Probably Unanswerable Questions
How Myers drives, navigates and refuels; opening the door to a screaming stranger
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- Myers drives away in a rainstorm despite 15 years locked up, which the film acknowledges; Haddonfield is 150 miles away.
- He would have to know the route from memory as a six-year-old.
- At an average of 11 miles per gallon for 1970s cars, a 300-mile round trip needs gas; did he get it at the gas station?
- After driving all day around Haddonfield, the car is "basically a Tesla."
- A pitch for a movie about a nurse who gives asylum kids driving lessons and explains how to buy gas.
- The answer landed on: if he is the boogeyman he is Satan, and Satan guides the car, gets the gas and cuts the phone lines.
- A pseudo-unanswerable question: would you open the door to a screaming girl a week before Halloween 2021? One would; the other is unsure.
- A late-70s razor-blade apple story in Brookline and stranger danger; neighbors would know the babysitter, so not calling the cops is unrealistic.