HALLOWEEN 7: THE LEGEND OF LAURIE STRODE


A screenplay treatment by Kevin Williamson



LAURIE STRODE, thought dead, is discovered to be very much alive and living a quiet and 
content life as mother and teacher at a small New England all girl's prep school. But with 
the Eve of All Saints quickly approaching, Laurie Strode’s world will once again be ripped 
apart by the arrival of an old member of the family. 

PITCH: 

Chicago Suburbs. Night. We open on a woman coming home to find her front door ajar. 
Scared, she goes next door to enlist the help of a neighbor. A temage boy. They call the 
cops. The woman, afraid someone has broken into her home, is scared to go inside. While 
waiting for the cops, we learn the woman is Rachel Loomis - daughter of Dr. Loomis. The 
teenager - Timmy is bored, he's missing SEINFELD. The cops are taking too long. Timmy 
decides to check the house out himself. Armed with a baseball bat, Timy goes inside the 
house while a fearful Rachel stands outside. Inside the house, Timmy discovers nothing 
amiss. The house is empty. He returns outside and tells Rachel. He says goodnight, leaving 
her alone. She goes inside and locks and bolts the front door. She checks the house out. 
It does not appear to be burglarized. RING! Rachel jumps when the phone rings. She 
answers. It is the police. They're still on their way. Rachel continues checking the place 
over. Everything seems fine. Except in her office. Certain files have been opened. We 
glance them. The name KERI TATE is glimpsed. Rachel's face goes pale. She immediately 
goes for the phone. 

CLANK! A noise is heard. She's not alone in the house. She moves through the house to 
discover the front door wide open. Shit. She bolts. Rachel runs out the door and back 
to the neighbour's house. She POUNDS on the neighbor's door. "Timmy!". The door opens 
to reveal... MICHAEL MYERS. Standing, poised, evil eyes burning through slits in his 
trademark mask. Through the door, she sees into the living room. SEINFELD is on TV. The 
bloody dead body of Timmy lies in front of it. The last thing Rachel sees is the blade of a 
knife as it slices into her, killing her. 

CUT TO... 

BRIARCLIFF, MAINE. TYLER PREP SCHOOL 

Here we meet none other than Laurie Strode. Only her name is not Laurie--it's Keri Tate. 
She runs an all-girl's prep school which works out well for her son MICK, 16. He's the only 
boy in the whole school. The school is planning for their annual HALLOWEEN festival which 
includes a dance with the neighboring all-male prep school. We learn that Keri (aka Laurie) 
never died. She assumed a new identity and now lives, divorced with her only son. But things
 are not easy for Keri. She has a volatile relationship with her Mick. He hates her. There 's 
a lot of divorce wreckage and it doesn't help that Keri is a closet alcolaolic. This particular 
morning, Keri is disturbed to read in the paper that Rachel Loomis, daughter of renowed 
Dr. Loomis was found murdered in Chicago. She’s afraid of what this may mean. Halloween 
is tomorrow night. Later, in class, it doesn't help when a bitchy student, SARA, gives her 
oral report on the famous serial killings that plagued Haddonfield, Illinois for years (sum up 
the last six films - explain Laurie's daughter from 4, 5 6). Mick wants desperately to go live 
with his father but Keri won’t allow it. This discussion ends in a huge fight. Meanwhile, 
there's a whole MURIEL’S WEDDING subplot going on with a young, ugly duckling of a 
girl. MOLLY, who's madly in love with Mick. Her friends don't understand this since he's 
such a cocky asshole but Molly wants to ask him to the dance so her friends give her a 
Sally Jesse Raphael make-over and transform her to a beauty. But it's too late, Mick is 
going with the bitchy Sara. This all intercuts with Keri/Laurie who starts to see the Shape 
around campus. First, behind a hedge. Then, outside her classroom window. (The class 
discussion is FATE). Then again, between sheets that blow in the clothesline. Keri thinks 
she’s going crazy. Her past has come back to haunt her. When she confides in a fellow 
teacher, JAKE BRANNEN--the English Lit. teacher who has a crush on her--that her never 
found brother may have turned up he takes the opportunity to confront her about her 
drinking. Keri starts to crack. In full teacher mode, she goes off on Jake. 





KERI 
Thanks, Jake, for your well-intentioned and over-boundry 
stepping concern but just for your own personal file cabinet 
info let me give you a quick flash lesson in the life of an 
alcoholic. Let me share with you my experience, strength 
and hope because I’ve done the AA thing, I’ve been in therapy, 
done the vomit pills, the Moderator’s club, you name it, I've 
tried every little 80's self-help tactic devised and you know 
what I've discovered, in addition to unconditional love of 
Absolute Citron, is that alcoholism is not a negative in the 
90’s. It might have been self-destructive at one time but it’s a 
big fucking plus in present day USA because the world is not 
kind. It is harsh and cruel and bloody out there and if my two 
aspirin a day comes in the form of a nice half gallon of Robert 
Mondavi then so fucking-be it. And I can go to all the little 12 
step meetings in the world and I can say, "Hi, I'm Keri and 
I'm an alcoholic." And everyone can hold me and tell me 
everything is going to be fine with Keri once she quits 
drinking but what you seem to be missing from your loving 
and non-judgemental point of view is that Keri doesn't exist. 
At the end of the day, the Halloween mask comes off and 
it’s Laurie fucking Strode who has to find a way to get to 
sleep at night with out a butcher knife slicing into her dreams. 

JAKE 
You need help. 

KERI 
No shit. 

