10 Horror Movie Villain Replacements Fans REJECTED

Michael Myers: even if you aren’t a horror fan, you’re bound to have heard of him.

A living legend of cinema, John Carpenter’s truly terrifying creation catapulted the slasher sub-genre to the dizzying heights it went on to ascend to. So, it's bonkers to think the franchise ever strayed away from Myers, but oh boy did it just.

Carpenter had the idea of turning the Halloween series into an anthology after the conclusion of the second movie, focusing instead on a different horror story every year on the spooky holiday.

In all honesty, I think that could have been fascinating – blasphemous as that may be. But Carpenter wanted his name removed from the credits of this flick and if that ain’t a bad sign, I don’t know what is.

The problem wasn’t necessarily all to do with the concept - Halloween 3 is great on its own - but replacement villain Conal Cochran was the real stickler for fans.

Why? Well because he was an Irish warlock making evil robot masks to kill children on Halloween night. Uhhhh...okay.

Given how grounded the first two films were in reality – the Thorn cult nonsense hadn’t come about yet – this was just far too silly to take seriously. Cochran harked back to a theatrical villain not seen in horror since the fifties and was pantomime-like in comparison to the absolute stoic terror that Michael Myers brought to our screens.