That's right, kiddies.
It's that time of year again.
Only this Halloween,
you won't be trick or treating.
You'll be trapped in your house
with Haddonfield's
local boogeyman, Michael Myers.
So if you don't want to be
stabbed,
crushed
or completely eviscerated
this year, stick around.
We'll bring you up to speed
and break down Michael's
most iconic kills,
what mistakes his victims made
and how they could have survived.
40 years ago,
Michael Myers escaped
from the Smiths Grove Sanitarium
and went on a killing spree
in the sleepy
town of Haddonfield, Illinois.
The sole survivor was 17-year-old
Laurie Strode,
who with the help of
Dr. Sam Loomis,
defeated the Shape in 1978.
For 40 years,
the trauma of that Halloween
has haunted Laurie,
and she spent the rest of her life
preparing for the day
Michael would return.
With Michael on the rampage again,
“Oh S***!”
Laurie has managed to stay alive.
But how would you do?
Starting right
where the first film ended,
a young Frank Hawkins pursues
Michael with his partner, Pete McCabe.
They make it to the old Myers house,
where 15 years earlier,
a 6-year-old Michael
savagely murdered
his sister in her bedroom.
While Pete is investigating
that very room.
Michael gets the drop on him.
He proceeds to savagely attack
the police officer
and put him in a rear chokehold.
What should Pete do in this situation?
First,
he should turn his head to the side.
This will stop Michael
from cutting off his airway.
Next,
he should try to flip
Michael over his shoulder
or even stomp on his feet
as hard as he can.
Sure, the jury's still out on
whether you can kill Michael,
but we know he can be stunned.
Frank enters the room and tries
to save his partner.
He opens fire,
but shoots his partner in the neck,
killing him
and allowing Michael to escape.
But before Michael can flee
the scene,
he's cornered by more police outside.
Frank and Pete made two
major mistakes here.
Stuff you think
they would have covered in
police academy.
Frank shouldn't have opened fire
since Michael was using Pete
as a human shield.
With a hostage in the way,
the chances of hitting Michael are slim.
And as we know, Michael was captured
in the very next scene,
which means backup was on the way.
Had Frank
and Pete simply waited for backup,
Pete would have survived
that awful Halloween in 1978.
Leading up to Halloween Kills,
Michael has escaped and begun
terrorizing Haddonfield once again.
His killing spree
leads him to the home of Laurie Strode,
who has finally turned the house
into a dangerous trap
designed for one thing,
to kill Michael Myers.
With the help of her family,
Laurie manages to trap Michael
in the cellar
before setting the entire house on fire.
When the firefighters
arrive at the scene,
they're brutally massacred by Michael.
The biggest mistake
the firefighters made
was trying to take on Michael one
by one instead of working as a team.
Teamwork is crucial
to successful firefighting.
When trying to extinguish a fire,
each task is dependent on another.
For example,
while one team puts water on the fire
and tries
to ventilate the building,
another team handles
a thorough search and rescue.
Teamwork makes the dream work.
But because they all took
turns facing Michael,
the firefighters were,
uh, extinguished one by one.
Who wrote this?
With Michael on the loose again,
the citizens of Haddonfield
took note and formed a mob.
Alright, we're getting somewhere.
Ready to take their town back.
The townspeople
surround Michael
and viciously take him down.
For about 30 seconds.
Yeah, this is Michael Myers
we're talking about,
so he's obviously going to get back up.
First, the mob should have used the guns
they brought to the fight
to shoot Michael repeatedly.
Instead, they use baseball bats
and knives,
and one lady even brought an iron.
They should have finished the job
before letting their guard down
with a group this large.
You'd think they would come up
with a better plan.
Instead,
they should have gotten creative
by luring Michael into a tub of acid.
Fluoroantimonic acid
if we want to get specific.
Fluoroantimonic acid is 20 quintillion
times stronger than sulfuric acid.
In short,
it's the strongest
super acid in the world.
In theory,
if you could lure Michael
into a tub of this stuff,
it would melt him to the point
where there's no way
he could get back up.
Congrats.
You lived through another Halloween.
But what if you had to deal
with another masked slasher
one with an affinity for power tools?
Think you could survive
against Leatherface?
Stick around and find out here
on How to Survive.