#dr sam loomis

[fanofspooky]

Halloween II newspaper ads

[princessoftherose]

hes just a lil guy :3

[pinballhaven]

Halloween (Spooky Pinball, 2021)

[notaplaceofhonour]

Dr. Samuel “shoot at the door til it opens” Loomis, man that you are

[yourverybestghoulfriend]

Remembering Donald Pleasence on his birthday today.

(October 5, 1919-February 2, 1995)

[fry-house]

Loomis (and canon): Michael was born evil, emotionless, I tried but there was no reaching him!

Me, who has experienced intense medical trauma:

[captainpirateface]

Dr. Loomis should have had his own movies... and prank show.

[thaitoz]

This man suffered so much…

[mr-dead-inside]

[duranduratulsa]

Spooktober In Memoriam...

Donald Pleasance

1919-1995

#donaldpleasence #ripdonaldpleasance #halloween #princeofdarkness #terrorintheaisles #drsamloomis

[fanofspooky]

Halloween TV Spot 1978

[iwasateenagenosferatu]

Dr. Samuel Loomis 🤡 Michael Myers 🔪 Laurie Strode 🎃

All done my Halloween Sims. Now it's time for evil to come to Copperdale

🎃🧙‍♀️💀

[brokehorrorfan]

Gutter Garbs has released a Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers shirt designed by Sam Coyne. Priced at $30, it will ship the week of October 27.

[notaplaceofhonour]

Loomis starts out wild-eyed and frantic in the first film, in direct juxtaposition to The Shape’s slow, steady stride, and with each successive film Loomis only gets more erratic. The people he’s working with go from skeptically humoring him to all but calling him a lunatic to his face, only going along with him to pacify his outbursts.

He is Sisyphus, fated to roll that boulder uphill. He is Cassandra, doomed to know the truth and never be heeded.

Yet, no matter how right he is, he isn’t the hero. He gets a boy killed by stopping him in the middle of the road, thinking he’s Michael; he nearly gets several more kids killed for wearing The Shape’s mask. He hijacks a car at gunpoint. He abducts a child. In the heat of the moment, he tries to kill her, before proceeding to retraumatize her and put her in harms way to get to Michael.

By Halloween 5, Dr. Loomis is shot from below, with Dutch angles, face obscured. He looms ominously over the viewer. The camera looks at him like he is Michael.

Perhaps the camera has a point.

Michael is his life’s work. Loomis is the only one who truly understands Michael, and perhaps—to the extent that Michael can be said to “understand”—perhaps Michael is the only one who truly understands Loomis. He is the only one Loomis speaks to like an equal.

I wouldn’t ever accuse Halloween of being “good representation” of mental illness or institutionalized people, but what it is is fascinating

because Halloween isn’t the story of a madman haunting Haddonfield; it’s the story of two madmen: Michael Myers and Dr. Loomis. this doctor shows up in the sleepy town of Haddonfield packing heat with a crazed look in his eye, obsessed with his former patient, yammering on about how he’s seen evil incarnate behind a child’s eyes, going on long winding monologues about druid rituals and the evil spirits of the unconscious mind, and refusing to be mollified by any of the sane, rational people around him. Obviously Dr. Loomis is right, but sane?

as Dr. Hoffman says, “I think you’re the one who needs mental help.” any other day, any other night, Dr Loomis would be thrown in a padded cell right next to Myers.

yes, Michael Myers was the one literally institutionalized, and yet Loomis is every bit as trapped by the institutions of the world as Myers was. Loomis is riding and running around from one end of Haddonfield to the other like a rat chewing at the bars of its cage, trapped between one institution and another and another, all restraining him from stopping Myers, all too reasonable to take him seriously.

it’s the sane, rational doctors ignoring Loomis’s alarmist advice that leads to Myers’ escape; the sane, rational police force that drags its feet at every step of the way and fails to stop Myers; the sane, rational governor that orders a marshall take Loomis away.

Halloween is the story of two madmen, neither of which any institution knows what to do with, and what happens when all human structures of rules, norms, and pre-conceived beliefs about the world fail to account for the anomalous: a man completely devoid of humanity, and the kook doctor driven insane trying to reach him who is nevertheless the only truly sane person in all of Illinois

[itsexclusive]

One of my all time favorite movie characters is Dr. Sam Loomis from the Halloween franchise.

He was the only person that truly understood what Michael Myers was from the get go. Dr. Loomis met Mikey at 6 yrs old, after a few failed attempts, he concluded that lil bastard is different, he is pure evil and should buried underneath the nuthouse. He tried warning everybody but no one took him seriously and look what happened..he got out and started hack & slashing folks.

It was on sight whenever Dr. Loomis encountered Myers. He kept that thang on him at times and didn't hesitate to use it.

One time, he almost smoked a dude that had on a similar mask but he got hit by a cop car and burnt up.

Dr. Loomis was a savage too. He defied orders from the governor and forced a marshal at gunpoint to drive him back into town to look for Mikey.

The situation had gotten to the point that after shooting him like 25 times, Dr. Loomis decided to blow himself up just to stop Michael Myers. Now, that is dedication to the goal. He didn't give a fuck about his own self preservation. He wanted Michael stopped and he didn't care if he had to go down with him.