A Mask From The Past: Michael Myers Won't Be Superhuman In 'Halloween' Reboot

For some 39 years we have seen the mute #MichaelMyers stalk the inhabitants of Haddonfield and beyond. Helping popularize the slasher fever that came in the '80s and cementing the trope of the final girl, Myers and the #Halloween series gave the speechless spectre a name that ranks among the greats like Freddy, Jason, and Ghostface. With 10 films tucked under that pale visage, some of us are asking if we really need to resurrect the king of knife-wielding.

There are rightly mixed feelings with the announcement that #DannyMcBride and David Gordon Green will be rebooting the series, especially with the haphazard approach of Rob Zombie's already "rebooted" Halloween films in 2007 and 2009. However, for those questioning how that guy from Pineapple Express and Alien: Covenant can make Michael scary again, McBride promises us that the film will be taking a very serious back to the start approach.

Bringing home the horror.

While we won't literally be going back to 1978, McBride says his Halloween will give Michael back his boogeyman status. The latter films were dogged with awkward acting, the shoehorning in of Jamie Lee Curtis, and a seemingly unkillable monster from beyond the grave.

Speaking to Empire Film Podcast, McBride revealed that Michael will be getting back his mortality for an altogether more frightening foe:

“Look at where the Halloween franchise has gone. There’s a lot of room for improvement. David and I are coming from it as, we are horror fans, and we are humongous fans of John Carpenter and of what he did with the original Halloween, so I think from watching this and being disappointed by other versions of this series, I think we’re just trying to strip it down and just take it back to what was so good about the original. It was just very simple and just achieved that level of horror that wasn’t corny and it wasn’t turning Michael Myers into some supernatural being that couldn’t be killed. That stuff to me isn’t scary. I want to be scared by something that I really think could happen.”

'Masking' the problems.

Seeming to learn from the mistakes that mired Rick Rosenthal's Halloween: Resurrection and included Busta Rhymes doing Kung Fu, the duo are keen to capitalize on what Carpenter did right in the first place:

“I think it’s much more horrifying to be scared by someone standing in the shadows while you’re taking the trash out as opposed to someone who can’t be killed pursuing you.”

Well, if Michael ain't broke, don't fix him!

We all remember that iconic imagery of Michael watching Laurie from behind a tree, only to vanish into the shadows in broad daylight. There is no denying that Halloween was very special, and while there were other peaks of the series, nothing will stack up against the original. Kudos for McBride and Green for taking on such a monumental challenge, but at least Carpenter is back to give us another spine-tingling score. Let's just hope we don't get another Michael Bay-esque Elm Street massacre - one horror icon resigned to the grave is enough for any gore whore to handle.