The Untold Truth Of Halloween's Michael Myers

"Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers" is a flawed film, to say the least. While the fourth installment did an excellent job of bringing the franchise back to basics, part five tried to push things into surreal territory. One of its more bizarre concepts was depicting a mysterious Man in Black with the same tattoo as Michael, roaming around Haddonfield and breaking Michael out of prison at the end.

In the sixth film, he was revealed to be Dr. Terence Wynn, a character with only one scene in the original Halloween. However, that wasn't always the intention. In an interview with Halloween Daily News, Don Shanks — the actor who played Michael in part five — said director Dominique Othenin-Girard originally wanted Michael to be the Man in Black. He said, "Dominique was saying that for the sequel, I was going to be the Man in Black because I played him too. I did bits and pieces, I didn't do all of him, but there would be scenes where I'd go out one door here and I'd just put on the coat and come through the other door."

He further explains that they were hoping to do something similar to the Brian De Palma film "Raising Cain" and have the audience wonder what the reality around the Man in Black is, but the idea was dropped. As underwhelming as the Dr. Wynn reveal was, having Michael be the Man in Black would've been just plain confusing.