Picking Nits
The elastic timeline, Michael’s bodily needs and unexplained skills, unguarded Laurie, odorless burned body, Karen’s attraction to Bud, workplace rules, scalpel physics, scalding water, and survivable headshots generate the nits.
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- Halloween’s first night seems to end around ten or eleven, yet downtown remains busy and the hospital action stretches plausibly or implausibly until dawn.
- Michael’s eating, digestion, driving, Samhain knowledge, needle use, and ability to continue after gunshots are explained only by Loomis’s insistence that he is not human.
- No police guard Laurie even though the town knows an active killer attacked her.
- Investigators casually inspect a newly incinerated body without reacting to heat or odor.
- Karen’s attraction to Bud is doubted; his own ban on patient relationships does not stop him from having sex with a coworker on shift.
- A scalpel cannot plausibly lift a full adult into the air, and scalding water should burn Michael’s hands.
- Two close-range shots from Laurie’s Colt should do more than neatly blind Michael.