HALLOWEEN: HELL ON EARTH

	October 31, 1996. In the Langdon, Illinois home of DR. SAM LOOMIS, the 
feeble doctor ushers his caretaker from the home and goes to his back office, where he 
once again pulls out the Michael A. Myers file, worn by time and his own fingers. This 
time he does not open the file; although his obsession is clearly gnawing at him, he favors 
a new piece: a puzzle similar, but not identical to, the Lament Configuration.

	As night falls, Loomis solves the box, never leaving his seat. As the puzzle is 
completed and a haunting, familiar tune plays in the music-box, a rigid, faceless Cenobite 
stands suddenly beside the doctor. Gasping in shock, Loomis reaches for his cane. A 
sadistic grin spreading under a taut veil of flesh, the Faceless Cenobite steals the cane 
from his reach and raises it overhead.

	CUT TO BLACK and the dying screams of a man who will never truly die.

	October 30, 2004. SARA MOYER is making dinner in her upscale apartment, 
housed in a Chicago high-rise. She is surprised by MYLES BERMAN, aka “Deckard”, 
her rescuer from HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION and now her lover. Myles asks what 
they’ll be doing tomorrow, but Sara only mentions an abnormal psych test. Myles grimly 
reminds her that it’s Halloween. He sits down on the couch to watch a late-night showing 
of John Carpenter’s THE THING when a young boy of about six years, DAGGETT. We 
learn that Daggett is Myles’s kid brother, taken into their custody when his parents 
passed away the year prior.

	In a Chicago gift store, a dark form walks among the aisles of Halloween 
merchandise. We come upon a brand-new Shape mask, and the Shape himself lifts his 
hands in the dim light to peel the burnt mask from his face – gummed with gore and 
scabs, it tears away with a sickening sound, only to be replaced by the new mask before 
we catch a glimpse of Michael Myers’ face. As he turns toward the storefront, we see a 
shadowy figure – Loomis? – standing in the doorway. “God damn you, Michael,” he 
says, raising a pistol. Michael whips a butcher knife at him. The knife slams into the 
doorframe – the empty doorframe. Michael tilts his head in bewilderment. Then, 
composing himself, he jerks the knife free and walks out.

	Halloween morning. A modest shop called DECKARD GAMES & COMICS. 
Inside, Myles is flipping through a book about Celtic rune symbols when he’s bothered 
by a customer looking for a book about the real Halloween – Samhain. Myles manages to 
dismiss the man before Sara calls; she’s bringing Daggett home from a doctor’s 
appointment and the boy desperately wants to trick-or-treat this year. Myles is firmly 
against it but Sara convinces him that Daggett needs to have a good time – and they need 
to relax. Myles says he’ll close up shop and head home in a few hours. Looking around 
the empty store, he observes, “why wait?”

	A realtor and young newlyweds enter the Loomis house. The bubbly female 
realtor avoids any questions about previous occupants as she shows them the house. The 
bitching wife pushes forward and enters the old office. Scraping her fingernail across an 
unsightly stain, she catches it on a nail-head and peels the nail back, bleeding onto the 
floor. As the husband and realtor rush to her aid, they are confronted by an unseen 
horror…

	Sara and Daggett enter the lobby of their building, met by friendly doorman 
BRAD. They head up the elevator, Daggett proudly displaying his clown costume, and 
single neighbor DARREN greets them in the hallway. He pats a plastic cauldron full of 
candy and tells Daggett to save some for the other kids.

	Back in the Loomis house, we find a shriveled, skinned corpse in the office. 
Moving down the hall, what seem to be the husband and realtor are also lying in scant 
pools of blood, drained husks. A pinkish, bald character wearing a trenchcoat and gloves 
gets behind the wheel of the realtor’s station wagon and exits.

	On Chicago’s streets, evening is fast approaching. A horny young couple stumble 
from their Camaro and into a Halloween store to pick up some costumes for an evening 
indoors. The Shape’s POV slips from an alleyway into the car, stealing it.

	Myles is locking up Deckard Games when he spies an odd figure in the crowds 
across the street: Sam Loomis? He fights his way through traffic, shaking his head. He 
couldn’t have seen what he thought he saw. But just then, Dr. Loomis appears, leaning on 
his cane and smiling. They go into a nearby coffeehouse, where Myles explains that since 
the events of H:R, he has been studying the Myers case – particularly the doctor’s 
writings – inside and out, unbeknownst to Sara. He even got his hands on the unpublished 
memoirs. Loomis is impressed – that’s why he tracked Myles down. He claims to have 
faked his death, as he helped Laurie to do, in order to escape the spotlight and scrutiny – 
in order to better find the truth behind Michael Myers.

