Synopsis for
Halloween (1978)

The film opens on October 31, 1963, a cold Halloween night in Haddonfield, Illinois. In the middle of a street stands a two-story white Victorian house. Someone begins walking towards it and sees a 17-year-old Judith Myers through the front door, kissing her boyfriend passionately. As they move towards the couch in the living room, the person outside follows them around the side of the house and watches through the window. The boyfriend asks Judith if they are alone and she replies that someone by the name of Michael is around someplace. Her boyfriend puts on a clown mask jokingly and kisses her. She laughs and tells him to take it off and he suggests that they go upstairs to have sex. They run up the staircase as the person outside the house follows them back around to the front. The shape sees the light in the upstairs window go out and begins swiftly walking back to the side of the house through the kitchen door. Quickly, the shape opens a drawer and grabs a very sharp knife. It begins slowly creeping through the dining and living rooms and reaches the bottom of the staircase. There, Judith's boyfriend is putting his shirt back on and leaving the house. Judith calls down the staircase for him to call her the next day. He takes one last look upward and quietly leaves. As soon as this happens, the shape begins walking up the stairs into the dark hallway. Looking down, it sees the clown mask on the floor. The shape picks it up and pulls it over its face. Entering Judith's bedroom, it sees her sitting in front of her mirror, nude except for a pair of panties, brushing her hair. She has her back to the shape and is unaware that it is standing there. The shape walks up behind her and she finally feels its presence. Swirling around, she sees that it is Michael, the person previously referenced, and is annoyed, quickly covering her breasts. But suddenly, Michael raises the knife and begins stabbing her repeatedly in various areas of her body. After a few seconds, she falls to the ground, covered in blood. Swiftly, the shape walks out of the bedroom, down the stairs, and out the front door into the yard as a car pulls into the driveway. They are Mr. and Mrs. Myers, Judtih's parents. Seeing Michael, they pull off his clown mask, revealing the face of a young 6-year-old boy staring into space, still clutching the knife in one hand. His parents stare at him in horror, seeing that he has killed his older sister...

On October 30, 1978, nearly fifteen years later, in Smith's Grove, Illinois, a doctor by the name of Sam Loomis and his assistant, a nurse named Marion Chambers, are driving to the local sanitarium to have Michael Myers (now a 21-year-old and still very dangerous) transferred to a prison and kept there forever. In the back of the car is a cigarette pack with an advertisement for the Rabbit in Red Lounge. As Marion quietly smokes a cigarette, she questions Dr. Loomis's desire to do this when suddenly, they see that several mental patients are lurking around the entrance to the sanitarium. Dr. Loomis rushes out of the car into the rain to see what is going on just as a patient leaps on top of the car, unnoticed by Marion. Suddenly, a hand reaches through the window and grabs Marion's hair, causing the car to swerve off the road. It is Michael! He and Marion struggle for a moment until Marion pulls away and moves toward the other side of the car, when instantly, Michael's hand appears at the window behind her and shatters it! Marion, startled, opens the car door and jumps out. Michael climbs in and drives away. Dr. Loomis runs over to Marion and consoles her, telling her that the evil is gone.

The next day, on Halloween in Haddonfield, a young girl about 17 years old named Laurie Strode is leaving her house to walk to school. On her way out, her father, a real estate agent, tells her not to forget to drop a key off at the old abandoned Myers house because a family is coming by to look at it later. As Laurie continues down the streets, an 8-year-old boy, Tommy Doyle, walks up to her. Laurie is babysitting him that night. As they walk together, the Myers house comes into view. Tommy tells Laurie not to go up there because something bad happened there once. As she drops the key under the mat, someone appears inside and looks through the front door at her. Laurie leaves and continues walking with Tommy, who says he received the information about the house being haunted from Lonnie Elamb, who Laurie says will probably never get out of the sixth grade. Tommy leaves soon after this and Laurie walks on, singing to herself, when suddenly, the shape from inside the Myers house appears right behind her, staring after her.

Meanwhile, back in Smith's Grove, Dr. Loomis is debating with another doctor, Terence Wynn, about whether or not Michael has returned to his hometown in Haddonfield. Dr. Wynn argues, saying that Michael couldn't have gotten to Haddonfield because he can't even drive a car. Dr. Loomis contradicts, telling Dr. Wynn that Michael was doing very well the night before when he drove away from Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Angry, Dr. Loomis gets in his car and drives away.

