[This doesn't include the period of nostagia/reboot/Jamie Lee Curtis-vanity-projects that we've been ever-so-thankfully (lol) graced with since 1998. No, I'm talking about the actual series here.]
An ancient druidic ritual of the occult was placed on young Michael Myers of Haddonfield, Illinois in 1963 by Dr. Wynn of Smith’s Grove & Ms. Blankenship, the woman living across the street where Michael is seen coming from in the opening shot of the original film.
On Halloween night, in conjunction with the positioning of a seasonal constellation, one child from each “tribe” will off his bloodline in sacrifice with the spirit of the Samhain festivities being demonstrated.
In return, the rest of the community receive good luck 🍀 and are spared the bad fortune of war, famine, disease and so forth.
Myers (or whoever else has been deemed the Thorn enforcer) seems to obtain telepathic abilities to aid in their pursuit of loved ones.
Also, the Wallace house, Annie, Lynda and Bob were proxies for Judith, his parents, and his own home. He did them first, you see, ceremonially, as substitutes. Then he came after his final 'real' sister, Laurie—as that's how the process should have all went for him in 1963. He is thwarted by his psychiatrist, Dr. Sam Loomis, the hero of the story.
You are conflating the stories Loomis told about the ancient world with the modern iteration that applies to the cult in and around Haddonfield. Dr Wynn and Tommy Doyle, in H6, laid out the story and motivations. Ms. Blankenship outed herself as being in on the scheme.
It may very well be that Thorn leadership considers the Myers family, the Strode family, and whoever else as “enemies” and “criminal.” However, they also are obviously certifiably insane. Do you really trust Dr. Terrence Wynn as judge, jury and executioner? He personally wiped out the Haddonfield Sheriff’s Dept in a mass shooting to further his beliefs and mad science.
Thorn wasn't even heavily utilized in the movie anyway and Michael was still a brutal force to be reckon with more than ever before the movies following H2O came along. That's the main important thing. I think Thorn served its purpose well and Michael was still basically doing his own thing in the midst of it all. SO THERE.
It's so arrogant you consider the Thorn Trilogy as the true sequels and the real series, as the three timelines (Thorn, H20 and H40) which comes from the first Carpenter film are equally valid. In fact, the first film doesn't include any reference to pagan rituals, neither any mention that Laurie is Michael brother, and is more just a story about a borderline supernatural serial killer whoi murders for sexual impulse, so H40 is the more accurate timeline (in relation with the original film, at least).
I happen to like Halloween Kills (2021) better than even the original, with Halloween H40 (2018) nearly on par with the original. Nevertheless, if you were actually there to watch the first set of sequels spearheaded by the Akkads of Trancas Int'l Pictures, you will understand they represent what the public accepted and loved as the continuity of the Halloween series. In the early 90s, there was a race among horror franchises to tie up the mythology of their respective slasher icons in elaborate ways which paid respect to what came before, and provided answers and some finality. Freddy's Dead, Jason Goes to Hell, Hellraiser: Bloodline, and Curse of Michael Myers. Halloween did it best in 6, with the fantastic script from Daniel Farrands who incorporated the suspicious Smith's Grove staff (Dr. Wynn of the 1978 film) as accomplices, and thematically included the plot of Season of the Witch as a means of foreshadowing to druidic occultism. John Carpenter wrote the "sister angle" and produced Season of the Witch even. Everything after the death of Donald Pleasence came about precisely due to horror resurgence trends like Scream, and the reboot/nostalgia fads, as well as the vanity of Jamie Lee Curtis attempting to reclaim her scream queen mantle.
Trancas Int'l Pictures then concluded the H40 series with the controversial Halloween Ends (2022) which, by design, illicited a response from the Halloween fanbase to find a way forward. They are challenging us. And I accept the challenge. The proper way forward is to recognize that the ancient Samhain rituals are a cornerstone in the IP, and there are also existing characters (now late middle age) from Haddonfield who can be utilized to continue with Halloween 7 of the original canonical timeline. I prefer Wendy Kaplan as Tina, or perhaps Lance Guest as Jimmy Lloyd. Although if Paul Rudd (now a mega star) agreed to sign a multi-film contract to reprise the role of Tommy Doyle, they'd start production on a Halloween 7 before you can say "trick-or-treat."
Once the simplistic fads are an ancient memory, you know darn well that in 100 years time the film historians will consider Halloween 1-6 as the Alpha & Omega of the franchise, which was about a seasonal serial killer who's supernaturally-motivated towards ritualistic sacrifice by druid witchcraft. Because that's what happened.
You are the arrogant one in my eyes. You cannot toss these films away. The deconstuction I've provided illustrates the possibilities of the original canonical timeline.
There is nothing of druid witchcraft in the original, just a story which treats a serial murdered, killing for sexual impulse, like a suopernatural entity, and in that sense the H40 trilogy is much more loyal to the original (although the three timelines coming from the original are exactly equally valid, as the remake timeline of Rob zombie). In any case if you like H18 and H Kills so much you basically agree with me, although in my case my favourite is Halloween Ends, which really risked itself telling another story and showing what I think is a metaphysicial entity representing violence which jumps from one person to another throw trauma (I mean, Michael passes the entity inside him to Corey Cunningham and then tries to the same with Laurie, although is never clear if it succeeds or not...), an idea that really fits with Carpenter original idea (he never participated in the cult aspect the sequels took).
And no, there isn't any possibility that timeline is continued now. People didn't like H6 (the most hated of all, with exception of H Resurrection) and it strips Michael Myers of his mystique, tranforming him in just a pawn of a secret society.
That said, I think the ¡TV show! of Halloween they are producing tight now is gonna be a total trash (probably some woke shit with an afroamerican Laurie and a Trump voter Michael), that the Michael Myers character is already over as all their angles (the pagan-druid angle, the familair angle, the unexpalined serial killer angle) has been totally exploited. Some franchises don't know when to stop, and I think it's the moment for Halloween to do it.