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"Evil dies tonight."
―Laurie Strode[src]

Laurie Strode is a character and primary protagonist in the Halloween franchise. She first appeared in the original Halloween, played by Jamie Lee Curtis.

In 2017, it was announced that Halloween (2018) would be a direct sequel to Halloween (1978), ignoring all of the sequels made afterwards. As a result, the biography of Laurie's life is now split into four different timelines (three with Curtis' portrayal of the character, one with the Rob Zombie remake). In the first continuity of Curtis' portrayal of the character, Laurie is seemingly killed off-screen (but later revealed to be alive in a sequel comic book), while in the second continuity, she is killed by Michael Myers. In this timeline, Laurie remains alive 40 years after the events of the original 1978 murders. The most notable difference is that this version of her is not related to Michael.

In the 40 years after the horrible events that happened on Halloween in 1978, Laurie began living in a small house in the woods, on the outskirts of Haddonfield.

Another timeline[]

The original continuity depicted Laurie surviving the 1978 murders, then dying off-screen in a car accident, as mentioned in the fourth film. The displeasure of this ending led to Laurie's revival in the seventh film, which was tentatively named Halloween 7: The Revenge of Laurie Strode which would loosely give callbacks to the 4-6 films. Eventually, it was decided to scrap the concept entirely. In a controversial change, the movie, now named Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, the seventh released Halloween film, retconned the previous three releases (Halloween 4, 5, and 6) as a direct sequel to Halloween II.

As the 4-6 films never happened in continuity with the 7th film, a new timeline was established where Laurie led a relatively peaceful life for 20 years, though she still faked her death after the events of the second film. However, Curtis was contractually obligated to appear in a sequel to H20 in order to make it, despite Michael's definitive death at the end of the movie. A twist in the eighth released film (and fourth in the second continuity) established that Michael had switched outfits with a paramedic and Laurie did not kill Michael at the end of H20. In the second continuity, Laurie was killed at the beginning of the film after Michael found her three years after the events of H20.

Jamie Lee Curtis later referred to Resurrection, the eighth film, as a "joke" because of her contractual fulfillments. She felt that, however, Laurie or Michael had to die; otherwise, there would be a state of "limbo" with no closure. The announcement in 2017 stated that Laurie would return, alive and well, with confirmation that anything after the first film never happened. Curtis referred to this as being Laurie's final appearance, thus making this the second and final film in a fourth timeline (the Rob Zombie remake continuity included).

Although Halloween II and its later installments have portrayed Myers as a familicidal killer and Laurie as his younger sister, the writers of the 2018 film felt that the added motive made him less frightening as a killer. As such, they intentionally ignored that aspect of the lore. In the trailer for the film, Strode's granddaughter Allyson Nelson, played by Andi Matichak, explains how her life has been impacted by Michael's reign of terror 40 years earlier. When a friend hints that they heard Michael was Laurie's brother, Matichak's character replies, "No, it was not her brother, that was something people made up."

Biography[]

1978 massacre[]

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Laurie's fateful encounter with the Shape

In 1978, seventeen-year-old Laurie Strode was a kindhearted yet introverted girl who attended Haddonfield High School with her friends Annie Brackett and Lynda Van der Klok. Laurie was shy and bookish and did not share her friends' overt personalities. She always claimed that her brainy ways scared boys away, which accounted for her sparse dating history.[1]

On October 31, her father asked Laurie to drop off a set of keys to the old Myers house, which had been on the market for quite some time.[1]

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Laurie sees the man watching her during class

During literature class, Laurie glimpsed a man staring at her across the street. After school, Laurie and her friends were walking home when she spied the same strange shape peering at them from around a corner. Annie went to investigate, but found nothing. She teased Laurie, saying that she "scared another one away". At home, she thought she saw the same strange, masked man in her neighbor's backyard behind a clothesline.[1]

After taking a shower, Laurie was visited by a frantic Lynda, who claimed that someone had been following her. Laurie worriedly assumed that Lynda's stalker was the same man she had been seeing, and became increasingly paranoid.[1]

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Laurie preparing to go across the street, unaware of what took place

