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The ending scene of Michael being shot six times, and then disappearing from the ground outside the house, was meant to terrify the imagination of the audience.

Carpenter tried to keep the audience guessing as to who Michael Myers really is — he is gone, and everywhere at the same time ; he is more than human ; he may be supernatural, and no one knows how he got that way.

To Carpenter, keeping the audience guessing was better than explaining away the character with " he's cursed by some ..." For Josh Hartnett, who portrayed John Tate in Halloween H20, " it's that abstract, it's easier for me to be afraid of it.

You know, someone who just kind of appears and, you know stabbing noise from Psycho ( film ) | Psycho instead of an actual human who you think you can talk to.

And no remorse, it's got no feelings, that's the most frightening, definitely.

" Richard Schickel, film critic for TIME, felt Michael was " irrational " and " really angry about something ", having what Schickel referred to as " a kind of primitive, obsessed intelligence ".

Schickel considered this the " definition of a good monster ", by making the character appear " less than human ", but having enough intelligence " to be dangerous ".