Brackett could've charged Loomis with involuntary manslaughter
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dave626 — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 08:00 AM)
No, they were homaging Halloween II for that release date. There's a difference.
Halloween 5 saying in the title card that it's 1 year later, yet calling Jamie 9 when she was 7 a year ago and Loomis saying 12 years when referring to 1978 which would've been 11. Those are goofs.
Brackett stuck around 3 years after the killings and retired. Simple. There was no need to run him out of town. He did nothing wrong. The whole point of this topic is that Brackett, who had limited knowledge and information, let alone proof that Michael had escaped til Loomis "found the car" and the 3 bodies, are not his fault.
No more so than the cops who took months to solve the Tate/LaBianca murders.
If anything, it was the shirt tuckers in Smith's Grove for their minimum security or even Loomis for not thinking clearly when he went to Smith's Grove himself. Then again, if he had, we'd have a very different movie.
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pop-actor — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 01:39 PM)
Do you think Brackett would return to the police force after what that happen to his daughter & knowing he was the cop on duty that night & he couldn't protect his own the daughter from the man he was pursuing..I really think he had a lot psychotherapy & he was on sick leave for the next 3 years
I love Debi Sue Voorhees:
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dave626 — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 03:17 PM)
Fact of the matter is this. The events of Halloween and Halloween II take place in 1978. The line as spoken in Halloween 4 is 1981. No one has ever come out and said it was a goof. Not the writer, director, producers, etc. No one official. So it's canon.
What you think is strictly your opinion. You can interpret that your own way til the cows come home. Or at least til Feb. 20th. But I take it as fact, as spoken, as intended until someone directly involved with the film says otherwise.
Lastly, what does Brackett have to be sorry for? 1. He had no idea who Michael was after. It could've been anyone. Hence his shock when he found out one of them was Annie. Don't you think he'd check on her first if he thought she was a target? 2. He had no idea Michael's family line in this, unlike the remake, so he had no clue Laurie and her friends were the targets. Also no one said anything to him about a creep in a mask following them. Were something said, he might have thought about the who and the why parts.
So it wasn't his fault who got chosen either. As I said, it could've been anyone. In the entire town. If Michael was there, if they were able to find him, it's a real life police drama. Dealing with facts, evidence and going from there. They had nothing til it was way too late.
The only reason Loomis went to the hospital is because Marion told Loomis about the file. Otherwise, neither he nor Hunt knew where to look. Neither did Brackett.
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dave626 — 9 years ago(February 04, 2017 07:11 AM)
Exactly. I can definitely see that. Despite his loss, he still had a job to do. Plus there are other issues at stake, life changing ones. First, retirement and being able to afford it financially, which he was nowhere near retirement age, even as a cop. Then there's the move. Haddonfield was probably his hometown, his whole life, picking up and moving isn't something you do rashly or spontaneously.
You have to plan these things. Find an affordable place, find a job if you need the money, etc. Then think of your wife and her wishes. So many factors to consider here. It was probably difficult staying, but he had his reasons and moved.
Honestly, too, it was a movie decision as Brackett would not be recast and Cyphers may or may not have been interested in a return, even if he was offered, so the writer wrote him off the best way. Make room for the new Sheriff. Storytelling.
"He came home." - Dr. Sam Loomis from the original HalloweeN -
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pop-actor — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 01:33 PM)
A lot of people makes the notion that part II takes place in 81.
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ToastedCheese — 2 years ago(November 11, 2023 03:05 AM)
As a horror film, it delivered the goods. Any reality of the situation after fact though, if it were to be real, could have had serious consequences for Loomis, but he scarified himself at the end to get Michael wiped off the face of the planet.
The capitalizing sequels 4, 5 and 6 are bullshit. The only decent spinoff in this timeline is H20 to my mind.
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