise Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.
In this film, not only does Tommy appear as a young man obsessed with Michael Myers and his motives, but he also saves certain people from Michael’s wrath, ultimately killing the serial killer, well, at least for the time being.
Later, Loomis decides to take care of some unfinished business, and his screams are heard, leaving his fate unknown, and revealing that Michael may not be dead, atleast not yet. But in the comics, it was made certain that Loomis had died. Now, the events of the Halloween Comics take place a year after the events of Halloween 6.
Chaos! Comics Halloween 1
The story begins in 1999, when Michael Cyphers of the Warren County Records Office calls Tommy to inquire about obtaining Sam Loomis’ additional case files on Michael Myers. Tommy tells Cyphers that he’ll be there in a few hours to pick up the notes. Now, Tommy’s characterization in the comic differs significantly from that in the film.
Although both Tommys are obsessed with Michael and his motivations, the one in the comics is more interested in learning the mysteries in order to profit from them. Nonetheless, when Cyphers glances over Loomis’ notes, we notice Michael lurking behind him, ready to greet him with a knife.
After slaying Cyphers, Michael picks up one of the crime scene photos and looks at his sister’s stabbed and bloody body, a work of his own doing. We are thrown into Michael’s trip down memory lane, in which he relives the events of his first murder, the murder of his sister Judith.
The flashback is cut short as Tommy arrives at Cyphers’s office to collect the notes. Although he doesn’t find the clerk, he finds what he was looking for. It turns out that Michael was still in the room, hiding behind the door, and he would have attacked Tommy had it not been for the security guard who came to Tommy.
It was after hours, and Cyphers had told none that he’d be expecting a visitor, so the guard was uncomfortable with Tommy’s presence, and they both went to the front desk to fill up the requisition form. Just as the security guard closed the door behind him, we see that Michael had pinned Cyphers with his knife on the door and was curiously looking at his art.
Tommy quickly returned to his Haddonfield home and began reading through Loomis’ diary. As a result, when Loomis first saw Michael, he was worried about the assassin. Despite the fact that Michael was suspected of committing a heinous crime, he was only a child who was imprisoned among other significantly older inmates.
Four teenagers were the only inmates who were close in age to Michael. Blair, like Micheal, was a shy and introverted young man who had murdered his sister. Adrian was a moronic savant with a binge-eating disorder. Roger was a religious boy, but one who self-mutilated.
However, the most ferocious of these was Tony O’Malley, a psychopath. It was as if Michael was locked up in a cage that was no less than an inhuman jungle. So, Loomis went to speak to his superior, Dr. Carpenter, to request him to provide Michael with a separate room with a play area, a request that Dr. Carpenter instantly denied.
It wasn’t before long that O’Malley tried to bully and hurt Michael, who was saved by a security personnel of the sanitarium. In the days that followed, Michael proved to be a challenging patient for Sam Loomis and also a perfect resident of the sanitarium, and for the same reason, of course—Michael was always silent as a grave.
But one day, Loomis asked Michael to draw whatever he liked, and the seven-year-old drew a picture of the crime scene after his sister’s blood bath at his hands. Loomis thought this was a breakthrough because Michael had responded positively after such a long time, but Loomis was completely wrong.
Later that night, the self-mutilator Roger was discovered in the same room as the psychopath O’Malley, with the exception that O’Malley’s right eye had been stabbed with a crayon, likely the same crayon used by Michael to paint the obscene picture.
Loomis felt certain that Michael was involved, whether directly or indirectly, notwithstanding Roger’s claim of responsibility. Nothing happened for a year after the O’Malley event, until Michael’s 8th birthday on November 1st, 1979, which also happened to be the first anniversary of Judith Myer’s murder.
The sanitarium authorities gave Michael a birthday cake, and Loomis wanted to see how Michael would react to kindness. But before Michael could cut it, the always-hungry Adrian pounced on it and devoured the cake. Later that day, Adrian was found with severe burns from hot water while taking his bath.
Although the reader knows that Michael was behind the event, there was no proof. After spending a month in the infirmary, Adrian died, apparently of natural causes. Meanwhile, Michael Myers has arrived at Tommy’s house.
Tommy continues reading the notes and learns that while Michael continued to be the model patient, always silent and calm, the others started having issues. Roger committed suicide, and O’Malley became increasingly violent and self-destructive, so much so that he had to be transferred to a padded cell. Six years passed, and Michael was to turn 14 when Dr. Carpenter decided to throw a Halloween party at the sanitarium for the insane residents.
Despite Loomis’s warnings, Carpenter went ahead with the idea, and as expected, there was another death in the sanitarium, this time a girl named Nancy. Loomis was furious, and he took out his anger on Michael, but his fiancé and staff Jennifer talked him into quitting Michael’s case as he had become a lost cause, but Michael wouldn’t have it.
So, Michael decided to cut the root of his problems, Jennifer. He chased her to the roof and pushed her from there; Jennifer fell to her death. Although the autopsy called Jennifer’s death a suicide, Loomis learned the hard way about the things Michael could do.