	Loomis says that Michael is still alive; they both know it. Since his disappearance 
from the county morgue, countless theories have abounded, but most came to the 
conclusion that Michael was dead. Loomis argues that Michael’s rage still boils within 
him, and he now seeks those who desecrated his sanctuary: Myles. Sara. And even 
Daggett. But now, Loomis says, he has the answer. Myles rushes him from the shop to 
get home.

	In the high-rise’s parking garage, doorman Brad is doing a casual sweep of the 
area. He finds two teens making out beside a Jeep and runs them off. Moving down a 
level, he finds the stolen Camaro, lights on…the Jeep zooms by him and honks, causing 
him to drop his light. Before Brad can scrape the pieces together, the Shape swoops down 
on him, nailing him to the Camaro’s windshield with an oversized butcher knife.

	Daggett is being prepped for trick-or-treating when Myles and Loomis arrive. 
Myles sends an angry Daggett to his room while they talk. Loomis produces the puzzle 
box, called the Nauthiz Configuration.

	In the hallway, a woman in a French maid’s outfit, TRISTA, Darren’s date, raps 
on his door and is swept inside. Just then, Daggett steps into the foreground. He’s 
sneaked out of the apartment to embark on his Halloween adventure.

	Loomis explains that puzzle holds the answer to Michael Myers. Increasingly 
uncomfortable, Sara calls for Daggett and realizes that he’s gone. They search the 
hallway, Sara telling Myles to stay behind in case Daggett returns, while she and Loomis 
head for the stairs. Myles goes back to the apartment – and the box. His obsession gnaws 
at him.

	Loomis is falling behind in the stairwell. He tells Sara to continue without him. In 
the silent lobby, Daggett steps off the elevator. The doorman, of course, is gone, the 
lights are out, and an electric jack-o’-lantern sits unplugged by the doors. As he plugs it 
in, we see the faintest outline of Michael in the B.G. Just then, two party girls burst 
through the front doors and onto the elevator, and Daggett nervously follows.

	Upstairs, Myles is solving the box. Outside the apartment, Daggett is taking a 
meager handful from the plastic cauldron when the completely-wasted Darren and Trista 
throw open the door. Darren is dressed as a high-society playboy, complete with smoking 
jacket and monocle, and tells the kid to take as much as he wants.

	The box has been solved. Suddenly before Myles are the Faceless Cenobite and a 
Stripped Cenobite - a voluptuous leather-bound female with the flesh peeled & pinned 
back in all the most alluring places, revealing the gruesome physiology underneath. Tiny 
hooks securing her permanent smile, she taunts Myles as the Faceless Cenobite attacks. 
Before he can ram his twin filleting knives home, chains lash around Myles’s limbs and 
pull him against the wall, like an insect in a spider’s web. Pinhead is revealed. “Who are 
you?” Myles demands. “We are your new obsession,” the Flayed One replies.

	In the lobby, Sara pounds the wall in frustration. Loomis reaches her and they 
head back for the elevator.

	Daggett is in Darren’s apartment. He tells his stoned host that his brother & Sara 
are fighting. The lights flicker as Darren tries to call Myles. No answer. Trista convinces 
Darren to head across the hall and play referee for the bickering couple. Darren goes into 
the hall, where he nods to the approaching Shape. He turns back to the door and Michael 
grabs his head, pushing the monocle into his eye.

	Myles is still chained to the wall in the kitchen. He sees Michael walk through the 
living room, but a leather strap keeps him from making a sound.

	Meanwhile, the elevator comes to a stop at the same floor, but refuses to open, 
stranding Loomis and Sara. Dark forces are at work within the building.

	Trista takes Daggett into the hall. Darren is gone. They head for the boy’s 
apartment, when the Shape suddenly rushes out, gutting Trista repeatedly! Daggett 
shrieks and runs down the hall. The elevator doors open, Sara pushing with all her might. 
The slipping & stumbling Daggett makes it to the elevator and past Sara – only for her to 
be pulled out by the hair as the doors close. Loomis clamps a gloved hand over Daggett’s 
mouth and hits the lobby button.

	Michael throws Sara to the floor. He attempts to pry open the elevator with his 
knife. Sara throws herself at him, and he knocks her unconscious.