Later that day, Laurie sits in English class at Haddonfield High School, doodling in her notebook, when suddenly, she sees the Smith's Grove Sanitarium car! Michael stands beside it, in a greyish-white mask, watching her. Laurie is frightened and continues to look back when suddenly, the teacher calls on her to answer a question, startling her. Laurie responds to the question and when she looks back through the window, Michael and the car have disappeared.

Meanwhile, at the Haddonfield Elementary School, the bell rings and all the children begin running out of the building. Tommy slowly walks down the sidewalk, carrying a pumpkin. Suddenly, several bullies appear behind him and begin taunting him. Tommy yells at them to leave him alone, but they continue speaking about a "Boogeyman" that is coming to get him that night. Tommy is confused, not knowing about the Boogeyman, but is also frightened. He begins to run away, but he trips and falls, squishing the pumpkin. The bullies laugh and run out through the playground gate, when instantly, Michael jumps out and grabs one of them. Terrified, the bully scurries away. Michael climbs back into the Smith's Grove Sanitarium car and begins to drive alongside Tommy, who is sadly walking down the sidewalk.

Out at a gas station somewhere between Smith's Grove and Haddonfield, Dr. Loomis stands at a telephone booth, speaking with someone. He yells that they must be ready for Michael because he is sure that he has returned to Haddonfield to kill, and if they are not ready, it will be their funeral. Dr. Loomis, frustrated again, hangs up the phone. But before he can drive away, he notices something in the distance. Running over to it, he finds a garage car with Michael's hospital garments in it! Quickly, he also finds the Rabbit in Red Lounge advertisement from the cigarette pack in the sanitarium car! Now Dr. Loomis is sure that Michael is in Haddonfield and rushes back to his car, not noticing a dead, bloody body lying in the grass nearby.

Meanwhile, the students are being released at Haddonfield High School. Laurie is walking down the sidewalk with a friend by the name of Lynda, who is complaining about how many school activities she will have to be involved in the next day, being such a popular and beautiful cheerleader. Laurie, however, seems to be a quiet bookworm who has nothing to do except babysit. As they walk along, another young girl named Annie finds them. Laurie and Lynda question why she isn't smiling and Annie replies that her boyfriend, Paul, took her into the boys' locker room that day to tell her that they can't go out that night because he got grounded for throwing eggs and soaping the windows of houses. Laurie knows that Annie is supposed to babysit that night, but she knows that Annie only uses her babysitting locations as places to indulge in sex with her boyfriend. Suddenly, Laurie realizes that she has forgotten her chemistry book and is flustered. Lynda tells her that books don't matter and she forgets her books all the time. Then, right at that moment, the Smith's Grove Sanitarium car goes speeding down the street. Annie and Lynda believe that it is a cute boy from school, Devon Graham, but Laurie replies that she thinks it is someone else. Annie yells down the street at the driver that speed kills and suddenly, the car stops, but instantly speeds back up and leaves again. Forgetting this matter and not realizing that they have had a close encounter with Michael, Annie and Lynda share a cigarette and begin devising a plan to get Lynda and her boyfriend, Bob, together at the Wallace house where Annie is babysitting to have sex. Laurie, who does not have a boyfriend and appears to be shy when it comes to boys, replies that she is babysitting at the Doyle house which is near the Wallace house and they can keep each other company. Soon after this, they reach Lynda's house and she replies that she will arrive at the Wallace house with Bob later, but she has to get out of taking her brother trick-or-treating first and goes inside. Laurie and Annie continue on, when suddenly, Laurie sees Michael hiding behind a bush and tells Annie to look. Annie runs over to the bush and calls for Laurie to come over there because the boy she saw wants to take her out that night. Laurie goes over to find no one there and Annie thinks that Laurie is seeing men behind bushes because she is desperate for a date. Annie reaches home, leaving Laurie behind, who still thinks that there was someone behind that bush. Looking behind her, she accidentally runs into Mr. Brackett, Annie's father and the sheriff of Haddonfield. Laurie is startled and Mr. Brackett replies that it is Halloween and everyone is entitled to one good scare. Laurie laughs and walks back towards her house. Walking into her bedroom, she looks out the window into her neighbor, Mr. Riddle's, yard. There, behind the clothesline, she sees Michael, watching her! Seconds later, he vanishes once again. Suddenly, the phone rings and Laurie runs over to it. When no one answers and she only hears the sound of chewing, she hangs up, terrified. The phone rings once again and it is Annie on the other end. She asks why Laurie hung up on her and she replies that she thought it was an obscene phonecall. Annie says that she had her mouth full and couldn't speak, telling Laurie that she will be picking her up for their babysitting assignments at 6:30. Laurie hangs up and lies on her bed, trying to console herself.

