MovieChat Forums > Halloween (1978) Discussion > "You can't kill the bogeyman"

"You can't kill the bogeyman"


Tommy had the truest line in the film. I love the way he says it to Laurie like he was stating a fact.

Dr. Loomis knew what he was dealing with too, but Tommy kept it simple without all the "fancy talk." It was Halloween, the bogeyman was coming for him, and he couldn't be killed.

Tommy was kind of the smartest and most aware aside from Dr. Loomis.

Laurie should have listened and not turned her back on Myers so many times! 


-Di

reply

After almost being strangled, she finally got it. "It was the boogeyman". Took long enough.


"He came home." - Dr. Sam Loomis from the original HalloweeN

reply

Maybe he choked some sense into her.

Movie Theater: Young Frankenstein 10/10. RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time.

reply

"Yeah well I just did. With a hanger and a knife. What's it to you? Go read your stupid Nutron Man comics."

reply

He's not a real superhero is he?

Movie Theater: Young Frankenstein 10/10. RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time.

reply

Agreed. Tommy knew...he knew all along. This year when I watched this, it really stood out to me that Michael was indeed The Bogeyman.

American Horror Story Season 6: Donald Trump

reply

I love that line. You're right that Tommy calls it like he feels it. The Myers house is a "spookhouse" and the creepy man is the "boogeyman." Those are ideas that a child has that you're supposed to grow out of when you get older, and Laurie has, and so has Loomis of course. However, Loomis, a man of science as it were, has already realized that Michael is "not a man," and by the end of the film Laurie has as well.

-----------------------------
"Walker told me I have AIDS."

reply

He is a real superhero.

reply

Excellent analysis, Max.

Movie Theater: Young Frankenstein 10/10. RIP Gene Wilder. One of the funniest people of all time.

reply