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Michael seems to have slipped away as the child has become killer in Rob Zombie's Halloween

Loomis is assigned by a judge at the extremely costly trial of Michael Myers to evaluate and analyze his mental state and try to find answers behind the murders committed by the kid. Within the confines of Smith’s Grove Sanitarium, Michael, the child, steadily worsens. A kindly janitor with some past history in prison tells Michael to hide within his mind and away from the walls as a way to escape, but this advice very well could have been a reason behind the kid’s gradual mental decline. Creating masks to wear to “hide his ugliness” and as he remains in the institution Michael begins to close off to Loomis and even his visiting mother. Michael seems to indicate in his first talks with Loomis that he doesn’t even remember killing his family, acting as if they were still okay and wondered when he would get to leave (he even asks his mom how the family’s doing during a visit). Never leaving and hiding his face more and more behind his masks, Michael soon quits eating and taking care of himself.

 

People have really been hard on Sheri Moon for her acting. I credit her for trying to pull off the heartbreaking part of a mother enduring a lot of tragedy until she finally can take no more. McDowell seems to convey frustration and a well meaning attempt to get through to his patient although he eventually fails miserably. Michael is a case that will follow him until his own tragic end in Rob Zombie's Halloween sequel. Here, he watches his patient decline instead of improve, even hugging and consoling Michael when the kid begs to get out of the asylum "imprisoning" him. Loomis tells him he done some horrible things while Michael seems oblivious to what he had done. He just feels trapped for no reason. Hence, the deterioration and eventual total absence of humanity.

 

His hair disheveled and the colors and warped states of the masks he wears, Michael seems to tell us that darkness has almost totally enveloped him. When he no longer talks to anyone and insists on leaving his mask on, Loomis and Michael’s mom leave him momentarily with a nurse watching him making a cutting remark about the kid’s looks while smirking. The cutting remark hits a nerve and Michael creeps behind her with a knife and the nurse lies on the floor in a pool of her own blood. Michael is considered a failure by Loomis and his mother, so overwhelmed with grief and trauma due to the loss of her family (including her son’s mania), commits suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot wound while watching old movies.