13. Halloween (1978)

We are in heaven with this little slice of hell. Charla loves the "pure evil" of the criminally insane. And I love the interior design and clothing choices of the late 1970's. But why does Michael Myers do it? He doesn't ever seem to be satisfied after he murders someone. His Death Drive is an endless repetition of the same. What do psychopaths want out of life? His psychiatrist Dr. Loomis diagnosis him with his professional proclamation that he is "Pure evil!", but what does pure evil want? John Carpenter gives Michael an Oedipal backstory of discovering his sister having sex, but this explanation hardly seems plausible given that he not only murders his sister but becomes a supernatural predator bent on stabbing to death as many sexual active teens as he can get his hands on. When we don't know what the Other's desire is, we are terrified by the endlessness of its possibilities. Speculating about the psychology of psychopaths has been a pastime of our society for sometime now. We are fascinated with them because we wonder about our connection to them. Do we also have immoral and immortal desires?

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