The Next Halloween Movie Should Make Laurie Strode The Villain

At this point, every possible facet of Michael Myers has been explored in exhaustive depth. A murderous Laurie Strode, meanwhile, would maintain the spirit of «Halloween» while also giving it a bloody new edge.

In the Rob Zombie universe, it’s pretty logical — if tragic — for Laurie Strode to inherit the monstrous mantle of Michael Myers. Over the course of both «Halloween» movies, she’s stripped of everything — her best friend, her adopted mother, her sense of security and her sense of self. «Halloween II» finds her transformed from a happy, cheerful, everyday high school student into a bitter, rageful PTSD survivor who doesn’t have any good outlets to process her trauma. 

When she learns the truth about her identity — that she is Angel Myers, biological baby sister of Michael — her downward spiral bottoms out. She begins to have the exact same hallucinations that Michael experiences. At the end of «Halloween II,» a final battle leads to Michael’s apparent death, and Laurie goes off the deep end — brandishing Michael’s butcher knife before being shot down. To close out the film, the audience sees her for the last time in a mental hospital, eerily smiling as she envisions her mother Debra (Sherri Moon-Zombie) coming toward her, leading a white horse. It’s the same vision that plagued Michael after their mother died, and the one that drives his killing spree. 

That vision, and Laurie’s eerie pleasure at it, leaves the door wide open for her to emerge as a completely different woman for a sequel.