He went from being his caretaker to his gatekeeper as if Michael was a demon who had to be guarded and kept inside hell. Tommy had become so involved in reading Loomis’ diary that he had forgotten it was nearly Halloween night. From the information he had just digested, his mind was both thrilled and weary, so he got up to make himself some Irish coffee with Jack Daniels.
But soon as he sat back down, Michael entered the room, brandishing a knife. Tommy was taken aback when he saw him because he had murdered him a year before. Tommy fired a few shots at Michael, but they were ineffective.
Tommy smashed his alcohol bottle on Michael’s head and then burned his face with a zippo in the heat of the moment. Michael fell from the window and disappeared, while Tommy went all Liam Neeson from taken, pledging to find Michael and kill him.
Halloween II: The Blackest Eyes
The second half of the comic continues where the first ended. When Tommy realises Michael has escaped, he checks to see if Loomis’ diaries have been burned. He goes on to say that now that Michael is wounded and weak, he would just go home.
Meanwhile, Richie Castle arrives to Myers Home with the intention of torching the facility. If you recall, Tommy was bullied by Richie and his cronies Lonnie Elam and Keith when they were younger.
Richie had the misfortune of running across Michael Myers in the first film, who kindly let him go. Richie’s life has not been good to him even after 24 years. He lost not only his job but also his wife, and it seems that he now wants to burn the Myers house down to satisfy something within himself, to let go of the haunting memories.
After entering the home, Richie met with someone whom he thought was Michael. This mysterious person was Leigh Brackett, the same cop from the first film, who was Annie’s father and an ex-boyfriend of Judith Myers, Michael’s sister. Both Richie and Leigh thought that the other person was Michael, and hence, Leigh ended up shooting Richie down.
Realizing that leaving Richie’s corpse at Myers Home would bring him trouble, he takes the body away to bury it in a pumpkin field. But by now, Tommy too had arrived at the spot. He was surprised to see Leigh Brackett taking a body out of the house and stuffing it into his car.
Michael, unbeknownst to them both, was also watching this unusual sequence of events happen from afar. Despite this, Tommy pursued Brackett and eventually faced the outgoing sheriff, who had vowed never to return to Haddonfield after his daughter Annie was murdered in 1978.
Meanwhile, Lonnie and Keith make their way to Myers Home in search of Richie. Tommy meets Brackett in the field and queries him about why the former sheriff had travelled to Haddonfield, which is a long way from Pennsylvania, where he had moved after 1978.
Tommy is told by Brackett that he knows things that have been eating him up from the inside. According to Brackett, it was not just the Myers family that was cursed, but the entire town of Haddonfield, which was one of the first towns of the Midwest. It was now that Brackett revealed the real history of Haddonfield, the Myers family, and Michael Myers himself.
So, back in the day, when the protestants fled from England to escape persecution. Some of these people were actually followers of the ancient religion of Druids, and these people would hide behind the pious pilgrims.
Later, New England experienced the worst and most violent witch hunt, and these Druids escaped from there and headed West under the leadership of one Murphey Myers. It turns out that 2000 years ago, a curse of Samhain(pronounce:- Saw-Win), or the Gaelic festival that runs from October 31st to November 1st and marks the beginning of the darker half of the year had been cast upon Murphy Myers.
Michael Myers is the direct descendant of that cursed forefather. Furthermore, every generation of Myers’ first-born son retains the seeds of the Samhain curse and commits the majority of his murders during those days.
Three generations of Myers had lived in peace before Michael, without a single act of violence. Michael, on the other hand, was going to change that for the Myers family. Audrey Myers gave birth to him after three agonisingly hard days of labour, but only his physical body emerged from her womb at 11:57 p.m. on Halloween night.
He was a stillborn without a soul. Michael’s tiny body found a soul when the night turned into day, the day of darkness, and he was pronounced alive at 12:06 AM on November 1st.
That black-hearted soul had found its way into his body, just like an evil finds a vessel. In the initial years of his childhood, Michael showed no signs of being evil. He was a fine lad like any other, but the curse of Samhain bore fruit on Halloween of 1963 when he killed his sister.
All these things Brackett came to know from a few private diaries that Loomis had given to Brackett, but from his personal experience and knowledge, he could tell that the Myers family was a dysfunctional one.
Michael and Judith’s father was physically abusive, and Judith herself may have been a nymphomaniac. He also seemed to suggest that Michael and Judith shared a relationship that bordered on incest.
Suddenly, Tommy and Brackett get attacked by the Cult of Thorn, with Mrs. Blankenship(pronounce:- Blank-en-Ship) leading the men. Now, in the sixth installment of the franchise, it was revealed that Tommy’s landlady, Mrs. Blankenship was a member of this Druid cult.
Mrs. Blankenship and the others took the two men to Haddonfield Church, where they were bound in chains. They thought that escaping the place was impossible, but a priest who had lost his faith in the cause of his people and the sacrificial mode of rituals freed Tommy and Brackett.
