The white trash family was awful. You could almost cheer Michael on for killing them because they were so horrible to him, and just despicable people in general, except for the Mum and baby Laurie, which is why Michael spared them. But the problem is that when you show that much of his back story, whether he is someone you can root for or not, showing his therapy sessions with Loomis where they are actually conversing, seeing him spend Christmas with his Mum, loving his baby sister Laurie etc, it humanizes him way too much. Don't show that much of him pre becoming The Shape.
Carpenter's concept of Michael was that he was like the unknowable source of evil that is almost beyond human. He was smart to minimize Michael's back story, even the snippets that was told through dialogue, Loomis said he never got Michael to say a word for the entire 15 years he was his patient. He was just this mute ticking time bomb waiting to go off. Loomis saw that. He was the only one who saw it. Referring to Michael as 'it' instead of him. Telling Nurse Marion that they should dose him with thorazine when he goes before the judge, and the nurse says he'll barely be able to sit up and Loomis says "That's the idea". He knows how dangerous he is even though he never talked or barely moved since he was a child. That's scary. We don't know what's going on inside Michael other than he is pure evil.
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