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Are the later Halloween movies just movies?


Halloween 1978 is revealed to just be a movie in Halloween 3, meaning that Michael Myers is just a character in a series of horror movies while the universe of Halloween 3 is the real world. The fact that Halloween 4 still used the numerical title means that it acknowledges Halloween 3 exists. Thus Halloween 4 and beyond have all been movies within the universe of Halloween 3 which would explain any complaints audiences have as to the cheesiness or unrealistic events of the later films with Michael. There should be a direct sequel to Halloween 3 to clear this up.

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I worry that you're overthinking this.

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I'm not worried... But you are overthinking it.

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If the masses hadn't been so stupid and demanded more Michael Myers movies, the anthology idea could have had each successive movie showing an ad for the previous, meaning reality shifts with each movie.

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Would have been a good way to parlay the idea that Myers was cochrans first prototype assassin but the facial features and sneezing function were lacking so Cochran just put him in a mask

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Yeah. Dick Warlock is one of the androids in this film and plays Michael in Halloween II, so the implication could be that the android was the actor used to play Michael in the film within the film and Cochran secretly financed the movies, so audiences would have engaging content to want to watch the deadly commercial during its airing.

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Um, no. I mean, certainly Halloween One and Two were just films in Halloween III. However, the rest of the movies happening in the Halloween III universe, especially after the events that occurred in Halloween III which I took to have occurred in aututmn of '82, would have been a problem because would there be enough peope left alive after the events of Halloween III in order for there to be a film industry, or any industry or any hints of a pre- autumn1982 world for that matter? I got the impression that the world would have been severely screwed up after the 'big giveaway even though Cochran himself was burned alive, due to population loss and continuing chaos resulting from what still went down that night -- masks over America and the rest of the civilised world, going off at 9.00. This would, as you've seen, create a plague of deadly snakes everyhwere, including places where rattle snakes do not inhabit. Basically, from what was implied, there would be an end to civilisation as we know it. Cochran said the "world is going to change tonight."

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Perhaps Challis was able to stop the broadcast at the end of Halloween 3, and everyone lived. It could be revealed that Silver Shamroxk has been behind the creation of all the Halloween movies. Then in 2028, Silver Shamrock plans to release a new Halloween movie for the 50th anniversary of the original film in the hopes of finally succeeding in their evil plan by killing everyone who watches the film.

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Good thought. But, I've always assumed the commercial went on; it was going on past the point little Buddy collapsed in that testing room and the way Chalis shouted "STOP IT" meant (from what I always assumed) that he was witnessing the gruesome results of the Big Giveway again, right there in that service station. Also, wasn't Cochran burned/incinerated to death along with what humans he had in the factory, and the androids. However, there were still androids driving around various cities so that they couldn't have made their way back to Santa Mira in just two hours, not if they were on the east coast and midwest. But I guess they became useless and either just crashed or malfuctioned when their controller back in the factory was destroyed. I'll bet people thought of them as just toys or pranks --- those that were still alive.

Then again though, after more thought, would society really collapse because of this. I mean, the snakes and whatnot could be dealt with and emergency services would certainly have the means to prevent future chaos, etc by calming peopel down, providing protection and help for panic-striken people and I'm sure priests and clergy people would be counselling folks.

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All movies are just movies.

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