The main difference in this role in both versions of the film is the level of injuries that Laurie sustained at the hands of her psychotic brother. Laurie was much more banged up in the 2009 version than she was in 1981. Which brings us to the hospital. In both films, the hospital seems strangely deserted.

The police discover Michael's location and surround the shed. Loomis arrives and goes inside to try to reason with Michael, but when he tries to resuscitate Laurie from her hallucinations, Michael stabs him to death before being shot through the cabin window by Brackett and impaled on a rake.

The term "White Horse" is a fictional metaphor used in the film Halloween II (2009). It is linked to instinct, purity and the drive of the physical body to release powerful and emotional forces, like rage with ensuing chaos and destruction.

Bonus fact: Curtis wore a towel in the new scene with Lynda and a wig throughout Halloween II because she'd cut her hair much shorter by that point in 1981.