Vicious Cycle

In the Halloween universe, there are two rules: there are no accidents and Michael Myers is very, very hard to kill. Even if something looks like an accident – a bus filled with lunatics crashes during transport, a car topples down a hill, a child falls over a railing – it’s part of a larger destiny that befalls everyone tangled up in Michael Myers’s orbit. Halloween’s brilliance, like its iconic theme song, is in its repetitive simplicity. This repetitiveness, personified in the figure of Michael Myers, is also what makes the franchise so tiresome.