Fun/Sad Fact: in both of their alternate endings, Loomis and Laurie were both “infected” and/or cursed!

In Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (Producers Cut Ending) -> After Michael is stopped by Tommy Doyle, Loomis orders Tommy and Kara to leave as far away from Haddonfield as they can. He then returns back into Smith’s Grove Sanitarium and see that Michael is laying on the floor now and takes off his mask only to see that it’s not Michael, but instead it’s Dr. Wynn who now passes on the cult symbol over to Dr. Loomis making him the new cursed cult leader. This causes Loomis to scream in despair (similar to how he did at the end of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers) as we see Michael walks away into the night (similar to ending of Halloween 1978).

In Halloween Ends (Novel/Alternate Ending) -> After Laurie slits Michael’s throat on her kitchen island, Michael begins to strangle her and as they look into each other’s eyes, Michael infects Laurie and she begins to surrender to that feeling. Allyson doesn’t make it to save Laurie this time, but instead Frank arrives first and tries to speak with Laurie, but she seems different like she’s emotionally cut off. She takes Michael’s corpse to the crematorium and watches him burn. The next day, Laurie completes her memoir, but she erases everything that she typed and that’s when Allyson returns home to talk to her. As her and Allyson are talking at the table, Laurie then throws her teacup at the wall and begins to strangle Allyson before getting control of herself and immediately screams and orders Allyson to get out. Allyson leaves Haddonfield, Frank arrives at the door but Laurie doesn’t come outside nor does she let him in. She closes her door and locks herself away from the world (like how she was in Halloween (2018)) and looks into the camera. Next, all you can hear is her breathing as it shows different shots of the house (similar to the ending of Halloween 1978 when Michael was breathing).

Honestly, these two endings (IN MY OPINION) are horrible wrap ups to these characters and I’m glad that they aren’t canon. It’s sad that Donald Pleasance passed away and wasn’t alive to film just one more film to positively wrap-up Dr. Loomis’s story for himself. People can hate on the recent trilogy all they want, but I love and appreciate how well they utilized Dr. Loomis. He was mentioned and we heard recordings of him in Halloween (2018) and we even got to see flashbacks of him in Halloween Kills. Granted he isn’t mentioned at all in Ends, but that’s mostly because Ends wasn’t really about Michael anymore. Haddonfield was 4 years into their recovery after Michael’s massacre and Corey was their new antagonist and their new “boogeyman”. Laurie Strode was the perfect successor to Dr. Loomis.

Returns/2018 -> Their attitudes mirrors one another and they’re both considered insane and crazy by everybody. They want nothing more than to see Michael dead and is prepared to kill him no matter what.

Revenge/Kills -> Laurie may not have been as unhinged as Loomis, but she has her moments especially when she finds out that Michael was alive. She aggressively injects herself with a needle after freshly getting out of surgery less than hour or so ago and immediately attempts to go after Michael. BOTH of these characters wanting to continue their mission to kill Michael while being in horrible positions BOTH physically and mentally. As their films closes out, both of them suffers something extremely traumatic. Laurie’s daughter is killed by Michael. And Loomis suffers a horrifying stroke after trying to beat Michael to death.

Curse/Ends -> After Michael’s disappearance for YEARS in both timelines, Loomis and Laurie liberate themselves from their rage and obsession with Michael and attempts to move on with their lives and doing so in a more healthier and therapeutic manner which is writing a book/memoir. However, when evil arrives back into their lives, they both take a more calmer approach to it as oppose to how they did previously.

I may get a lot of flak for saying this, but I believe that Halloween Ends ending was not only the perfect ending for Laurie, but also the perfect ending for Dr. Loomis seeing as how as Loomis was first discussing Michael’s nature he was saying how he was nothing but pure evil, and Laurie’s final quote about Michael’s nature was how his evil infected Corey, thus showing that evil takes different shapes. 🎃🔪