Halloween H2O Introduced a new family member for the franchise hero and final girl, but what happened to Laurie Strode’s son, John? Halloween Follows the story of Michael Myers, who, after killing his sister when he was six years old, was sent to Smith’s Grove Sanitarium. Fifteen years later, Michael escaped and returned to Haddonfield, Illinois, where he began stalking Laurie. As the franchise evolved, Lowry had a daughter, Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris), introduced in the 1988s. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. After Laurie’s death, Jamie becomes the new protagonist, but her timeline ends again.
The first Halloween Recon happened in 1998 with Halloween H20: 20 years later. The new one Halloween Timeline brings Laurie back and leaves Jamie Lloyd aside. Halloween H20 Ignore all the movies yet Halloween 2. Laurie and Michael are still siblings, and it is explained that Laurie is facing her death so she can hide from Michael and live a normal life, which she has for many years under the alias Keri Tate. Instead of a daughter, Laurie Strode had a son named John.
Who is Laurie Strode’s son John?
Josh Hartnett played John In Halloween H2O
After hiding, Laurie Strode became a teacher and had a son, John (Josh Hartnett), who attended her school. Michael Myers finds out all about her new life, where she lives, and her son John, and he comes after her, killing John’s friends in the process. Finally, Lori manages to get John and his girlfriend, Molly (Michelle Williams), to safety and decides to get rid of Michael on her own.
Halloween: Resurrection Gave some closure to Laurie’s arc, but it failed to follow through with her son.
She steals the coroner’s van his body was supposedly in and decapitates him. However, the sequel Halloween: ResurrectionReveals that it is not Michael’s body but someone else’s. Laurie ends up in a psychiatric hospital, where the real Michael Myers finally kills her. Halloween: Resurrection Had some closure to Laurie’s arc, but failed to follow through with her son, who didn’t show up in the movie. David Gordon Green Halloween Movies too Featured Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie, but John doesn’t show up there either.
John only appears in one of many Halloween timelines
There are five Halloween timelines
Halloween: Resurrection Focused on a new group of victims unrelated to Laurie Strode and the rest of her family. Originally, John was supposed to return in the the resurrection Sequel to avenge his mother’s death. However, the critical backlash and low box office numbers of Halloween Resurrection Killed those plans, with the next installment in the franchise being Rob Zombie’s Halloween Rebooted in 2007. the resurrection Never mentioned John’s fate; Michael instead follows a group of strangers. Lurie presumably sent John far away from Haddonfield so he could continue without his uncle pursuing him.
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When the 2018 Halloween Movie arrived, many fans hoped to see John or, at least, expected an explanation of what happened to him. However, the 2018 movie completely ignores all Halloween sequels, meaning neither Jamie Lloyd nor John exists. The same goes for the subsequent entries in the reboot trilogy: Halloween kills And Halloween ends. John’s fate is one of the most significant loose threads Halloween Recons have left. Ultimately, it’s up to fans to decide what they think John’s fate was in the H20/the resurrection Timeline.
Halloween timeline |
Movies |
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The Original/Curse of Wrath |
Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989), Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) |
No Michael Myers |
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) |
Laurie vs. Michael |
Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1988), Halloween: Resurrection (2002) |
Rob Zombie’s reboot |
Halloween (2007), Halloween II (2009) |
2018 reinvention |
Halloween (1978), Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021), Halloween Ends (2022) |
All in all, there are five different timelines in these Halloween movie franchise, and the only thing either of them have in common is Laurie Strode and Michael Myers. All family relationships and even mythology change drastically between them. The version with Laurie Strode’s son John includes the first two movies and H2O. To an extent, it also includes the resurrectionAlthough that movie never mentions him. The first movie also ties into the universe with Jamie Lloyd, in which John never existed.
Another Michael Myers timeline is the Rob Zombie reboot, which has nothing to do with any other movie outside of those two releases. The fourth is Halloween III: Time of the WitchWhich has nothing to do with Michael Myers or Laurie Strode.
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Finally, there is the final trilogy. This also includes the first movie, which leads to Jamie Lloyd in one timeline and John Strode in another. However, none of them exist in this one. Instead, it ignores everything but the first movie, and now she has a daughter named Karen Nelson (Judy Greer) and a granddaughter named Alison Nelson (Andy Matichak). Each timeline has Laurie Strode making different life decisions, and each has different kids, a trend that could go on.
Will John ever return for a Halloween movie?
John will probably never be back
It is Almost no chance that John Strode will ever return to these Halloween Franchise. Jaime Lloyd was a much more important character, and once her story started to fail at the box office, she disappeared and never returned. John’s story was dead on arrival, and the franchise never even mentioned him again. Every time the franchise reboots, it brings something new to the table, and Halloween There’s never been a horror series that wants to rehash too much that didn’t work, to begin with.
That said, Halloween kills And Halloween ends Did something interesting. They brought back characters from the first movie and had them play in the storyline. This inclusion shows that the franchise is not afraid to look into the past. But the returns are from the first movie. When it comes to the films that failed, from Jamie’s movies to those with John to the resurrection And even to Season of the WitchThe chance to see any of these storylines again is not likely to happen when the Halloween Franchise reboots.
Halloween: H20 is the seventh installment in the iconic horror franchise. H20 establishes a new timeline in the Halloween franchise, picking up after Halloween II and following Laurie Strode as she hides from her brother, Michael Myers. Facing her death and working as a teacher in California, she and her son are brought back into danger when Myers finds her and cuts his way through those around her.
- Director
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Steve Miner
- Release date
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August 5, 1998
- distributor(s)
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Miramax Films
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Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, Janet Leigh, Josh Hartnett, LL Cool J, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- runtime
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85 minutes