Analysis Of The Film Halloween

Lorie Myers begins the film Halloween as a normal, happy teenager and everything in life is fine. Michael is the brother of Lorie and he is locked up in an insane asylum for murdering his older sister Edith. He eventually escapes and decides he wants to murder his sister Lorie. Lorie is unaware that she has an older brother because she is adopted by another family when she was an infant. On Halloween night, Lorie is babysitting and her friends are being murdered. Lorie losses everything and she had done nothing wrong. Michael blames Lorie for the situation because of her relationship to him. Lorie is traumatized from Michael terrorizing her, but she makes it out alive. As the Halloween series progressed, Lorie becomes successful, but the fear

When you hear “I’ll be right back” in a horror film, it is over for that character. They will not be making it to the sequel. The third rule of Scream has a connection to removing those objects that tempt us to sin. Matthew wrote in Gospel “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.” (Matthew 5:29) His verse talks about removing the influences in your life that cause you to sin. In the horror films, the ethically challenged characters disappear. The characters that disappear tend to bring the other characters down ethically and are considered the right eye that causes sin. They are torn out to save the rest of the body. Remember the example of where Myers murdering Bob and Lynda. It is already known Bob was underage drinking, but Bob told Lynda “I’ll be right back.” Bob already committed the sin of adultery with Lynda, but he went to grab alcohol for him and Lynda. He was bringing more sin into the room and by saying “I’ll be right back” he created an arrogance for his character. Lynda could have saved herself, but she didn’t know that Michael Myers was removing Bob from the

It is already known that character is not morally sound and being taken after saying “I’ll be right back” adds another level to the morality factor. The Bible has a lot of stories where people turned away from God and horror films have taken those stories. The horror film versions are really extreme versions of these stories, but the underlying theme is the same. With the characters there is a more personal sin being committed. The saying “I’ll be right back” adds an arrogance to the characters and there is a personal vendetta from the movie’s God. Sometimes in a horror film, morally questionable characters live, but the characters that say “I’ll be right back” never make it to the