- "Grizzly's back in town, who's got the Cracker Jack?"
- ―Joe Grizzly utters his catchphrase[src]
Joe Grizzly is a minor character in the remake of Halloween.
Biography[]
"Big Joe" Grizzly was a truck driver who stopped at a rest stop/car wash near Haddonfield. He stopped to use the restroom, where he came across Michael Myers. At first, he told Michael to go away while he made use of the restroom. Michael, however, kept knocking on the door, which annoyed Grizzly, who got his knife out.
Joe's corpse
He opened the door and threatened to cut the mask from Michael's face. Myers burst into the restroom stall and fought with Grizzly, who tried to stab Michael with a knife. Michael slammed him against the wall multiple times, took his knife and repeatedly stabbed him in the stomach until he died. Afterward, he stole Grizzly's coveralls.
Notes and trivia[]
- Michael's massive frame in this version called for an equally towering character for the killer to obtain his coveralls from, instead of a more nondescript individual. This also lent itself to a new scene featuring a violent confrontation between the two titans.
- Joe's death won the "Golden Chainsaw Award" in Dead Meat's Halloween (2007) kill count.
- The cult movies podcast Cult-45 awards a "Joe Grizzly Award" each episode to a character in the movie they review that week. The qualifications for the Joe Grizzly award is the most over-the-top scene stealing character of the film.
- Joe Grizzly is the third known character killed by Michael for his clothing.