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Michael Myers A Sociopath

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Another example of an original movie that still terrify us today is the Halloween series. In 1978, the first film of many was released. This slasher series focuses on a notorious character, Michael Myers. As many of you already know, Michael Myers is a terrifyingly huge male with a knife which highlights the aspect of his gory kills. In one of the movies, The Shape, the young Myers kills his older sister and later returns home to kill more teenagers. Throughout this movie, sound effects are used to increase the fear of his kills. Myers would be classified as a sociopath which means that he has absolutely no remorse of killing his victims. He also tends to act on impulse rather than planned out though which helps classify this movie as a pop

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