Later that day, Laurie exits her house, carrying a pumpkin for Tommy so that they can carve a Jack-o-Lantern. She watches as several children leave their houses to go trick-or-treating and soon, Annie arrives to pick her up. As Laurie enters the car, Annie hands her a marijuana joint, telling her that they just have time.

Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis arrives at the Haddonfield Cemetery with the graveyard keeper. After hearing the story of Michael Myers, the graveyard keeper begins telling of another man named Charlie Bowles who killed his family in 1963. Dr. Loomis interrupts him and asks him where Judith Myers's headstone is. The graveyard keeper leads him over to it, only to find it ripped out of the ground, leaving an empty hole. The graveyard keeper believes that kids broke into the graveyard and caused this. Dr. Loomis replies that Michael came home.

Back in Annie's car, Laurie is describing what activities she has planned for her and Tommy. Annie comments that Laurie would make a fabulous Girl Scout and that she, herself, might as well be one because she is planning to blow her charge, 8-year-old Lindsey Wallace, out of the water with all the horror movies she has for them to watch. Laurie also tells Annie about seeing someone behind the clothesline in Mr. Riddle's back yard and Annie says that it was probably Mr. Riddle. Laurie answers back that he was watching her with Annie exclaiming, "Laurie, Mr. Riddle is 87!" They do not notice that behind them the Smith's Grove Sanitarium car slowly cruises down the road, stalking them. Laurie begins to cough after smoking the marijuana joint when suddenly, they spot Mr. Brackett in front of a store in the distance and Annie orders Laurie to get rid of the joint. They pull into the parking lot and speak with Mr. Brackett, who says that someone broke into the store (probably kids) and stole a few masks, ropes, and knives. Annie replies that he blames everything on kids and he is a cynical father. Mr. Brackett dismisses them because they will be late and they leave down the street towards their babysitting houses. After they leave, Dr. Loomis pulls into the driveway and asks to speak with Mr. Brackett, who says it will be about ten minutes. Dr. Loomis stands waiting on the sidewalk as the Smith's Grove Sanitarium car passes right behind him. In Annie's car, Laurie is worried that Mr. Brackett knew that they were smoking and Annie thinks there is nothing to worry about. They begin discussing the school dance the next day and Laurie reveals to Annie that she has a crush on a boy named Ben Tramer. Soon after this, they arrive at their destinations. Annie drops Laurie off at the Doyle house and pulls into the driveway of the Wallace house. As she walks into the house, the Smith's Grove sanitarium truck pulls up and Michael hides behind a tree in the Wallace yard, watching Annie.

Meanwhile, Dr. Loomis and Mr. Brackett arrive at the Myers house. They begin to search inside when the find a partially-eaten dog in the kitchen. Mr. Brackett says a man couldn't eat a dog like that and Dr. Loomis replies that this isn't a man. The two of them walk upstairs and Dr. Loomis shows Mr. Brackett the bedroom where Judith was murdered. Suddenly, something comes down from the roof and breaks the window near them, startling Dr. Loomis, who draws his gun. He begins describing his fifteen-year experience of watching Michael, seeing nothing but pure evil inside him. Mr. Brackett asks what they should do and Dr. Loomis tells him to inform the rest of the police, just to ask them to keep their mouths shut. Dr. Loomis decides to stay behind and wait for Michael because he thinks he will return to the Myers house.

