Question

What motivates Michael Myers?

Answer 1

Taking away from the odd and nonsensical plotline in that he was being controlled somehow by a shadowy and pagan type organization or something completely cartoonish such as that, Rob Zombie based his films in reality and not bad 1970's writing. In his films Michael is simply insane. It's as simple as that. He shows signs of severe disturbance as a child in these versions such as murdering his own pets and dogs and cats from the neighborhood (as this is the often warning sign of a future murderer of humans). In Zombie's version Michael doesn't kill his family out of some cryptic reason based in paganism and the occult, he does it simply because he hates them. He murders his mother's live in boyfriend due to the fact that he is highly harassing to both Michael and his mother verbally and mo