Barry Simms is a character in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, played by Leo Geter.
Biography[]
Barry Simms was a "shock jock" radio personality who hosted the show Back Talk with Barry Simms. Barry often mocked his callers and was very rude in person. It was his radio show that Jamie Lloyd called in, looking for help from Sam Loomis. Tommy Doyle also called into the show, giving Barry some insight into his run-in with Michael Myers on Halloween, 1978.
On October 31, 1995, he was sent to Haddonfield, Illinois to discuss with some of the citizens on how Halloween had affected their town and how some college students planned to bring the festivity back after it was banned following the back-to-back murders that occurred on the Halloween nights of 1988 and 1989.
How Michael "talked back" to Barry.
During the interview with Beth and Tim Strode, Beth revealed that Tim's family lived in the Myers house. So Barry thought it would be great for ratings if they took the show to the Myers home. He was getting ready to leave in his van towards the house when Michael Myers appeared behind him, clamped his hand over Barry’s mouth to silence him and stabbed him in the chest and proceeded to gut him. He then placed Barry's still-bleeding body in a tree.
Notes and trivia[]
- The role of Barry Simms was originally made for media personality Howard Stern, but he declined.
- In the theatrical version, it seems that Michael kills Barry out of the blue for no apparent reason. In The Producer's Cut, the shot continues after Barry climbs into the van to reveal that it is actually a Smith's Grove Sanitarium van, explaining why Michael is inside. After the kill, the camera pans across the parking lot to show that Barry's WKNB radio van was parked a short distance away.