Later that day, she went out with Annie and learned that someone had broken into Nichol's Hardware Store and stolen some rope, a knife and a Halloween mask. As Annie and she drove around town, Laurie expressed an interest in going out with a boy named Bennett Tramer. Annie decided to take matters into her own hands and surreptitiously contacted Ben without Laurie's approval. Laurie was deeply embarrassed when she heard the news and begged Annie to call him back and break it off.[1] That evening, Laurie went to the Doyle residence to babysit young Tommy Doyle. She brought along a jack-o'-lantern and entertained Tommy by reading him some of his comic books and watching scary movies. As the evening wore on, Annie came over to the house with her own charge, Lindsey Wallace, in tow. She asked Laurie to keep an eye on Lindsey for the next few hours so she could go out with her boyfriend Paul Freedman. Laurie disliked the idea, but agreed after Annie told her she would cancel her pending date with Ben.[1]

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The Shape emerges from the darkness

What Laurie was unaware of at the time was that Michael Myers was stalking her. It was Michael that Laurie had seen earlier at school, on the sidewalk and in her neighbor's backyard. While Laurie was watching over Tommy, Michael was killing her friends off one at a time, including Annie, Lynda and Lynda's boyfriend Bob Simms.[1]

Laurie went over to the Wallace residence to check on Annie, but instead found the bodies of Annie, Lynda, and Bob placed in key positions throughout the house. As a horrified Laurie cowered in the hallway, Michael Myers emerged and attacked Laurie, slicing her arm with his knife. This caused Laurie to fall over the second-floor landing, and she fell down the stairs, cracking her ankle in the process. Screaming in terror, Laurie limped back to the Doyle house and screamed for the children to let her inside.[1]

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Laurie arms herself with a knitting needle


Tommy eventually opened the door and Laurie quickly entered the house, locking the door behind her. Michael got in through the window and attacked Laurie again. She kept him at bay by stabbing him in the neck with a knitting needle then ran upstairs. Michael was undeterred and followed her up the stairs. He cornered Laurie in a bedroom closet and tried stabbing at her with his knife. Laurie straightened out the end of a clothes hanger and jabbed Michael in the eye, forcing him to relinquish his blade. Laurie picked it up and stabbed Michael in the stomach. He slumped to the floor and Laurie believed he was dead.[1]

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"He won't die..."

Tearfully, she exited the closet and issued instructions to the children to leave the house. Moments later however, Michael rose and attacked Laurie again. He began strangling her and Laurie managed to pull his mask away, seeing his face for the first time. At this moment, Michael's former psychiatrist Doctor Sam Loomis burst into the house and fired a bullet into Michael's body. He followed it up with six more shots, which drove Michael through the bedroom window, out over the balcony and down onto the ground. When Loomis looked over the balcony however to check on Michael's body, he was gone. A shocked Laurie meekly stated, "it was the boogeyman," to which Loomis replied, "As a matter of fact... it was."[1]

1979-2017[]

Soon afterwards, Michael Myers was captured by Samuel Loomis, with the help of the Haddonfield Police Department, and returned to Smith's Grove Sanitarium, with continued treatment from Loomis.

Laurie's parents were left with a traumatized daughter after the 1978 events. Morgan ultimately died of a heart attack one year afterward in 1979, and Pamela soon became fed up with her daughter's nightmares and delusions about Michael Myers and eventually kicked her out.

Laurie has a one-night stand with a random man at a bar that results in the birth of a daughter named Karen. Laurie trained her rigorously to prepare her for the day Michael Myers returned, but eventually loss custody of her daughter after Child Protective Services deemed her an unfit parent.

After growing up, Karen gave birth to Laurie's granddaughter, Allyson. Over the years, Laurie builds traps in her home, and trains with guns, to prepare herself for Myers' eventual breakout and return.

2018 massacre[]

In October 2018, it has been 40 years after the original massacre in Haddonfield, Illinois. Crime podcasters Aaron Joseph-Korey and Dana Haines visit Smith's Grove to see Michael Myers. They visit Michael's psychiatrist Dr. Sartain, a follower of Dr. Samuel Loomis before meeting with The Shape in hopes to get a rise out of him by showing him his original mask from the 1978 murders. Michael is soon to be moved to a new facility for the rest of his days.

Dana and Aaron arrive at Laurie's house which is now heavily guarded and armed with many security systems located on the outskirts of Haddonfield. They offer Laurie $3,000 for an interview, during the interview she talks about her PTSD and her two failed marriages which caused her daughter Karen to be taken away by Child Protective Services when she was 12. Their interview is cut when Aaron asks about Laurie making contact with Michael in person for more information.

The following night, October 30, Laurie watches from a distance as Michael and other inmates are loaded onto a bus for transfer to a new facility. Later that night, while Laurie crashes Allyson's celebratory dinner, Michael escapes his transport to the facility. Killing all the security guards, Michael kills a father and his son the steals their car now heading towards Haddonfield. The next day, October 31, Michael murders a mechanic for his jumpsuit, a clerk, the two reporters Aaron and Dana at a gas station. He recovers his mask from the trunk of the podcasters car and continues heading for Haddonfield. After learning about the crash, Laurie breaks into Karen's house. She does this to show both her and Ray how easy it is to get inside their home. The three of them get into an argument and Laurie is forced to leave. Michael begins to kill innocent people in Haddonfield. Meanwhile, Allyson is at the Halloween high school dance. She receives a call from Vicky, who invites her to come over to the house she's babysitting at. Allyson and her boyfriend have a fight so he throws her phone just as Laurie is calling. Vicky tucks her charge, Julian, into bed. She goes downstairs to let her boyfriend in and the two of them start making out. They hear Julian scream so Vicky goes to check it out.

Julian asks her to close the closet door but it will not shut. She opens it to see why and gets stabbed by Michael. Julian runs but tells Dave as he does to get out of here or else he's going to die. Dave doesn't listen and goes to save Vicky. He gets stabbed through the throat and pinned to the wall with a knife. Laurie is busy patrolling Haddonfield when she hears a call on her radio. She drives to the house where she meets Sheriff Hawkins. The two of them begin to search the area for any sign of Michael. Laurie spots him and shoots at him but when she goes in for a closer look he's gone. Allyson leaves her boyfriend after catching him cheating on her at the school dance. She walks home with her friend, Oscar. Oscar makes a move on Allyson but she tells him that she doesn't see him that way. Oscar stays behind as Allyson goes off on her own. He spots Michael watching him and tries to escape his clutches. He goes to a nearby fence and tries to climb it but Michael stabs then impales him. Having heard Oscar's screams, Allyson comes back but runs into Michael. He chases after her but she knocks on the door of one of the houses and they answer. Meanwhile, Laurie, Karen, and Ray have gone to Laurie's home. They wait there for Allyson to arrive. Hawkins and Dr. Sartain continue to search for Michael. They end up finding Allyson instead. Michael has caught up with her so Hawkins runs him over. He gets out of the vehicle with the plan on shooting Michael but ends up getting stabbed by Dr. Sartain.

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Michael attacks Laurie through the front door

Dr. Sartain takes Michael's mask and puts it on. He manages to put Michael into the back of the police SUV with Allyson. They drive to Laurie's house. Suddenly, Michael wakes up and takes his mask back from Sartain. Allyson bluffs and tells the doctor that Michael said something to her. Curious, Sartain demands to know what he said. Michael breaks through the security barrier in the car and pulls Sartain out of the vehicle. He drops him and begins to stomp on his head. While Michael is distracted, Allyson escapes on foot. Back at Laurie's house, Ray goes to talk with the police officers parked outside. He discovers that both of them have been killed. Suddenly, Michael appears behind him and strangles him to death. Laurie sends Karen to the hidden room below once she learns that Michael's finally arrived. Despite all her security measures, Michael breaks into the house. Laurie and Michael fight but Laurie ends up falling out of a window. Allyson arrives and goes to see if Laurie is alright but there's no one there.

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Trapping Michael in the basement

Allyson goes inside the house and Karen brings her into the safe room. Michael discovers how to get to the room below and pulls it apart to reveal the entrance. Karen shoots him. Laurie suddenly appears and sends Michael falling down the stairs. Karen and Allyson quickly rush up the stairs to get out of the safe room. As they do, Michael wakes up and grabs Karen's ankle. Allyson grabs Michael's knife and stabs him allowing the two of them to leave the room. Laurie flips a switch and metal spikes suddenly appear over the entrance. Michael is finally trapped. The room he's in starts to fill with gas and Laurie throws in a flare to set the place on fire. Laurie and the rest of her family leave as the house begins to burn. They grab a ride from a stranger driving a truck as it is passing by. They watch as the house is engulfed in flames. Michael's body isn't shown, but his breathing is heard. The three of them are driven away with Allyson clutching Michael's knife.

Later that night[]

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"LET IT BURN!"

Laurie notices fire engines arriving and calls out for them to let her home burn. Laurie is taken to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital and operated on. Laurie wakes up as Karen comes in, the latter calling for Laurie to relax before Laurie insists she is fine and calls her knife injury "a paper cut". Laurie asks Karen where Allyson is and denies having seen her, citing the influence of her pain medication. Laurie asks Karen if everything is okay and calls Karen's name twice as the latter comes over to her, Laurie telling her daughter that "Michael's gone" and that they killed him. Hawkins is then wheeled into the room and Laurie calls out for him. Laurie calls out his name twice more, asking if he is awake and then if he remembers the night at the bar where he helped her, admitting that she always liked him. As the pair reflect on their past together, Laurie tells Hawkins that they killed Michael and a nurse comes into the room to give him an injection, Laurie asking the nurse if she can help out Hawkins by giving two shots.

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Laurie and Karen attempting to stop the crowd

Tommy arrives at the hospital and goes past Karen to enter Laurie's room, telling her that Michael killed Marion Chambers and attacked Lindsey, unintentionally revealing to Laurie that Michael was still alive. Laurie turns to Karen who tries to explain her lie, and requests the nurse leaves the room. Laurie questions how Michael escaped after they "had him" and is asked by Tommy what they will do without police support, Laurie responding that they keep fighting and instructing Tommy to find Michael. Karen tries to get Laurie to stay in her bed and tells her there is a system to dealing with these kinds of incidents, to which Laurie asserts that the system failed and commands Karen to get out of her way. She pushes Karen aside and injects herself, telling Karen to let Michael come for her and speculates that their shared demises may be the only way for his crimes to end. Laurie insists that Karen and Allyson should not have to keep running because of the darkness she made and goes to retrieve the knife she was stabbed with.

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Laurie discussing Michael with Hawkins

Laurie and Karen try to stop the crowd chasing the escaped Anthony Tivoli before Laurie is injured and escorted back to her room. Laurie reflects that the chaos is Michael's masterpiece and creation, but admits to being the one who brought it onto Haddonfield. Hawkins disputes this and recalls stopping Loomis from executing Michael in 1978, Laurie responding by noting the effect Michael has had on the decent people of Haddonfield and calls Hawkins a good man who was doing his job. She furthered that Michael needs to die because he wins every time someone is afraid and adds that she's the one who needs to kill him. Karen returns to the room after Tivoli's death and argues with Laurie, the latter insisting that Michael is after him before Hawkins interjects by mentioning that it was Sartain who drove him to her home. Karen left the hospital and Laurie continued her conversation with Hawkins, admitting that she always thought he was mortal, but changed her mind after seeing what he had lived through and that he transcends into "something else impossible to defeat" the more he murders. Laurie adds that the true curse of Michael is the fear he puts in others, which cannot be defeated with brute force. She says you can't close your eyes and pretend Michael isn't there because he is, as Karen is being murdered by Michael, Laurie is staring out a window at the same time as him.

Four years later[]

In the years that followed, Laurie made a promise to herself to not let fear rule her life anymore and she bought a new home for Allyson and herself, without any traps or for the purpose of hiding. On Halloween, 2019, Corey Cunningham accidentally killed a boy he was babysitting. After the child's parents returned to the house, officers arrived, and Laurie watched this unfold from her car. She begins writing a memoir. In the days leading up to Halloween, she is writing her memoir when her smoke alarm goes off. Realizing it is her pie burning, Laurie calls Allyson's name as the latter rushed downstairs, and she explains what happened. Allyson tells her she could get a pie from the store but Laurie stresses her desire to make her one as it was Halloween tradition. Laurie asks her if she has a costume for the party and Allyson replies that she did not want to go alone and is thus not going. As Allyson leaves, Laurie sighs and pours water on the charred pie.

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Laurie formally meets Corey Cunningham.

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Laurie speaks with Hawkins at the grocery store

Corey is asked by members of the school marching band if he can buy the underage group some beer and is recognized over Jeremy's murder. Corey breaks his glass of milk and spills it on the bullies, who push him to the ground. Laurie intervenes, shouting for them to knock it off. The group, after one of its members calls the meeting of Laurie and Corey "a psycho meets a freak show", walks away. Laurie extends her hand to Corey and the latter takes it as he stands back up, Laurie asking if Corey was the "psycho" or the "freak show". While the group is away, Laurie shows Corey a knife as she stares at the band's car and asks if Corey wanted to "do it" or if it would be her. Corey lets the air out of their tires and gets into Laurie's car, the latter taking him to the hospital. There he meets Allyson as the latter helps with bandaging his hand, and Allyson expresses interest in hanging out with him. Later, as Allyson, Laurie, and Lindsay hung out, Allyson tells Laurie that she introduced Corey to her on purpose. Laurie refutes this by saying that he needed medical attention and Dr. Mathis was the best qualified to help. Laurie tells Allyson that she needs to find someone that can let go who can motivate her to stand up to her grief.

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Laurie depressed after being blamed for Michael's 2018 killing spree.

Laurie runs into Frank at the grocery store and throws a vegetable to him. As Frank compliments her hair, Laurie thanks him and two begin walking together as Frank expresses the ways in which his life has changed since 2018. Laurie laughs as Frank isn't sure what he said in Japanese and the latter asks if she still has her nose in the book she is writing. Laurie mentions that Allyson has been talking to a guy and tells Frank Corey's name, the latter confirming he knows him. Laurie tells Frank that she likes his face and he returns the compliment by stating that he likes seeing her too. A happy Laurie walks out of the store and a woman comes up to her, asking why she is smiling and questions what she bought from the store. Confused, Laurie apologizes as she says she does not understand and the woman points to her sister Sondra Dickerson, who has been stabbed in the neck during Michael's 2018 spree. After the woman blames Laurie for her sister's injury and accuses her of provoking Michael when she should have left him alone, a saddened Laurie goes to sit in her car.

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Laurie is frightened by Corey after he unintentionally sneaks up on her.

At the Halloween party, Allyson and Corey have fun until the latter encounters the mother of the kid he killed, leading to him angrily leaving the party. After he and Allyson split, the latter returns home and begins showing her anger by hitting the microwave. Laurie tries to tell her to calm down, but Allyson requests that she let her be mad. Laurie tells her that she can be mad and she's allowed to smash things, but warns her that it can be addictive. Allyson, observing the reel of pictures she and Corey took that night, admits that Laurie was right and that she liked him. At the same time, Corey encounters Michael, who stares into his eyes and lets him go. Within hours, Corey is confronted by a homeless man who demands he go back in the sewer and get him Michael's mask, Corey stabbing the man to death during their struggle. Laurie looks out her window and sees Corey standing by a bush, which reminds her of Michael doing the same thing decades earlier. Laurie goes outside and is surprised by Corey, the latter explaining that he did not mean to scare her and came to see Allyson.

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Laurie meets with Corey's mother Joan Cunningham to discuss her son.

Corey recounts being jumped by the gang at the gas station and Laurie expresses sympathy with him before Allyson and Corey leave for a walk, Laurie casting a watchful gaze at Corey as he steps away. Laurie goes to meet Corey's mother Joan Cunningham at her home and tells her that Corey is seeing her granddaughter and that she introduced them. Joan tells Laurie that Corey is grown and can do what he wants and Laurie replies that she knows he's had his difficulties. Joan angrily says the town would have helped Corey heal after Jeremy's death but they turned him into their new boogeyman after Michael's disappeared and Laurie apologizes before showing herself out of the home. Laurie later observes as Corey and Allyson go into her home and later visits Lindsay at her bar. Laurie tells Lindsay that she's seen Michael's eyes in Corey and Lindsay introduces her to Roger, Jeremy's father. Roger tells Laurie that he used to believe Corey was incapable of harming anyone and when he saw Corey the previous day, Corey looked at him and Roger saw someone else in his eyes that made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. He concluded the kid who used to mow his law did not kill his son but the man he saw on the side of the road was on a dark path.

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Laurie warns Corey to stay away from Allyson.

On Halloween, 2022, Laurie sits in a chair in the abandoned home of Jeremy's family as Corey wakes from his slumber, the latter calling for Allyson until he sees her. Laurie tells Corey it's nice to see him and tells him about the two kinds of evil that exist, noting that one evil lives inside them like a sickness or infection. She cites this evil as being more dangerous because they may not know they're infected and Corey asks Laurie if they're bad people. Laurie admits they are both messed up and Laurie tells Corey that she wants to help him but that Allyson is not equipped for their relationship, telling him to stay away. Corey angrily replies that she started this and tells Laurie to let Allyson live her life and that Laurie should surrender to the feeling she had when she first looked into Michael's eyes, accusing her of secretly hoping Michael comes back for her. He calls himself the "psycho" and her "the freak show" before realizing that she has left. Corey tells Allyson over the phone that the two need to leave town as Laurie is planning to kill him and retrieves Michael's mask from the latter.

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Allyson dismisses Laurie's warnings about Corey.

Allyson comes home and realizes that Laurie is in her room, asking the latter if she found what she was looking for. Laurie tells her she imagines she's going on a wonderful trip and asks if she was going to tell her, Allyson asking what difference it makes and Laurie replies that it makes a big difference. Laurie tells Allyson that she went to Corey's home and met his mother, Allyson revealing that Corey told her and questions if Laurie is stalking him. Laurie denies this and says that she sees the same thing in him that she saw in Michael, Allyson retorting that Michael is who she is. Laurie tells Allyson that she is not listening and that she can have a good life, just not with Corey. Allyson grabs Laurie and tells her that she pretends that she's moved on but is actually just obsessed with death and is not going to stop until everyone is as miserable as her. Laurie shouts that Corey is on a dark path and that she is not going to let this happen to her, furthering that Allyson has to believe her. Allyson opens the door and tells Laurie that her parents and friends are dead due to the hysteria she caused, and that to her, Laurie is the one who's capable of harm as she closes the door with a slam.

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Laurie has Corey at her mercy after shooting him.

Allyson goes to meet Corey, who is out killing and thus does not come to their meeting point. Laurie calls her, and after Allyson declines answering, leaves her a voicemail apologizing. Laurie walks around her home and goes upstairs. She steps into her office and puts her drink at her desk. She walks over to one of the pumpkins and lights it from the inside. Laurie pours a drink and begins reading, opening a drawer and pulling out her gun. She calls a line and reports a suicide, giving her address. Removing her glasses and sweater, she takes a breath and points the gun to the side of her head before moving it down. She shoots, and Corey, wearing Michael's mask, opens the door. He sees Laurie pointing her gun at him and she sarcastically asks if he really thinks she would kill herself before she shoots him twice and falls down the staircase. The critically wounded Corey lays on the floor as Laurie descends and she pulls him by the hair as she says that she has tried so hard to have compassion and have mercy. She shoots the remaining bullets in her gun and asks what the point is, standing in front of Corey and telling him to kill her since that's what he came to do. As Allyson pulls up, Corey laughs and Laurie says that we all learn the truth eventually, questioning if he really thought Allyson was going to be with him. Corey then repeats his earlier line regarding if he couldn't have her and stabs himself in the throat, Laurie reacting with frustration as she comes over to him. Allyson then enters the home and questions what Laurie did to him, kneeling over his body and screaming at Laurie before leaving the house.

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Laurie pins Michael's body down with her refrigerator.

A saddened Laurie goes to sit by herself in the kitchen, and puts her gun away. She looks around as Michael makes his way to Corey's body and retrieves his mask, killing the young man shortly thereafter. Michael walks around the kitchen and Laurie hides. As he moves to the door, a food she placed in the microwave makes a noise that distracts him and she hits him with the door. She begins beating him until he grabs her by the hair. Michael repeatedly pushes her against the refrigerator and she falls toward the sink, Laurie manages to barely prevent Michael from pushing her hand into the garbage disposal as she screams. She uses the back of her head to strike him and he releases her from his grip. Laurie stabs Michael's hand against the table. She pins him down with her body and pulls a knife out the drawer, shoving it into his heart. She stabs both of his hands and drops her refrigerator on him. Laurie pulls out another knife and stabs him in the chest, retracting it. She then takes his mask off and tells him that she's run from him, chased him, tried to contain him, tried to forgive him, and previously thought he was the boogeyman but realizes that he's just a man who's about to stop breathing, as she slits Michael's throat. Michael grabs her by the throat and Laurie tells him to kill her before Allyson rushes to remove his hand from her throat and breaks Michael's arm. Laurie holds Michael's hand as he bleeds out after Laurie slits his wrists.

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Ensuring Michael's demise, Laurie lifts his body into a shredder.

Hawkins arrives with other officers and Laurie informs him that Michael is dead. With the permission of Sheriff Barker, Laurie sits in the passenger seat as Allyson drives a car with Michael's body strapped to the top to the nearby landfill site. As they arrive, Laurie and Allyson take hands and Michael's corpse is lifted by Haddonfield citizens. Laurie lifts Michael's corpse into the industrial shredder, which destroys it. Allyson later admits that Laurie was right about Corey and Laurie tells her that he was consumed by evil. Laurie continues writing her memoir, ending that while she has said goodbye to her boogeyman, evil does not die and instead changes shape. She receives a ring on her door and catches Hawkins as he is walking away, the latter telling her that he wanted her to know he was thinking about her and that he wanted to thank her for what she did. Laurie asks Hawkins what he was saying about the cherry blossoms and the two sit on her porch together.

Personality[]

Throughout her life, Laurie has been protective of others. During Michael's 1978 murder spree, she sent Tommy Doyle and Lindsey Wallace away from the Doyle house to get help and to ensure that the pair were away from Michael. She rationalized her treatment of Karen during the latter's childhood as being done to both protect her and ensure that she was ready if Michael escaped. During Michael's 2018 murder spree, Laurie sent Karen to a safe room while she fought Michael. While recovering from their encounter with Michael, Laurie told Karen that her sacrificing herself might be the only way to stop Michael and furthered that she and Allyson should not have to keep running "because of the darkness" she created, showing that her willingness to sacrifice was motivated by her wanting to protect her family.

Laurie had a strained relationship with her daughter Karen. While she loved and took care of her, until Karen was taken away at age 12, the paranoia that Laurie had about Michael and the suffocation that Karen felt from it caused them to become distant as she grew older. When Halloween 2018 came, and Michael resumed his murder spree, Laurie protected her daughter in her home without hesitation. Karen stayed with Laurie at the hospital under the mistaken assumption that Michael was after her and lobbied for as much protection to be placed on her mother as possible. Though the two finally saw eye-to-eye on the threat of Michael, Karen pushed Laurie to stay out of the current conflict due to both her injuries and a belief that there was a system to deal with individuals such as Myers, and Laurie pushed back on account of the system failing. This conflict would remain until Karen left the hospital to aid in an attempt to kill Michael that horrifically backfired and led to her death along with every other participant in it. In the years that followed, Laurie kept a picture of her daughter as her background on her phone in remembrance of her.

In her older years, Laurie shares traits with the late Dr. Loomis in being an older adult who takes the threat of Michael more seriously than others as a result of their experiences with him. Just as Loomis selflessly put himself in harm's way to try and stop Michael's murder spree on Halloween 1978, Laurie went out during Halloween 2018 and searched for Michael. Laurie telling Hawkins "it needs to die" echoes a part of Loomis' recorded statements calling for Michael's execution.

She had a complex relationship with Frank Hawkins. Although she considered him her friend and cared about his well-being, the two differed greatly on their views of Michael. Whereas she hoped he would escape so she could kill him, Hawkins wanted him to stay incarcerated forever because he knew how deadly a second spree by the killer could be. In the four years that passed after the 2018 Halloween massacre, they became much friendlier with Laurie even following up on a suggestion by Hawkins to write a memoir about her past.

In the years that followed the 2018 massacre, Laurie shed much of her past precautions and fears, buying a regular home without traps or other means to protect herself. She appeared happier and enjoyed spending time with Allyson, Lindsay, and Frank, even wanting to take up baking and making foods for her granddaughter. In that four-year period, Laurie showed much of the personality she had before encountering Michael on Halloween 1978, that of a shy, but well-meaning girl who was generally pleasant to her friends and family. Images of Annie, Lynda, and Karen in both her home and as her screensaver on her phone showed that although she had finally moved on, she had not forgotten those taken from her life by the very threat she correctly worried about for decades.

Laurie became familiar with Corey Cunningham after his accidental killing of Jeremy, though they were formally introduced to each other when she stood up for him at a gas station. They elicited comparisons for their odd or otherwise unique backgrounds, with her being a survivor of a serial killer who was blamed for his second murder spree, and Corey being an accidental murderer who was shunned for an unintended tragedy. She thought highly enough of him to introduce him to Allyson but was put off with his mannerisms, which reminded her of Michael. When she warned him to stay away from her granddaughter, he instantly reminded her that the pair only met because of her and refused to back out of a relationship with Allyson, even lying to that latter when claiming that Laurie wanted to kill him. In actuality this was projection, as Corey wanted to kill Laurie, but found himself severely outclassed when attempting to do so. Laurie mocked him both for thinking she was suicidal (as it showed he did not know her as well as he thought he did) and for believing he would be with Allyson. Corey aimed to have a legacy by destroying Laurie and Allyson's relationship with a suicide that made it appear Laurie had killed him, but this quickly failed thanks to his own actions, as Allyson realized he set the radio tower on fire and was just as awful as Laurie had asserted.

The few days that Corey dated Allyson would serve to worsen the relationship between grandmother and granddaughter. Even though Laurie was the only person to continuously warn about the threat of Michael and protected Karen on Halloween 2018 prior to her hospitalization, Allyson partially blamed her for the deaths of her parents and friends, echoing the views of some Haddonfield citizens that Laurie was responsible for the 2018 massacre. Seemingly voicing this for the first time to Laurie during the latter's attempt to get her to both stay in Haddonfield and not continue having a romance with Corey, a saddened Laurie was left speechless, still trying to contact Allyson after she left in spite of how much pain the latter had caused her. Although Laurie mocked Corey for thinking she was suicidal, Laurie's decision to let Michael kill her via strangulation as the latter laid dying from his wounds could be interpreted as coming from the sadness of having Allyson, her last living relative, shun her for trying to protect her. When Allyson returned to their home and broke Michael's arm as he was strangling Laurie, she told her grandmother that she would not allow her to die as well and in a subsequent conversation admitted she had been right about Corey, granting Laurie vindication as the relationship between the two healed.

Notes and trivia[]

  • Without the retcon of being Michael's sister, Laurie is also, presumably, not adopted in this continuity.
  • In the original film, Michael/The Shape had no agenda specifically for Laurie, but just chose to stalk her. It was only in Halloween II that it was decided to make Laurie and Michael siblings, thus giving him a motive for choosing her. The Extended Edition of Halloween, released on television in 1980, had John Carpenter included additional scenes that tied the film further to Halloween II, one of which had Michael scratching out the word: "Sister" in the Sanitarium before he left. It is unknown if these events still occurred in this timeline, as they do not confirm, but rather only hint at his sibling relation with Laurie.
  • Along with Ranbir Sartain, Laurie is one of two characters to assault Frank Hawkins in the 2018 Halloween film, although Laurie accidentally struck Hawkins while Sartain's assault was intentional.
  • Along with Michael, she is one of two characters to appear in both the 1978 Halloween film and the 2018 Halloween film.
  • Halloween Kills is the first movie in the franchise in which both Michael and Laurie appear, but do not interact with each other.
  • Halloween Kills is the second instance where Laurie spends an entire movie in the hospital, after Halloween II.
  • Laurie is the third character in the franchise to write a book on her experiences with Michael Myers, after Samuel Loomis in the 4-6 Timeline and Samuel Loomis in the 2007 Remake Timeline.
  • She is voiced by Naoko Kouda in the Japanese dub.

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