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Michael Myers has been terrifying teen babysitters since the first Halloween film debuted in The masked killer stalks and knifes and strangles, and drowns, and hangs and beats to death residents of the fictional town of Haddonfield, Illinois, especially targeting high school students. This month, the iconic character returns to the big screen in Halloween , a direct sequel to the original film of the same name and the eleventh installment in the Halloween franchise.

Myers has become one of the most recognizable masked killers in horror history, alongside villains like Ghostface in Scream , who was inspired by the real-life serial killer the "Gainesville Ripper," and Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, who was supposedly based on the "Butcher of Plainfield. But is Myers's character similarly rooted in reality?

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The original film's director and co-writer John Carpenter who also co-wrote 's Halloween II with his writing and producing partner Debra Hill says a creepy encounter he had while attending Western Kentucky University served as inspiration for the fictional serial killer. And there was this kid, he must have been 12 or 13 and he literally had this look.

Sam Loomis in Halloween and four of its sequels, to describe Myers in the first film, below:. Multiple Halloween fan sites claim Myers could also, in part, be based on Stanley Stiers, who went on a killing spree in Iowa in the s, even murdering his entire family on Halloween. But Esquire. He credits Yul Brynner's portrayal as a "killer robot that couldn't be killed" in the original Westworld film as additional inspiration for raising Michael Myers from just a character "to a mythic status.