Why Lindsey Wallace Deserves A Bigger Role In Halloween Ends

Why Lindsey Wallace Deserves A Bigger Role In Halloween Ends

Lindsey Wallace escapes from Michael Myers in Halloween Kills. Here’s why Kyle Richards’ character deserves a bigger role in Halloween Ends.

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Why Lindsey Wallace Deserves A Bigger Role In Halloween Ends

The character Lindsey Wallace (Kyle Richards) deserves a bigger role in Halloween Ends after several characters from the 1978 original return for the second film in writer-director David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills. That includes The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards, who reprises her role as Lindsey Wallace. In the second film of Green’s trilogy, residents of the town of Haddonfield bond over their shared trauma of serial killer Michael Myers. Led by survivor Tommy Doyle (Anthony Michael Hall), the town decides to hunt The Shape and end his reign of terror for good.

Taking down a bogeyman, especially one who appears to derive his strength, drive, and resilience from something otherworldly or supernatural, turns out badly for characters who are lucky enough to evade Michael Myers the first time (Halloween Kills boasts the franchise’s highest body count.) However, Richards’ Wallace manages to escape Michael Myers yet again, following a confrontation where her fate seems all but sealed. Three other surviving characters from John Carpenter’s classic, Charles Cyphers’ Sheriff Brackett, Nancy Stephens’ Marion Chambers, and Hall’s Doyle, meet grisly ends.

Wallace joins Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode and her granddaughter Allyson Nelson (Andi Matichak) as a member of an elite trifecta of final girls who have good reasons to band together to defeat Myers. Although Wallace hasn’t lost family members to the serial killer (yet), her babysitter was killed in the 1978 killing spree and she’s seen her hometown decimated psychologically and physically. Following the events of Halloween Kills, Haddonfield is sure to be a bleak hellscape of fear: a town famous for its one-night tally of dead bodies that are all the handiwork of one killer. It’s safe to assume that, like Tommy Doyle in Halloween Kills, Lindsey reveres Laurie, who saved her life 43 years earlier, and the women’s bond will be stronger in the wake of Michael’s latest killing spree. Of the three women, Lindsey is the most relatable to audiences since she does what any normal person would do to escape a deranged homicidal maniac: she runs, and she hides. Lindsey’s efforts at survival mirror Laurie’s in the 1978 film, and she, along with Karen Nelson (Judy Greer) and Allyson, fill the void left by Curtis’ Laurie being wasted in Halloween Kills. The original Halloween empowers Laurie, 2018’s Halloween turns Allyson into a would-be killer of Michael Myers, and Halloween Kills should mark Lindsey’s evolution from a victim into someone who poses a credible threat to Michael. Green gives Lindsey the chance to shine in Halloween Kills, seemingly setting her up as a heroine if not on par with Curtis’ character, at least deserving of some payback.

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There appears to be a method to Green’s madness, allowing Lindsey to survive when so many of her comrades fall. The character deserves an epilogue that expands her legacy into something beyond coming face to face with Michael Myers, a.k.a. The Shape more than once and making it out alive. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Green discussed Lindsey Wallace’s story and her inclusion in the last film of his trilogy.

“In the ’78 film, you see that moment with her and Tommy upstairs in the hallway after their confrontation with Michel Myers, and Laurie is pleading with them to get out of the house and go get help, and she’s their protector. So it was cool to be able to take that character full circle to a sequence we have on the playground where she has a very similar, protective moment with kids on a playground. It was fun to be able to see her role reversal, her maturity as a character. I’m not sure we’ve seen the last of Kyle Richards in our franchise.”

It feels like there’s a scene missing in Halloween Kills that reveals more details surrounding Lindsey’s run-in with Michael in the park. Including the character in Halloween Ends allows Green to provide Lindsey with a juicier backstory, just as Halloween Kills does with Lonnie Elam (Robert Longstreet) and Will Patton’s Deputy Frank Hawkins. Although Halloween Ends is poised to include a final showdown between Laurie and Michael, Halloween Kills proves that she will need all the help she can get, especially from fellow survivors such as Lindsey.

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