With under two weeks to go until the premiere of Halloween Kills, fans of the popular franchise are getting themselves psyched for the impending release. There is no better way to do that in today’s social media-dominated world than to take that excitement online and create some fantastic memes.
After a delayed release due to the COVID-19 pandemic, fans hope that this – and the final film in the trilogy of sequels, Halloween Ends – will live up to the now extended hype. The memes that fans can find online make it seem like Halloween Kills may live up to the hype. If not, blow it out of the water.
Terrifying Friends
There is no doubt that the Halloween season is truly a vibe in and of itself. Many devoted fans exist for the beloved show Friends, and there are an equal and dedicated sect of fans who love horror. In this meme, the two worlds are brilliantly merged with a nod to the still-popular show and the multiple scarers that have existed throughout the world of true horror movies.
The scariest part of this may be that Michael Myers looks like the most normal one out of all of the above masters of nightmares – at least until you meet those eyes.
Myers Cookout
This meme has everything that any Halloween fan could want. From the inferno set by Laurie at the end of 2018’s Halloween to finally destroy Michael Myers to the announcement heralding this sight that the original Shape, Nick Castle, will again be donning the mask, there is nothing that a fan can get mad at in this meme.
Michael Myers grilling in front of the house that the Strodes think finally trapped and destroyed him is the kind of vibe Myers would have if he ever did something as ordinary as grilling. There is nothing like a little displaced humor to get audiences in the mood for a new entry to the franchise.
Villain Signal
In this meme, the norm is turned on its end as, instead of a signal going into the sky calling a hero to the rescue, there is a call for a villain. It is hard for anyone to imagine a reason for putting a signal out to attract Michael Myers because most people expend a lot of energy trying to get away from him.
Generally, the people throughout the franchise history who are trying to attract his attention have a weird sense of morality and hold him up as some anti-hero – and always manage to prove exactly why they shouldn’t do that.
Laurie Through The Years
The only name as synonymous with the Halloween franchise is that of the incomparable Laurie Strode, played by the original Scream Queen herself, Jaime Lee Curtis. What is so ironic about this meme is that out of all the pictures of Laurie over the years, only two of them are now thought of as actual Halloween canon. With the release of the 2018 Halloween, the makers undid all of the mythology outside of the 1978 original film.
Though most fans were happy with this as some of the later entries into the franchise were out there, it is still fun to look at the similarities and differences that Curtis has imbued Lori with over the past four decades.
Full Circle
If there is one thing that is pretty well known about the Halloween Kills storyline, it is that all of the survivors of Michael Myers from the first movie are going to face off against him alongside Laurie during this movie. Many forget about Marion Chambers, who was the nurse of Dr. Loomis in the first movie. She appeared again in Halloween II and was finally killed off in the now non-canon Halloween H20: 20 Years Later.
This meme shows fans’ excitement, realizing that this scene in the commercials for the upcoming movie directly mirrors the scene in the first movie when Myers escapes from the Smith’s Grove Sanitarium. Audiences will have to wait for the film to drop to see if Nurse Marion, played again by Nancy Stephens, will again manage to survive the Boogeyman.
The Eyes Of Evil
If there is one statement that can throw long-time Halloween fans back to that first viewing, it is Dr. Loomis stating that the only thing that can be seen in Michael’s eyes is pure evil. That line in the original 1978 release was so classic, since it is part of the whole mythology surrounding Michael Myers.
No matter the version of Michael – or in one strange case a now-defunct character, Jamie – the key to the scariness is that the eyes behind the Myers mask(s) show no soul at all. Try staring into those eyes an entire movie and then sleeping with the lights out.
A New Tommy
Halloween fans love Tommy Doyle and appreciated Paul Rudd’s version of him in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers when he took over for the original kid actor Brian Andrews. Though in their quest to stay true to the original franchise, the producers did go to Rudd first to put on again the army jacket he donned last time he fought Michael, he had to decline.
Though Rudd’s commitment to Ghostbusters: Afterlife kept him from joining the cast, fans are excited that Anthony Michael Hall will be playing Tommy this go-’round because, as seen in the meme above, he makes for a more formidable looking opponent for the Boogeyman.
