Halloween reboot writers David Gordon Green and Danny McBride promised a return to a non-supernatural Michael Myers, but that's not quite what we got. Fans will recall that in John Carpenter's original 1978 classic, babysitter slayer Michael Myers wasn't a superpowered being. In fact, he's introduced and makes his first kill as a small child. Michael Myers clearly starts out as a human being, albeit one with severe psychological problems.
While Dr. Loomis may describe him as purely and simply evil, nothing he does in the film is impossible, and he can clearly be hurt, feels pain, and can sustain serious damage. As the Halloween franchise went on though, Michael Myers became more and more hard to believe as an actual person. For one, there's the fact he - and Dr. Loomis - managed to survive the massive explosion at the end of Halloween 2, after which Michael is seen burning to a crisp while covered in fire. He also survives getting riddled with bullets from a mob in Halloween 4, then falling down a mine shaft.
Halloween 6 would finally reveal that Michael had apparently been supernaturally-powered from the very beginning, and had been operating in conjunction with the Cult of Thorn. Thankfully, that storyline never got a follow-up. Heading into Halloween 2018, director/co-writer David Gordon Green and co-writer Danny McBride made it known that they wanted to take Michael Myers back to basics, and make him a human threat again. Yet, the final film kind of fails at that.
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While Halloween 2018 is by no means a bad film, and is in fact one of the best entries into the franchise to date, it's definitely not perfect. That's exemplified by the nonsensical twist involving Dr. Sartain partway through the film, in which he turns evil. Michael dispatches him shortly after by stomping on his head and crushing it like a grape in one blow. It's a really cool, gory kill, but Michael is canonically in his 60s at this point, and even if he was younger, the amount of strength and force needed to explode a man's head like a watermelon getting hit by a sledgehammer with only a single stomp would be insane. it's hard to imagine a non-supernatural killer being able to do that.
As for taking damage, while Michael Myers getting up from six gunshots and a fall off a balcony at the end of Carpenter's Halloween certainly strained credibility as far as what a human being could survive, the end of Halloween 2018 takes that to the next level. Laurie Strode inflicts a heaping helping of damage on Michael during the final battle, even cutting off his fingers. Michael is then shot in the face by Laurie's daughter Karen, and trapped inside Laurie's burning basement. Yet, preview footage from this fall's Halloween Kills shows Michael busting out of Laurie's burning house using nothing but brute force. At this point, he's basically The Incredible Hulk, or must have Wolverine's healing factor. What he clearly isn't is a person without some kind of extraordinary ability to survive.
