10 Movie Villains Totally Ruined In The Sequels
4. Michael Myers - Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers
The Original
In John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Michael Myers became instantly cemented as one of the most terrifying and enigmatic horror villains of all time.
Referred to as The Shape in the film's closing credits, Myers is a relentless embodiment of death, stalking Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) over the course of the movie without any clear motivation beyond the simple desire to annihilate.
The Sequel
Though Halloween II decided to rather lazily introduce the twist that Myers was Laurie's brother, this wasn't enough to derail Myers' savage intensity. It wasn't fully destroyed until the sixth film, 1995's Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, decided to remove the ambiguity of Michael's actions entirely.
The film reveals that Myers is afflicted with a druid curse known as Thorn, which drives him to kill his next of kin, whoever that may be, over the course of the franchise.
For fans who stuck with the series this long, it was a painfully deflating explanation, and even more infuriating than the trainwreck that was 2002's eighth film, Halloween: Resurrection.
Thankfully last year's Halloween effectively de-canonised all the sequels and served as a follow-up to the '78 classic, but the original Halloween continuity nevertheless remains a classic example of why less is usually more.
Myers as a mysterious spectre of death is much more interesting than an over-explained origin story involving cults and druids. Oof.