If Laurie escaped out of the window instead of hiding in the closet.

As a human being, even the *thought* of leaving two underage children trapped in a room defenseless against a homicical maniac is out of the question. Now letting them run down the street to the McKenzie's house, that's different. But no one would abandon children "hoping" Michael wouldn't try to kill them. If he did, a la When a Stranger Calls, their deaths would be as much Laurie's fault as Michael's.

So that scenario would never, ever work. Laurie is far too responsible for that. As it was, the whole thing played out as it was meant to. She couldn't even take the kids with her, one, there was no time, two, again, they'd be in the immediate line of fire. And if she sacrificed herself for the kids, there's no guarantee he wouldn't have killed them too, at least in her mind.

As an audience, we can think Michael wouldn't kill children because it's taboo, but you don't know. That's the trouble with being a psycho killer. Unpredictable. Not sure if they have any moral boundaries.

Closet scene was iconic, built up the fear factor and she was smart enough to use a hanger as a weapon and the knife when he dropped it, and then allowed the kids to escape and find someone to call the police. Can't have scripted it better.


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