These flashback scenes include the surprising return of an original Halloween cast member: Donald Pleasence as Michael Myers’ psychiatrist, Dr. Sam Loomis.
But Pleasence passed away in 1995, not long after he finished shooting Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.
Dr. Loomis, as played by Donald Pleasence, appears onscreen several times during this flashback and also has several lines of dialogue.
Halloween Kills begins with an extensive flashback to previously unseen events that supposedly occurred just after the end of John Carpenter’s Halloween from 1978.