Usually agree with you, but you have to understand. A lot of unseen factors here. No one lived in the Myers house since the murder, which means the parents moved. We never even hear Loomis talk about the parents, who died two years after Michael was committed. And honestly, who would bring a 2 year old or a 4 year old to a sanitarium? So what if Loomis never even met the parents and they stayed away or went into hiding for those 2 years between committal and death? How would Loomis know anything?
He spent 6 months with that boy. Not once did he say he ever consulted or visited the parents. He was obsessed with Michael. Michael alone. After the parents died records were sealed. Even *if* Loomis knew Michael had another sibling, how would he know it was Laurie? IRL people get adopted all the time and never know their birth parents, let alone some doctor. Some don't even know they're adopted at all. They are never told.
Laurie spent 13 of those 15 years with the Strodes. Even in the remake Brackett was the only one who seemed to know that the Strodes adopted Laurie. Entire town, including Laurie herself, clueless. And they lived in the same town.
People's looks can change from 2-4 to 17. So how would Loomis know what she looked like if he ever met her? And Loomis wasn't there 24/7, so Laurie in her flashback could've conceivably seen Michael when Loomis was away. Not once do we know when the visit was, if Loomis had a family, nothing. No backstory. On purpose. Variables can't fill up holes.
Granted it was a way to get around it all, making her family, but it's not completely out of the realm of possibility. Besides, it's a horror movie and not meant to shoehorn into reality or sense. So suspension of disbelief and all that. In any event, my reasoning is good enough for me and that's all that counts to me. So it doesn't bother me or ruin the movie.
Excess cast, 2 directors, needless body count gore, little suspense and all the things the original was not, bother me. But not Loomis' ignorance.
"He came home." - Dr. Sam Loomis from the original HalloweeN
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Leo_Rossi
7 years ago
I can see your points, but I just can't seem to get past the fact that the reason given for the records to be sealed was to protect the family, which I'm guessing is the Strodes, why in the world would they proceed to take her to visit him?
I realize that Loomis probably wouldn't have known who Laurie was if he had seen her, but having the information that Myers had a sister living in Haddonfield along with a name would have went a long way in helping his case when trying to explain what was going on with Brackett.
I could understand keeping it confidencial from the public, but I think its crazy for Loomis and the powers at be from Smith's Grove not to know it.
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cjh8504
7 years ago
Dave gets it, finally. Except the cast and Gore stuff. You needed a hospital staff, hence the bigger cast, and it's still not as gory as a Friday movie. Get past it, Leo.
RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time. RIP Robert Vaughn
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Leo_Rossi
7 years ago
I'm past it. I just think it makes no sense.
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cjh8504
7 years ago
Even though David just gave plausible explanations?
RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time. RIP Robert Vaughn
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Leo_Rossi
7 years ago
Yes. I don't think there's any way that Loomis isn't made aware of Laurie's existence. If Myers' parents were killed two years after he went to Smith's Grove are we not to expect that they may have went to visit him? He was their son after all. I doubt they just cut all ties with him. How do we know Loomis didn't have sit downs with them like what was done in the remake with Myers' mother? Is it out of the realm of common sense to think that maybe Laurie could have been with them on one of those sit downs?
Like I and many others have said. The sibling angle was put into the story to provide some meat to it because as Carpenter said, "there was no more story to tell." In order to do that they had to come up with some sort of reason for Loomis not to know so they conceived this "the file was sealed to protect the family" stuff even though Laurie continued to visit him with her new family. Sorry, but it makes no sense. We're just going to have to agree to disagree.
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cjh8504
7 years ago
Fair enough. Wouldn't be the first time, right?
RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time. RIP Robert Vaughn
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