Murphey Myers | |
Continuity: | Halloween |
Notability: | Minor character |
Type: | Cult leader |
Gender: | Male |
Race: | Human |
Location: | New England Illinois |
Associations: | Cult of Thorn |
Relatives: | Donald Myers Audrey Myers Judith Myers Michael Myers Cynthia Myers |
Status: | Deceased by virtue of time era |
Born: | 17th century |
Died: | 18th century |
First: | Halloween II: The Blackest Eyes |
Murphey Myers is a fictional cult leader and a minor character featured in the Halloween multimedia franchise. He made a single appearance in flashback in Halloween II: The Blackest Eyes, published by Chaos! Comics in 2001.
Biography[]
Murphey Myers was the leader of a Druid cult that existed in the late 17th century. To escape the New England witch hunts, Myers relocated his cabal further west, eventually settling in what would become Haddonfield, Illinois.
Myers was descended from a bloodline that had carried the burden of a curse stretching back more than two-thousand years. While the female members of the family occasionally developed the gift of sight or had prophetic visions, the first-born male of each generation was cursed to carry the seed of Samhain. [1]
Murphey Myers was a direct ancestor of Michael Myers, who carried on the curse of Samhain and became a vehicle for the Cult of Thorn.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Murphey Myers was created by writers Phil Nutman and Mickey Yablans, based on concepts developed by writer & director John Carpenter, and co-writer Debra Hill.
- Murphey Myers relates to the continuity of the "Thorn Trilogy", which embodied the 4th-6th installments of the original Halloween film series. These movie are no longer considered part of canon continuity, and any alternative media references to them should be considered apocryphal.
- Murphey Myers' co-creator Mickey Yablans, is a former child actor. He played Richie in the original 1978 film Halloween.
- Murphey Myers is the earliest known ancestor of Michael Myers.