	The elevator doors open onto the lobby, and Pinhead.

	Myles manages to pull himself free of the chains.

	The power goes out in the hallway. An eerie blue light swells in its place. The 
Shape steps over Sara and down the hall, as the Faceless Cenobite steps from a random 
apartment. Teeth gnash beneath its flesh-hood. It charges, and Michael guts it as it stabs 
both of his shoulders. He lifts the Cenobite off the floor and shakes it until it falls limp.

	In the apartment, Myles retrieves a gun from his sock drawer. He finds Sara and 
in the hall and gets her up. She directs him to the stairwell, where Michael surprises them 
from the upper landing. He grabs Myles and they careen backwards down the next flight, 
Myles firing ten times into Michael’s chest. Now the Shape is motionless between Sara 
and Myles. She gets over Michael. He tries to grab her, but falls unconscious again. 
Myles steps forward to unmask the killer bur Sara urges him to go after Daggett.

	In the lobby, Myles finds a piece of hard candy lying on the floor. Then another, 
and another – a trail leading through a maintenance door. He and Sara follow the candy 
into a decrepit boiler room, where they find Loomis waiting. Pinhead – holding the final 
piece of candy - and the Stripped Cenobite step into view. Sara demands to know where 
Daggett is, and is lashed to the wall with chains. Myles lifts the pistol & it flies into 
Pinhead’s hand. Although empty, Pinhead fires two nails from it, crucifying Myles to the 
wall beside Sara. 

Loomis looks away from them regretfully. Pinhead explains “Loomis has 
delivered the child to us, as he delivered the box to you. These are but means to a greater 
end.”

In an upstairs corridor, the Stripped Cenobite finds a catatonic Daggett, with the 
Faceless Cenobite’s hands on his shoulders. The Shape enters another hallway dangling 
with chains – indeed, the entire high-rise has become a hellish pillar of torture. He 
scrutinizes each door until hearing Daggett’s screams O.S. But chains now grab his wrists 
and throat. He’s lifted off the floor to the mercy of the Faceless Cenobite. The Cenobite 
sweeps the other chains aside and attacks. Michael TEARS FREE and throws the 
Cenobite down the hall. Criss-crossing chains fly out to block all escape routes, and the 
Faceless Cenobite comes again. Michael pulls the slack chain from his neck and gives 
Faceless a little taste.

In the boiler room, a betrayed Myles screams at Loomis. The doctor says that 
Michael will be contained now – “they seek Order, they will bring Order here.” Sara tells 
Pinhead that it’s all in vain, Michael can’t be stopped. He’s bemused by her pleas.

Daggett is alone in the lobby, still wearing his clown costume. Michael enters, 
and the boy runs into the maintenance corridor, hearing helpful cries of “over here 
Daggett!” Daggett makes it into the boiler room as walls retract, revealing a huge brick 
hallway, littered with dead leaves and creeping vines. Sara and Myles scream at the boy; 
he doesn’t seem to hear. He only sees Loomis, Pinhead and the Stripped Cenobite, who 
enter the hallway. Stripped, holding the puzzle box, turns back with a look of motherly 
concern. “Here, Daggett!”

“Take me! I opened the box!” Myles cries. “It is not hands that brought us here,” 
Pinhead counters as Daggett walks past him. Now, the Shape enters the boiler room. 
Myles and Sara fall silent as he enters Hell. The final traveler, Faceless, passes into the 
corridor. He offers a final grin from under his flesh-hood, scraping his knives together. 
Then he runs howling into the Labyrinth.

The chains and nails fall free. Myles and Sara drop. He snatches her arm before 
she can start forward. “I’m going alone!” He cries. “He’s my brother!” She nods, picks 
up a pipe and knocks his ass out. Sara barely makes it through the schism before it’s 
sealed off.

Loomis walks down stone steps into a clammy chamber. Pinhead appears and 
informs him that another has made it through. He hands the doctor a knife and orders him 
to deal with it.

At the end of the main corridor, Sara comes upon the Myers house, restored in all 
its former glory. She goes through the front door and upstairs. Loomis is there and tells 
Sara that she shouldn’t have come. She asks if he sold his soul to contain Michael. No, he 
responds – he is already damned by his obsession. But this was the only way to stop 
Myers. Hell’s concern is Order, and Michael’s dark discipline is at a level that makes him 
most desirable. Loomis tries to stab Sara. She grapples with the old man and sends him 
over the railing.

