Halloween

Halloween (2007)

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Corrected entry: Michael kills the truck driver and takes his clothes. Everything fits him perfectly, despite Michael being taller and bigger than the other guy. (00:53:00)

Correction: This is incorrect, the truck driver's overalls look obviously baggy on him when shown wearing them, and although Michael is definitely taller than the truck driver within this remake, there's no doubt in my mind that they are about as big as each other in terms of shoulder width, body width. In reality it would fit Michael perfectly.

Corrected entry: It can't have been 15 years since Michael's mother's suicide. Laurie was a baby, not a two year old toddler.

Rob245

Correction: You're forgetting to account for all the time that passes between the beginning of the film and when Michael's mother commits suicide. There's specifically a nearly year-long jump between the murders and the sequences of Michael's incarceration at Smith's Grove. (The movie says "Eleven Months Later.") And then even more time passes before Michael's mother commits suicide. (As evidenced by the fact we see changing weather/seasons outside as people arrive at Smith's Grove.) So Laurie (who was a baby that was probably around a year old at the start of the film) was indeed a toddler by the time Michael's mother committed suicide. So the timeline checks out.

TedStixon

Corrected entry: Lynda uses a land line in the Myers' house to call Laurie, even though the house has been abandoned for 15 years and wouldn't have a phone.

Jeremiah Rivera

Correction: Lynda calls Laurie from her cell phone in the Myers house.

Corrected entry: The way Michael pins a guy on the wall using a knife is exactly like he did in the original version.

oswal13

Correction: Given that this is a direct remake, especially in the second half, I don't think noting various similarities should be considered valid trivia. There'd need to be far too many entries, and it's not really something that'd be considered interesting or notable since it's expected.

TedStixon

Corrected entry: When Tommy and Lindsey approach Dr. Loomis and tell him Michael took Laurie, we see him running down the street towards the Myers house. But later on, he brings Laurie outside into a cop car and starts it up. Where did the car come from, and if he didn't drive it there, why does he have the keys?

Correction: He is running down the street to a cop car, not automatically to the Meyer house. Plus we never see his full journey to the Meyer house so who is to say he didn't have time to pick up the police car?

SAZOO1975

Corrected entry: The news reporter says Judith was stabbed 17 times, but Michael only stabs her five times then goes to get the baby, then goes outside and waits for his mother to get home.

Correction: We only see him stab her five times, but he could have stabbed her much more then that. The news also said that Ronnie was stabbed in the face and heart but we only see Michael slit his throat after he duct tapes him to the chair. We see what we see on the screen, but it doesn't mean that they're the only actions Michael performs.

dewinela

Corrected entry: Sheriff Bracket put Laurie in a foster home "off the books", so officially by all accounts Michael's baby sister was dead. Yet Michael not only knows she's alive, he knows exactly who she is despite not a single shred of evidence or police report to support it. (This starts to go into the old Halloween mythos that Michael subconsciously knew because of his 'curse', but in the context of Zombie's film being a standalone project, it doesn't fit).

Correction: Directly after Michael un-buries the mask he wore whilst killing his older sister and the original knife he killed her with along with Ronnie, Laurie stops by the closed down Myers house to actually drop mail off, and when she does so, Michael hears her approaching and stands directly behind the presumably locked door, and smells the mail once Laurie has dropped it through the mail slot on the door, onto the ground. Now, Loomis' himself tells Dr. Koplenson and Morgan Walker after Michael escapes that; "He has the tameness of a wolf" or something like that, that indicates Michael's use for his other instincts besides talking.

Correction: Michael may have just obsessed over Laurie after she dropped the paperwork through the mail slot. Maybe he thought she resembled their mother and therefore must be his sister. Who knows why a psychotic person would do what he did.

Corrected entry: When you see Michael on the balcony, a couple arrive at his house thinking it is empty. As the van backs into the driveway you see a shape of a head in the rear windshield, then it quickly moves.

Correction: That's not a head, it's Lynda's foot on the dashboard - she takes it down when they stop in order to get out of the van.

Corrected entry: Michael Myers breaks through the bathroom door and drags a screaming Laurie down the hall towards the front door. But in the very next shot of him walking out the door, he's carrying her now unconscious body in his arms.

Correction: He probably knocked her over the head with something to shut her up and we just didn't see it; he intended on carrying her down the street to his childhood home, and dragging a screaming girl through a neighborhood, with the cops looking for him, might have been a little too suspicious.

Corrected entry: In the cemetery scene, Loomis and Chester Chesterfield are discussing the dead animal when Loomis uses his cell phone. In 1978 cell phones were a loooong ways off.

thumper

Correction: By the time this part of the movie takes place, you've already seen several other characters using or at least handling cell phones. Another correction says it had been many years since Michael's first crimes, so yes, they'd been invented.

dewinela

Correction: At this point in the movie it has been many years since Michael's incarceration and by that time cell phones have been invented.

Correction: The remake isn't set in the 70's. In this film, Michael was born in 1980, so when he's 10 and murders people, it's 1990.

Bishop73

Plot hole: Laurie calls the police from 1987 Winchester drive, and gives them that address. Yet the police responding to the call go directly to 1960 Winchester drive - where Laurie has run to and is now hiding - even though it's on the other side of the street and several houses down. (01:31:30 - 01:33:40)

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Suggested correction: Initially Laurie sends Lindsay across the street, back to the Doyle house to call the police. It's possible Lindsay gave the police the Doyle's address (since that's where she was calling from). Since that call was likely made before Laurie made her call, that explains why the police first show up to the Doyle's house (responding to Lindsay's call) and Bracket shows up minutes later at the Wallace's house (responding to Laurie's call).

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Dr. Samuel Loomis: I really don't know what else to say, Michael. You haven't said a word for fifteen years! Christ, that's a lifetime. That's nearly twice as long as my first marriage. Wow. It's strange, Michael. In a weird way you've become like... like my best friend. Huh! That just shows you how fucked up my life is. I've done all I possibly can for you, so I'm sorry to tell you that this is going to be my last day. Michael, I have to move on. I'm sorry.

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Trivia: Aside from the more obvious relations between the original and the remake (i.e. "Don't Fear the Reaper", etc), one interesting one is how Michael acquires his trademark jumpsuit. In the original, it's implied he kills a trucker and steals his (we see his dead body in a field left with Michael's robes). Sure enough, in the remake Michael also gets the jumpsuit from a trucker - of course this time the death is plainly visible.

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Question: From what I understand in this movie Michael Myers is some psycho kid that grew up to kill again. How is he surviving direct gunshots? Is he somehow bulletproof? I don't get it.

Carl Missouri

Chosen answer: In the original "Halloween" movie series, the Michael Myers character is evil personified. He is SO evil, in fact, that he is bulletproof and killproof. He survives all attempts to destroy him much like Jason Voorhees in the ALL the "Friday the 13th" a series.

CCARNI

Yes, but that is because of all that cult of Thorn crap that is revealed in part 6, The Curse of Michael Myers. In Rob Zombie's version, Michael seems to be a "normal," as in human, kid.

But the cult storyline wasn't in their wheelhouse when they made the original. Michael would have had to been a regular child before the murder of his sister. He wasn't regarded as super human in the first two movies. In the original and Rob's remake, Myers survives being shot multiple times.

Answer: He is still a human, but in John Carpenter's version he can't die because of the curse, and in Rob's version though, he's practically a tank.

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