John Carpenter: IGN's Top Halloween KillsSister Numero UnoMovie:HalloweenVictim: Judith, the first sis to Michael Death by: Butcher knifeKillacious: As probably the best slasher movie of all time, Halloween is fondly remembered by horror fans for its groundbreaking portrait of faceless evil as much as for its increasingly imaginative death scenes. But before director John Carpenter truly immersed himself in the business of bringing the adult Michael Myers to life, he shot an iconic opening scene which changed the face of the genre forever by combining all of the conventions of horror films into one continuous virtuoso shot. Following an ominously spare credit sequence in which the only dramatic flourish is Carpenter's self-composed score, a title card reads "Haddonville, Illinois -- Halloween Night 1963" and dissolves to an image of the Myers house as it slowly grows bigger in the frame. The perspective isn't merely that of a steadicam-clad cinematographer but Michael Myers himself. As he walks through the house, he reaches into a kitchen drawer for a butcher knife, and then ascends to his sister's bedroom after her boyfriend heads out the front door. Donning a clown mask, Michael ventures into his sister's room, where she is sitting topless in front of the mirror. Just as she turns to scold him, he attacks, and we literally watch from Michael's perspective as he stabs his sister to death. The truly horrifying moment is yet to come as he leaves Judith's room and runs outside, where his parents pull off his mask and reveal not some muscular attacker or crazed-looking sibling, but a six-year-old boy in a clown costume whose face is plastered with serene disinterest. It Went to VoicemailMovie:HalloweenVictim: Lynda, resident hottie Death by: High thread countKillacious: Once Michael Myers escapes the care of Dr. Loomis and returns home to continue his reign of terror some 15 years after it first began, he follows a group of girls to their homes and begins to dispatch them one by one, along with anyone else within reach. In a perfect demonstration of the slasher-movie paradigm which demands that any characters who expose themselves or have sex immediately die, Michael uses a rare bit of creativity and imagination to knock off young fornicator Lynda van der Klok (P.J. Soles).  Immediately prior to his attack on Miss van der Klok, Michael kills her boyfriend Bob (John Michael Graham) by impaling him on a pantry door with a butcher knife. But by the time he gets upstairs where Lynda is eagerly waiting her boyfriend's return, he has located a bedsheet, borrowing only Bob's glasses to suggest that the young, freshly-f*@ked fellow is playing a prank. While Lynda is initially game, Michael's fear of intimacy prevents him from consummating their burgeoning passion, and he can only express himself when she puts on her dress and turns her ample bosoms from his leering gaze. As Lynda picks up the phone to call her friend, Michael pounces on her, choking her with the phone cord as friend Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) listens on in disbelief. In the ensuing struggle, Michael loses the sheet, and eventually finishes Lynda's conversation with Laurie by breathing heavily into the receiver. It's sexual freedom zero, sexual repression one, with Michael leading the charge as repression's star forward. Hit and RunMovie:Halloween IIVictim: Ben, Laurie Strode's boyfriend… in another reality Death by: Mistaken identityKillacious: This is one of our favorite kills in all of the Halloween films, even though it wasn't committed by Michael Myers at all. In fact, that's probably why we like it so much… because it's actually Dr. Loomis who causes the death of this poor bastard!  Ben Tramer was mentioned by Jamie Lee Curtis' character in the first film -- he's a guy she has a crush on and would like to date, she admits. And wouldn't that have been great for Ben, to get a date with a young Jamie Lee circa 1978? But instead of that fate, Ben's destiny had him dressing up like Michael Myers and going out for a night of drinking on Halloween. And as a result he's horribly killed when Loomis mistakes him for Myers and chases him into the road, where a dazed and confused Ben is hit by a car that then smashes into a van -- causing a huge explosion and resulting in a toasty Tramer. Woulda, coulda, shoulda, Ben. Jacuzzi BoilMovie:Halloween IIVictim: Karen, sexy nurse Death by: Hot tubKillacious: Three years after Michael Myers became one of the scariest bogeymen in movie history, he returned in Halloween II. As became the rule with slasher flicks over the next few years, any monster lucky enough to survive to kill another day would have to do so in an increasingly dramatic fashion, including subjecting his victims to all sorts of terrible tortures that might defy plausibility but would certainly look great on film. As such, Michael made hot tubs the most dangerous place for romantic rendezvous with a little help from an overeager thermostat.  In the scene, Karen Bailey is apologizing to her boyfriend while sitting on the edge of the hot tub, never bothering to look up to notice that her new lover is a fellow with a fetish for latex masks. After kissing Michael's hands in a conciliatory gesture, she finally turns to him to discover that the callused boob-massagers she's been making out with are Michael's, and he wastes no time letting her know that this kind of foreplay is forbidden. He promptly grabs her by the back of the head and shoves her face under the bubbling water, which grows hotter by the second since Michael raised the temperature to now uninhabitable levels. While she initially struggles against him, Karen quickly gives up as Michael dunks her again and again, although it's not clear if that's because she realizes that Michael is a lover who likes domination or due to the fact that her tongue melted off along with half of the skin on her face. Mom Always Said Too Much TV Would Fry My BrainMovie:Halloween III: Season of the WitchVictim: The Kupfer family, a.k.a. Mom, Dad, and Little Buddy Consumer Death by: Black magic mixed with techKillacious: Another out of the ordinary but oh-so-memorable kill came in the third film in the Halloween series… you know, the one that doesn't have Michael Myers in it. Too often maligned for this lack of The Shape, Halloween III: Season of the Witch actually stands today as a weird and creepy and odd little scare-fest. And one of its crowing achievements comes during this scene, when the average-Joe Kupfer family visit the Silver Shamrock Novelties factory for some, shall we say, product testing.  