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Halloween Kills features multiple callbacks to the original film, but one particular scene is recreated with a more tragic result.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Halloween Kills, now playing in theaters and available through Peacock.
Halloween Kills is equal parts a new chapter in the history of Michael Myers and a film that calls back to the original Halloween from 1978. As a direct sequel to 2018’s Halloween, the film picks up right where the last one left off, with Michael surviving the trap put in place for him by Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis). On his way back to his childhood home, Michael kills many innocents in his path. As a result, much of the town and some survivors from the 1978 film, including Tommy Doyle (Anthony Michael Hall) and Marion Chambers (Nancy Stephens), lead the charge to find and kill him. With these characters, some iconic scenes are reenacted with bloody results.
In the 1978 Halloween, Michael encounters nurse Marion Chambers during his escape from Smith’s Grove Sanitarium. She is shown driving her boss Dr. Samuel Loomis towards the facility to transfer Michael for a court hearing. As they approach, the duo discusses if Michael should be treated like a human or something far more animalistic, with Marion believing he’s no different than any other patient. However, when the two reach the front gate, they notice the patients roaming the front yard.
Loomis goes to investigate, leaving Marion in the car. She doesn’t see Michael leap onto the roof of the vehicle, the red tail lights illuminating him. As she hears and feels for someone on the roof, she rolls down the window to check. Almost immediately, Michael’s hand grabs at her hair and tries to pull her out. Marion breaks free and goes to the other side of the car. There, Michael slams his open hand against the glass, cracking it, and Marion escapes. Because she leaves the vehicle, Michael steals it and makes his way to Haddonfield to begin a night of terror.
In Halloween Kills, Marion joins survivor Lindsey Wallace (Kyle Richards) and two others to try and get people off the roads and back into their homes. They encounter some kids in the park who don’t take Lindsey’s warnings seriously until they see Michael in the distance holding a bloody mask that belonged to their friend. As the kids run to safety, Michael sets his sights on Lindsey’s car. Like the original film, he leaps onto the roof, with the taillights reflecting off of him. He taunts the passengers with the bloody Halloween mask, and Marion, armed with a gun, fires any time she thinks she sees him.
As she waits for him to appear again, his hand smacks against the window behind Marion, reminiscent of their first encounter, and he grabs her hair, trying to pull her out. While he doesn’t get her, he manages to pull a chunk of hair out before getting off of the car. Then, he walks to the driver’s seat and stands before Marion, who’s pointing a gun at him. She looks at him without fear and says, “This is for Dr. Loomis,” before pulling the trigger. Sadly, the weapon is out of ammunition, and Michael returns the favor by stabbing Marion multiple times, killing her and the other passengers. She is later seen hanging from a swing set wearing a witch’s mask after being found by Tommy, who had grown close to the nurse.
The scene is a clever callback to the original film but continues the trend of subverting the audience’s expectations. By killing Marion, viewers now know that no one is safe, even if they’ve survived the killer in the past. Recreating moments from her first encounter with the killer also offers excellent moments for longtime fans to think back on. Halloween Kills lives up to its name by killing multiple new characters and others from the original, showing how cold Michael really is.
To see this deadly recreation, Halloween Kills is currently in theaters and on Peacock.
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