Michael Myers's Best Kills In The 'Halloween' Franchise
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Since 1978 Michael Myers has been killing teenagers, doctors, police officers, and townies with equal disregard. Anyone who gets in his way - regardless of age, race, or creed - gets dispatched in some magnificent fashion.
In case you haven't been counting, there are a lot of Halloween movie murders. Michael's clocked at least 70 confirmed kills, but it’s honestly hard to tell in some of the huge group murder scenes he finds himself in during later films.
The best kills in Halloween are also the most memorable. The garden claws through the face, the exploding heads, the hot tubs; those are the kills to remember.
Do you have a favorite insane murder from the Halloween franchise? Perhaps it involves one of the many babysitters whom Laurie Strode has befriended. Or maybe you prefer the work of Rob Zombie and his brutal, yet beautiful death scenes. Whatever your taste, there’s a Michael Myers kill waiting just for you.
Movie: Halloween II
Method: Scalding
When Nurse Karen goes down to meet up with a paramedic for a sexy dip in the hospital's hot tub, she's dunked into the scalding water repeatedly before her face burns off.
Movie: Halloween
Method: Stabbing
After getting groovy with his girlfriend Lynda, Bob goes downstairs to get her a beer. Being a Halloween movie, he runs into Michael Myers, who slams him against a wall before stabbing him to death.
Movie: Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers
Method: Stabbed with a shotgun
After discovering a bunch of dead, unnamed deputies Kelly finds Michael Myers, who shoves a shotgun through her chest and pins her to the wall.
Movie: Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Method: Impaled on a corn thresher
While trying to escape from Michael, Jamie hides in a barn but - you guessed it - Michael is hiding in the barn too. He catches his niece and impales her on a corn thresher before turning it on to disembowel her.
Movie: Halloween
Method: Slit throat
Michael Myers waits in the back of Annie's car then pops out when she least expects it and slits her throat before smashing her face against the driver's side window.
Movie: Halloween: H20
Method: Ice skate to the face
While the audience doesn't see the action go down, Jimmy's death is exciting for two reasons: he's played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and he catches an ice skate to the face.
Movie: Halloween
Method: Strangled
Michael skewers Lynda's boyfriend, then dresses up like a sheet ghost and surprises Lynda by choking her to death.
Movie: Halloween II
Method: Needle to the head
After discovering Dr. Mixter's corpse, Nurse Janet becomes Michael's next victim when he sneaks up on her and stabs her in the head with a syringe.
Movie: Halloween (2007)
Method: Throat Slitting
On Halloween night, a young Michael Myers duct tape's his mom's boyfriend to an easy chair and slits his throat after killing his sister and her boyfriend.
Movie: Halloween II
Method: Claw hammer to the head
When Garret goes down to the basement to check the hospital's electricity, he gets the back end of a claw hammer to his noggin.
Movie: Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers
Method: Neck ripped open
Rachel and Jamie escape on a truck, but Michael Myers fights his way through the guys in the truck bed before ripping Earl the driver's neck clear off.
Movie: Halloween V: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Method: Garden claw to the face
While tracking down his niece Jamie, Michael gets into a fight with a guy named Mike and dispatches him quickly with a garden claw to the face. It's intense.
Movie: Halloween II
Method: Scalpel to the back
While trying to help Laurie escape the hospital, Nurse Jill catches a scalpel to the back. Even though he's using a flimsy weapon Michael manages to get some serious hang time.
Movie: Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers
Method: Thumb through the forehead
After 10 years in a coma, Michael wakes up while being transported in an ambulance after he hears Laurie Strode birthed a daughter before she died. Michael smashes an ambulance tech's head, but the death blow occurs when he shoves his thumb through the poor guy's head.
Movie: Halloween (2007)
Method: Blunt force trauma
In the middle of his first murder spree, Michael takes a baseball bat to the head of his sister's boyfriend in a very brutal kill.
Movie: Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers
Method: Broken neck/thumb to the face
Brady tries to fight Michael Myers to give Jamie and Rachel time to escape; it doesn't go well. Michael picks Brady up by his face and shoves a thumb into his head, right before breaking his neck.
Movie: Halloween II
Method: Slit throat
Michael plays possum after he's shot by Loomis. When Gummel checks out Michael's body, the killer wakes up and slits his throat with a scalpel.
Movie: Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Method: Electrocuted
Michael goes on a tear in the sixth film in the series during which he runs into Laurie Strode's dad, John. John ends up impaled on an electrical box and his head explodes.
Movie: Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Method: Head impaled on a spike
A mid-wife who works with a cult tries to help Michael's niece and her baby escape, but she catches a spike to the head for her trouble.
Movie: Halloween 2 (2009)
Method: Decapitation
After crashing into a cow, Michael wakes up in an EMT van and uses a glass shard to cut off Gary Scott's head. It's pretty gross.
Movie: Halloween II
Method: Needle to the eye
Dr. Mixter's death happens offscreen, but his body - with a hypodermic needle in its eye - is later found by one of his nurses.
Movie: Halloween: H20
Method: Stabbing
While helping Laurie search for her son, Will runs into Michael Myers and catches a kitchen knife to the abdomen. In a scene that's reminiscent of the second film, Michael gets some hangtime with this death and it is brutal.
Movie: Halloween (2007)
Method: Blunt force trauma
The thanks Ismael gets for being Michael's only friend in Shady Grove is a big fat TV to the head after having his face shoved in the sink.
Movie: Halloween V: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Method: Pitchfork through the back
While getting busy in the hay with Samantha, Haddonfield prankster Spitz is stabbed in the back with a pitchfork.
Movie: Halloween V: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Method: Scythe to the chest
Immediately after watching her boyfriend Spitz get impaled with a pitchfork, Samantha tries to run away from Michael Myers, but he uses a scythe to slash her across her chest.