10 More Important Movie Characters Who Were Killed Off Screen
2. Laurie Strode - Halloween 4: The Return Of Michael Myers
10 years after The Shape was first introduced by John Carpenter and Debra Hill with 1978's Halloween, he was brought back again for Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers - despite seemingly perishing in 1981's Halloween II. He wasn't the only character to miraculously return from that sequel, however, as Donald Pleasance's Sam Loomis also returned for the franchise's fourth installment.
However, there was one other iconic face that didn't end up making a comeback as Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode was ommitted from the story entirely.
After Curtis' career took off, she was reportedly uninterested in returning for another Halloween outing, and so the narrative shifted to her seven-year-old daughter. The question then came as to how Laurie would be written out of the story without Jamie Lee Curtis' involvement, and the answer came as a shocking off-screen death.
After everything she had been through going up against Michael Myers, her ultimate fate came with a car crash before the events of Halloween 4. The Halloween movies would depart from this timeline twice with 1998's Halloween H2O and the Blumhouse reboot trilogy that started in 2018, but as it was at that time, Laurie Strode - arguably the greatest final girl ever - was unceremoniously killed with no fitting send off.