# What if ‘Halloween’ had abandoned Michael Myers and become a horror anthology?

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/what-if-halloween-had-abandoned-michael-myers-and-become-a-horror-anthology/
- Published: 2026-10-30T09:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-30T11:50:14+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/what-if-halloween-had-abandoned-michael-myers-and-become-a-horror-anthology/
- Topics: Entertainment, Horror, Music

## Key points

- Carpenter planned a different horror story each year.
- Halloween III’s reception helped bring Myers back.
- The anthology approach might have changed the franchise’s course.

## Summary

John Carpenter originally envisioned the Halloween films as a yearly horror anthology, with each instalment telling a different story rather than continuing Michael Myers’s tale. That idea matters because it could have taken the series in a new direction, but audiences had come to expect Myers and many later films returned to him.

Carpenter considered Michael’s story finished after Halloween II and planned for Halloween III: Season of the Witch to begin the anthology approach. The film’s poor box office and negative reception were attributed in the article to viewers’ attachment to Myers and difficulty with its more conceptual story. The franchise subsequently moved back towards its original killer, leaving the anthology idea largely unrealised.

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