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This post contains major spoilers forHalloween.
Michael even managed to kill Laurie Strode in 2002sHalloween: Resurrection.
She was stalked and attacked repeatedly.
As a setpiece, its also an outstanding place to stage the ultimate final showdown in a horror film.
To do so, they called for a full re-creation of the bedroom where the final fight takes place.
You dont even need that shit, is how Green characterizes Carpenters advice.
People will get it.
So instead, the replica set was repurposed into Lauries terrifying bedroom in the closing act.
And as for Laurie going over the balcony in a callback to the original?
That one was all McBride.
But as elaborate as her home renovations are, theyre not vanity projects.
Theyre rooted in her pain, and function as a substitute for proper therapy and coping mechanisms.
(Remember, she has not survived numerous sequels in this incarnation.)
This is not scream queen Laurie Strode, says Green.
So we took Do as I say as her mantra and we put it in our movie.
She goes to Home Depot.
So she dug that hole.
But when Michael finally comes calling, Karen no longer has the luxury of naivete.
Karen is a character who was actively trying to rewrite her own narrative and her life, says Greer.
Its in her bones, in her DNA.
She was conceived with this in her body.
Then that fucking guy came back and ruined everything, and I had to shoot him [laughs].
When it came time to do it, Karen really fucking stepped up!
But it didnt make the directors response any less maddening when asked why Michael was missing.
Its only two seconds long.
Are you sure you didnt see him?
He might not have been standing on the stairs.
Thats such a fun thing to do in the editing room.
Do you hold it long enough where you could know for sure whats happening in that moment?
Or do you just hold it long enough where the audience wonders if they saw something?
So?DidI see something?
You have to see it multiple times, Green tells me.
And then buy the DVD and then that then youll know for sure.
And McBride is no help either.
You know, who knows, man?
The boogeyman could be out there!
