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Would Michael stalk an unattractive fat girl at all?

posted 7 years ago by Matthew7819
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Michael seems to be attracted to beautiful young girls that remind him of his sister Judith, but would he stalk and murder an unattractive fat girl that happened to unknowingly come across his path on Halloween?

Laurie could have been written as a random fat girl that read books all the time and did all of her schoolwork, then had a father that was selling houses, she drops the keys off and Michael sees her and doesnt want to stalk or kill her, because she looks nasty, even if she would be a lot slower as a victim and easier to catch, and he wouldnt have an easy time carrying her fat body around and up the stairs either.

You write Linda or Annie as being fat girls too, not the kind of girls a maniac would want to stalk, kill or mess with, beautiful young girls are more tempting, fatties would scare Michael away.

[–] simest 7 years ago

Michael seems to be attracted to beautiful young girls that remind him of his sister Judith, but would he stalk and murder an unattractive fat girl that happened to unknowingly come across his path on Halloween?

This is a yes and no situation for me.

I don't believe Myers is sexually attracted (if that's what you meant) to anyone - beautiful or not.

I'd say that it's circumstantial that he is stalking girls that are generally perceived as attractive. The reason being they remind him somehow of Judith - who also happened to be attractive.

So I'd say it's the fact that they resemble Judith that attracts him (not sexually though) to them.........not simply that they are attractive, if that makes sense.

For me, it is purely through this loose resemblance to Judith that they are on his radar.

So if Laurie was overweight, unattractive and held no similarity to Judith, it is probable that she wouldn't have triggered Myers' desire to stalk and kill her in re-enactment of Judith's death.

She simply wouldn't fit his profile.

However, if Judith happened to have been overweight and perceptively unattractive, I believe he would have primarily targeted someone more in that mould and perhaps those around her.

Had this been the case - and since Laurie did not look this way - it is quite conceivable he would have had no interest in her after she'd dropped the key off that morning.

Again, I don't believe sexual attraction forms any part of his agenda.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

[–] basketcasebelial 7 years ago

hahaha doesnt want to stalk her cause she looks nasty. made me laugh.

[–] cjh8504 7 years ago

Well, as viewers, we wouldn't want to see fat chicks running around being slaughtered either.

RIP Gene Wilder. RIP Robert Vaughn. RIP Carrie Fisher. RIP William Christopher. 2016 is the worst!

[–] cs_toshak 7 years ago

Funny post CJ lol. You always bring positive posting on this board, wish I could say the same for Haddon.

[–] cjh8504 7 years ago

Thanks.

RIP Gene Wilder. RIP Robert Vaughn. RIP Carrie Fisher. RIP William Christopher. 2016 is the worst!

[–] legnadibrom (5719) 4 years ago

speak for yourself,
i love seeing miss piggy's getting carved up & disposed of

[–] OldFriendOfTheChristys 7 years ago

I think Michael stalked thin girls because the writers thought they’d attract a larger audience - especially a larger male audience - that way. I can’t imagine there being a huge demand in 1978 to see, say, Edie McClurg topless in a film.

[–] cjh8504 7 years ago

For crying out loud, Old. I just ate.

RIP Gene Wilder. RIP Robert Vaughn. RIP Carrie Fisher. RIP William Christopher. 2016 is the worst!

[–] pop-actor 7 years ago

Oh boy Old... you're fock

[–] MaximRecoil (4071) 5 years ago

Yes. Jason Voorhees dusted a fat chick...

https://youtu.be/bSwLQmKAphA

... and Michael Myers wouldn't want to be outdone.

[–] catsidhe (1649) 5 years ago

😅😅😅 I love Jason. An equal opportunity killer.

[–] bobbydallas (8059) 4 years ago

ahhha he don't care what you look like #equality

[–] hurricane (1908) 5 years ago

I never really assumed that Michael Myers was stalking people who happened to resemble his sister. One of his teenage victims was male after all.

Horror movies tend to have final girls because the makers think a woman in danger is more sympathetic to the audience than a male in danger. That was probably the thinking here, rather than having any connection to Judith. The fact that the females were all attractive was incidental. The film industry tends to hire good looking people more often than not, especially with actresses. I doubt it was meant to have any bearing on the plot.

[–] simest (9) 5 years ago

The male victim(s), however, was circumstantial. Both of them in fact.

Bob murder was unplanned as he simply got in the way of Michael's intended plan having tailed Annie and Laurie to their babysitting jobs and stashed away Judith's headstone as part of the agenda.

The death of the mechanic was purely a necessity as Michael needed clothes.

Those killings weren't carried out to satisfy the pathology that was driving him, they were merely to facilitate it.

I think it's a near certainty that Michael's targeting teenage girls purely as surrogates of Judith, reliving her murder over and over.

[–] hurricane (1908) 4 years ago

Thinking about it again, I can kind of see your point. Taking the gravestone and laying it with the body of a young lady he killed may be a way of showing that she reminded him of his sister.

But I wouldn't go as far as to say that this was some raison d'etre of Michael Myers. My interpretation was that he was meant to the human personification of evil. So would kill whoever and whomever. I don't think being overweight would provide much protection from Michael.

It depends whether you're take this movie as stand-alone or not. In Halloween 2, we learn that Michael and Laurie are siblings. If you apply that continuity to the first movie, that's why he was stalking her.

[–] legnadibrom (5719) 4 years ago

what is your fascination with fat girls?

[–] Chloe (127) 4 years ago

Well to paraphrase something Dario Argento once said, no one wants to see an ugly woman on-screen (even if they're being killed).

However, not sure if it's because I'm a girl but I find Jamie Lee Curtis really unattractive.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Michael Meyers had a very limited type he would pursue. Jason Vorhees, however, had a much broader palette. Some of us still cheer when he kills the boy in the wheelchair in Part 2 or the banana fat chick in Part 4.