What doesn't make sense considering they're ignoring the sequels

Doesn’t really matter to me.
Watching Michael butcher up teenies with that awesome soundtrack is enough for me

hopefully they explain why he comes back for her in the movie. or maybe he doesn't. perhaps he just comes back to Haddonfield to kill random people and she goes out to stop him.

SPOILERS IN THIS POST the international trailer has more information. SPOILERS TO FOLLOW. It appears that the film crew is actually doing a story on Laurie and they go to interview Michael and bring up her name, etc. He is crazy so it probably leads him to go after her again.

If Richard Ramirez stalked you, broke into your home, and murdered your whole family before being locked away in a mental institution would you just forget about him?

Yeah, you're right. And it bothers me as well.


I'm hoping there will be a twist in this film and it'll be recognized that H20 & H:Resurrection are still canon in this film's universe. Laurie faked her death in Resurrection and tricked Michael. Just like Michael did the same to her previously. Face it, the Myers bloodline is able to cheat death, lol. Laurie has done it before too, so it's not that inconceivable. They even tried to still make 4-6 canon in H20 with a scripted scene that wasn't filmed.

They were originally planning to keep Halloween II (1981) in the continuity. In a 2017 interview, Danny McBride said this:

“You know, it’s not a remake. It’s actually, it’s gonna continue the story of Michael Myers in a really grounded way. And for our mythology, we’re focusing mainly in the first two movies and what that sets up and then where the story can go from there.”

http://www.the13thfloor.tv/2017/02/09/david-gordon-green-danny-mcbride-will-directwrite-the-new-halloween-movie-for-blumhouse/

They probably had most or all of the script written before they decided to kick Halloween II to the curb (and the brother/sister relationship along with it), and either didn't think or didn't care about the problems for the story it caused.

Yeah it's a major problem and a prime example of letting a film series' real-world status affect the in-film narrative. It makes absolutely no sense for Michael Myers to be remembered & reviled as a notoriously evil serial killer for killing all of four people back in the '60's/70's. Not to mention three of those victims were completely incidental and of no significance to him. I know a character makes note of this in the film, but just because you acknowledge your terrible writing in a meta-way doesn't absolve it.

This is one of my major bug-bears in modern film-making. Self-depreciation isn't a means of deflecting criticism of your lazy writing.

She has PTSD, which has made her obsessed with Michael Myers and convinced that one day he'll come back and try to kill her again. It's not meant to be logical, it's meant to show that the events of the first film scared her for life. It has cost her relationship with her daughter and her daughter's family.

Now, in the real world, Laurie's fears would probably be unfounded. And it certainly would be too big a coincidence that Michael Myers would break free on the 40th anniversary of the time he went after Laurie. But there'd be nothing interesting about a movie where Laurie Stroud sat around moaning that Michael was coming to get her with no payoff. So he had to escape, or it would just be 90 minutes of an elderly woman complaining about what happened to her 40 years ago.

If you want an 'in-film' explanation as to why he came after her, maybe think of it as being a self-fulfilling prophecy. Michael Myers on escaping killed plenty of people before he came for Laurie. When he escaped, Laurie went looking for Michael Myers so she could kill him first. Her crossing of paths with him was almost deliberate. It's not like she spent any effort into hiding from him. Even if he hadn't have attempted to find her specifically, their paths would've crossed again anyway.

Also, Laurie had become a bit of a local celebrity after their 1978 meeting. We saw people interviewing Michael at the start of the movie, and asking about Laurie. He seemed to be constantly reminded that she was the one who got away. How do we know Myers didn't want to go after her? She might have been some random in 1978, but he'd had 40 years of people bringing her up in conversation.