You see, the Silver Shamrock outfit may be posing as simple purveyors of Halloween masks and accessories, but actually they've got a plan to bring about nothing less than Armageddon on Earth. And they'll be using said masks to do it. The things are best-sellers, and come Halloween night a special Silver Shamrock commercial will air on TV that will activate a witchcraft-infused chip (with a dash of Stonehenge throw in no less) in the masks that children everywhere are wearing at the time. What does this chip do? We see the results firsthand during the Kupfer test, where little Buddy gets his head melted -- or some s*&t! -- under that mask, while snakes and bugs pour out of the thing and finish off Mom and Dad. All together now: "One more day to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. One more day to Halloween, Silver Shamrock!" Anybody Can Shoot a ShotgunMovie:Halloween 4: The Return of Michael MyersVictim: Kelly, the sheriff's daughter Death by: Shotgun impalementKillacious: In Halloween 4, Michael Myers escapes from a sanitarium and returns home to Haddonfield to kill again. Dr. Loomis pursues him and convinces the town's new sheriff to try to stop him before it's too late. But it already is too late. Myers has taken out the entire police force, and has made his way to the sheriff's house where his daughters are hiding out.  Poor Kelly. She's just trying to be hospitable to the deputy guarding her -- she doesn't know Michael has just killed him -- when she brings out coffee and utters these last unfortunate lines: "Wish they'd fix the power. At least we'd have some MTV while we wait for the cavalry." Myers, who apparently has no love for coffee or MTV (he must prefer chai and VH1), will have nothing of it. He quickly rises from his rocking chair, as Kelly gasps. And instead of shooting her with the cop's shotgun, he runs the weapon right through her torso. Ewww. Death on the FarmMovie:Halloween: The Curse of Michael MyersVictim: Jamie Lloyd, Laurie Strode's daughter Death by: Corn thresherKillacious:Michael Myers, his niece Jamie Lloyd, and the Man in Black cult leader have all been in hiding for six years. Jamie, who was kidnapped and impregnated, has a child on Halloween Eve. She escapes with the help of a nurse, but not for long… Myers wants the baby, which we presume is his, and pursues Jamie around Haddonfield. Michael gets behind the wheel of a van (we pictured him as more of a sedan guy) and runs her vehicle off the road. She flees into an old barn (bad idea), but Michael is already there waiting for her. She reveals that she does not have the baby, and a furious Michael pushes her into a damn corn thresher. What a way to go. Exploding the StrodeMovie:Halloween: The Curse of Michael MyersVictim: John Strode, an uncle for Laurie Death by: Electrocution explosionKillacious: Long before Indiana Jones nuked the fridge in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (but after the Fonz jumped the shark), Michael Myers"exploded the Strode."  Laurie Strode's adopted uncle, John, has moved into the Myers family home. The guy is actually a real bastard. He's an abusive alcoholic who treats his family like crap, and so it's not all that tragic when Michael Myers ambushes him in the basement and stabs him into a circuit panel. But what happens next takes the Halloween series' gore level to new heights. Strode is seemingly fried so intensely that his body actually explodes. The scene, which some fans deemed over the top, is not present in the later-released producer's cut. Le Morte d'Laurie StrodeMovie:Halloween: ResurrectionVictim: Laurie, Michael Myers' other sister and most famous victim Death by: Stabbing, falling from roof, and franchise fatigueKillacious: Yes, we've got more dead Strode for you here. When the Halloween series was "revived" with Halloween: H20 in 1998, Jamie Lee Curtis' character Laurie Strode finally returned to the scene after departing at the end of part two. In H20 Laurie supposedly finally offed her brother Michael by beheading him, but that didn't stop The Shape from returning four years later in this film, yet another low point in the franchise. And Curtis returned one last time as well to finally meet her end at the hands of Myers. It's an odd cameo. At the start of the film we learn through some heavy exposition that Laurie has been institutionalized since the events of H20, apparently driven mad by the knowledge that it wasn't Michael that she killed but rather an innocent victim who Myers rather uncharacteristically set up to take the fall. It all just feels so tired. And so does Curtis seem exhausted in this brief return, seemingly going through the motions as she battles her maniac brother one last time. Laurie sets a trap for Michael on the roof of the hospital where she's been spending her days, but Michael psyches dear old sis out once again with a fake show of emotion. It's Laurie's weakness, and she winds up with a blade in her back and a fall from the roof to her demise… but not before she gives her brother one last kiss and tells him, "I'll see you in Hell." The Shape of a RebootMovie:Halloween (remake) Victim: Michael Myers, the man himself Death by: Gunshot to the faceKillacious: Fans where psyched when Rob Zombie was announced as the man who would reboot Halloween. After the filmmaker's House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects thrilled gorehounds to no end, it seemed that the saga of Michael Myers was finally going to get back on track again. Alas, the final product from Zombie proved to be an almost universal disappointment, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't some good killing action to be found in the film nonetheless. Interestingly enough, perhaps the most troubling -- and shocking -- kill in the film comes when Michael himself bites it. After a long and bloody struggle with this film's version of Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) -- where we realize that Michael doesn't actually want to kill her but instead is trying to show her that she is his long-lost sister -- the girl shoots her brother in the face at pointblank range. The film abruptly ends at that point in an effective moment of terror with the blood-soaked Laurie screaming uncontrollably. Source: http://movies.ign.com/articles/922/922695p10.html That mask scares the hell out of me