LogFAQs > #986825431

okay, so for Halloween you have to detangle what is done just for the sake of a movie (ie cinematography, the plot, etc) and what is actually in character.

how does Michael drive a car? Because if he doesnt he cant get to haddonfield. Why does he not die from the first stab in the eye? Because if he does the movie has a short 3rd act. Etc etc.

like when he stabs that one guy through the chest and the guy just hangs there in the wall. Okay, even if Michael could lift the person with one hand.the knife is just a usual knife. You cannot hang a 180lb man on a wall with a knife that at best has 1 inch embedded into a wall. That knife is hanging on the tip, with all the weight pulling it down off the wall. At best it is in a pine stud; at worst its in drywall and insulation. Either way, that corpse will not hang there. The laws of physics disallow it. The knife is not magical. The reason its there is because it looks good, not because its probable.

same thing with the laws of time. Unless Michaels sisters boyfriend went upstairs, got undressed, had sex, got redressed, got back downstairs all in the 30 seconds it took for young Michael to pick up a knife. Theres no way all those acts happened in that short of a span of time, even as a joke about how bad the guy is at sex. Time is compressed at that opening scene for the sake of the story. We need to get to Michael stabbing people. Thats the point.

a LOT of the first Halloween movie operates on a because its a movie logic.

Michael Myers is a normal fucking human. The point of that first movie is that hes just a guy targeting someone completely unrelated to him in any way. Its a senseless crime with no point. Thats the point.

Theres a reason why every single remake/sequel cuts ties with all previous continuity. The more you try to explain Michael beyond just being a guy, the dumber it gets. Hell, making him have magic sensing my secret sister power is already the dumbest part of part 2, but even that could be explained away as just a normal guy with an obsession/having a hey, you look familiar realization.

edit: the first Friday the 13th or well the first 5 really, have the same thing. Jason is not an undead zombie yet. The killer is a normal human, yet taking damage/doing things a normal human cannot do. Its not meant to be realistic feats of strength. Its just there because its a movie.

also edit: I realize now this means that sleepaway camp is probably the most survivable slasher movie ever. Like how many people are really gonna get their head bitten off by a 12 year old? Or are we going to now claim Angela is also has supernatural strength because of that?