Butcher Knife Division - Michael Myers vs Pinhead

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Is this as evenly matched as it sounds? Both slashers have amazing backstories, both have similarly high body counts (Michael's is higher, since Pinhead wasn't always an antagonist), both have spawned numerous sequels. They both are very serious in their purpose, though Pinhead did speak and Michael did not. The question is - was the Mental Hospital escapee a better slasher than the Demon Cenobite from Leviathan?

 

Let me elaborate on Monkey's post. The concept of the "Fear of the Unknown" with Michael Myers was never more apparent than in Halloween 2. There was a scene in which Michael was walking around ouside on Halloween Night, having just taken slugs from Loomis and after killing the first girl. He bumps into a kid with a boombox and hears that Laurie Strode has been taken to the hospital, so he starts heading that way.

Wait - WHY didn't anyone stop to notice the serial killer walking around on the streets? Because it was Halloween! EVERYONE had a mask or costume on, so it was normal. Does that freak anyon out? Walk around on Halloween, knowing that since the masks are normal, ANY ONE of the people you walk past could be on their way to try to kill their step sister.

 

Myers didn't have any satanic connections. IN fact, the only ones in the tournament who did are Pinhead (he is a minion of Leviathan, King of the Dead), Chucky (uses a satanic ritual to place his soul in the dolls body), and possibly Tall Man. Myers, as is theorized, is possessed by a Celtic Druidic rune and ritual called Thorn. Jason is motivated by his own rage, based off of the desire to avenge the death of his mother. Freddy is just fucked in the head.

 

You're going to kill me, KB, but I have to be the haughty, detail oriented horror geek I am. "The Final Chapter" was the 4th Friday the 13th film, whereas I think you're thinking of "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare." In Freddy's Dead (arguably the 3rd best film of the series, behind the original and part 3), as the people of Springwood are torching Fred Krueger following his trial dismissal, Incan Dream Demons come to Freddy and offer him the power to be immortal and haunt the dreams of the living. He is offered this power due to the fact that the Incan Dream Demons can only exist in the evilest soul.

In Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (the 6th installment, starring Paul Rudd), it is revealed that Michael has been infected with the Thorn curse, which is the English translation for the word "Thurisaz." It has Norse roots as well, since the "Thurse" were the minions of the Norse God "Thor." The runic curse itself dooms the infected person to kill his or her family as a sacrifice for the good of the entire tribe. This is why, in Halloween 4, Michael remains comatic until during the scene in which he is being transported from Smiths Grove Sanitarium to Ridgemont Sanitarium. Michael is docile until one of the EMT's mentions that his only living relative is a neice in Haddonfield, which causes Michael's rage to return and the killing spree to recommence. It can be speculated that he remained comatose with the belief that the explosion at the end of Halloween 2 killed his only other living relative, Laurie Strode.

The folks at the Halloween franchise did some fantastic research for Halloween 4-6. The Thurisaz rune is in many books and works ranging from occultism to simple mythology, and to use it to explain Michael's unquenchable killing instinct, I felt, was genius. It's just too bad all of that research and writing took a back seat to bullshit teeny bopper horror (thanks, Scream!) and in H20, all three of those films were treated as though they had never happened.