In the rear bedroom, Sara sees her own corpse on the bed with LAURIE 
STRODE’s tombstone propped above its bloody head; she backs into a window and 
Faceless’s arm smashes through! She’s pulled outside, dropping through a smoky void 
into a chamber lined with hanging torture pillars. Faceless lunges in and out from behind 
each one. Sara plows him into the wall with one and runs. She tumbles down stone stairs 
into a vaulted hallway with a wooden door at its end. Her ankle is twisted, and Faceless is 
catching up, clashing his serrated knives together. She escapes.

In another part of the Labyrinth, Michael finds Daggett hanging silently from a 
snare of vines. He slowly steps forward and reaches for the clown mask. Chains with 
hooks come down and spear Michael from every angle. Stripped enters with a smaller, 
different puzzle box. She places the configuration in the hands of catatonic Daggett & 
he’s taken up into the ceiling. “He’s going home,” she tells Michael sweetly. “And you – 
you ARE home.”

The wall opens behind Michael to reveal a transformation chamber with a 
dreadful assortment of instruments. He’s flung into it.

Sara runs into Loomis again, in his dank chamber. Loomis is terrified. He says 
that they tore him apart once and they’ll do it again if he doesn’t kill her. The ensuing 
struggle sees Loomis’ face torn off, revealing the true visage beneath. He drops his knife 
miserably  Chains lance both elbows and the base of his neck, lifting him off the floor. 
“Get out, now!” He snaps at Sara.

Pinhead steps out to chide Loomis for failing at a simple task. He will give the 
good doctor a last session with his favorite patient…

In the transformation chamber, we catch glimpses of Michael Myers’s Cenobitical 
undoing. Needles thread through his flesh. Blood is drained from the throat as blades 
dance across the mask, removing it in triangular pieces. Blades of various sizes slam into 
his thighs. Black fluid enters his veins. A final needle pierces his eyeball.

Sara has wandered into the Centre of Hell – Leviathan rotates soundlessly 
overhead. She ducks the beam of the black light that searches out Hell’s condemned, but 
it drops onto her anyway: gruesome flashbacks of her friends’ deaths, the Shape’s face 
leering from shadows.

Pinhead walks out onto the narrow walkway and tells Sara that Daggett is already 
gone. The boy served his purpose, they have their prize. Sara actually attacks him, but 
he’s instantaneously reduced to a speck in the distance, leaving her anguished and 
defeated.

In yet another chamber, the Faceless Cenobite has been tethered to a wall with 
tubes. Three vertical blades are inserted into his skull. He’s being upgraded for a final 
fight…

Sara finds Myles in Hell! Tattooed with strange symbols, he beckons to her from 
a torture room. He says that he found the real box and came after her. He won’t let her do 
this alone. She tells him that Daggett is already home  – they need to get out. Does he still 
have the puzzle box? He hands it to her, and before she can solve it, spikes shoot out 
from each side, slashing her hands.

Myles’s flesh melts away. Stripped now stands before her! She laughs, and Sara 
cries “You BITCH!!”, throwing a roundhouse right into the Cenobite’s mouth. Stripped 
tastes the blue blood on her lip and smiles, a slight tremor going through her body. “I like 
pain,” she says, “we all do. You’ll learn to like it, too.”

Loomis is still hanging from chains in his chamber. From a distance, TRACK 
WITH the back of a flayed head stalking toward the doctor. It is the SHAPE  
CENOBITE, a reformed mask and fake hair stitched into his flesh, his inhuman stare now 
punctuated by huge black eyes…the Devil’s eyes. 

Loomis’s chains snap. He lands in the foyer of the Myers house, the decrepit, 
charred version. The Shape blows the blackened front door off its hinges.

The faceless Loomis tries to appeal to him, as he did in HALLOWEEN: ”Let me 
help you now. Let me understand.”

“There is nothing to understand.” Pinhead says from the stairs. “There is no final 
revelation. Your obsession has no reward – only pain.”

In a flash, the Shape pulls two jagged knives from its legs and slashes across 
Loomis’s chest. The doctor is butchered, but before his body can collapse more chains 
hook it under the jaw and haul it out of sight. “Now, Michael,” Pinhead says from the 
stairs, “you’ll deal with the girl. Then, WE play.”

Sara is staggering through the Labyrinth, searching for some escape. But there is 
none. Only the Shape Cenobite, waiting at the end of a corridor. Stripped embraces Sara 
from behind: “Let him take you.” Sara struggles furiously. When they both look up, the 
Shape is no longer ahead.

