true enough and i liked the films that had the niece in them. I thought she was great child actress and they had somce good scares. I would love to see what someone like Marilyn Manson or lets say better yet David Lynch or Cronenberg would come up with for a script or how they might direct the next Halloween. I would get someone like thomas liggoti or poppy z brite to do s script treatment and then go from there maybe hehe.

I agree about how the first film knew exactly how to build tension and there is really almost no blood in the first film but it still manages to be ten times better and more scary than the rest of them and than most horror films out today. I think its that script and the direction. That ability of john to so expertly build on that tension and the things that scare us as kids and even adults that made it so great. Plus the muisc was so great, can.t leave that out.

Myave a storyline that would start out with John or is it Josh? I forget but start out with lauries son at her gravesite remembering his mom with small glimpses of michael myers lurking in the backround of these memories he is having . Then showing John in his new life which im thinking should be stable and controlled. Everything about his life should be ultra structured to make up for the chaos of his childhood. Like he is over controlling now to make up for not being able to save his mom ect unexplored issues he has not dealt with kinda. His wife is about to leave him cuz she can't handle his controlling ways or new twist make him gay and his bf is about to leave him cuz he cant handle his controlling behavior. The more he trys to control things the more his life is unraveling around him.
Enter a best freind either fag hag girl( jeanene garafolo or maybe somene kinda like that) if hes gay or just best freind(someone should play the part serious not as a side kick jokemaster) if hes straight and maybe even lets have tommy doyle from the 6th pic be a longtime phone buddy whom he never sees but talks to on a regular basis on the phone. They share a common history sorta and Tommy is like the one remaining piece of his past that has not been destroyed kinda thing.

He keeps seeing Michael Myers from the corner of his eye thing everywhere he goes lately and so hes getting more and more freaked out. There is an article on the net that someone sends him that Michael Myers body was never found after that last night ect..

His friends obviously think he is just lossing it cuz hes lossing his lover or wife and they dismiss his sightings of Myers as him being overstressed at first. Cliched but it is realistic.

He retreats to the safety of his apt or home where he kinda becomes hermit like until of course Michael Forces him out of it and he has to face reality cuz Michael starts killing off his friends. Forces him into a battle or struggle for his life.
Actually froget the gay thing cuz there is to many ways to go wrong with that. It would take some very talented writting to not let it become a joke halfway through the picture.

Lets say there is a girl at his work who has a crush on him and begins to wonder where he is and decides to come out to his house and find out if hes ok. They get to know each other share battle scars and find they have alot in common ect..

Tommy Dolyle is also concerned after not being to get ahold of his friend so hes flying out to see him also.

Lets also say that John is having visions or delusions of himself being Michael Myers killing people stronger and more vivid as time goes on and as Michael GEts closer. he is suffering from the guilt of not saving his mother and others so his guilt is making him Michael Myers in his dreams and visions. He is struggling against the dark forces that would drive him to kill himself. Lets also say that he has got ahold of Donald Pleasence notes and research on Michael Myers and he has been researching them to look for some kind of clue as to what Michael is and where he came from. He only find that Donald does not know and that Michael is just pure evil and there is no explanation cuz keeping it simple works best. If we try to explain it i think it would come across phoney and corny.

We see jamie in a vision telling him that the time is short and he must prepare to fight and that she loves him blah blah

When Michael finally does apear i think setting it up like the first halloween would be the best. A good cat and mouse game building on the terror with the music and tension. Im not sure but there has to be a better way to do the cat and mouse thing than they did in the last couple movies.
Maybe Michael can't actually kill John. To kill john would mean his own demise somehow and so instead he tries to get him to kill himself using his freinds somehow or something else maybe. If john kills himself though hope which is the oposite of evil and of Michael Myers would be destroyed and he would have free reign over the earth like the ushering in of some new dark power but if john does not kill himself then Michael is stuck being a phantom killer and cannot escape his own hell.

Well those are some of my ideas, hehe i think they might work though if done right:)

I completely agree with taking "Halloween" back to a psychological level of horror. There was nothing better then the original "Halloween" and its psychological terror. I remember when I first watched the film how I thought it was so gory but now watching it I realized the gore wasn't there, but it was the psychological mind fucks that had me as a child.

Miche