Dr. Samuel Loomis

Dr. Samuel J. Loomis is the overarching protagonist of the Halloween franchise.
He appears as the deuteragonist of Halloween (1978), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2009), the main protagonist of Halloween II (1981) and the posthumous overarching protagonist of Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, Halloween: Resurrection, Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills. He is the arch nemesis and former psychiatrist of masked serial killer Michael Myers.
Loomis' history is complicated by the fact that the series follows several conflicting continuities. Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later and Resurrection ignore the events of Halloween 4, 5, and 6, splitting the series into two separate timelines both originating from the original film and its sequel. The 2007 remake reboots the series continuity altogether, starting the timeline afresh.
He was portrayed by the late Donald Pleasance (who also played Dr. John McGregor in Phenomena and Priest in Prince of Darkness) in the original and Malcolm McDowell in the remake.
==Biography==
===Meeting Michael Myers===
In 1963, Loomis, then a child psychiatrist working at Shady Groves Sanitarium, met six-year-old Michael Myers, who had been institutionalized for murdering his older sister Judith the previous Halloween. Michael was a blank, emotionless slate to Loomis, never speaking and barely even moving. Loomis recognized that the boy was seriously disturbed, and knew that special treatment would be required if he were to ever help him. After eight fruitless years of trying to reach Michael, however, Loomis realized that he was not insane, but evil.
Loomis pleaded with the hospital administrators to transfer Michael to a maximum-security prison, but they brushed off Loomis' request, dismissing Michael as "a catatonic" who did not pose a threat to anyone. Loomis insisted to be taken seriously because he was convinced Michael's apparent catatonia was an ingenious cover for his true nature, but he was again ignored. Loomis spent the next eight years making sure that Michael would never be released.
===Halloween (1978)===
On October 30, 1978, Dr. Loomis and his companion Marion Chambers are charged with transferring Michael back to his home county for his trial, but he escapes. He is out searching for him on October 31st and enlists the help of Sheriff Leigh Brackett. Later on, when he sees two kids named Tommy Doyle and Lindsey Wallace screaming and running down the streets, he notices something's wrong at their house and he rushes to investigate and sees Michael strangling Laurie Strode and shoots at him six times, saving Laurie. He then investigates Michael's body, but sees it missing.
===Halloween II (1981)===
While Laurie is taken to the hospital, Loomis continues his search for Michael, accompanied by Brackett, and later Gary Hunt. He also discovers from Marion Chambers that Laurie is the younger sister of Michael and he returned to Haddonfield to kill her, so they rush to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital to save her. 
When they enter the hospital, they didn't know Laurie was outside until they heard her banging at the door, screaming to be let in as Michael slowly approaches her. Loomis lets Laurie in and shoots at Michael five times, but he's still alive and chases Loomis and Laurie to a room where they hide and Loomis gives Laurie a gun to defend herself with. 
Loomis tries to shoot Michael again, but runs out of bullets and gets stabbed (but not fatally) by Michael and when he approaches Laurie, she shoots at Michael's eyes, twice, blinding him. While he was blind Loomis begins releasing the oxygen valves and orders Laurie to get out of the room. When Laurie leaves, Loomis sacrifices himself by turning on a lighter and blowing himself and Michael up and Michael collapsing from burning.
===Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)===
Loomis is still on the hunt for Michael and accompanies the help of Sheriff Ben Meeker and they protect Jamie Lloyd from Michael. He takes Jamie to her school and Loomis gets ambushed by Michael. Later in the end, Loomis sees that Jamie is holding scissors, meaning she stabbed her foster mother, Darlene Carruthers and he repeatedly says "No!". He attempts to shoot her, but gets stopped by Meeker.
===Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)===
When Jamie is assigned to Haddonfield Children's Clinic, Loomis pressures her into giving information about Michael, but she is mute for most of the film and won't speak, She finally helps him when he sets up a trap for Michael in the end and he beats Michael with a 2x4 until he is unconscious and Loomis suffers a stroke as a result.
===Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)===
Loomis gets a call from Jamie to rescue her, but she gets killed by Michael. Loomis then teams up with Tommy Doyle into taking down Michael throughout the film. His voice is last heard in the ending of the film.
==Trivia==
* The late Peter Crushing, the late Christopher Lee, Mel Brooks, the late Walter Matthau, the late Patrick McGoohan, the late Cesar Romero, the late John Belushi, the late Abe Vigoda, the late Lawrence Tierney, the late Lyle Waggoner and the late Sean Connery were all considered for the role of Dr. Samuel Loomis before Donald Pleasance was cast.
* Loomis is named after the late John Gavin's character from Psycho.
* Originally John Carpenter wrote the scene in Halloween (1978) where Loomis calls the Haddonfield police to warn them as a different scene where Loomis calls his wife to tell her what was going on. Donald Pleasence thought it would be better if Loomis had no family. Ironically, in both the comic series, Loomis is given a family. Curtis Richards, author of the novelization of Halloween, chose to use Carpenter's original scene where he calls his wife and lets her know he is alright before noticing the truck with the missing driver and the Red Lounge matchbox on the ground. In the 4-6 Timeline, he is engaged to a woman named Jennifer Hill, while in the H20 Timeline he has a son named David Loomis.
* Sam Loomis makes the second most appearances in the original series. He is a main character in the first two films and the fourth, fifth, and sixth film. He then has a voice cameo in the seventh. (Portrayed by Tom Kane).
* Throughout the original timeline, Michael shows an uncharacteristic restraint when it comes to his encounters with Loomis. He frequently restrains and non-lethally wounds Loomis in his pursuit of others. This could be due to Loomis spending many years with Michael, to the point where Michael has some lingering humanity for him. The novelization of the original film heavily emphasized Michael's respect for Loomis as an authority figure and a worthy opponent, a relationship that plays out throughout Michael's stay in Smith's Grove.
* In the tie-in stories set in the H20 timeline, Michael's restraint seems to have a more devious reasoning behind it. With Michael seemingly and deliberately goading and provoking Loomis, giving him the idea that no matter what Loomis does, he is ultimately powerless against Michael's machinations. This reaches the point that Michael starts moving things around in Loomis' room while Loomis is away and ends with Michael killing Samuel's ex-fiancé in front of him, thus causing Loomis to suffer a fatal heart attack.
* Dr. Loomis was originally meant to appear in a flashback in the 2018 sequel Halloween, in which he was going to be seen trying to kill Michael, only to be stopped by the police. This would have been done with the use of a stand in and special effects. This ended up not happening, and the event was only mentioned in the film instead, this scene would later be used in the sequel Halloween Kills.
==Appearances==
===Films===
*Halloween (1978 film)
*Halloween II (1981 film)
*Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
*Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
*Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
*Halloween (2007 remake)
*Halloween II (2009 remake)
*Halloween (2018 film) (voice and photo only)
*Halloween Kills (flashback)
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