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The movie features the return of Curtis’s character from the first two Halloween films, Laurie Strode, now revealed to be living under the assumed name “Keri Tate”. As Tate, Laurie has a seemingly perfect life with an intelligent son and a boyfriend, a great career (as a head mistress at a private boarding school in Northern California); however, Laurie Strode is far from happy. The tragic events from 20 years previous still haunt her mind, and strongly take effect on her parental capabilities. To everyone, this is “just another Halloween,” however Laurie Strode still lives in constant fear.

But this year is different. To mark the 20th anniversary of the happenings of 1978, her psychotic brother, serial killer Michael Myers, appears, and starts killing off her co-workers and students one by one. And for the first time in two decades, they meet again. Laurie manages to escape, but instead of leaving, chooses to go back, in an attempt to restore her life, to the school to challenge Michael in a fight to the death. She finds him and attempts killing him several times. She finally pushes him off a balcony, causing him to apparently fall to his death, similar to the first film.

Michael Jackson influenced by Bob Fosse’s “Snake in the grass” character from the 1974 movie The Little Prince? Sure looks like it.

This scene from the book shows the snake offering to send the boy back from where he came (the sky), in a clever way of saying he can kill him.