JAKE 
I'm sorry to upset you. I'm just trying to help. 

KERI 
Then pour me a drink, Jake, because you picked the wrong 
day for an intervention. 





Keri assures Jake that she's an intelligent, informed and functional drunk and that 
he need not worry. The Shape, however, keeps appearing. Keri plays the woman 
who cried wolf until Molly is attacked by the Shape in the girl's locker room. It turns 
out to be Mick (and Sara)--playing a mean joke on both Molly and his mom. In a huge 
fight, it is discovered that Mick had found Laurie’s journa1 from 20 years ago. He 
knows of her past and is fucking with her head. He really wants to go live with his 
dad and it's his way of getting what he wants. Keri, relieved, but still a mess, carries 
on. As they plan for that evening’s Halloween festival. Darkness falls. 

ACT TWO: THE HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL

The school is enclosed behind tall gates. An electric gate with guardhouse sits at 
the entrance. In the guardhouse, sits an older, female GUARD. Hattie is her name. 
She pretty much runs the place in matters of security. Several bus loads of boys 
comes riding through. They’ve come, dressed in costume, to party with the girls. 
Moments later, a car pulls up to the gate. She checks the monitor. There’s no one 
behind the wheel. She steps outside. Through the gate, she sees the idling car just 
sitting in front of the school. She doesn’t know what to do. She opens the gate and 
walks through. She checks out the car. There's no one there. The trees rustle 
nearby. She takes a look, spooking herself. It is, afterall, Halloween. She doesn't 
see Michael Myers pass through the open gate. She returns to the guardhouse. 
It has an entrance on either side. She phones the local authorities when Michael 
appears in the open door behind her. She turns just as he disappears. There is a 
huge cat and mouse, involving the two doors and Hattie and The Shape as they 
follow each other around until Hattie meets her end, stabbed through the heart. 
Keri, pissed at her son, punishes him, making him stay in his room for the rest of 
the day and night. Sara sneaks in and they have sex. The new and improved Molly 
(the result of her make-over) charms a few guys at the dance. One, in particular, 
puts the moves on her. He’s a studly guy with one thing on his mind. He talks her 
into going for a walk. Meanwhile, Sara is done with the sex thing and now she 
wants to go to the dance. Mick is feeling bad about what he did to his mom and 
doesn’t want to disobey her. Sara takes off ,without him. Molly gets caught in a 
compromising situation with stud-boy. He puts the moves on her. She shys away 
just as the Shape appears--Molly thinks it's a hoax till he kills the guy. Molly takes 
of running. Sara arrives at the dance in full swing. She starts to flirt. Molly runs 
to Keri--in her office. She tells her what's going on. Keri calls the police. All the 
lines are dead. They go to the gruard gate--discover the gates won't open. They’ve 
been rigged closed. They're trapped. Keri and Molly return to the dance in search 
of a cellular phone. (They know Sara has one--she had it earlier) At the dance, they 
don’t want to cause a panic. They get the phone and call the police. Keri is surprised 
Mick isn't at the dance--she was sure he would disobey her. Keri, with Sara's cell 
phone, calls the local police--they start up the mountain to the school. It’s a long way. 
Keri enlists Jake's help to help evacuate the school. Then, Keri goes for Mick. Jake 
figures out how to unlock the gates. They load kids into buses and sends them out. 
Keri is attacked by the Shape. Mick arrives to save her. They run. The police, while 
travelling up the mountain, discover a severe car crash in a tunnel that blocks their 
path to the school. It will take hours to clear the tunnel. When they finally do, the 
police discover that three people were killed in this car crash--further inspection 
reveals those three victims’ throats were slashed. The police send a helicopter with 
four police officers up the mountain to help. When it arrives, the police go in search 
of the Shape while Jake and the helicopter pilot try to bring the remainder of the 
school to safety. They load the helicopter up when the Shape appears. The Shape 
kills the helicopter pilot. Jake jumps into the pilot's chair. He tries to fly the chopper. 
He ends up crashing it into a mountain side, killing him and all the other innocent 
victims in it. Keri arrives just in time to see it explode and careen down the mountain. 
The Shape turns to Keri. A standoff. Suddenly, Mick appears with Sara. They scream 
from a school window. The Shape turns to them...then back to Keri. Then, he turns 
and disappears inside the building. He's going for Keri’s son. 

ACT THREE: A MOTHER’S WRATH 

Keri enters behind them. It's just them now. A fight to the finish. Inside, the Shape 
attacks Mick and Sara. Just as the Shape is about to kill Sara--Molly appears, saving 
Sara and Mick's life. They escape, briefly, for the Shape can't be stopped and he 
kills Sara leaving only Molly and Mick. Molly and Mick team up with Keri and they 
fight it out for their lives. They escape to an old school bus that takes them down 
the mountain side. What they don't know is Michael Myers is atop it. While Keri 
drives, Mick and Molly fight off the Shape. The bus crashes inside a tunnel (not the 
same one as before) where the bloody climax takes place. Molly dies in an unexpected, 
surprise attack. Mick, mad as hell, kills the Shape but he doesn’t die. The Shape 
continually comes back for more. Another helicopter, spotting the overturned bus 
at the lip of the tunnel, arrives. The police enter the tunnel as the shape kills them 
of one by one. Mick and Keri escape the tunnel jumping into the helicopter just as
 the Shape appears. Mick and the Shape fight it out while Keri starts up the 
propellors just as Mick lures the Shape into them. The propellers slice Michael 
Myers in half --killing him for good. Mick and Keri reunite as mother and son. 

THE END