Instead, he is behind Stripped, slamming two knives into her waist and tearing her 
open. Nearly halved, the Cenobite collapses. Blood spurts from her sickening smile. 
Chains fly at the Shape from all directions. With a 360-degree slash, Michael’s 
Cenobitical knives shatter them.

Sara runss back into the Centre of the Labyrinth, where a fuming Pinhead cuts her 
off. “Michael Myers just killed your girlfriend, you fucking asshole!” Sara shrieks. 
“There is no Order to Michael. You CAN’T CONTROL HIM!!!” Pinhead opens his 
mouth to counter. She cuts him off. “I can bring him to you. I know him. I just want my 
life.” A bargain…Pinhead looks up at Leviathan, then grimly accepts.

The upgraded Faceless Cenobite stalks the corridors like a feral creature. In the 
B.G., we see his hunt joined by the Siamese Cenobites – two twins fused together, a 
spindle between their heads binding them. The Shape silently attacks, sawing them apart 
and stabbing one to death. The other, wearing a twisted smile, fingers the spindle 
dangling from its face. Michael grabs the spindle and tears Siamese’s head apart.

Faceless turns to see the dead twins. Michael lowers himself from a ceiling vine 
and fights him, their knives grinding in showers of sparks. Faceless head-butts the Shape, 
leaving him with three vertical gashes, and they stumble onto an open walkway. Michael 
sends Faceless plummeting into the abyss.

Sara appears and lures Michael into a hall of stone pillars. Water patters down as 
the Shape slashes at her, tearing great chunks of stone from the pillars. She tells him that 
he’s in Hell now, where he can never reach anyone else. He’s finished. The Shape pauses 
to contemplate her words. Pinhead watches from a balcony encircling the hall.

Pinhead teleports to the lower level. Sara backs off as Xipe Totec taunts the 
Shape, deriding his so-called “discipline”. Chains lash into Myers. He tears them from 
their moorings and begins to fight Pinhead, beating him with his own severed chains. The 
Flayed One sends Michael flying back, buckling a pillar.

Sara demands that her bargain be honored. Pinhead nods to her, and a chain flies 
at her face – but stops short, and we see a box like that one that sent Daggett home held 
in its tiny hooks. “Go. And pray that we never meet again.” Pinhead admonishes.

When Michael looks up, he sees an older man in a suit approaching him – his 
father, as evidenced by the man’s scolding. He asks why Michael murdered his sisters, 
why he failed as a son and destroyed their family. The Shape rises, almost cringing under 
the Father’s criticism.

Then Michael looks up. The Father grunts. A knife handle protrudes from his 
heart! He morphs back into Pinhead: “No Order at all.”

An onslaught of chains like never before batters the Shape! He pulls knife after 
knife from his legs, but they’re all swept aside, and finally he is secured to a pillar, chains 
wrapping around him from head to toe. Pinhead laughs bitterly as he prepares to destroy 
the prospective recruit. “You could have been a fine addition to my legions”…The chains 
suddenly EXPLODE, throwing bits of links into Pinhead’s torso, arms and FACE.

Running Sara solves the puzzle. The walls retract up ahead. At the last instant, the 
Shape cuts her off from an alcove, gutting her. She falls to her knees. He produces a 
second knife and raises it overhead.

An unholy ROAR from the alcove as Pinhead barrels into Michael, flattening him 
against the wall, and stabs knife after knife into the Shape’s head - leaving him a 
bloodied reflection of Hell’s lieutenant. Pinhead slowly, deliberately pulls the blade from 
Sara’s stomach. He passes his hand over her wound, healing it. “A bargain is a bargain,” 
he intones as she stares in shock. He then releases her, turning with knife in hand to the 
weakened Shape.

Sara emerges in the boiler room. She finds herself empty-handed, the puzzle box 
gone, the schism sealing behind her. Myles is still unconscious on the floor. Daggett sits 
beside him with a piece of candy. She cradles the boy, tearing the clown mask away; it 
lands beside an oversized butcher knife.

TIGHT on the Shape Cenobite’s gouged and bloodied face. He’s standing stiffly 
at the end of an enormous chamber. Pinhead watches from an outcropping of stone far 
overhead. From his bird’s-eye view, we see a number of dead Cenobites lying before 
Michael – and the line of warriors awaiting their turn with him.

The Faceless Cenobite steps out of the line. The Shape tilts his head, butcher knife 
in hand.

“Play,” Pinhead growls.

THE END