Do we like them?

Do we like Michael Myers?

A character from Halloween (1978)

Our score: 0 out of 10. No. He is a silent, relentless killer who has no reason, no remorse and no redeeming moment. Nobody should back him.

Michael Myers first appears in John Carpenter's 1978 horror film Halloween. As a six-year-old in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois, he kills his teenage sister on Halloween night for no clear reason. He is locked away in a mental institution, and his psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis, comes to believe there is nothing human left in him.

Fifteen years later Michael escapes, steals a mask and a knife, and goes home to Haddonfield. He silently stalks a teenage babysitter, Laurie Strode, and her friends. He never speaks, never explains himself and never bargains. That is what makes him so frightening, and it is also why he earns a score of zero. He has no goal we can sympathise with and no sign of conscience.

On Halloween night he kills several of Laurie's friends and goes after Laurie herself. Dr. Loomis finally shoots him, and Michael falls from a balcony. When Loomis looks down, the body is gone. That ending set him up as an unstoppable bogeyman, and he came back in many sequels and reboots.