At the Doyle house, Laurie sits, reading "King Arthur" to Tommy. Tommy becomes bored and says that he doesn't like that book and reveals several comic books that he has been hiding in the couch, saying that his mom doesn't want him to read them. Soon after this, Tommy asks Laurie what the Boogeyman is, but suddenly, the phone rings before she can reply. It is Annie, calling from the Wallace house. She tells Laurie that she just spoke with Ben Tramer and told him that Laurie was really attracted to him. Laurie becomes angry and embarrassed and begs Annie to say that she didn't talk to him. Right at this moment, Tommy looks out the window and sees Michael standing next to the Wallace house! He screams for Laurie that the Boogeyman is outside, but when Laurie looks out the window, no one is there and she continues her conversation on the phone. At this time, Michael has reached the back of the house near the kitchen door. Inside, Annie is in the kitchen making popcorn, not noticing Michael. She complains about Lester, Lindsey's dog, bothering her with his barking. Suddenly, Annie accidentally pours the butter all over her shirt and pants and removes them while Michael continues to watch. Annie finds a small button-up shirt and puts it on, wearing nothing else other than panties. At this moment, Michael grabs the potted plant hanging from the side of the house and throws it to the ground, shattering it and drawing Annie's attention to the kitchen door. But Michael has gone to another window when Lester, who is now outside, sees him and begins barking. Annie complains to Lindsey again that Lester is getting on her nerves, but soon after this, she hears Lester stop barking and begin whimpering. Outside, Lester is dangling in the air and his feet are starting to limp as Michael presumably kills him.

Inside the Doyle house, Laurie and Tommy sit watching "The Thing." Once again, Tommy asks Laurie about the Boogeyman. Laurie says that the Boogeyman and all other Halloween superstitions are all make-believe and Halloween is only a time when people play tricks on each other. Seeing that Tommy is still afraid, Laurie promises that she won't let anything happen to him. Tommy asks to make the Jack-o-Lantern at this time and they go into the kitchen. At the Wallace house, Annie goes out to the laundry room outside and puts her clothes in the washing machine. Suddenly, the door begins to creak shut as Michael stands outside. Annie looks out, thinking that it is her boyfriend, Paul, playing a trick on her. But she soon realizes that no one is there and goes back into the laundry room. Instantly, the door closes all the way and locks from the outside. Annie calls for Lindsey to come and let her out, but Lindsey doesn't hear her. Inside the house, the phone begins ringing. Now Annie is desperate because she knows that it is Paul calling and she yells for Lindsey to answer the phone, not noticing Michael at the window behind her. Desperately, Annie moves a rack of laundry room supplies and opens the window, trying to crawl out. Finally, Lindsey answers the phone. It is, in fact, Paul and he asks to speak with Annie. Lindsey runs out to the laundry room and opening the door, she finds Annie stuck in the window. Lindsey pulls Annie back to her feet and Annie begs her not to tell anyone about this. After they go back into the house, Paul calls again and Lindsey answers it, saying that Annie got stuck in the window. Annie glares at Lindsey and picks up the phone. Paul tells Annie that his parents left his house and he has an opportunity to sneak out to see her. He asks her to come pick him up. Annie goes into the living room and tells Lindsey to get her coat because they are going to pick up Paul. But Lindsey only wants to watch television, giving Annie an idea. She asks Lindsey how she would like to watch television with Tommy Doyle and Lindsey agrees, so they run across the street to the Doyle house. Right as they enter through the front door, Michael appears behind a car in the street. Annie goes into the kitchen and asks Laurie to watch Lindsey. Laurie is reluctant, but Annie promises to talk to Ben Tramer in the morning and tell him that they were just fooling around when she called him. Finally, Laurie agrees and Annie goes back to the Wallace house. She enters the garage, whistling and singing to herself, and tries to open her car door, but it is locked. Frustrated, Annie goes back into the house and finds the keys, brushing her hair a bit in the mirror and still wearing nothing underneath her coat except a shirt and panties. Reentering the garage, she opens the car, not noticing that it is now unlocked. Just as she sits down in the driver's seat, she realizes what has just happened. She reaches up to wipe the fog from the windshield, when suddenly, Michael leaps out from the back seat and wraps his arm around her neck. He mercilessly strangles her until she weakens and then swiftly withdraws a knife and slits her throat. Annie's eyes go wide as her face slides down the window and she dies.

Inside the Doyle house, Tommy and Lindsey are watching television when Tommy hides behind a curtain and whispers Lindsey's name, trying to scare her. Tommy turns around and to his horror, he sees Michael carrying Annie's lifeless body back into the Wallace house. Suddenly, Lindsey bumps into Tommy and they both scream. Tommy yells for Laurie, saying that they Boogeyman is outside again, but she tells him to stop talking about it. Tommy complains that no one believes him, but Lindsey decides that she will.

