10 Diabolical Movie Mistakes You Won't Believe They Made TWICE
7. Jason-ification - The Halloween Series
John Carpenter's 1978 movie Halloween is rightfully held in very high regard, as it pretty much single-handedly popularised the slasher genre that is still alive and well today.
One of the many franchises to follow in Halloween’s blood-soaked footsteps was Friday the 13th, which introduced its major villain, Jason Voorhees, in 1981. Since then, horror hounds have noticed that, despite being three years older, Halloween’s Michael Myers has slowly been morphing into his hockey mask-wearing colleague.
Whilst the original Myers was a disturbed, but otherwise unremarkable human being, over time he has displayed more and more supernatural qualities. In Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, he is revealed to have survived a building exploding, and he has also come back from being stabbed, electrocuted, and set on fire.
His physical appearance has changed too. By the fifth Halloween movie, The Curse of Michael Myers, the titular baddie was a huge hulk of a man with Jason's strength/ In the original, he was much slimmer and more normal-looking.
In trying to jump on the Voorhees bandwagon, the makers of subsequent Halloween films have robbed Michael of one of the qualities that made him so compelling to begin with.