sandy johnson played judith myers in the original halloween.
sandy johnson played judith myers in the original halloween.
who plays judith myers in the original halloween?
sandy johnson
laurie strode first appears in the original "halloween" (1978). the 17-year-old laurie (curtis) is a high school student that has plans to babysit tommy doyle (brian andrews) on halloween night, 1978. however, throughout the day, she keeps seeing a mysterious masked man watching her wherever she goes; unbeknownst to her, he is michael myers (nick castle), an escaped mental patient who murdered his sister, judith myers (sandy johnson), 15 years ago and has begun stalking her. laurie notices michael watching her and becomes increasingly worried, though her best friends annie (nancy loomis) and lynda (p. j. soles) brush off her concerns. as laurie babysits tommy, myers kills annie and lynda in the house across the street. growing concerned when they fail to call her, laurie goes to investigate and sees their corpses laid out for her to find, before being attacked by myers. barely escaping, laurie races back to the doyle house. michael follows, but laurie manages to fend him off long enough for tommy and lindsey to escape. laurie is saved by dr. sam loomis (donald pleasence), who shoots myers off the balcony; when loomis goes to check michael's body, he finds it missing. an unsurprised loomis stares off into the night, while laurie begins sobbing in terror. "halloween ii" (1981) picks up directly after the first film, with laurie strode being taken to a hospital. upon learning who attacked her, laurie asks "why me?!" laurie says she does know that she was adopted and has a few dreams that offer vague insights into her real identity. the first dream she has is of when she was a little girl, with her adoptive mother saying with a tone of annoyance "i'm not your real mother! stop asking me questions!" the second dream shows her walking into a large room where a pre-teen michael is seen sitting in a chair and turning to look at her. waking up, she begins to roam the hallways of the hospital until coming face to face with myers, who has been killing his way through the hospital staff in search of her. meanwhile, dr. loomis is told that michael and judith myers are actually laurie's biological siblings; she was put up for adoption after the death of their parents, with the records sealed to protect the family. with the realization that michael is after laurie, loomis rushes to the hospital to find them. laurie shoots michael in the eyes, blinding him, and loomis causes an explosion in the operating theater, allowing laurie to escape. michael, engulfed in flames, stumbles out of the room before finally falling dead. the traumatized laurie is last seen being transferred to another hospital. in "" (1988), laurie is revealed to have died in a car accident prior to the film's events, with the role of protagonist taken up by her young daughter, jamie lloyd (danielle harris). a photograph of jamie lee curtis as laurie appears in a scene where jamie remembers her mother. the character of jamie would go on to reappear in two more "halloween" sequels, while laurie's adopted cousin kara (marianne hagan) and her family appear in "" (1995).
laurie strode
laurie strode (jamie lee curtis) first appears in the 1978 film "halloween" and is a high school student that michael stalks after she drops off a key at his former house, so her father can sell it. this character returns in "halloween ii", "halloween: h20", "halloween resurrection" and 2018's "halloween". michael succeeds in murdering laurie in "halloween resurrection". "halloween ii" and its later installments would portray laurie as michael myers' and judith myers' younger sister. in "halloween ii", laurie says she does know that she was adopted and has a few dreams that offer vague insights into her real identity. the first dream she has is of when she was a little girl, with her adoptive mother saying with a tone of annoyance "i'm not your real mother! stop asking me questions!" the second dream shows her walking into a large room where a pre-teen michael is seen sitting in a chair and turning to look at her. when she does find out that she is being stalked by michael myers, she asks "why me?!" it is revealed in "halloween: h20" that she had learned of her relation to the myers family sometime after the sequel, as she tells her boyfriend that she is the younger sister of michael myers and judith myers, which led her to change her name to keri tate so that her brother couldn't find her. she is the mother of jamie lloyd and john tate, the latter one only in h20 and resurrection. she is the grandmother of stephen lloyd from "". 2018's "halloween" disregards her as the sister of michael myers, and establishes her as the mother of karen strode and grandmother of allyson nelson.
list of halloween (film series) characters