Tyler Mane

outBecause going back to what I was saying about that, you know, the idea that, you know, uh, Michael Myers, uh, at the time wasn't my favorite because he wasn't a Jason or a Freddy.

To Mike's point, Tyler Mane I thought was like the best part of-

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... you know, like that's a scary fucking Michael Myers.

And we had Samson defeating Irish Assassin.

Tyler Mane defeated Steve Ray for the first MGM Grand Championship.

Candy Divine defeated Tina Muretti aka Ivory for the vacant Women's Championship.

Masked Confusion defeated The New Powers of Pain for the first World Tag Team Championships.

I mean, we all know Malcolm McDowell.

Tyler Mane as the adult Michael.

And the rest we're kinda gonna mention as we go on, except we do have Daniel Roebuck, Margo Kidder as the therapist.

But with that, let's press play on Halloween II.

... and I love the shot of it, like, the girl that he kills rips off the side of the mask.

So, like, you get Tyler Mane's, like, eyes and shit right there.

Yeah.

And he does this turn look thing.

Uh, then eventually, like, Annie does die.

Like, Michael finds the house where Sheriff Brackett has, had some officers there, but he takes out the officer in a cool fucking scene too, where, like, the tree is so skinny.

I don't know how we hid Tyler Mane behind that tree.

That's that movie magic, baby.

And I like how Laurie ends up going insane, and that final shot of her at the asylum, like, that's creepy and scary.

And I like that Tyler Mane in both movies just brought this, like, hulking, like, very, very visually mean presence to Michael Myers.

Like, he's a, he's a big guy, but I don't care.

I, I like my OG Michael Myers, like, feeling like a shape and a ghost, and, like, slender and slim.

But, um, I was like, you know, he did a really good job of kind of bringing him into, like, for a new audience, a younger audience, while kind of honoring the, the original movie.

So I really enjoy the first one.

I love Tyler Mane.

I love how big and physical Michael is.

That split tells you a lot about this movie before we even get into what's in it.

The cast, Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Loomis, Scout Taylor-Compton as Laurie Strode, Tyler Mane as adult Michael, Sheri Moon Zombie as Deborah, uh, Danielle Harris as Annie, Brad Dourif as Sheriff Brackett, Danny Trejo, Ken Foree, and then we've got Dee Wallace, Udo Kier, Clint Howard.

A fucking, oh my God, a stacked cast, and a lot of it is pulled from Zombie's regular collaborators and v- and horror veterans.

We need to talk about what it's trying to do because I think it's, it's, it's genuinely a bold swing for a franchise remake.

There's a, there's a clear difference between brutal and effective, and brutal for shock value, and, and both of these sit firmly in the second category.

Then there's the sanitarium section, and I think this is the bit that actually frustrates me the most, because I think it's probably the most interesting part of Michael's whole backstory, and, and Zombie barely gives it any time.

15 years pass between 10-year-old Michael going in and big-ass Tyler Mane walking out, and we get, what? Like a, like a handful of scenes.

That's, that's 15 years of a kid becoming whatever Michael becomes, and the film just skips over almost all of it.

Halloween is a 2007 American slasher film produced, written, and directed by Rob Zombie.

It is a remake of John Carpenter's 1978 film, the ninth installment of the Halloween franchise, starring Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif, Danielle Harris, and William Forsythe.

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Well, I'm sure that stuff he's probably, he gotta say this.

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Tyler Mane was cast as the adult Michael Myers after working briefly in Devil's Rejects.

Uh, most people might know this guy probably, you probably won't, but most people know him because he was Sabretooth in the very first X-Men movie.

And Michael's fucking huge in this movie.

Yeah, he's only played by Tyler Maine, the fucking wrestler.

He was like a giant of a man at the time.

Yeah.

I don't know his name yet.

Tyler, Tyler Maine, Tyler Maine.

He was an indie wrestler.

This is WCW stuff.