EVERY Halloween Death RANKED By Stupidity

Karen Nelson - Halloween Kills

Halloween Kills Karen
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Killing off Karen in Halloween Kills' final minutes was something that clearly split opinion, with Karen one of the more interesting characters and someone who had so much to bring to the table. On the other side of that, some will argue that the shocking death of Karen served to only further the story of Laurie Strode and her granddaughter Allyson in Halloween Ends, but still...

After Karen, Tommy Doyle, and the rest of the Haddonfield mob had checked to see if Michael Myers really was dead after the beating they put on him, Karen heads back to the old Myers House, totally unaware that Michael isn't just not dead, but that he's slaughtered Tommy and the rest of his ragtag crew of locals.

So, with her daughter Allyson and several cops sitting outside the front of that house, the camera pans up to show Karen gazing out of the bedroom window that used to belong to Judith Myers. That'd be the same bedroom where six-year-old Michael had killed his older sister in John Carpenter's 1978 picture, and where, in this canon, he'd also killed Big John and Little John earlier in Halloween Kills, not to mention the various non-canon kills that have happened here in the various other Halloween timelines.

As Karen stares out into nothing, Michael appears behind her, stabs her, then proceeds to unleash a frenzied flurry of further knife attacks, killing off Laurie Strode's daughter in a major shocker.

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