Meanwhile, at the Myers house, Dr. Loomis stands waiting behind a bush. After a while, three children, one of which is Lonnie Elamb, come along and dare each other to go inside. Trying to protect them, Dr. Loomis speaks in a menacing tone and yells at them to go away. They scurry away from the house and run down the street. Suddenly, Mr. Brackett jumps out behind Dr. Loomis, startling him. Mr. Brackett complains, telling Dr. Loomis that it will take more than fancy talk to keep him up all night crawling around bushes. Dr. Loomis warns him once again of Michael's evil and Mr. Brackett questions if all the families and children in Haddonfield could be lined up for a slaughterhouse? Dr. Loomis replies that they could be. Mr. Brackett agrees to continue looking for Michael in the case that Dr. Loomis is right, but he adds that if he is right, "damn you for letting him go."

Back at the Wallace house, Lynda and Bob arrive, both sipping from cans of beer and considerably drunk. They go over the plan that Annie will distract Lindsey while they go to the bedroom upstairs to have sex, not knowing that Lindsey is at the Doyle house and that Annie is dead. Bob lifts Lynda into the air and carries her into the house. Once they go inside, they find all the lights off and no one there. Seeing this as an opportunity, they fall onto the couch, kissing passionately, while Michael silently watches nearby.

At this time, in the Doyle house, Laurie, Tommy, and Lindsey have finished carving the Jack-o-Lantern and walk into the living room, making spooky noises. They all sit down on the couch to finish watching the movie, when suddenly, the phone rings. It is Lynda calling from the Wallace house while lying on the couch with Bob's head in her lap. She asks where Annie is and Laurie replies that she went to pick up Paul and she thought she'd be home by this time. Laurie tells Lynda to call when Annie gets back because she has Lindsey at the Doyle house and she needs to know what time to put her to bed. Enthusiastically, Lynda hangs up the phone and tells Bob that Lindsey is gone for the night and they run upstairs. Laurie watches as the lights go out across the street.

Upstairs in the Wallace house, Lynda and Bob are having sex while the phone rings continuously. Lynda warns Bob not to answer it for fear it might be the Wallaces. Bob takes the phone off the hook and they resume the moment, not noticing Michael's shadow sliding across the wall. Soon after this, they stop and Lynda lights a cigarette for each of them, ordering Bob to go downstairs for a beer. She giggles as he goes downstairs, this being the best night of her life. Downstairs, Bob gets two beers out of the refrigerator and is about to pour them into glasses when he hears a noise. He looks outside through the kitchen door, but no one is there. Annoyed, he opens the pantry door when suddenly, Michael jumps out and shoves him against the set of cabinets on the opposite wall. Michael lifts Bob into the air and stabs a sharp knife through his stomach and into the wall. Bob is dead. Michael stands there for a moment, watching Bob's lifeless body. Upstairs, Lynda sits filing her nails when the bedroom door creaks open and Michael stands there, covered with a sheet and Bob's glasses over his eyes. Lynda thinks this is Bob dressed as a ghost and asks him where the beer is. He won't answer, so she drops the sheet around her, exposing her breasts. When "Bob" still won't answer her, she becomes annoyed and gets up to call Laurie and ask where Annie and Paul are. She dials the number but just as she is about to speak, Michael comes behind her and strangles her to death with the telephone cord. She screams this entire time, leaving Laurie thinking it is Annie. Finally, after Lynda is dead, Michael picks up the phone, listening to Laurie's voice. Laurie puts the phone down and looks out the window. She dials the number for the Wallace house, but no one answers. Going upstairs, Laurie sees that Tommy and Lindsey are sound asleep.

