Halloween Theory Reveals Retconned Sequels Were Imagined By Michael Myers
The Halloween movie series has gone through different retcons which have branched out the timeline, and the current one completely ignores all movies that came after John Carpenter’s original – but a theory integrates them to the reboot timeline by suggesting they were all in Michael Myers’ imagination. The horror genre is currently taking advantage of the reboots and “requels” trends in the film industry and reviving some of its most successful franchises, among those the Halloween saga, which was recently given a new trilogy that retconned the previous movies… again.
The Halloween franchise began in 1978 with John Carpenter’s movie of the same name, which introduced the audience to the story of serial killer Michael Myers. After killing his sister on Halloween night, 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers was sent to Smith’s Grove Sanitarium and he never spoke again. Fifteen years later, Michael escaped and returned to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, where he began to stalk Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her friends, with Laurie becoming the movie’s final girl. Since then, the Halloween franchise has gone through a couple of retcons, getting rid of Laurie, introducing her daughter Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris), bringing Laurie back, and now resetting a big part of the franchise with a reboot trilogy.
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After the failure of the Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and Halloween: Resurrection retcon, and Rob Zombie’s not-so-popular remakes, the Halloween saga welcomed a reboot trilogy beginning with David Gordon Green’s Halloween in 2018. This new timeline serves as a sequel to Carpenter’s original movie and completely ignores all movies that came after it,
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