10 Insulting Ways Characters Were Killed Off Between Horror Movies

Speaking of Halloween’s Laurie Strode, she initially fought like hell twice to escape Michael Myers’ (aka the Shape’s) clutches.

First, she narrowly avoided Myers’ neighborhood massacre as she babysat Tommy Doyle and Lindsey Wallace. Naturally, Laurie didn’t get away without some scars, which is why she was simultaneously more vulnerable and more determined to stop Myers’ reign of carnage at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital during Halloween II.

At the end of Rick Rosenthal’s 1981 sequel, Laurie shoots Myers in both eyes before Dr. Loomis sets himself and the Shape on fire, thereby solidifying her status as an resilient and likeable badass.

In a bold move against convention, however, 1982’s underappreciated Halloween III: Season of the Witch had nothing to do with Michael Myers or Laurie Strode. It paid the price by being lambasted upon release, too, and unsurprisingly, fans were expecting a proper threequel from 1988’s Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers.

The film indeed fulfilled the promise of its title, but without Laurie coming back for another showdown with Myers. In fact, she’s not seen at all, as it’s revealed that she died in an unspecified accident alongside her husband before the movie starts.

It’s a pathetic mishandling of a pivotal death, and while Laurie comes back in newer films, they exist in a different timeline from Halloween 4.