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| Leigh Brackett | |
| Aliases: | Sheriff Brackett |
| Franchise: | Halloween film series |
| Notability: | Supporting character |
| Type: | Law enforcement |
| Gender: | Male |
| Location: | Haddonfield, Illinois |
| Associations: | Haddonfield Sheriff's Office |
| Relations: | Annie Brackett |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Died: | November 1st, 2018 |
| Introduction: | Halloween (1978) |
| Final: | Halloween Kills |
| Actor: | Charles Cyphers |
Leigh Brackett is a character featured in the 1978 slasher film Halloween directed by John Carpenter. A version of the character was also presented in Rob Zombie's 2007 remake of Halloween where he was played by genre luminary Brad Dourif. In the remake, Sheriff Brackett's first name is spelled "Lee", not Leigh.
Biography[]
Leigh Brackett was the sheriff of the town of Haddonfield, Illinois during the late 1970s. On October 30th, 1978, Sheriff Brackett responded to a call about a break-in at Nichol's Hardware Store. Accompanied by his deputies, he determined that only a few meager items were stolen inlcuding a mask, a length of rope and a knife.
He soon learned the identity of the perpetrator when he encountered a psychiatrist from Warren County named Doctor Sam Loomis. Loomis told Sheriff Brackett that "evil" had come to his little town in the form of an escaped mental patient named Michael Myers. Although Brackett took Loomis' warning with fair measure, there was little action he could take. Sam advised keeping a look-out for Michael Myers and the two agreed to conduct a stake out at the old, abandoned Myers house.
By the following evening, nothing had occurred to give Sheriff Brackett any further cause for alarm, but Loomis insisted that his men and he should conduct an intensive city-wide search for Myers. He recounted how Myers had stolen the headstone of his late sister, Judith, but Sheriff Brackett dismissed his concerns, citing it as no more than a Halloween prank.
Brackett quickly discovered that Loomis' concerns were warranted, for on that same evening, Michael Myers brutally murdered the sheriff's daughter, Annie. [1]
It was his own deputy Gary Hunt, who discovered Annie Brackett's body and informed her father. Sheriff Brackett blamed Loomis for the crime, accusing him of letting Michael out in the first place. Now that he was ready to take the psychiatrist seriously, Brackett called in all of his resources to conduct a search for Michael Myers. [2]
On November 5th of that year, Sheriff Brackett attended his daughter's funeral. Afterward, he angrily told Doctor Loomis to leave Haddonfield forever. [3]
Following a second massacre wrought by Myers at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, Sheriff Brackett retired from the service and moved to St. Petersburg, Florida. [4]
2018 Timeline[]
Brackett led the lynch mob at the hospital when Laurie was brought into the hospital following her injuries during the fight with Michael on October 31st, 2018. The man, Anthony Tivoli was simply a mental patient who had escaped with Michael during the bus crash and leaped to his death from a hospital window to avoid capture from the mob. Brackett confirmed to the mob that the man was not Michael and that their obsession with Michael was turning them all into monsters.
During the final act, Brackett was a part of the mob (along with Karen Nelson and Tommy Doyle) who ambushed Michael after Karen led him into a trap, greeting Michael with the same words he once uttered to Laurie after sneaking up on her 40 years ago "Everyone's entitled to one good scare." Brackett prepared to finish Michael off with a shot to the head only to be caught off-guard when Michael suddenly rose up and slashed his throat, becoming the first member of the mob to die.
Notes & Trivia[]
- Charles Cyphers played Sheriff Brackett in both Halloween and Halloween II.
- The character of Michael Cyphers from the Halloween comic book special by Chaos! Comics is named for actor Charles Cyphers.
- Since the sequel films are no longer part of the continuity established in the Blumhouse timeline, details about Sheriff Brackett leaving Haddonfield are now considered apocryphal. The 2018 timeline implies that Leigh Brackett never left Haddonfield.
- Actor Charles Cyphers passed away on August 4th, 2024 at the age of 85. Halloween Kills was his final film work.
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References[]
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