For those hording toilet paper

Michael observes some of his handiwork right before escaping Smith's Grove in Rob Zombie's Halloween

Look, Michael had to get out of Smith’s Grove somehow. Carpenter didn’t really elaborate in detail how Michael did this in his film, but Zombie felt the need to do so in his. The theatrical version I watched had security guards waiting to transfer him to another institution, but in the version released to dvd, the rape of a female patient by Lewis Temple and his equally heinous buddy (also an employee of the establishment, stating that the place seemed to take any assortment of lowlife as staff) inside Michael’s cell (Temple just has this fixation on provoking Michael, and it goes perhaps to his fearless, ‘don’t give a shit’ personality that he does this). This whole sequence is shot as a shocker where these two employees are the lowest of low pieces of human excrement but their scumbaggery gives way to Michael’s release on a public not prepared for him. While it’s a head-scratcher why Temple would insist on poking the bear and using Michael’s cell for his sexual abuse of a female patient, this allows the killer free. This leads to Temple slammed up against a wall until he’s a pile on the floor. In a strange twist of fate, Temple actually gets off light compared to Trejo who always showed Michael kindness. Trejo finds other security guards massacred in the hall, runs up on Michael, attempts to comfort him into handcuffs, is pummeled, shoved into a sink of water, nearly drowned, and, while pleading with him to stop (and reminding him of how he always treated Michael well), is on the receiving end of a television set dropped on his face! This action against Trejo informs us that Michael doesn’t pick and choose…if he’s willing to do this to a friend, what will others in his path have coming to them?

This was a rare chance to see Trejo in such a sympathetic part. He's been a voice of support and encouragement to Michael over the long haul, but when a release from the institution (something that Michael, as a child, so longed for) is a definite possibility, nothing (or no one) will stand in the killer's way.

 

Loomis is awakened to learn that Michael is loose.