A really awful and confusing start with a woman having a baby in a basement and Myers coming from no-where, a cute shot of a guy holding a phone in his right hand AND typing with the same hand. Super goof! The radio jock laughing at the idea of "Micheal Myers in space". (pretty much the plot of Jason X). Once you discount how stupid the fact of Myers even being alive is you have to nod and know this film is just a slasher flick designed to scare as often as possible.
Surely someone who had killed as many people as Myers would have been executed on reaching adulthood? He seems to get vehicles easily and often so had no-one ever considered dismembering him, cutting off an arm or a leg, or his head for that matter. Everyone seems to do stupid things, set him on fire, stab him, shot him. Surely dismemberment is something even he couldn't overcome (In the film Jason X this concept is addressed and put to rights). The women who had literally just given birth took her new born out in the cold. the fact that she's in any fit state to go running round partially clothed. Surely the baby would have died from exposure in the rain.
Myers seems to have some magical power which allows him to find whoever he is after, no matter where they run. After making a statement like "that crazy old lady wouldn't hear a truck go through her living room" you pretty much know that exact thing is going to happen later in the film. Also when we're introduced to the basement/washing room in the Strode (Old Myers) House you know we're going there later as well, it's an establishing shot.
The whole "satanic" thing at the start and marking the baby isn't a good idea and needs much more explanation. And despite the fact we are told several times Haddonfield is "The Town that banned Halloween" lots of house are decorated and we see lots of kids in costume. When Mr. Strode finally goes home (and goes to the basement like we predicted) he is in a black-out. The power is out but the washing machine is still working? Also Dad Strode is electrocuted from a fuse box in a house where the power is out. Super Goof!
Myers gets from his house to the town center very quickly. (Too quick) I find it hard to believe the Strode's son didn't know anything about Myers living in his house (kids at school never told him?). Myers got from the town center back to his home very quickly again. Tim managed to have a hot shower in a house with no power (Another major goof!). And Mikey kills the couple who have had sex, major horror film mistake to do that. Despite being told NOT to go back in her house Kara does even though she's just seen Myers kill someone in there.
Does Kara not know how to call 911? Myers is pushed down the stairs (this would cripple most people) and Danny appears next to Myer's body, you know he was going to grab Kara. Then finally the whole "Satanic" thing is explained in bits and pieces. The man in black is revealed and Micheal's former baby sitter is found to be part of the whole Satanic rite. The film is then taken back to where it started, the hospital (is it the asylum where Myers was sent after killing his sister? I think it must be!)
Now an issue with Tommy. If he were 8 when Myers attacked the 1st time as an adult and must have been roughly 23-25 in this film, this would make Myers at least mid to 30's or even 40's. Far too old to be strolling around and getting hurt like he does in this. Myers kills all the "Satanic" people who are worshipping him in a very heavily cut scene with lots of strobe so you see hardly anything but the results of his work.
I am amazed that Tommy and Kara don't pull shut all the lockable doors as they are running from Myers. Myers sees exceptionally well for someone in a mask, I think. Also you hear him breathe but there is no mouth hole or any nostril holes to breathe through on the mask he wears (A Captain Kirk mask painted white we're told!). I really don't know why after what Myers put him through Tommy doesn't beat him until he's a pile of liquid.
The film has no actual ending. It's awful. Truly awful.
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