10 Awesome Movie Characters Ruined By Terrible Writing

The entire appeal of Michael Myers in John Carpenter's original Halloween was that he was an unstoppable and unexplained merchant of death - a metaphor for the creeping demise which lurks around the corner from us all.

But as the series delivered a glut of increasingly undignified and lazy sequels, the filmmakers also decided that they needed to actually explain Myers' origins in some form to keep audiences coming back.

And so we have Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers, which made the spectacularly bone-headed decision to reveal that Michael is infected with a Druid curse called Thorn.

Thorn compels him to murder his next of kin on the night of Samhain (aka Halloween), and also explains his supernatural regenerative abilities.

The film doesn't stop there, also revealing the existence of a cult which attempts to help Michael fulfill his "duties," in turn completely demystifying a character whose murderous proclivities were best left up in the air.

Though all of the Halloween sequels were eventually de-canonised by the 2018 sequel-reboot, for almost 25 years fans had to accept this agonisingly silly origin story for one of horror's most iconic antagonists.