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** Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6DjIm82J2U The Shape Stalks Again].
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J82gFhtMdmE The main theme] is considered one of the most bone-chilling pieces ever put on screen.
* [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene]]: In ''The Curse of Michael Myers'', the lead pipe wielding Tommy Doyle begins beating the crap out of Michael in a scene involving a near seizure inducing strobe light effect. Tommy hits Michael over and over again, eventually causing some kind of viscous green slime to begin oozing out of Michael's mask. Later, when Michael's mask is found abandoned, its completely clean, with no weird sludge coating it.
** Several of Michael and Laurie's fantasy sequences in ''Halloween 2'' (2009) border on this, especially the one with the pumpkinheaded aristocrats.
** ''Season of the Witch'' is one giant BLAM for the series since it has absolutely no relation to the rest of the franchise other than something evil happening around October 31st31.
* [[Complete Monster]]: One of the alternate titles of this very trope was "The Devil's Eyes," a reference to Michael's evil.
** During the commentary for ''[[Freddy vs. Jason (Film)|Freddy vs. Jason]]'', the director mentioned that the studios were in talks to include Micheal in a possible sequal(said talks didn't go anywhere). The director suggested the plot would involved [[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street (Film)|Freddy Kruger]] and [[Friday the 13th (Filmfilm)|Jason Voorhees]] [[Even Evil Has Standards|teaming up to beat Michael, implicitly saying that Michael is worse than either of them.]] To put that in perspective, Freddy is a ''child rapist'' and Jason has the highest body count of any slasher movie villain.
*** Unlike [[For the Evulz|Freddy]] or [[Crazy Survivalist|Jason]], Michael doesn't have ''any'' reason or motivation for his killing, or a life outside his murders. Killing people is all he does.
* [[Contested Sequel]]: The second movie, though it's certainly one of the better received sequels.
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* [[Motive Decay]]: Inverted: Michael's motives are actually fleshed out in Rob Zombie's reboot. However, it turns out the fans liked it more when Michael was a soulless, mysterious psychopath, probably because the "motive" explained in the remake pretty much boils down to a [[Freudian Excuse]].
* [[Narm]]: In the original film, Laurie runs across the street with Michael stalking her. She runs up to the door of the house and reaches into her pocket to find the keys. Her line?
{{quote| '''Laurie:''' ''The keys?'' '''''THE KEEEEYS?!'''''}}
** The theme is a bit overplayed in the beginning of the movie as well.
** In the Zombie remake, we have Michael bursting through a car windshield followed by Dr. Loomis shouting "MICHAEL! JESUS CHRIST!" as if he were reacting to someone spilling coffee on the floor. The line even became a meme in the Dread Central podcast and forums, usually used whenever Malcolm McDowell is mentioned.
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* [[Narm Charm]]: The original film has equal measures of [[Idiot Plot]], [[Purple Prose]], and [[Mundane Made Awesome]] [[Rule of Scary]] overshadows them so much that they're all excused.
* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Let's start with [http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/10/31/halloween/ the creepy floating jack-o-lantern] in the original's opening credits and go from there...
* [[The Problem Withwith Licensed Games]]: Covered by [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0G_8gHDsL8 his review of the video game version].
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: The original Michael Myers would become a director and made films such as ''[[The Last Starfighter]]'' and ''[[Dennis the Menace US (Comic Strip)|Dennis the Menace US]]''.
* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: Even though Michael Myers came first, in the later sequels, he ends up seeming like a rip-off of [[Friday the 13th (Filmfilm)|Jason Voorhees]]. Also since all the cliches ''Halloween'' created (or in some cases popularized) have now become cliches they are no longer frightnening.
* [[Sequelitis]]: Most of the sequels are generally regarded as low quality with ''Resurrection'' and the Rob Zombie directed reboots getting the most flack.
* [[Special Effect Failure]]: When Michael smashes one of Marion's car windows in the original, he obviously has a wrench taped to his hand.
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** YMMV, but {{spoiler|Laurie's}} [[Dying Dream]] from the director's cut of the same movie.
*** Also possibly [[Nightmare Fuel]], because of Laurie's [[Psycho Smirk]].
* [[Tough Act to Follow]]: Subverted with the original for John Carpenter. Most of his films released afterward (''[[The Thing (Filmfilm)|The Thing]]'', ''[[Escape Fromfrom New York]]'' and ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]'' among them) were not critical or commercial successes but have had second life on home video and cable going on to become classics and [[Vindicated Byby History]].
* [[Villain Decay]]: Some felt the revelation that {{spoiler|Laurie was Michael's sister}} took away the menacing mystery that made Michael such an effective villain.
** Your mileage may vary, because it's not unheard of for slashers to have somewhat of a redeeming quality in their love for their family members, and Michael's obsession with killing his family members may make him out to be one of the more brutal or irredeemable slashers. Besides, it gives a reason for him targeting Laurie, but not a reason for being a [[Complete Monster]].
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