Halloween Kills: Michael Myers’ Invincibility Explained?
How the new trailer hints at the supernatural phenomenon keeping Myers alive.
Halloween Kills, the twelfth entry in the Halloween franchise, brings Michael Myers back from seemingly certain death after he was trapped in the basement of a burning building at the end of 2018’s Halloween. This is far from the first time Myers has escaped death, however.
Throughout his eleven movie run, Myers has been shot, stabbed, run over, tranquilized, hanged, beaten, electrocuted, and beheaded, but he just won’t call it quits. So, why won’t Michael Myers die?
In the recently released trailer for Halloween Kills, Strode suggests that Myers actually gets stronger each time he kills. The exact quote reads:
“He’s flesh and blood, but a man couldn’t have survived that fire. The more he kills, the more he transcends. He’s the essence of evil.”
The line seemingly confirms that, while Myers may have started off as a human, his kills and his lust for death and destruction have caused him to transcend that form and become something else, something superhuman. What Myers is defies rational explanation. He is literally evil incarnate.
Halloween Kills seems like it’s going to be the penultimate film in the Halloween franchise with Halloween Ends bringing everything to a close next year. With the end looming, the filmmakers are gearing up for a final showdown between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, which means establishing a mythology that allows for his potential destruction.
If Laurie Strode and the gang can figure out what Michael is and how he manages to stay alive, they can theoretically put a plan into action to destroy him. With Myers essentially guaranteed to survive this year’s Halloween Kills, it seems that the film will lay the groundwork for the grand finale next year and hint at what Strode will need to do to lay Myers to rest once and for all.
Halloween Kills releases later this year on October 15th. Check out the trailer here:
