- "You've lived up to that responsiblity more times than I care to count, you're entitled to some happiness in your life too."
- ―Marion, to Dr. Loomis, noting that he deserves to have a happy life like many others.[src]
Marion Chambers is a character that appears in Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween: 30 Years of Terror and Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later.
Biography[]
Following the 1978 murders, Marion became Doctor Loomis' partner, helping him in his mission to stop Michael Myers. On October 30, 1989, Marion and Loomis followed a clue left in the doctor's house by Michael the night before to Haddonfield Elementary School, where they found a dog with a picture of Sam stapled to it. Meanwhile, Michael murdered a teacher in the school.[1]
Assisting Loomis[]
After the murders, Marion kept helping and assisting the doctor. One day, in his office, Marion asked him if they should call the police, as Michael had broken into the place, only to be put off by Loomis.
They then drove to a location clued in by Michael, Marion concerned if the doctor was alright and feeling like she was wasting her time. When they got off the car, Marion told Loomis that he should discard his gun, telling him that he deserved to have some happiness in his own life too. They discussed it for a while until Marion noticed something on the way to the school.
Death[]
By February 1995, Marion and Loomis had settled down in a house in Langdon, Illinois. On February 2, 1995, Loomis suffered a heart attack and died in a hospital shortly afterwards. After a period of mourning, Marion placed the file on Keri Tate safely in the file marked LAURIE STRODE and began reading Loomis' diaries.[2]
Michael finally gets Marion after 20 years.
On October 29, 1998, Marion returned to her home only to find that it had been broken into. Marion enlisted her next-door neighbor Jimmy Howell and his friend Tony Allegre to search the house, but they found nothing other than the fact that someone had ransacked Loomis' old office. The police having been called, Marion returned to her house only to find that the LAURIE STRODE file had been emptied... and someone was still in the house. Panicked, Marion ran next door and found Jimmy and Tony's dead bodies. Marion was then assaulted by Michael Myers. After fighting him off with a hockey stick, Marion smashed the window open and screamed for help from the two officers that had just arrived at her house. Before she could attract their attention, Michael grabbed her from behind and slowly slit her throat with a butcher knife.[3]
Notes and trivia[]
- The name 'Marion Chambers' is a combination of two characters from the 1960 film Psycho; Marion Crane (whose actress Janet Leigh played Norma Watson in Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later) and Sheriff Chambers.
- Marion has gained notoriety among fans for being the character that reveals to Dr. Loomis the fact that Laurie Strode and Michael Myers are siblings, thus beginning the "family" angle of the sequels.
- An online fan novelization of H20 has Marion surviving Michael's attack and calling Laurie Strode to warn her of Michael's resurfacing.
- In Halloween: Resurrection, mental patient Harold Trumble lists all of Michael's known victims. Marion is conspicuously absent from this body count, which is ironic as Nancy Stephens, Marion's actress is the wife of the film's director, Rick Rosenthal.