But then, seemingly out of nowhere, Michael appeared and assaulted the priest, murdering him. Tommy replied by attacking Michael, but the cursed serial murderer pushed him aside and turned his attention to Leigh Brackett. Michael’s face was burned when the ex-cop struck him with a lantern.
Michael, on the other hand, had the final laugh when he stabbed Brackett in the heart, thereby killing him. Tommy was eventually wrongfully accused of the murder of Leigh Brackett, but he knew he had to get out of there as soon as possible to put a stop to Michael’s threat.
Halloween III: The Devil’s Eyes
Tommy had a nightmare in the Smith’s Grove Sanitarium about the first night he saw Michael Myers and faced death from an inch away in the third and final part of the series, which begins in 2001.
Wesley Krug and Terrence Wynn then surprise Tommy. Now, Wynn is the same person that set Michael Myers free in the fifth film. Wynn was a former colleague of Sam Loomis, as well as a member of the cult that included Mrs. Blankenship and others.
Wynn had come to Tommy with the intention of killing him for good and staging his death as a suicide. Tommy confronts Wynn about Michael and Laurie Strode’s abduction, but Wynn doesn’t say much other than that Laurie was murdered.
Krug was about to inject Tommy with something, but Tommy managed to strike both of them down and escape the sanitarium. Meanwhile, we learn about Lindsey Wallace(pronounce:- Wall-Ace), the playmate of Tommy, from that fateful night in 1978 when Michael came to Haddonfield to kill Laurie and the others.
Lindsey has grown up to be a successful reporter for a Chicago newspaper and has returned to Haddonfield to tell the most horrifying tale to her readers—the real-life accounts of her unfortunate adventures with the sinister Michael Myers. It is reiterated through Lindsey’s memories that Laurie was Michael’s younger sister, and after the death of her parents in 1965, she was adopted by the Strode family.
After the events of 1978, Laurie went underground, but she actually took the name of Keri Tate and started teaching at the Hillcrest Academy. However, after the murders at the Hillcrest Academy in 2000, Laurie, aka Keri, once again disappeared.It’s been almost a year since then, and Lindsey has been trying to join the pieces of the puzzle, but there are just too many pieces.
Suddenly, she hears on the news about Tommy’s escape from Smith’s Grove Sanitarium. Tommy killed one of the orderlies, according to Terence Wynn, and was extremely dangerous and armed. Tommy was also suspected of stealing the bodies and tombstones of Lynda Vander Klok, Bob Simms, and Annie Brackett after exhuming their graves.
She is startled when she hears a commotion in the home and turns around to discover Tommy inside. She’s terrified at first and greets him with a knife pointed at him, but he persuades her that he didn’t do anything she heard on the news. As time went, the air in that room became heavier and denser.
Tommy and Lindsey both heard a noise coming from a bedroom on the second floor. When they went to check it, they were shocked to see the exhumed corpses and the stolen tombstones on one of Lindsey’s beds. They knew Michael was there, and the two of them tried to flee.
Michael knocked Tommy down and then chased Lindsey down the streets. She knocked on several doors hoping that one of them would open and provide help, but most people of Haddonfield had left the town as Halloween was never safe for them. She ultimately reached Myers Home; entering it, she armed herself with a shard of a broken mirror for a weapon.
Michael followed her, and after a duel, Lindsey managed to poke Michael’s eye with the broken mirror. But Michael stopped only after Tommy appeared from behind and shot him in the back. When they removed Michael’s mask, what they saw, shocked them.
It was Laurie Strode. It turned out that Laurie’s condition was a textbook example of psychotic personality transference. She wished to live the horrors that unfolded on that fateful night of 1978. She obsessed over it so much that she became Michael by assuming his personality.
It’s probable that Michael is no longer alive, but can we be certain? No, we are unable to do so. And if he’s still alive and Laurie has taken on his identity, we’ve got two Michaels on our hands.
That will be a wonderful world to be a part of. The comics show that H2O and Michael Myers’ Curse are part of the same universe. We do know, however, that the 2018 picture Halloween is a direct sequel to the original and also retcons the prior sequels, therefore it should be deemed canon.
Michael was being transported from Smith’s Grove to a maximum-security prison forty years after his first murder. Laurie Strode still lived in Michael’s fear and faced Michael with her daughter and granddaughter.
The new 2021 film Halloween Kills by director David Gordon Green, which is slated for release this October, will serve as a direct sequel to the 2018 film Halloween. The trailer revealed that firefighters unwittingly freed Myers from his death trap.
While Jamie Lee Curtis would reprise her role of Laurie Strode, James Jude Courtney would star as the knife-wielding serial killer. This time around, Michael Myers would be driven by sheer revenge and wouldn’t take out unsuspecting victims but would rather be more calculative yet enraged.
After Halloween Kills, we will hopefully get to enjoy Michael Myers one last time in Halloween Ends, which is supposed to be the franchise’s last film and would put an end to Laurie Strode’s trauma and Michael Myers’ wrath.