Meanwhile, back at the Myers house, Dr. Loomis still stands waiting, when suddenly, he sees the Smith's Grove Sanitarium car! Dr. Loomis begins running down the street, sure of where Michael is. At the Doyle house, when Laurie still receives no word from anyone, she grabs her keys and curiously ventures across the street. Upon reaching the front door, she finds it locked and rings the doorbell. There is no answer. Laurie walks around the side of the house to the kitchen door. Going inside, she searches around for any signs of Annie, Lynda, or Bob, thinking this is a trick. Not finding them anywhere, she walks upstairs and sees the light from a Jack-o-Lantern streaming underneath the bedroom door. Opening it, she sees in horror Annie's lifeless body on the bed with Judith Myers's headstone above her. In tears, Laurie backs against the closet when suddenly, Bob's body drops down into the doorway, hanging from the ceiling. Laurie screams in terror just as the closet door opens, revealing Lynda's body as well. Laurie runs out of the bedroom into the hallway, backing against the wall. Instantly, Michael's mask appears in the doorway behind her. Laurie walks forward, standing against the balcony, when Michael reaches out with his knife and stabs her in the shoulder. Laurie screams louder than ever and falls over the balcony railing, crashing down onto the staircase. Michael rushes over to the top of the stairs and begins walking towards her. Laurie hurriedly leaps up and rushes towards the front door, but it won't budge. She runs through the living room to the kitchen, locking the door behind her. She rushes to the kitchen door leading outside, the way she came in, but a rake has been shoved under the doorknob outside. She is trapped! Suddenly, Michael's hand breaks through the other door behind her as he turns the lock and enters the room. Terrified, Laurie smashes through the glass with her bare hand and knocks the rake over. Shoving the door open, she runs out of the house and stumbles into the yard. She screams for help and runs onto the porch of another house, but no one will help her. Hurrying across the street to the Doyle house, she reaches for the keys in her pocket, but they are gone! Panicking, she bangs on the door, but Tommy is fast asleep. Just then, Michael appears behind the Wallace house and Laurie begins to yell for Tommy. Grabbing a potted plant, she throws it at Tommy's bedroom window, waking him. He slowly walks downstairs, unaware of the trouble. Finally, he reaches the front door just in time and lets Laurie in. She locks the door and orders Tommy to go upstairs. Turning out the lights, Laurie believes that she is safe, when instantly, she sees in terror that a window is open. Scared beyond imagination, she crouches down in front of the couch when suddenly, Michael leaps out from behind the couch and stabs at her, but misses and hits the couch instead. Laurie grabs a knitting needle and swirls around, stabbing Michael in the neck. He staggers backward and hits the floor, apparently dead. Laurie, nearly passing out of blood loss, drops the knife that is still in the couch onto the floor and goes upstairs to check on the kids.

Outside, Dr. Loomis still walks down the sidewalk when Mr. Brackett's police car pulls up. Dr. Loomis tells him that he found the Smith's Grove Sanitarium car and he will head over to where Michael is. Mr. Brackett drives away, now truly believing what is going on.

Upstairs at the Doyle house, Tommy and Lindsey run up to Laurie, thinking that it was the Boogeyman that attacked her. She assures them that he is dead, but Tommy says that she couldn't have killed him because he is indestructible. At this moment, Michael appears behind them and Tommy and Lindsey run back into the bedroom. Laurie scurries into another room, opening a set of doors leading to the balcony and hiding in a closet, trying to fool Michael of where she actually is. She ties a pair of stockings over the doorknobs. Michael soon begins shaking the doors and reaches through them with his knife, slicing the stockings. He breaks down the top half of the closet door and reaches in for Laurie, accidentally turning the light on. Laurie grabs a hanger and stabs Michael in the eye with its point. He jumps back in pain, dropping the knife into the closet. Laurie takes it, clutching it in her hands, and stabs Michael in the chest. He falls to the ground, dead. Laurie carefully slips out of the closet and seeing this, she drops the knife. Asking Tommy and Lindsey to come out, she tells them to go down the street to the McKenzies' house and tell them to call the police. They leave the house, screaming, attracting the attention of Dr. Loomis, who is outside and runs up to the Doyle house. Inside, Laurie is slumping against the doorway of the room where she was hiding, tired and almost unconscious. She doesn't notice that Michael is slowly rising behind her. Laurie stands up, leaving the room, when suddenly, Michael grabs her by the neck and begins strangling her. Laurie fights back and pulls his mask off, revealing Michael's true face. Instantly, Dr. Loomis appears at the top of the staircase and shoots Michael with his gun. Michael falls backwards into another room as Laurie falls against the wall, covering her ears. Dr. Loomis chases Michael into the other room, seeing him standing in front of the balcony doors. Dr. Loomis shoots him five more times, causing him to fall out the doors and off the balcony. Michael slams onto the ground below, appearing to be dead. Dr. Loomis looks back at Laurie, who says, "It was the Boogeyman." Dr. Loomis replies, "Yes, as a matter of fact, it was." Looking back down below, he sees in horror that Michael has vanished, but Dr. Loomis knew that this would happen. Laurie realizes that Michael still isn't dead and begins crying. The film ends with a shot of the Myers house and the sound of Michael breathing heavily behind his mask. Michael Myers, the legendary man who came out on Halloween night to kill, is still alive somewhere out there...